Drivatar Lineup

Hi,

thanks for the comment.

But there are still some things I dont understand:

Why do all the other drivatars basically stick together in an offline race but my friends' drivatar is so much faster?

I only have the problem in offline races where there is no possibility to choose which drivatar can be in the race or not...

Obviously if I do an online race every drivatar is controlled by a real person and not by the A.I.

But as you can see in the pictures my friends' drivatar is 25sec faster than the other A.I. controlled drivatars...so my friends' drivatar completly ignores the difficulty settings in the game, which is the problem I have at the moment.

Others might want to confirm this but I believe your drivatar races a random car for the given event. You may not even own the car your drivatar uses in a given race. So, obviously, your drivatar will not use the same car you have used for a given track.
I've also noticed your drivatar will use a random paint job too. Also, I think your drivatar will only race on tracks you have raced on.

You can turn off custom paint jobs on drivatars,don't think you can actually turn of drivatars though.

The cloud is creating the AI drivatars for you to race against. That's how it works. Why would there be rubber banding?

www.gameinformer.com/.../forza-motorsport-5s-drivatars-clarified.aspx

It's definitely not random. The drivatar system does "take notes" on how you brake, how you turn, etc...

Does the drivatar system take that data an apply it directly to your drivatar in your friend's races? Or does it accumulate the data from all players in the system and use the total, accumulated data to power the drivatars in races? No one knows for sure.

We also need to consider that the drivatars always have TCS and ABS turned on. If you don't drive with those assists then your drivatar is instantly not driving exactly like you do. We also need to consider that each player chooses his difficulty level.
If you are a top 100 driver but your friend is racing against you on the "Easy" difficulty setting - your drivatar probably isn't driving exactly like you do.

It's also my opinion (based on experience and many conversations with others) that the drivatars adjust their behavior a bit based on the way the actual player drivers. You might be the cleanest driver in the world but, if your friend is the dirtiest racer
in the world and he's driving against your drivatar, there's a good chance that your drivatar is going to engage in some bumping and grinding because it's adjusting to the way your friend drives.

No one (except Turn10) knows exactly how the system works. No one needs to know exactly how it works. All we need to know is that the drivatar system is dynamic and that creates some single player experiences that far exceed the AI of past generation games.