Jimmy's latest AMS2 review

Completely different people work on the car designs and tracks than work on the physics. You cannot let 2/3 of your team sit idol waiting for a few others to do physics things. And the physics things don't pay for licences etc.

The bumpiness issue is one which annoys me to the hills. If you've ever been on a race track, ever driven in a race car or seen an onboard you know how bumpy they are. Cars move, pitch, bounce and shake. ACC, RF2 and Iracing do very little of any of these things. I watch a lot of onboard footage, I've also spent a good about of time on track with proper equipment and hitting a curb, going over a bump or turning too harshly bounces the car, you get body roll and rebounds push you back up again and maybe after a second it settles back down.

I completely agree that if I compare AMS 2 in full dogma fashion to ACC etc. then yes AMS 2 is bouncy. If I review my experiences or any onboard footages I can say with 100% certainty that bouncing is more realistic than no bouncing, super smooth, marble race tracks of most of the other sims. Does AMS 2 bounce a little too much at time, yep but again better than curbs just being a flat extentions to the track surface.

 

Casagrande (StockCar driver) enjoys AMS2 a lot and isn't paid for that lol

 

That's Ermin for you. Between that and his bigotry... a class act /s

 

This video is 100% pure, unadulterated cringe/clickbait. The thumbnail alone is enough to induce a state of perma-cringe, from which you are unlikely to recover.

 

To me ACC was unplayable at launch and I did try with it, the Kunos FB's said it was great, the tyres were great, but there was no triple screen support at launch yada yada then Kunos dropped the 5 point tyres which sort of made a few people look silly, it took them imo 12 months before it was in a playable state for online leagues.

I like the way AMS2 is heading and it can only get better and my observations have been that it is gaining popularity by the day so something is going in the right direction, I try to ignore others opinions and form my own, I play all the sims (except iRacing) and they all have some elements that I like.

As I have said in a thread I made though I hope we get better streaming tools to stream live league races as that is one set of streams that are lacking on Youtube, all the streams you see are POV and mainly offline ones which doesn't really represent the sim fully as we have had some great online league races.

Keep up the good work Reiza, it's not there yet but it's getting there!

 

To bad it is not in English.

 

More simcade physics in real life:

Someone tell these guys that, according to Jimmy Broadbent, these cars are simply glued to the road and to stop spinning!

 

He' probably just not driving on the limit

 

These prototypes must have forgot their loctite

 

A lot of prototypes have ground effect aero and AMS 2 default settings are often too low or a bit soft of the car bottoms out, at which point ground effects stop working. Additionally, as with all aero cars you need the speed envelope right for the aero to work around corners. Too fast and it won't turn because the aero is pushing it down too much and too slow and you'll feel like your car has lost its wing.

Everyone should just stick to caterhams and we'll all be much happier

 

At 3.36 a small bump on the back of the car in front is enough to cause a near 360º spin, and yet I keep seeing sim racers complaining about the same thing happening in sims (not just AMS2) and saying that the contact physics are crap.

Just another example of how sometimes sims are unfairly judged for things that can also happen in real life...

 

This guy is disgusting, makes me feel like puking. This is the perfect example of click baiting and trying to get more subs etc... Let's piggy back on a popular YouTuber and draw his audience to my channel, shall we?

 

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Remember Gamermuscle's video from some weeks ago where he gave several points for improvement? This is a guy that doesn't just jump in, does a single quick race and proceeds to draw negative conclusions, but one that you know has spend hours playing the game before he judges it and then mixes positives with negatives. All very good points and I agreed with most of his video when it came out.

Wish Jimmy would be as dedicated before he 'reviews' the game to a subscription base that's 10 time as big as GM's is...

 

Agree, some of these youtube people could do with some Humble Pie.

 

Ahem...sorry but no,calling "fanboys" the others while they were suggesting him how to improve handling and setup the game properly is a good example of toxicity...

Also the lack of oversteer meme...come on...
We move from someone driving a Praga to another without driving license but with common nonsense lol

 

I didn't follow any 'sim racing drama' that occured afterwards to be honest, but his conclusions were pretty good at the time IMO. Point still stands that GM would have played AMS2 for hours on end in his basement before he puts his opinions out there, which is what disturbs me the most about Jimmy B as he just jumps in and drives for 15 mins before he does the same.