Automobilista 2 September 2021 Development Update

you're right. There never has been livery override folders in PC1/2
But in Overrides we can find Lamborghinis and some others.
So why Reiza should generate override xml's without having it in the queue????

 

I expect more updates on the physics and ffb side, rather than more and more contents.

I understand reiza has to put out more content for more profit. But do spent some time to polish the game. I just can't get along with the handling, as a result I have barely played AMS 2 in the past few months. And with each monthly update, I got more frustrated.

 

What is it you don't get along with? Just saying "fix the physics" isn't very helpful.

 

in the last 2 months there were more or less only functional updates and very few content.
Most was FFB and physics tweaks. So what? Mimimimi?

AMS2 will never feel like AC.
AC will never feel like iRacing
iRacing will never feel like RF2
RF2 will never feel like PC2
And thats good.
So what do you expect, when just barely driving a sim.
Invest 20 hours and your brain will switch, and maybe you'll have problems to switch back to some other sim.

 

You forgot RaceRoom,my dear...

 

I think most people forget RaceRoom in all fairness: for every thousand things I see about AC or iRacing I'd be lucky to see one about R3E

 

Race Distance Scale is already an option. Use that.

Adrenaline - Pack featuring several off-road & Extreme Motorsports cars and tracks <<< this DLC will likely see return of rallycross, since it was a part of AMS1 before too.

 

see : Automobilista 2 V1.2.3.0 RELEASED - Now updated to V1.2.3.1

Otherwise... don't expect major changes to the physics. And always remember, the art team isn't the physics team isn't the audio team, etc.

 

Add to that, there is a sequence of steps and tasks within any development process, where ignoring the proper sequence will cost more energy, time and resources, in the end.

Prudence suggests to avoid all noise that suggests otherwise.

 

I do mean to post a full appraisal of the post at some point, but in summary:

• Thanks for the update on AI personalities; this is huge for me. Fingers crossed there'll be a way to tweak them eventually.
• Lots of confirmations about '70s' content - really appreciate this personally as I'd rather have a focus on this area - most tracks have Armco by this point so it feels a lot better to have a '70s Nurburgring, Spa and Monza than to have one '60s, one '70s and one of them from the '80s.
• Not sure why the turbo version of the 2002 is chosen, when I don't believe it raced prominently until in Group 5 trim, but it's a good proxy for an N/A 2002 that was very common in early '70s touring cars.
• Now you have two '60s' and two '70s' cars in that touring class, I hope you'll consider splitting them into those pairs.
• Fingers crossed you have a CSL buried somewhere in that licencing paperwork and huge backlog of cars in the pipeline!
• Appreciate you pulling together another matching pair of GP cars. Will there be some generic (F Retro Gen 3?) cars to match these?
• Next Dev blog sounds very interesting too; hopefully Racin USA Part 2 will have some more vintage content.

 

thats why i bought a motion system. I can feel all that bashing, clashing, crashing and rumble.
Sure its an expensive solution. But when i started first with a cheap DIY arduino based bass shaker solution, my view changed with how allive Dirt Rally could be and how much fun i gained.
W/o that, Rally felt dead.
And be sure, Rally with SMS engine feels much better than Codemasters engine, so i hope Renato will gift us with offroad feeling in the far future too.

 

That, as well as single races. At least with the Formula Ultimate. I've not noticed it with the GTE or GT3 cars in Single race, but almost always with Custom Championships.

 

It's mainly the ffb and a bit of the handling, I guess. I'm using a Thrustmaster TS-PC and I find the default ffb is not as intuitive as other sims. I did tried a few other custom ffb files, and didn't find one that make me satisfying.

What I like to see is that developers as least update the default ffb instructions. It was last updated on April, 2020. This is requested by lots of forum members as well.

 

I've played AMS 2 for about 100 hours, 104 hours to be precise. I did enjoy AMS2 some time ago. But nowadays I find the ffb is not as satisfying as other sims thus I rarely play it. I did try a few custom ffb file, but no luck.

Yes, they wont' feel like each other. I mainly play AC, and I can easily get used to the handling of R3E, rf2. This is not the case in term of switching to AMS 2 for me.

 

I suggest you try the ‘delta x’ custom ffb file tuned by @Kuku Maddog on this page:

Automobilista 2 Custom Force Feedback - Overview & Recommendations

It really helps the ffb feel.

Edit: I'm using Delta X tune V2

 

Race distance only controls the race. You still get super long practice and qualifying sessions.

 

You can skip to the next session any time during practice and qualifying?

 

Cheers, mate. I'll try this later today and see if it helps.