AMS2 Dedicated Server Tool / SteamCMD Support

I have to agree, our league race with the gen2 indy cars was a disaster, we are on a dedicated server that has worked fine in the past but lately its been as you described, out of 11 players only 8 made it to the grid from Q & it was shaky at best with lots of skipping & cars moving sideways … Looking back about a year ago seems like we were hosting 20 + players and although not perfect it seemed allot more stable … I Hope the developers can find some time to have a look at the networking .. we also host PC2 races on the same rented ded service & have a good mp experience with 15-20 drivers .. We might try player hosting like mentioned above for our next round & see if its any better, as it is we are loosing our AMS2 drivers as they practice all week only to get disconnected when the session changes from Q to race

 

So just enable sportplay in the server.cfg and then give the ip and host port to those who can't find the server?
It becomes complicated to organize events on ams2. If on top of that the server doesn't work properly.
We are running on rf2, acc, ac and no worries with more than 30 drivers. Ams2 is often a problem for us.
If reiza can fix it quickly.

We are also looking for a live timer but can't find anything correct.

Thanks

 

Yeah thats it, for our next season we will be using justrace.net for organizing our races, they implemented the sportsplay function as a option, which makes it easier for people to join using sportsplay.

For your live timing this might be worth having a look at:
Liveview - webbased tool providing live track map and live timing

 

Is it always the same one entering the lobby first? Because that person becomes effectively the host, when they have a connection thats not so good, you will get those issues.
We had the same when i went in the lobby first, because i was streaming as well we would have issues, so since then we make sure someone else gets in first.
Bear in mind that internetspeed alone is not important, if u have a high speed connection,but with very high latency, you will get issues as well

 

Yeah that is weird indeed, never noticed this myself.
You have the server set to control the game setup?

Maybe try starting ams2 with the -selectds parameter, setup the lobby ingame, select to run on your dedi server and see if that works better

 

thank you for the answer
but I think it's a shame that you have to go through something else than our website to make a championship or open on AMS2.
reiza should correct this quickly to avoid players going elsewhere.
Our drivers train for more than 2 weeks and the night of the race they can't join because they can't see the server.
For the live timming I had already looked at that but frankly it's too restrictive for what we do with it

 

Yeah we use the sportsplay function now without any platform, works really well for us

 

Well, since multiplayer doesn't seem to be a huge priority for Reiza, i dont see any big changes happening soon, which is a shame, cause ams2 has got a lot of potential for leagues etc,etc

 

However, it is risky to give the ip and port of the server. We open a door to the server

 

We have a dedicated server host who is always first on (following our 'race day join' server rules) & he has a nice green connection to the server.. & like I said it's been better in the past. it's only the last 2 or 3 months where we started having issues .. One thing that is working for us is everyone seems to be able to see & find the server

 

yeah, i really hope they focus a bit more on multiplayer/dedi server part, its much needed.

 

Agreed, even the simple requests I listed above would go a long way to make the multiplayer experience so much better for most folks. You know it's bad when people in my league joke about AMS2 doing AMS2 multiplayer things when we're just trying to enjoy racing one another.

 

yeah totally, lets hope something improves drastically sonner rather then later

 

I agree, the game has great potential to grow the user base. It just needs a little MP polish. I would add one more option to the MP requested feature list:

Allow server admin to lock camera to cockpit view only.

 

Is that the same as the force interior view option the http api already has, or is that a new one thats in the pipeline?

 

all you have todo is checking the attributes of your server

 

I have that set on the server config file.
In PCars2/AMS2 it still allows you to switch between interior view cams (center of car etc). I guess what I was asking was for it to be locked to the driver seat view.

 

Even so I can still just Ctrl+K and move my cam back to the roof xD