Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35180316-20181011013659/@comment-31433854-20181012153755

Every update someone claims the bots are different and that the car in a SE is clandestinely made worse. No one ever has any evidence to support these claims and the monkeys have now emphatically denied it. The bots seem just as clueless as ever to me. The only difference I noticed was with the newer tracks, i.e. RBR, the monkeys have clearly put in more effort at making alternative paths for the bots. They won't just patiently sit behind you at 5mph down the straight there, like they do on the older tracks.

As for your hacked bots being faster, do recall that 1) we should human players could still beat their times and 2) that it wasn't likely the bots per se that were different, but that they were using the same hacked stats for the car as you were. It's really no different from saying that Rattlesnack in the TS040 is faster around a track than Rattlesnack in the Focus. It ain't changes in the bot logic causing the difference in lap times ;)

As for the McLaren update, the reason the monkeys gave away the car was due to the brake assist change. I believe they talked about it on FB officially, which I couldn't find (due to my sucking at the internet no doubt), but this will suffice. They never said what they were testing, but my hunch is they were trying out a brake assist that would work with the FE cars for the battery races. Obviously, it didn't work and they just disabled assists for those events.