Featured AMS2 V1.6.8.5 Coming Tomorrow Oct 31! Pre-Release Info, Previews & Discussions

I know some people are tired of talking about GT3s, but with 7x 296 GT3s driving in IMSA the possibility of a Milano version is so awesome.

The car isn't even out yet!?

 

Super excited for this content and all the under the hood stuff coming with it as always! That said, I feel like the place where AMS2 slightly lacks behind the competition is the ONBOARD audio as I feel like it's not visceral enough and anything other than the engine sound is not evident in most cases and even the engine note doesn't sound quite right at times. Hope it's worked upon further in future updates.

Happy racing to everyone here!

 

I think he's referring to this stream from Overtake today? I don't know enough about this car to complain, but this is the only preview i've seen. Michel does say the onboard sounded 'mid' to him.

I personally think these overtake preview streams generally cause more harm to AMS2 than they help, lol.

 

Will the TAA be ready by tomorrow as announced? Please tell me yes. I'm dying to try it in VR.

 

Regarding the onboard sound of the cars, I had a quick look into the overtake stream earlier today and saw the many negative comments about it in the chat and was surprised at first. Then I noticed that for some reason the audio of the stream didn't do the new cars justice AT ALL, at least the few snippets I listened to.

I used to be quite vocal about any perceived issues with the onboard sound in AMS2 myself, but IMHO there have been some great improvements to the cars - particularly the new ones - in the Beta lately, which I'm sure will please many people.

As for the M3 GTR, last I checked the onboard sound in the Beta was so brutal it hurt my ears. Never had that experience before in AMS2... and I kinda love it.

But if I'm being honest, the C5R takes the cake. And that's with that humongous Viper V10 and two V12 engines in the same class. It's just THAT good.

 

I find turning off 'Headphone Mix' even when using a headphone makes the sound better. Still feel like there's definite room for improvement (as there always is with everything) with the some of the cars.

 

The AMS2 chase cam sounds so great to me, would love a slider in settings to blend some of the chase cam / exhaust sound into the cockpit audio

 

We have the ability to change the level of multiple parameters in the settings. Try this, this has completely changed the immersion for me. The different levels of each item are not balanced very well.

• Keep opponent volume at 100. This seems to be the quietest "volume" out of all the others.
• Lower all the on track (racing) volumes by 10-20. Basically until the opponents cars are audible to your liking.
• Lower your own engine volume to 50.
• Lower tire sounds to 70 or lower.

Obviously change to personal taste but try this. I work in recording and live sound engineering and I thought the players engine was nice to be loud but really did drown out all the other sounds.

 

Thanks for the new toys! It’s a shame, though, that the new HUD got delayed.

 

I think GT1s will be very popular. Greatly driving set of cars and big variety too. Better than GT3s

 

He said nothing about car handling other than it is floating. A load of rubbish. All these new cars drive better than similar cars already in the game imo.

 

YouTube audio quality is always quite bad, especially in livestream, so I wouldn't judge sound based on youtube. Also the LFE Boost setting in AMS2 is amazing and can really add tons of bass for good headphones that is often missing for cars in games.

The Vantage GT3 and Diablo GT-R sound so amazing, it would be surprising if the new dlc cars wouldn't hold up that

 

So your comparing the ingame sound from GTR2 which you've played to the audio from a Youtube stream? Youtube doesn't do the audio quality justice, and also a bad config by the person streaming could affect it, i would strongly suggest to try it first as i assume there will be a free trial weekend, and comment on it afterwards.

 

Seriously don't understand why they keep getting early access, be better to give it to GM, lol but really Mike simracing604 would be a better preview channel.

 

I can't speak for outright realism because I've never spent a single second in any one of these cars, but I don't think that it is totally out of line to question the in-car sounds. There have already been multiple posts in this thread claiming that Youtube encoding destroys sound quality or outright attacks on the content providers themselves (who offered all of us a chance to see/hear the new content ahead of launch at no charge). This community should not be so fast to kill the messenger or silence any criticisms.

Especially in sim racing, users are very opinionated about the way certain things must be set up or configured and those parameters are different for everyone (up to and including placebo effects). The car audio from the Overtake stream from earlier today is the actual update in AMS 2 as provided to the channel for the purposes of coverage. It is the only "official" chance the greater community has to see or hear this content ahead of launch. Any opinions formed from this coverage is valid. This thread (I presume) is explicitly for the community to react and offer feedback to this update.

In my own experience, AMS 2 in-car audio has mostly been less engaging than some other competing titles. In my case, I feel this way as the audio output (at least through my PC and headphones) has always been less lively and "raw" than the same vehicles in a few other titles I spend time with. AMS 2 may be the most realistic (not that there's any way I could know without driving them) but the cockpit audio mix is almost always less exciting than I'm expecting before my first time in the seat for new content.

I can never hear exhaust crackling, marbles splattering the wheel wells, creaks and moans from the chassis, etc - even when this kind of stuff is present in other games. I can hear the exhaust popping from AI cars I am racing side-by-side from within the cockpit, so it stands to reason that I should probably be hearing it from my own (as in this scenario, the exhaust tips on these cars are a maximum of 8 feet apart and as a driver, my ears are closer to my own exhaust). It doesn't surprise me that the cockpit cam engine noise would also be perceived by others to be underwhelming (especially when lots of these cars have literal dragons under the hood or behind the driver's seat).

It's all user preference, though.

 

I have a feeling if they did nothing else to the game other than slap "Kunos" on the box instead of Reiza, overtake.gg would suddenly describe the handling as amazeballs!!!

 

This, so much this.....I've been hoping and wishing for these audio improvements for so long.

 

Wait what? Would DLSS also come at some point?

 

A checkbox in preferences that allows exterior sounds to be activated for in car views might help.

 

wow. Any news of TAA?
Do we get the special Reiza TAA version codenamed... TAw8 or 'TA-wait'