Automobilista 2 October 2022 Development Update

I guess a lot of people don't get that it's far easier to not get hopes up by constantly overpromising. Not ready, no big deal, just don't hype it up and then shoot yourself in the foot again. It makes you look unprofessional and becomes a running joke to detractors of the game. Also, do you think it is at all possible that people who make deals for licencences for content might see things like this as a negative?

Everybody gets it that things come up and delays happen, what everybody doesn't get is empty promises.

 

Fortunately this stubborn streak is also applied to the content and quality of AMS 2 (and AMS 1 back in the day) and it's why we have the unique products from Reiza that we do, even if it sometimes takes a while to get there.

It can be a bit jarring when one is used to corporately-massaged communications, but thank goodness there is at least one sim developer who can speak to its customers in plain language and who does not answer to a corporate over-seer, owner, or shareholder. Q4 2022 has been a very vivid example of how those situations can and often do play out to the disbenefit of the entire sim racing community!

 

With respect, that is your choice. I will also keep my mouth shut from now on when on other other sites and people are harping on AMS2 and not defend anything anymore. All the best.

 

thanks for upcoming update! have no any problems with deadlines etc... but with all these classic F1 cars I really expect 9-6-4-3-2-1 point system added in championship mode. It should not be that hard.
P.S. I also hope for a few CART street tracks more in the future, but that takes time... and older version of Azure (1988).

 

Thank you Renato and Reiza team for your hard work and excellent product. Can’t wait to try out all the cool things you wrote in todays dev update!

 

First of all, thanks for the amazing update. Can't wait to try all the new goodness!

One suggestion (and I'm sure you've already thought this through) is to allow to create the event presets by users too as we could then cover some scenarios that are too niche to be considered as global release.

With regards to the missing deadlines I think we'll all benefit from having any deadlines. Just post the stuff when it's ready without saying it'll be posted/released on such and such day. A lot of smaller development companies do that and are not exposed to the angry mob (that much at least) as there's no reason to fuel the aggression/disappointment by being "late".

I totally appreciate the fact that you're here on this forum and interact with the public and hope this won't deteriorate in the future. Keep it up guys

 

Yeah, i agree on that, dont hint to anything thats coming, as happened now in the forum and shortly after that on social media, by doing that you create sort of a hype, and surely people will get upset/annoyed after a couple days, which in (probably) most cases is because we like your product a lot, when something is said to be coming we are all over it like flies on a pile of cow dung

 

I like hype even if some deadlines could be missed…

 

Same here

 

I guess we have different views and a different set of standards. It's entirely your choice to say you'll deliver and then not deliver. But you'd be silly to think this doesn't do severe harm to your reputation and that of Reiza. A quick look in some discord servers will validate that. Please see this as friendly advice. I would suggest not ever mentioning a self imposed deadline, if the material is not ready...and I mean fully ready.
I really like AMS2 and the majority of my YouTube content covers AMS2 also.
I am really looking forward to the future updates and dlc. And I wish you and Reiza devs the very best.

 

Sorry to be offtopic again but to answer your question "sort off".. what was actually going wrong here was i was sitting instead of standing on the pegs in the dirt, went into a very slippery corner (soft sand on concrete) sitting, recipe for disaster,

the preceding ~80km of dirt was very stressful, dozens of kangaroos jumping across my path including hitting one of them in a VERY lucky way that he hit the bike mid section (bashplate) and not front wheel and he didn't throw me off the bike.. so at this point in the fall video I was exhausted and not paying attention.. motorcycling is extremely unforgiving on lack of attention..

poor little guy you can here the "plink" as he connected with my bashplate..

that is excerpt from the full video here (nice bit of road by the way)

 

The people who get antsy about deadlines obviously haven't worked within a developmental environment... And if they did would of been the most disliked person in the company...

And are very much a minority in terms of AMS2's user base...

Besides... It's far too late for Reiza to do anything about it... It's baked into the experience now... If you expect anything on time that's on you, not them...

 

Enough said,now up to work.
Don't keep the man from work, or the update will come at easter.

 

I really respect your honesty here. And I understand that rather than being a sqweaky clean mind in terms of releasing news etc, it's a bit more on the side of controlled chaos...which for a small team is normal and good as it allows you to operate in a more dynamic way. I do understand and thanks for taking the time to reply.

 

As someone who runs a software company I'm not sure I would agree with this, saying that, I'm probably the most disliked person in the company