Featured Automobilista 2 V1.6.8 & Lamborghini Dream Pack PT2 RELEASED - Now Updated to V1.6.8.1

How many people started experiencing issues joining public lobbies with the message "Cannot join, too many players" even when it is like 16 / 24 people in it ?

 

yes been happening for ages , but the worst one for me is joining a fixed server and these duds leave it till the last second to press the drive button , and its the same people a lot of the time

 

Dear Reiza Studios / AMS2 Team,
Let me take a moment, as a simracer both deanding and impatient, to say a huge thank you for this new V1.6.8 update. Finally, I can drive without feeling like my wheels are about to take off mid-corner — a miracle, but you pulled it off.
Humor (but true)
Thank you for making a game where cars finally stay on the track — I’d almost forgotten what it feels like not to see my tyres going on holiday mid-race.
Thanks also for making multiplayer less of a gamble: I no longer expect my rivals to vanish into thin air down the straight (though, I admit, it was sometimes funny).
And thank you for reminding us that “running wide” doesn’t automatically trigger a helicopter mode for the car.
A few suggestions (since simracers never shut up)

• Keep refining AI behaviour in multiclass and endurance scenarios — still some quirks there.
• Improve FFB in extreme conditions: sometimes there’s still that “flat zone” when heat builds up.
• Watch high-end setups: 48-car grids push CPU/memory — stability here will be key.
• Please give us more documentation on internal systems (rubbering, aero balance, heat loss) for those of us who like digging into numbers.

In short
Thank you for V1.6.8. You’ve brought stability, consistency, and credibility back to AMS2. You’ve shown you listen to the community — and that’s as rare as it is valuable in simracing. Now: keep testing, keep innovating. We’re counting on you… and so are our tyres.

By the way, we’re still waiting for the "Mosler MT900" and the Baku circuit
Pilote X (keyboard warrior, track burner, tyre whisperer)

 

The patch note? Who reads that?

 

The lambo Miura on Spa Historic 1000km is quite an experience ! Thrilling and terrifying as you can push the car to its max or close to it, while attempting to stay alive.

 

I use a fair amount of dampening also i really like to feel the "tyres on the ground" and not a free spinning wheel, it has to feel as though the steering wheel is turning tyres connected to the ground without power steering, well for the majority of cars i drive they use manual rack steering.

 

Holy moly the Super Trofeo is a DREAM to drive! I love it! Meanwhile the Murcielago has me PUMPED for the other 2005 GT1 cars coming up.

So glad I invested in this simulator it's tremendous and continually improving

 

Just tried this combo out after seeing your post. You're spot on. This combo is pure fun and anxiety rolled into one. Thanks for the tip. This will become a regular go to now for me.

A while ago I deleted all setups from the Documents folder. This caused my FFB settings to be lost and being as I am old as the hills, I could not for the life of me remember even remotely what they were. I was lost. I just tried to get the feeling back in the formula junior which is what I always use for my FFB test bed. Eventually, after randomly sliding the sliders and checking the results, I got it to what I thought was something akin to what I had from memory previously but still felt it wasn't like it used to be and maybe that was because of the latest (at the time) physics changes.

Anyway, fast forward back to current release. I had slowly lost interest in sim racing in general for a while (I have been sim racing since Revs on the C64 after all) so hadn't played AMS2 for months really. I fired up the latest AMS2 in anticipation of the new lambos and other changes with some trepidation being as the FFB profiles had been adjusted yet again. Sure enough, I tried out the Formula Junior with Default+ (which is the profile I normally use) and I hated it. It was awful.. Felt numb and lifeless.. just flat out disappointed. Cursed the FFB internal tweaks. So, I started the laborious journey of tweaking the settings. It really is ridiculous how the feel can be wildly different from adjusting just 4 simple sliders. Anyway, got it to something reasonable and continued still not particularly impressed.

Then I remembered I had book marked your FFB tips ages ago and had completely forgotten. Went back to review and ended up with much higher FX, a higher damping etc. Just the sort of things I wouldn't have used because of various assumptions I had about the sliders and their effects. Low and behold I am back to loving the FFB (Default+) feel in all cars including the Formula junior. My experience has been transformed so once again, thanks for those tips.. Its amazing how much better this feels as a result.

 

After all those DLCs it becomes a bit difficult to find certain cars in the list when you don´t exactly know the car class it belongs to. Would be nice if we could get an addtional list sorting cars by their manufacturers, as was provided in PC2.

 

It was the first combo I tried with the new content. It is amazing indeed.

 

This would be great. I'd also like a year or range of years for cars.

Sometimes I like the car and want to use tracks for the correct time period but I can get mixed up between eras.

 

Isn't this what the presets are for?

It gives you a filtered list of tracks that are suitable for the era/class you have chosen.

 

Presets the way they are now are indeed helpful, but they don't cover the following use cases:

• Having picked a track from a specific time period, e.g. Imola 2001 (which covers 1995-2006), what vehicles are from this time period? In other words, avoid any vehicles that didn't exist before 2007.
• Having picked a car from a specific time period, e.g. McLaren F1 LM road car (from 1995), would this have been doing testing at Imola 1988 or Imola 2001? In other words, avoid track layouts that no longer exist after a certain year.

These use cases are particularly common when hosting multiplayer sessions.
I made a spreadsheet to keep track of such combos myself last year, but it became a pain to maintain, and also it wasn't practical to use when in VR.

 

Also the fact that the presets can't be used when making a custom championship greatly diminishes their utility.

What would be perfect is when I choose a preset and then click on championship everything is set up with cars, tracks and rules and then I have the ability to edit it to my own preferences.


To be on topic, I have found this update to be fantastic and takes AMS2 to another level, its amazing how Reiza continues to improve the sim, which IMO had already reached a pretty good state.

The Lamborghini pack p2 is fantastic great work from those that worked on it.

The FFB is a nice improvement, the more I drive with it the more I appreciate it.

There are still a few annoying bugs (which have been reported multiple times) that have persisted since release, but I am certain that if they can be fixed they will be eventually.

I am really looking forward to the next few updates, with some great new content and even more polish.

 

"If you no longer ignore a patch note that exists, you're no longer a racing driver" - Aryton Senna

 

The GT1 is surprisingly confident to drive, its good on brakes and not too harsh on the throttle while having alot of power.

 

Had to get the Lambo pack full price, Diablo and Murcielago are too amazing not to

Other tips, in the Miura brake in a straight line only, and in the Revuelto brake 100 yards earlier for the weight (but they are both still very cool!)

 

"If I it amazing for you to make such a statement, Stewart, because you are very experienced and you know that when you are a sim racer, you must read patch notes as soon as they come out..."

 

I have upwards of a thousand hours spanning many years of playing. I sometimes can’t find a car / need to rack my brain. But especially for new players, yes, totally agree that it’d be awesome to have a manufacturer based grouping or even flat “all cars” view.

 

Curious what wheel base and settings did you end up with?