Automobilista 2 V1.6 Developent Update - Changelog & Release Notes

I wonder how many people will quit simply because it keeps hanging up on them too often.

 

I get 50% less FPS by night. So yes it's awful and absolutly not optimized...

 

I assure you that I do not want to offend you, because I had a similar impression for a long time. And in a way it was because of the game engine. The problem is not in the physics itself, but in the camera work inside the car. An easy way to see if the problem is in the camera is to check it. Just drive around with the camera on the hood of the car. In this mode it is static and I found that it starts to feel the physics of driving completely different. In the options, unfortunately, even after turning off the camera movement, it continues to make movements and the only way to eliminate this is to turn on the camera movement and set all the sliders to 0. In my opinion, this completely changed the driving experience and I felt like I was starting to play a completely different game. Because of these camera problems I gave up driving in pc and pc2 completely. Greetings

 

I honestly sometimes wonder how many people there are in the world who say something is broken or wrong without even checking what settings they are using. I personally never had issues because i adjusted the camera in a way that fits exactly my needs, same with the HUD layout, FFB, everything by myself. But a lot of people leave camera just on default and then migt say things are wrong when it is not even true.

 

Same VR performance here, in old tracks and cars.

But keep in mind that new particles HIGH/ULTRA settings are more demanding that the same settings at 1.5. MEDIUM/ULTRA runs like MEDIUM/ULTRA in 1.5 but looks much better. And the new tracks aren't optimized yeat. Night, headlights, all the rest have the same performance.

 

Particles have nothing to do with it because even set to LOW / OFF the performance is just as horrible.

 

The onboard camera should be set to fixed by default. The pilot's head movements create a floating sensation and make it difficult to understand the car's exact behavior.

I spent many hours racing with version 1.5, and when I tried 1.6, I had to relearn how to drive without the excessive sliding that was present before. As for the pendulum effect, I’d say it’s been gone for quite some time. Even in versions prior to 1.5, this effect, "inherited" from Project Cars 2, was no longer noticeable.

 

Probably half as many who seem to believe changing camera settings, using a custom ffb file or leaving the fridge door open changes the physics of the cars.

 

It's totally possible unfortunately, if someone used to be a skeptic who got really curious with all the news around V1.6 and LFM etc. and wants to give it a good try now, they'll go back playing whatever they were playing before and say "I knew it".
Seems to be a very persistent bug, I remember it used to be fine for some time, now it's back it seems. LFM says auto-advance is active.

 

That´s exactly my case. If I have to choose between getting stuck in AMS2´s lobby hell and being punted out on the first lap in RRE during free access, I will take my chances with the latter. I know which handling model I prefer too - it´s not even a close call there.

 

Yea, you don't even have to be a skeptic to be "scared away" again. I love AMS2, it's not perfect just like any other sim racing game out there, and I really like handling and physics, it's getting better and better, but I'm no offline player, I pretty much race exclusively online. I had stopped playing AMS2 online because I can't and don't want to commit to a league, I just would like to race when I wish and can, and I hate the 25 mins. quali and 5 laps race mentality, it makes no sense whatsoever.

You open a lobby and want to do a 30 or even just 20 mins race, rarely anyone joins. I was looking forward to do some scheduled racing on AMS2, but this bug is game breaking in the sense of race stopping (or preventing?), there's no point in pretending it isn't. It's happened quite often lately and it's a shame, it seriously sucks a lot of motivation out to sign up for the next race.

But that's just me. Other people might be more patient but many don't have time to waste stuck in a lobby, they want to race. That's not even the main concern. My concern is that if it doesn't get better LFM might decide to drop it again. When there was that famous poll on which game should be added AMS2 or another game (I think it was rF2), people voted for AMS2 iirc but LFM said functionality or stability (can't remember now what the wording was) isn't quite there yet to be supported. Since the update and LFM support player numbers have cracked all time highs and records, I think at some point there were almost 4,000 people playing. That might change again because of this mean and persistent bug.

I really hope Renato and the team can hunt that thing down and fix it. There's probably more awesome combos with fantastic machinery in AMS2 than atoms in the universe, but if you're stuck in P or Q that number plummets to zero.

 

Can some explain to me what this bug is? I've done about a dozen races this week in LFM and I haven't encountered at all.. And at this point I don't know what you guys are talking about

 

When the auto advance option is activated, sessions should advance when the time is up (P to Q to R) without input from the room master, but that doesn´t always work so you can get stuck in a practice session and the race never starts. It could also happen, via a separate bug, that the room master could not manually advance to the next session either.

 

Considering what Reiza accomplished in the last seven months, this seems a minor problem.

 

In what sense "minor" problem ? This issue is in the game for 4 years now.

 

Just wanted to share a little big thing I noticed since 1.6.3.
I was time trialing the m1 procar at barcelona, a slippery track (to me), and the m1 default setup was quite a bit on the drifty/loose side to my liking. So, a bit underwhelmed, I went in the setup and, as usual, I lowered the lsd clutch numbers. It didn't work like in 1.5. The car carachter remained the same.
so I started tweaking the setup and I discovered that with 1.6 the tyres related params play a much bigger role!!!
If you, like me, love a safer and more planted setup without power slides, please try increasing negative rear camber and add positive rear toe-in. I run -1.5 camber and +1.0 toe-in.
Note:I also added an entry in the bug list thread, but be aware that front toe-in is reversed. Negative values are actually toe-in and positive values are toe-out (try the extreme values to see yourself), at least in the m1 procar.

 

I think it's a great update and thank you

 

They fixed most of the bugs and figured out a better way to track them down. Many of the problems they fix go back to PC2. Relative to all that, yeah this is minor.

 

Maybe something with messed config files?

Here, I have some trouble with OneDrive and the anyoing bug of settings don't saving, messed config, etc.

After all good, exactly the same VR performance as 1.5.

Strange.