Fan Fixes Awful AI in GRID: Autosport

Source: Codemasters

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Many gamers to this day have quite fond memories of GRID: Autosport, the 2014 installment of the popular series of racing games from Codemasters. However, the game was not perfect. Its most serious problem, which spoiled the whole project for many, is the poor quality of the artificial intelligence. It was incompetent and every now and then collided with the player's car (this is well illustrated by this video). A stubborn fan known as NT-User has been developing a modification that fixes this for two years.

The project is titled Grid Autosport AI Complex Mod. Its goal is to strongly improve the AI in the game, so that the gameplay is finally fun. After installing it:

1. AI drives more accurately and bumps on the track are less frequent,
2. the balance and difficulty level have been changed so that even the weakest players drive sensibly,
3. the probability of a tire puncture and a serious mistake has been reduced tenfold, so that the whole thing is more realistic,
4. the artificial catch-up system was turned off. It was necessary because of the poor quality of the AI, but after the improvements offered by the mod it is no longer necessary,
5. the parameters of collisions were changed - among other things, the force and inertia of collisions were increased,
6. with the mod the AI drops out of the race when its vehicle is damaged in 50% (in the standard game it is from 60 to 75%).

Source: Codemasters & NT-User.

These changes overall significantly improve the quality of the game's artificial intelligence and make competing against it more interesting and realistic.

Unfortunately, the creator cannot realize all his ambitions. This is due to the fact that the game is extremely unfriendly to modding. Some elements of the drivers' profiles, including aggression, speed, reaction and stability parameters, are stored in an encrypted game.dat file, and it is currently impossible to edit them. Despite these limitations, NT-User has really achieved a lot, and if you want to have fun in GRID: Autosport today, then this modification is practically a must-have item.

The latest version of Grid Autosport AI Complex Mod, released a few days ago, bears the number 1.2. In addition to bug fixes, the author, first of all, lowered the aggression and speed of drivers driven by artificial intelligence, as in the previous version these elements were slightly exaggerated.

1. Grid Autosport AI Complex Mod - download the mod from our FTP server (the author has given us permission to host a mirror).