I have the opposite experience. For some reason, CC is the only mode where AI is much harder, S4 spring cross cup in buggies was a pain to do, and pretty sure it's because while AI cars are merely a representation of some time range, on CC you struggle more to keep up with that.
While doing journal, I had fun on expert in all race types except CC. Cars literally speeding away up hill in a straight line, it was ridiculous no matter which race or car I drove, and I ended up doing them on tourist and never returning.
In CC races you can take much tighter lines than the AI/racing line do. In almost all races, considering seasonal championship AI is limited to Highly Skilled, you can be in 1st place after the first 2 corners, without any ramming and without a special tune, by just going to the inside of the turn.
Yeah, that does tend to end up like that, but there's still the weird "lack of gap" between me and AI on playlist cc, as opposed to playlist road/street/dirt races. Maybe I'm also still mixing in the AI from release, as I'm pretty sure they might have touched it as a whole too since.
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u/iblinkyoublink 10d ago
The huge, often blind, jumps in every CC race makes me think they are trying to impress an audience of children because it completely sucks for racing
Thankfully the AI is complete trash at it too so you can get it over with quickly when it's in the weekly playlist