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We’d all better get practicing our lines because the new Drivatars are already one month of solid training ahead of us.

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And let’s not even go into the developers using the term ‘Car-PG’ several times to describe its new upgrade structure.īut one under-the-radar blog post from the developer about AI has fostered real belief in me as a sim racing fan that FM8 can, and likely will, feel like a step forward. The news of its revised and deeper damage model sounds encouraging but it’s not the sort of feature that stops you from being able to get to sleep the night before launch day.

Handling has never been a problem in the series.

Personally, this single piece of information about FM8 has made me more excited than any other.

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They’ve discovered the routes for themselves, without human interferenceĪnd what could it mean for car performance ratings? If the AI drivers who run simulated laps in tuned cars are now smarter and drive more like humans using an analytical approach to the challenge of getting around a circuit as quickly as possible, will we end up with more accurate, less cheesy perf ratings for each car? Once the goosebumps die down on your flesh after thinking about that, really thinking about it, they should be extremely useful training devices. It isn’t just that a designer told them 19 new routes, they’ve discovered the routes for themselves, without human interference. Not just because they’re driving the car like you are, with degrees of throttle and braking, but because they genuinely might have figured out something about this corner that you haven’t. Because now when you watch an AI opponent, you should be able to actually learn something. That sounds like something cool to put on the store page, but it’s a meaningful change. The result of that intensive training means FM8’s Drivatars can pick from numerous lines now - 19 different lines per track in total - and they can decide which to take based on the car and the conditions. How confident are you feeling about your lines at Spa now? High performance That’s about one calendar month, racing the same track, 24 hours a day.

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The unassuming Eagle Speedster in Forza Horizon 4 was an incredible platform for A to S1 tunings, and one suspects that’s partly because the AI just couldn’t use its full potential when it test-drove it to establish performance numbers.įorza Motorsport 8 ’s drivers do about 26,000 laps in each circuit, in a variety of cars, as part of their reinforced learning AI training.

How confident are you feeling about your lines at Spa now?Īnd it was finding these cars and tunings that made such a big part of the Forza online meta. In other words, some tunings were much, much faster than their performance ratings indicated. Except, as we’ve already established, the AI had a fundamentally weird and inhuman way of driving cars, so when a human got their hands on the same tuned car they might find that their ability to brake and accelerate progressively and experiment with lines got a lot more out of the car.

When someone uploaded a new tune for a vehicle in FM7 or the Horizon games, the AI ‘drove’ that tuned vehicle in a simulation to work out its new performance rating. This limited skill level bled through into how car performance ratings worked, too, and that in turn dictated the whole online meta.