Automobilista 2 V1.3.4.0 RELEASED!

Anybody cares to elaborate on why the F-Ultimate is awful?

They are lacking tons of features and they do seem overpowered, but why so much hate?

 

Just because something is shown in a AMS2 screenshot does not mean it's going to be released any time soon.

My Avatar is a hint!

 

The lack of info and expectation is going to make people disinterest in following the game or this forum. Reiza obviously is frustrated not able to meet their words. So, it's understandable that they don't want to keep us updated.

 

I think it was the setup: they seem a bit better with the latest update but pre-1.3.4 the cars were just flat-out strange to drive, lacking rear stability and feeling like they had no weight to them and just sort of flung around the track

 

well i’m not sure about that .
ive been disinterested in this forum for along time, but that’s got nothing to do with Reiza or the available information .
I’ve never been more interested in what’s coming but at the same time have so much current stuff to experience that it’s not really that important when and what comes.

 

I think there was a serious issue with power deployment in gears from 4th down in my experience. I believe part of it was the way the hybrid and turbo were deploying power combined.
Hopefully that gets in a better shape with some further upgrades of both.

 

Would be good if they could update the version of openVR they use so we can start using some of the new features being added by various dll injections.

 

Probably penalties were off? Or set to high number?

Yes and no. First chicane is faster true but also safer for an overtake attempt as it's easier to have two cars going through it, Variante della Roggia is wider so it will give you more opportunity to attempt an overtake, Lesmo 2 is faster so it will help launching for Rettifilo del Serraglio for an overtake and Ascari is far more difficult cause you can't cut it as in modern versions...It's just a different flavor to what we are used to do at Monza nowadays

 

Brakes lock up too easily, car is strangely unstable at the rear, car overheats his tires far too slowly and goes too quick in a race setting, car is generally quicker than it should be, car is quite unpredictable, especially when it comes to the snappy rear, car overdoes turbo lag and does not have realistic wheelspin.

I don't care whether this "next" update is this or next month. And everything they post on Twitter a few days before an update is somewhat likely to make it in the game, maybe not when they say it will, but in the update after that.

Reiza are reliable in their own way like that.

 

Right with you on this. I usually visit this forum when I'm deciding what car/track combo to learn next. I know AMS2 is far from perfect but it keeps getting better over time. There's still a bunch of cars I've yet to drive because it seems I keep learning more with the ones I already have. Can't think of another sim that keeps challenging you to drive faster in so many ways.

 

I don't mind either but it is interesting that Renato didn't specify a time frame.
If something is imminent there tends to be wording like 'expected next week' or 'coming soon'

So, we could go a month or more with no update - which again, I'm totally cool with because I bought this sim and it's DLCs acknowledging that they are incomplete - and knowing that sh!t happens when you're developing software. Besides I'm having fun with AMS2 anyway.

BUT, if there is no update 'coming soon' then sadly Reiza will need to baton down the hatches, equip their tiki torch armour suits and activate their pitch fork deflector shields - because with historic Spa and Nürburgring being later than Q1 2022, there will be more salt in this forum than the Don Juan Pond.

Or, it might all come next week in which case the pitch fork bearers will find something else to be outraged about.

Brace yourselves everyone!

 

absolutely right. The date of expiry is less than 12 month. F1 machines are less sustainable. Mio of bucks for 7 month racing also in human rights abuse countries - what s that?

 

Yes but if it's delayed the crying starts again. TBF, Reiza have missed a lot of their own deadlines in the recent past for one reason or another and while I don't blame them and they've always delivered in the end, I can see how that would look unreliable.

It probably is the better way to keep announcements vague, I#ve advocated for that in the past. If you don't promise content for next week, people can't complain when it arrives the week after that. IMO the Kunos way is the best. Tell people what you are working on, but only announce a release date when everything is ready to ship out.

 

How do you know these things? Are you Lance Stroll?

 

It's more of a Haas than a Racing Point with the questionable handling at the minute

 

I don't _know_ these things. However, when comparing what my car does with what the cars of real F1 drivers do in onboard, these are the things that stick out to me.

 

I hope the update comes not on Friday, 1st April

 

To be honest I agree on the rear being snappy on power and having a lot of power delivery lag (not only turbo as ERS in real life should fill the void sand MGU-H is used to pre-spool turbos).
As far as braking goes I get the opposite: even smashing the brakes it's hard to lock them, especially at medium/high speed but again IMHO that is in most cases related to different hardware and their settings, with some notable exceptions like the stock cars.

 

Nice to see another car being added to the title....tho I wish they would start talking about some of the improvements coming in the builds, as opposed to tweets of photos of new content.
I quite enjoyed the communication from the devs in the past, tho it seems to have dropped off in the past few months outside of the beta form and the once a month content hype tweet

 

Yeah, since about June 2021. From May 2020 to June 2021, we were allowed to read every monthly development update apart from September 2020 and March 2021, which means 11/13 planned ones.

After that, there were no dev updates in July 2021, in August 2021, in October 2021, in January 2022, February 2022 and March 2022, but two in November, so we'll say 4/10.

Combined with that, Renato has in total written 74 official forum posts from July 2021 to today, which is a timespan of 9 months. He has, however, written 157 forum posts in the timespan October 2020 to June 2021, which is also a timespan of 9 months.

Most of the current communication is, however, coming from CrimsonEminence, so I think he's supposed to fill in the gap left by Renato not motivated/able to communicate within the forums as much as he did previously.