Automobilista 2 V1.5 Officially RELEASED - Now updated to V1.5.0.5

What wheel are you using?

 

Finally had a chance to try a few cars out.

The RX cars feel fantastic, just a lot of fun once you get to grips with them, really enjoyed the karts as well.

Biggest improvements I've encountered so far were the Porsche Cup, 190 E and the JCW Mini, they all feel much more in line with what my brain expects. Just very very enjoyable and engaging.

FFB felt as though gain was a bit lower overall, I found myself bumping gain up by 10% or so, previously at this level cars would have clipped on the same track.

For me though higher downforce cars are a bit floaty now. The DPi, P Class cars that I tried and the RSR felt as though it was all aero load coming through the ffb, not much texture to them, not so much of a sense of mechanical grip.

 

Fanatec CSW v1

 

A few bugs still present which I am hoping can be fixed in future.

Some of them come under usability issues, maybe not bugs but bare with me.

Bugs

• Still able to assign the same wheel button/key to multiple functions (e.g. brake bias and car menu (ICM?).
• Unable to UNASSIGN controls once they are set (I didn't read anywhere on the assignment menu how this was done.
• Having historical weather set for Q and R which are both set to the same in game time. (e.g Q was torrential rain, moved to R and it's wet track with blue skies and no rain).
• Off-road tracks have no historical weather data, nor the ability to use live weather because "no live weather" is selected.

Usability

• P and Q hidden within separate menus to the R settings. Surely there is a better way to lay this out without going in and out of multiple menu levels.
• Clicking a car/track will sometimes select it, sometimes choose it and return to the race menu. I can never quite predict which one it will do.
• Can't fetch live weather or similar error... press OK to confirm? Surely it would be better if the user couldn't select these options (save button disabled till valid option found) if the game knows they don't exist? So for example with the RX tracks... scrolling through the date... "can't find weather, using live weather" Press OK, scroll to the next date, "can't find weather, using live weather" Press OK AGAIN.

These annoying little things shouldn't get in the way of the user getting to the cockpit, or even stress the user while in the cockpit.

 

Just as a heads up, I have a pit request button mapped.

 

100% agree on the open wheelers. The F3’s in particular didn’t feel as good as beta.

 

I'm still coming to grips with the new reality... Yes intentional pun there...

I love the attention to detail that is included, the new FFB feels great to me and there's a lot to like in what has been packaged... And the fact that the physics actually work as intended in a Madness engine title on this level now is something that should be praised endlessly...

We've gone from unpredictable incomplete feeling cars on anything to do with the Madness engine before 1.4 to these new cars which are almost too predictable in how they behave...

And I have to say the new R89C and Corvette GTP physics are so heart warming to see just the set up pages of, let alone drive... Where they are now is a big reason I started the WSC 1989 project, because they were that far out of the window before... The R89C went from being my least favourite to drive because it was too easy to go fast to being the most challenging and fun to drive Group C car in 1.5...

However...

Day 1 with 1.5 was a real struggle... First it took 12 attempts to get it to work even after a clean install where the only thing I didn't do was a regedit... One click of the mouse and the screen was black for the first 11 attempts... Verification showed no missing files... The trick was a 3rd restart of the PC after the install...

Then online was a complete mess 5 hours after the Steam maintenance window with mass disconnects which didn't allow me to complete a race, let alone a practice session for well over an hour... And wasn't much better another 6 hours later with disconnects still happening to other people but at least I was able to complete some races...

I also found a new car with the brick bug and a new version of the missing drivers bug that wasn't tied to the livery override system as I had removed everything to have the cleanest possible experience with 1.5 on day 1...

Then I'd get a lot of bugsplats at the Reiza logo, verifications showed no issues, again a PC restart was required to get it to work... If this starts happening today I'll be doing a full reinstall with a regedit clean out...

With all the eyes on 1.5 and it being such a milestone release for the title, I was really hoping for a much cleaner release... So that those who returned to the title would give it some proper time and not be turned off by one of these bugs...

We could of really used a longer BETA or RC period for this...

 

We reported the dirt not having much texture in the beta, but never got a solid response of why its like that. Earlier builds had the FFB much more rough, now it feels more like sand than dirt. (And I think you'll find the Non "RX" tracks are naturally a bit more bumpy.)

However, if I had to guess, this has something to do with livetrack. Because if you do a longer race, say 10-20 laps, you'll quickly notice turns become more bumpy from cars sliding over it. I think the track degradation is there, just not totally implemented yet.

 

Nope. I'm disagreeing (and I believe @kkdrummer has the same understanding) with your statement that both cars are supposed to handle the same because one is the newer version of the other. By this logic a corvette c8, a c7 and a c6 should all handle exactly the same because its the same car, just newer versions.
The 992 cup car has different handling characteristics comparing to the previous cup car generation. This was stated by Porsche itself when the model was released, by several professional Porsche Cup drivers around the world and even iracing mentioned the differences to the previous car in game when they released their 992 cup.

 

About the icm thing, my wheel has a dpad and its useful for me because i can use the dpad for looking left/right/back, but i can also use the dpad for scrolling through the icm

 

The 992 is different to the 991, but lets hope its different enough to warrant inclusion…

(ik there is a 992 cup mod out there but it just uses 991 physics and sounds)

 

I have nothing to complain about physics and FFB, in my opinion everything is very good. I use a simple G27.

 

Tested some gt3 cars and the formula trainer and formula inter, no problems here. Profile: type default+, gain 70, low force boost 0, fx 25, damping 50, menu spring 0 on the wheelbase: strength 10nm, tf audio 70, ffb filter 3, dampner 50, angle 900, brake force 20.

 

Hey man, which car and track are you on to have the "numb sliding" problem? And what track state are you loading the game with?

 

I don't remember it being mentioned anywhere on the screen, but for me the backspace key works for unbinding

 

Huge amount of work for devs, but I can imagine it might be something the community could package together and share.

Not sure of the file structure for custom setups, but perhaps have downloadable custom setups for a particular class for all tracks with safe/aggressive/rain is more achievable. Still a lot of work but some of us are really good with setups (not me lol) and I'm sure could improve the experience for users that aren't

 

That is a good idea. Could possibly be done similar to how JSGME is used for custom FFB files maybe? I do not really know though.

 

Thanks but it does appear that there maybe an issue with some the Logitech wheels and some including myself have noticed a slight drop in gain. Is anyone looking into this or are you all on much deserved holiday?