Featured Automobilista 2 V1.6 Development Update - The New Cars

Ultimately as someone who has to deal directly with the public in a sales environment I don’t think enough has been relayed with regards to 1.6 release for the AMS2 owners that don’t have beta access. Information has been teased but likely too early giving people false hope.

In all walks of life people tend to excel in certain areas and as a relatively small company I would imagine there are far more IT and software engineers? Than marketing people, someone we excels at programming won’t necessarily be that great at marketing…….

Am I frustrated, yes, do I moan privately to myself, yes! Sadly after that it’s out of our control. Do I hope lessons are learned for the future? Yes!

Good eta information = happy customers!

Peace to everyone ✌️

 

Depends on where you live and what you have already purchased and when.
For me, I've already spent £95 in RR and its £107 if I add all current missing content. Thats £202 or 243 euro. Not even close to AMS2.

 

I would add that after trying RR recently the driving dynamics just feel 'canned' to me. Too easy in any car.

 

I don't get the love for RRE. FFB feels numb to me. I don't get a feeling of body roll like I do in AMS2. I do like the variety of tracks they have, but not enough to hook me for long. I also get crappy fps b/c of cpu bottleneck b/c dx9

 

When I had a ****ty G25 wheel RR felt good. So maybe the experience depends on the players hardware.

 

First sorry for off topic post.
RRE has most realistic ffb of all sims. In all sims even in rFactor 2 you can get some canned effects but in RRE they are off by default. You get the most raw effect of what car and tyres are doing. Maybe it's wheel base setup thing, also of course some cars feel better than others like in every sim but in general RRE wins. The feel of load and that nervous engine of DTM 2012/2013 cars in unparraleled, you feel the difficulty and understand what car is doing so you have to accomodate the driving style and learn to push little by little until find the limit but even then the tyres play big part in this, how hot and damaged are they. Maybe it's not fair to compare but only nervous car that I can compare to the scenario I wrote above is V8 supercar in AMS2 but feel of driving is night and they, in AMS2 you actually fight the car all the time instead of enjoying it, AMS1 does this much better and is comparable to RRE. Maybe it's a setup thing but I never enjoyed these types of cars just becouse experience is much different in these two sims and I prefer the feel of RRE.

 

Thanks for the update RS! This definitely helps make the last few days of waiting a bit easier. I’m looking forward to V1.6!

 

Thanks for update.

 

IF RaceRoom FFB is the most realistic, it's also the one I find the most boring to use. Maybe realism is not the best we can / should do in Simulations. Afterall, aren't we missing out on so much feedback in the virtual space already?

 

FFB is super subjective, but imo, Raceroom continues the feeling of GTR2, AMS1, Rfactor, etc., and that might be why I (and so many others) continue to love how it feels. Its informative in a really good way and has a nice road feel / weight of cars.

As far as being "too easy", one thing with Raceroom is the weird TC settings. For a while i was just dropping TC to preset 1, and it felt really easy and weird. Those presets are actually not what you'd expect to see after playing other sims. Usually TC6 is the most challenging, and each individual preset can be configured in the car setup. Once you take TC off / lower it, the cars get a lot more lively and fun.

Anyway, one more week and we can all see how AMS2 v1.6 changes the game and i cannot wait!

 

I have no idea what this post means but I'm gonna assume it's good news.

 

Yeah, renato said that 1.6 will release next week or something ? I don’t really understand what he said

 

Agree, I find it not enough to have just a real car FFB in a sim. I need more.
Madness Engine custom FFB capabilities is something I really enjoy (too bad we don't get documentation about it, but that could be something Reiza is contractually obligated to)

 

The depots for the regular build are showing some life on Steamdb.

 

FYI: This is the thread about the new cars. Please put your general information in the chit chat thread or CrimsonEminence will kick you out.

Just kidding! Thanks for the long awaited update! We are all happy that you guys are making progress!

 

At least we got something. thanks, Renato.

 

Thanks for the update, Renato, even if it's a bit cryptic xD. Looks like update 1.6 will be available sometime next week guys ^^