Automobilista 2 V1.5 Officially RELEASED - Now updated to V1.5.0.5

Well, thats still exactly the same admin tools from project cars 2 dedi server, i wouldn't classify as an development on Reiza's behalve, and it is very, very basic tbh

 

Oh, sorry, I probably wasn't very clear. I was just replying to the zero admin tools comment, not the development progress.....

 

ah, that is a good spot! We use the advance feature on our events a lot as we usually setup a really long practice in case anyone joins as host early, which would explain why people mostly mention it during qual

 

yeah, if everyone is in their pitbox before you force it to the next session you should be fine, you get the issues during qually and it carries over to the race as well

 

Our dedicated server is based in the US as our league is more focused on NA racers, I'm in Europe so I can only configure it through JustRace. With the admin tools I mean actual ingame admin tools to forward session/ kick wreckers/ restart etc which you have in pretty much any other sim. What happens a lot for example is that a couple of people get disconnected just when the lobby switches from Q to R, which then means we have to all exit the lobby, have to reset the server and then figure out grid positions and do a manual formation lap to get back in position. The game also does not remember your position in Q if you get thrown out.
And then you finally get going and get disconnected halfway through the race. Very frustrating indeed. And that's not taking into account all the other glitches that are currently present.

 

Small update?

 

Renato you are half right, and your customers like me have bought your product and have been pleasantly surprised by the goodness of what it offers such as physics, live track and advanced tire model. There is a big BUT, the MP is really lacking compared to the competition, the problem is that you started from a very poor system inherited from the pCARS series, where many WMD users were already complaining from the pCARS 1 beta testing, and SMS did nothing to change the situation, because the product was designed for PS-XBOX consoles

You REIZA start from a very poor base for PC users, especially looking at other competitors, and whatever your effort, they are always small steps compared to what the MP of AMS2 should recover to make it acceptable. I'm not a developer and I have no idea how the MP part works in a game, but what I feel is that you need programmers for MP to remake the MP system for you.

It's been over three years since the 1.0 release, it's been over a year since you've been trying to improve MP, and people are obviously looking for expectations, and the improvements are too marginal looking at the competition.

As I said in another Post AMS2 has a beautiful driving simulation representation, but racing is competition and confrontation, and if the MP is low, few will play it and choose, and on this aspect it will always be criticized.

 

Nice!
My Gpro wheel thanks you.

 

Rant alert!

I don't think it's possible to scrap and start from scratch with MP implementation and heavy rewrite would be just that. There's been plenty of updates to this area and while it's far from perfect it's miles better from what it used to be.

I think a lot is down to players actually have some reasonable expectations. We won't get iRacing style MP or scale from a small team at Reiza. It's like asking your beermates at the pub to launch a mission to the moon

I don't understand how quick some are to criticise, like it doesn't have a campaign like F1 titles have with press conferences etc, like the series rules/BOP in ACC.

BeamNG is now 10 years in development and it's still in v0.29 I think and somehow community seems to be looking forward to new updates rather than whining about missing this and that and something not being fully polished yet.

It's unrealistic to expect all best features from various titles implemented by small studio in an inherited code. It's going to be in small increments here and there and hopefully before the money pool drains for Reiza.

I want faultless product too, but even after spending £120-ish for the game +Season Pass and additional Paddock Pass recently I still think that's a good value for money given the huge amount of various content and decent physics implemented for pretty much everything so far.

I hope that Reiza can fix remaining issues with MP like their magical fix for sticky diff and different physics models inconsistencies, but those things took time to find out the culprit, let alone to fix it.

Also, life is too short for complaining about things out of our control. I'm happy to be playing other titles and somewhat I keep returning to the best virtual car driving sensation, even when it's imperfect.

End of rant.

 

weird bug i had before this update was that i couldnt change the values of TC and ABS from steering wheel.
i deleted my ams2 preference folder and i came back to normal

 

• Temporarily disabled effect of driver personality stamina and tire management skills´ influence on AI lap times while AI tire wear & performance degradation is in progress

When AI tire wear and performance will be adjusted ?

 

Takes money to add people which would make the progress faster, better. I’d pay a monthly fee to better the experience, MP. You get what you pay for, $10 a month is nothing. Some people pay that drinking coffee a day

 

Touching that whole Admin tools thing, is something like BoP options for online lobbies considered in one form or another?

 

the gt3 cars are now really pleasant to drive

 

To make a polite comment on this then I think its complete bullocks(!MO).
OK take it with an english tongue-in-cheek - BUT..
The reason I say this is that the MP system iRacing started up with was buying the MP system inside NR2003.
The first 2-3 years iRacing was using this system without any changes except small updates.
And to the best of my knowledge iRacing have never made some radical changes on the MP part.

The reason this is relevant in this context is that the NR2003 MP code was created by Papyrus for ol GPL.
A MP code originally created for dial up modems connections!
And I can garantee this NR2003 MP system did work much better and stable than what I hear about the MP system in AMS2.

Years back I was a long time member of a US based NR2003 league (FSB) and there was absolutely no MP problems eventhough the clients came from all over Europe (old Eastern too) and from US and yes Brazil.

ByTheWay: The Papyrus team was when they created this MP system probably not larger that the existing Reiza team.

 

What you don't seem to get is that Reiza did not create the MP system in AMS2, it already came with the engine as is, which is the issue at hand.

 

Yup! There are no infinite grip cars in the GT3 anymore, at least with the default setups. The Merc is the most balanced and fastest, the Porsche is very close but a little less stable on corner entry, the Mclaren is very similar to the Porsche but slower and less responsive, the BMW is a handful on slower corners and understeers a bit on fast ones and the Nissan is well, the ugly duck, quite tricky to drive.