Automobilista 2 V1.3.4.0 RELEASED!

To Reiza:

Tough times come and go, for every team. But never lose passion! (as a developer myself, I feel for all of you - the devlogs really hits home)

Passion is what drives the best projects, and it's what keeps AMS2 alive (and [lack of passion] it's what killed PCars and future sequels)

 

SMS didn't have a lack of passion, I used to love reading the developer posts about physics, tires, sound, etc. Their car/track list also shows a strong passion for motorsport.

I think it just happened too fast. They asked for money to acquire content they felt would best help their product and that money must've come with conditions (like release a game every 2 years and stop supporting released titles after 1 year). They were forced to branch out to other projects to make money (world of speed, pcars go...f&f crossroads) and ultimately tried to appeal to a different audience with PC3 in the hopes it would be successful. I'm sure they would've loved to bring back the missing sim racing elements from PC2 at some point.

It's a shame really. A PC3 more along the lines of AMS2 would've been a huge success during the initial lockdown's sim racing boom that seemed to benefit ACC the most.

 

Speaking of ACC, the Challengers pack DLC coming 23rd this month will keep me busy and away from AMS2 and this forum for a while.

 

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I mostly meant this referring to PCars 3.

The original PCars (and PC2, to an extent) was oozing with passion - which reflected on many things that MADNESS Engine just did right (and still does to this day) - with the WMD stuff.

However, due to Bandai Namco's publishing partnership and Ian Bell's massive [ambition], it became too commercialized for its own good.

PCars 3 is... somewhat of a fun racer, but one so uninspired - with so many new and interesting concepts realized so poorly with all of those reused assets - that it became lazy and forgettable (but, enjoyable sometimes).

 

Sorry, but this is simply not true.
i have been with SMS all dev time of pc1 and pc2, these folks from slightly mad studio are highly passionated. Pc1 and pc2 show that in so many areas.
And right, bandai namco … well, they made many things possible for the good, but sadly also to the bad.

pc3 I am not Talking about.
money deals with codemasters and finally with EA sadly gives another taste of things, but that do not change the fact, that the sms folks are 100% Motorheads just like we all are here.

 

Shame it is just more of the same, would like to see something different like some GT2 cars. More of the same is uninspiring to me and just trying to milk more from a game that seems to have basically finished its development. There was a rumour at some stage of GT2 being added but I guess not.

 

Like I said

 

Ok you re right. The battle between GT7 / RRE / ACC / rf2 starts now again with the „challenge pack“. Bring battle free alternatives @Renato Simioni

 

I'm happy Reiza is instead hunting on different grounds and provide always different classes and periods.

 

I'm just happy here with the first official CART cars in a sim in 20 or so years and the first official '83 F1 cars...ever in a sim i think? (albeit understandably so, they're definetely interesting to drive to put it nicely), I don't really care if Reiza starts pumping out competing GT3 content

 

thank you for your great work, Automobilista 2 is just amazing!

 

90s GT2 (to compliment the current GT1 in ams2), early 2000s ->2010s GT2 (precursor to GTE) or modern SRO GT2?

 

Ha this turned into a request thread? Did someone say we are getting some old laggy turbo touring cars next

 

I honestly don't need to see any new content as there is already a great variety. I'd rather see fixes than new stuff.

 

We've been over this already. The 3D modellers don't take a vacation just because the coders need to change the code.

Same as F1 car designers don't stop working on the car just because the driver keeps crashing it. The accountants don't stop keeping record just because sales are not at business plan level. The sales people don't pause work because the factory is dirty. People are not interchangeable 1 to 1.

 

LOL

 

Modern SRO GT2 in ACC, there were murmurings at some point.

 

some peole will never learn that "developer" is a common term for all people working on a project.
Coders, project leaders, sound designers, graphic artists, 3D artists, QA, physics specialists etc.

JUST move your a.. and find this bugs !!!!!!!

Man, all you have to do is watching the "credits" inside the game and you'll see how many people are working on content only and maybe have no knowledge to parse any line of buggy code.
Do you really think Renato should fire them because you don't see the need for content?

 

LOL. Some of you people crack me up. This is hilarious.