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

I bought the AMS2 season pass 2020-2022 some time ago, and now that they have that new all inclusive bundle, it says it costs like a 110€ for me, because even though I own all the tracks from the premium track packs, and the F-USA content, the season pass has given me the tracks seperately, so not the premium track pack, and for the F-USA it has given the pt 1 and pt 2 and not the complete package, so it basicly adds the premium and the complete pack prices to my the all inclusive pack. So I'm actually missing like 3 dlcs, which would cost like 20€ seperately. The whole dlc thing is kind of a **** show, and it sucks that I can't get the 15% off.

EDIT: oh someone already posted about this. Hope this gets fixed.

 

I assume you have reset your setup to default as recommended?

 

Let me say that your openness and communication is very much appreciated. It is very pleasant and a welcome change to other companies. I also love the teams passion. Just let us know in time if things are not pleasant anymore to come over here and communicate. So that we as a community can hopefully fix that issue. Because to me and I guess many others such direct communication and so frequently is worth a lot. So thank you for that and the whole team.

 

Reiza i love you. I don't know what the f*ck you have done but i love you. The cars in the changelog are alive now... just... alive! Such joy to throw around.

Just... just forget 1.4 and 1.5

1.5.5.2 is where it's at! Cars are so much less forgiving now. Much easier to spin. You can no longer rest on your laurels!

 

I definitely noticed the LMDH being a little bit more challenging to drive. But it was still fantastic.

 

All right. My 2 projects for 2024 (being very flexible just to mention it right at the beginning ). My plan is to do the races around the calendar dates in real life. Means kickoff is in the 2nd week of March for project #1 and then more or less all 2 weeks like it was in 1991 (hope I remember on the season opener soon enough ).

1. F1 Classic
Fully F1 1991 calendar with all the tracks (some replacements) with original dates, real weather and original race length. I'll go for the Scuderia into it and take the spot of Alesi. Let's see if I can keep up with Prost and if we can match up with the top favs Williams and McLaren. Championship is already set up.

2. WEC/IMSA
As for my F1 classic season I'd like to do the same for endurance races. I'll just wait some time to get a feeling when the new content reiza already announced could appear. If this will take a bit longer into 2024 I maybe set up a calendar inspired by the WEC calendars in the former years and bring a mix of tracks where the races took place to not fall too much behind in months to reality. About the lenght of sessions, I still have to take a big breath and figure out what race distance could still feel healty to me

 

Obrigado for the quick fix, we really appreciate your awesome support, on the weekend even!

 

Grabbed the SP version of the bundle for a nice Le Mans discount Does the bundle account for future content or does it need to be topped up with every new addition?

 

Assessing Yearly Season Passes for AMS2 DLCs

 

Yes, Great!
I'm so glad you Reiza Guys finally almost nailed it. The "Minor slick tread adjustments" improved the car's behaviour to the better. Now the car (tested with Porsche GT3 old gen) behaves more realistically: Not sliding/pushing over all 4 wheels any longer so smuch (I mean over- and understeering at the same time when driving a bit over the grip limit) but still holding a realistic amount of grip at the front tires, while being sensitive to oversteer at the rear.

In a next step still a bit less forgiving slip behaviour and AMS2 is gold.

 

WOW I dont know how, but this update is pure MAGIC, I tested GT3s old, new, GT4s, LMDh and I am happy simracer, huge positive improvement in tyres grip feel on the edge, throttle steer feels amazing, more challenging to drive, great great great job and big surprise. Thank you!

 

i've done something similar, for 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993! don't forget to get the liveries by Immersion Modding Studio. My hot tip is to use long beach for the "Phoenix" round. It's a US Street circuit that is actually far more interesting than the actual little-used Phoenix circuit, and gives the same vibe (if you watch the Phoenix videos from those years you can barely tell they're not from Long Beach, but for the weather which you can choose anyway). Also looks like Bugatti Le Mans circuit can stand in for the French GP, and in my alternate universe I pretend Austro-Hungary never broke up so I use Austria for the Hungaroring. Enjoy!

 

Thx for the advices
Fun fact: I do have Long Beach instead of Phoenix, Bugatti for the French GP and Spielberg for Hungary in my season indeed

And the liveries, great work btw., will be used

 

I really like your F1 Classic racing project.

Here is something i'd like to do : the underdog gets the world championship.

Challenge 1 : F1 1974 - Watkins Glen - Clay Regazzoni wins for Ferrari. You're Clay Regazzoni and you're driving for Ferrari. After Mosport (Round 14), you are head to head against Emmerson Fittipaldi (52 pts). You need to finnish ahead of him to get the world title in USA, Watkins Glen.

Challenge 2 : F1 1983 - Monza, Brands Hatch, Kyalami - René Arnoux wins for Ferrari. You're René Arnoux, and you just won the Dutch GP. You're only 8 pts behind Prost, 6 pts ahead of team mate Patrick Tambay, and Nelson Piquet. You have to outscore Prost in the final races.

Challenge 3 : F1 1986 - Adélaïde - Nelson Piquet gets his 3rd title in 1986 ! You're Nelson Piquet. You're 1 pt behind Prost and 7 pts behind Mansell before going to Australian GP, the big finale.

Challenge 4 : F1 1990 - Spa, Monza, Estoril, Jerez, Suzuka, Adélaïde - Prost gets the title for Ferrari. You're Alain Prost and you're driving for Ferrari. You're obviously fighting against your best ennemy, Ayrton Senna. After the race in Hungary, you're 10 pts from Senna. But with 6 races to go anything is still possible.

Challenge 4 : F1 1991 - Spa, Monza, Estoril, Jerez, Suzuka, Adélaïde - Mansell gets his 1st title in 1991. You're Nigel Mansell, your Williams is fantastic, but you're still 12 points behind Ayrton Senna. Fortunately, there are still 6 races to go.

Challenge 5 : F1 1993 - Spa, Monza, Estoril, Suzuka, Adélaïde - Senna gets an incredible 4th title for McLaren. You're Ayrton Senna, you're driving the "underpowered" McLaren-Ford. After Hungarian GP, you're 27 pts behind Prost and its dominant Williams-Renault... that is probably to be the most difficult challenge.

We can imagine a lot of challenges like this. We don't even need to replace tracks, as we jump into the season to compete the last races !

 

The new tyres take some time to get used to, but they’re nice. Still very frustrating to get used to, but a very nice addition

 

I will be away from sim until next week .
Would you mind elaborate a bit more why the need to get used to and why frustrating?
I am trying to understand what to expect by the comments, since the changelog reallt reports what I was waiting for.

 

Well I was driving the Cadillac LMDh around Le Mans and the loss of grip with high temps is a lot more than before. Since my setup used to produce a lot of heat into the rear tyres, I could really feel the car sliding and spinning. It got frustrating since I had to change some stuff, but the feeling of grip loss is a lot easier to feel and it’s easier to know what’s happening

 

For those who drive mainly on AMS2, I'm sure changes that reduce grip / make it peakier can take some adjustment, especially if you have setups build with more fogiving handling as basis. It doesn't feel that different to me, but that is probably mainly because I'm jumping between two sims and it's stil (much) easier to lose the car in the other one.. (and I never have learned to properly utilize that extra grip I have had in AMS2).