Automobilista 2 V1.5.6.1 RELEASED - Now Updated to V1.5.6.3

Canon voices of F1 in F1

 

I ran an offline race with Classic Gen 4 at Montreal 91. There seemed to be a bug in qualy where Crew Chief would tell me that Mansell was setting the quickest laps, but they wouldn't be registered in timing, making him to start near the back for the race. Is that possible?

 

Reiza, I ask you kindly, please adjust how dirt build up in the player car

This is at just one hour of the race, the car already looks like it raced 24 hours, the AI gets reasonable dirt, maybe this is adjusted towards short races so at 10 minutes some dirt will show up, so maybe there could be a slider for dirt build up or something, You guys have been adjusting visual effects, I think thats something that deserves some attention.

 

I would just be so grateful to have a save server settings preset to stop having to redo settings all the time when hosting.

 

Including server name and password

 

This and for some reason "absorbing" the settings of the previous lobby you were in. I can't for the life of me figure out if this is supposed to be a feature or a glitch, but it's very frustrating joining a lobby to see what they're running, leaving and inheriting their settings for some reason lol. I don't understand why the rule presets don't have 3 or 4 slots for custom presets for online that you can just tweak, seems like it would be a great quality of life thing to have

 

I love and respect how far AMS2 as come, but it is disappointing that many of the little annoyances and bugs have persisted so long.

Perhaps the next cycle of development after 1.6 can be spent on fixing some of these issues.

 

The lobby's getting stuck really needs to be sorted. I don't hardly go on anymore because the lobbies keep getting stuck ruining races. Even if no other functionality is added making them work would be great.

 

The "Auto-Continue" function was introduced as a temporary solution, but unfortunately none of the leagues I race with use it.

On a similar note, I've noticed the "forced game assists" bug has gotten more frequent. There's been several times where a lobby set with all assists allowed forces even "authentic only" or "fully off" players to use assists with cars that wouldn't have them. For example: TC and ABS with the 70's RSR. This seems to be tied to specific lobbies as well, given if it happens in one race, it will happen to every race afterwards in the same lobby.

 

Formula Retro gen 1 requires the right hand mirror moving so you can see the cars following, as the left hand mirror does, pretty please.

 

Welp..The freeze every ten minutes bug still remains unresolved for over a year. I've been able to narrow it down to AMS2's attempt to connect to the internet for something (don't know what), every ten minutes on the dot starting from the beginning of any race session. When I turn off my wifi connection, the freeze doesn't happen. What is the AMS2 program calling every ten minutes? Weather data? Leader boards?

And it's not an outside program doing this, because ten minute countdown only starts when I enter a race session....

 

Even if the "timer" starts from race session, it could be still some external system, something like simhub, crewchief, wheelbase software that knows/needs to know about "race session" too.

You seem to be only one with this issue, so it's something highly unusual and if the game is doing that, you are the only one where it causes problems, which sound that game being at faul is very unlikely reason.

Out of curiosity, I even checked online logs from my sessions and I didn't notice any patterns of something being done and logged every 10mins. There seems to be some sync happening, but it's more frequent that every 10mins, so it's not that.

Your UDP frequency within game is off, right?

 

Other people have also experienced similar and it relates to power saving processes, possibly for peripherals like keyboards, mice, or in your case, a network adapter or modem. As far as I know, the game is not doing anything at the 10 minute mark, but Windows often is.

 

A plausible explanation if it happened in every other game too but it doesn´t. In fact it is more frequent in ranked online than unranked or SP so it has to be an AMS2 thing and it has to be linked to data sync or transfer, perhaps with Steam.

When I get it i happens every 5 minutes during ranked races.

 

OK, but @Manbird12000 says 10 minutes. Of the tiny few people who are getting these issues, why is it always on a timed basis? Why is it once and done for most, but you have it on a regular cycle? And yet there is no evidence that the game is doing anything at those times...? You are 100% sure there are no Windows, Steam or other apps doing something on your system every 5 minutes that just happens to interfere with AMS 2 and not other games? I have issues unique to several games on my system.

 

No idea but I am not going to blame it on something that cannot be proved either. If it was extraneous to AMS2 then it would happen in other games on steam or epic. All I know is it can be mitigated by not playing ranked multiplayer servers on AMS2. In race room I will get he occasional microfreeze when someone joins as session but that´s about it. As you can´t join a live race it is not a big thing.

It´s been like this for years and I personally have changed PC twice and the issue has followed even from W10 to W11 so the only constants are my ethernet internet connection, AMS2 and Steam and since other people have the same issue and are not using my ISP that is an unlikely source. AS AMS2 is not on Epic we can´t see if Steam is the cause either.

If it is nothing to do with AMS2 then why does it happen like clockwork based on the race start time in AMS2 rather than windows clock or something independent? It is a bit too much of a coincidence in my book.

All I´d like is not for this to get swept under the carpet when it is clearly still not fixed - same as the assists bug people were trying to shut down too.

I´d hope that the new bug testing MP get togethers might shed light on both these intermittent but very annoying problems.

 

The issue has been reported many many times in bug report and in the general forum. Long time players have probably given up reporting it since nothing seems to have changed and the workaround of avoiding ranked servers is reasonably efficient - at least in my case it has been. I could post links to all the threads but it is really a bit of a waste of time at this stage.

I´d be happy to collaborate in joining one of the MP bug hunting sessions but I am basically a weekend player so the original schedule was just not compatible with my work hours.

 

I hope at some point there will be car underbody damage implementation. Ever since i played F1 2021 it certainly adds so much to the experience and obviously realism where you can no longer abuse curbs by just flying over them lap by lap, or you could but the resulting damage will have a big impact on extra drag, and it is something that you cannot just simply repair in videogame style, you would just have to live with it until the end of the race.

 

Also suspension damage so you have to have bumpstops

 

Also, have the player go through 8-12 months of physical therapy for their spinal cord injury as a result of eating that sausage kerb @ 250 km/h

Jokes aside yeah, more suspension and underbody damage