Automobilista 2 V1.5.5.0, Le Mans & Endurance Pack Pt1 RELEASED - Now Updated to V1.5.5.6

OT: this is the first single-player games that gives me GP4 vibes. I'm, however, still amazed by what Geoff Crammond did with the AI 22 years ago. How the h**l did he do that?!

 

In fact, I still think GP4 has the edge with its inbuilt telemetry viewer during practice and cars being winched off the track.

 

I hope the devs address soon the AI issues when lapping slower classes. Players can get around them easily, but at Daytona if the AI can't make a clean overtake before turn 1 they're gonna stay behind GT cars until the oval section. This basically destroys the race as you'll be able to gain a huge amount of time every single time there's a car to lap.

And won't talk about narrower tracks like Imola

 

It's not even 9 am there and my dudes are already pushin beta builds. Rest goddammit

 

What surprised me is that they had track marshals working.

 

I could only dream of this level of stuff for AMS2 , I remember this game fondly.

 

I forgot about those marshals. They also had a director's mode on the replay, which would cut the cameras to close races and accidents.

 

Woah, that is super cool! Unfortunately this sort of immersion feature is buried way down any developer's priority list. I don't expect anything like that in AMS2 in its whole dev cycle.

 

The mistakes and mechanical failures are there at least. Marshalls running onto the track like that is low down on all developer's priorities to be fair.

 

Was that Marshall superman? Pushing a car through the gravel like it was on ice

But yeah, racing Sim developers in general have kinda lost the art of immersion that Crammond had bags of, but then he only had one series to look after of course.

 

I wish that fires were possible in ams2, as it is in rF2. And it would explain a lot of the AMDM failures that ai have, as at the moment they just stop at the side of the track.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VZKD4TnuXzI

 

I had a race where I had a full course yellow, and as we drive round we went past an AI stopped at the side of the track with smoke pouring out of it.

 

It seems to me that in GTR 2 the cars also caught fire when they had bad accidents. I remember I was in a Maserati MC12 and I crashed head-on into some barriers and the car started to catch fire, what I don't remember is if it was a mod or not.

 

is the flasher working now?

 

is it normal for lmdh hypercars to have this much wubwub with pit limiter on?

 

Thank you team!

 

Well, that is basically what I said. oO
However, if this sort of feature is always relegated to the end of priorities, such a thing will never exist again.

Physics updates are never ending. Content updates are always in. Tweaks to AI are frequent. All of them are of higher priority than a marshall running in to recover a car from the track. If they are always priority, the "less important" features will never get a chance to get in.

Sometimes you need to go for the higher fruit, instead of the low hanging ones, or it will rot.

Just to make it clear: this post is not a complaint, just a simple comment on game development in general. Dont you guys jump on my throat saying that I want marshalls running around instead of more realistic physics and stuff.....

 

Are there a plan to adding a flashing light button?

 

What, I have to pay for this amazing new content now?