I picked this up as an impulse buy this week.
I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I'm also starting to lose my mind. The damn AI cheats so bad. They wanted to make the game hard, but this is just too much. I can be in first place, take a shortcut, and on my way out of the shortcut, I'm in 2nd place. I've actually been in first place and seen the AI appear in front of me.

There seem to be a LOT of people complaining about the difficulty level and the AI cheating, so I hope United Front cares enough to patch the game to fix this.

Personally, I don't mind the difficulty, it's the cheating I can't stand.

This is a game that's designed to mod, obviously, but all the mod components need to be unlocked by completing races and challenges, but the AI's cheating makes unlocking a lot of them insanely hard.