Hi everyone! On Xbox Live I go by Chromatichaos, but you can just call me Chaos. I've been playing Forza ever since I got FM3 when I bought my first Xbox 360, with the only installment I've missed being FM5. As you might be able to figure out, I'm a fan of the series, and while I don't feel as strongly for the games as I used to, I still tend to spend a lot of my time in the Horizon games nowadays moreso than the Motorsport games; enter, Horizon 4. Now, it should come as no surprise to most of the playerbase that this game has some... rather glaring issues, let's say, and one of the more noteworthy ones has to be the co-op/Trial Drivatar behavior. From being pushed aside like you don't even exist, to Drivatars straight-up using the Force to yeet your car wherever they want, it can get pretty annoying, but you at least have a chance to recover from those events in most instances.
But then... there's
this.
This is just...
asinine.
As you can see, no one around for a mile, and yet... I finished second? What?? I can't count the number of times something like this has happened, where I've been in a position with a clearly massive gap between myself and a Drivatar, and as soon as I cross the finish line, I lose one or two placements. How can the developers expect people to want to participate in Trials and co-op events when the Drivatars are one of the buggiest messes of AI I've ever seen in my life, exclusively in co-op no less? This goes beyond being unenjoyable. It's so broken that I lose all motivation to really even try when it happens, and with how often it happens, you can imagine I'm regularly demotivated when it comes to these kinds of things. It's yet another bug that needs to be fixed, but instead of that happening, we keep getting new cars, which is fine and dandy, but when the game itself is a nigh unplayable mess, why would I ever feel encouraged to try for those cars? The sooner this issue and similar issues get fixed, the better. I'll likely go back and try one more time, but if it happens again... hoo boy.
tl;dr drivatars are bugged to h-e-double-hockey-stick, fix them pls&ty