Automobilista 2 V1.0.4.0 Update Released, now updated to v1.0.4.1

There is only one Youtuber that gets criticism right and that is Nils Heusinkveld. He also is the only one that shows you how to take a Blender apart. So, there is that

 

Is that Jimmy Broadbent's actual bed in his videos, or is it there as an ironic joke?

 

He lives in a shed. There is a bed and a simrig. It is not a joke. Although he might not sleep in it year round.

 

I also wonder if buying the occasional car or improving the Miata has slowed his pursuit of a house. I also suspect that he looks after his mom to some degree, but that's just a guess. And living in a shed with a bed in the shot is kind of his brand now.

 

Did you watch the F1 race this weekend? On the grid just before the race, Martin Brundle was lauding the "old school" circuit of Nurburgring and unlike the new circuits with their paved catchment areas, Nurburgring still has gravel and that one mistake means you are out of the race. He was talking about this as a good thing, in the manly, tough sportsman kind of way.

He also pointed to the damp, muddy grass he and the other announcer were standing on beside the grid. He said look at this!! We're standing on mud! If you drive off onto the grass the car will accelerate as it heads towards the barriers--forget about degrees of slowing down.

Let's collect some videos of cars going off on the grass at various circuits that are in AMS 2 and then compare what happens in the sim before making blanket statements like this.

For sure, AMS 2 is not designed to mollify console racers' feelings...it is intended to be realistic and brutally so in some circumstances.

 

All I am saying is why attacking Reiza for Codemasters style cashing practices when it is free content? To me it sounds like a bit of a cheap low blow out of frustration with anything that smells SMS.
What sense does it make for some of the reviewers you mentioned to provide comments (positive or negative it is not the matter) when they clearly have not spent time on the sim and don't know what the developers are doing/planning?
I agree Ermin has at least spent a little time (very little) since he made more than one clip, but generally most of the reviewers have almost no content on the sim other the a 15 minutes test when there is new content where it is almost always clear they have not set their equipment and their cars.
All I am asking is for reviewers to be more on top of the sims they are talking about and knowledgeable of them, not a blanket praise or a blanket trashing. Billie did not even know for sure if GT3s were going to be included in the sim. Did any of the reviewers even open AMS2 website or this forum? Do they know what's going on? To me it seems not.
For instance out of the last update none of them mentioned the change in the horizon/head movement nor the differential modifications which made for a significant change compared to the previous update. Are those changes good? Are they bad? Do they even know what they are about?
I mean no disrespect to them, I'm just saying superficial reviews (positive or negative) are not making any good service to the users in general. They only run the risk to blindly repeat street legends.

 

Someone ran away from kindergarten

 

so you imply ams2 is the only sim that does offroad in the right way by quoting a race weekend and a track after days of rain and chilling temperatures?
oh dear.

 

Have you ever driven on grass or deep gravel in any car? 4 wheel drive and knobbly tires exist for a reason.

 

ok so you are all implying ams2 is the only sim that does it right, since it is totally different from any other sim. sure objectivity will never be the strongest point of the simracing community.

 

Maybe it's realistic, maybe not. Doesn't really matter. In the end, AMS2 is a game meant to be played for entertainment. Multiplayer races where one off-track excursion effectively ends your race on tracks like Brands Hatch or VIR are not fun for most people. Even safely rejoining the track is difficult because of the slipperiness of the grass, which further contributes to ruining the multiplayer experience.