Featured Automobilista 2 V1.6.9 RELEASED - Now Updated to V1.6.9.1

I feel the same in some combos (Brands/F-Junior) usually I had 95 but now the A I seems faster ,so I went down to 90 or 92.

 

Hello everyone! Bloody amazing update. Stock cars are so fun to drive! Just wondering if there is a way to make yourself the only car in class in a multiclass race. Trying to recreate Le Mans 2023 and have myself as the only car in class. Thanks!

 

I'd love to have an option to rebind Free Camera controls to something other than keyboard, could be great to rebind to a controller for smoother movement. Default assignments kind of feel awkward to me. Right Clicking moves the camera forward, but Left Clicking doesn't move the camera backwards? Not sure how to move up or down (in my head, it'd be something like Shift+W/S or Ctrl+W/S), and the rotation of 2, 4, 6, and 8 on the numpad seems to rotate the camera on a bit of an offset, not directly from the center? (Although maybe I was just at an odd angle with the car, and my focus just happened to be there.)

It also seems under "Camera & Movement" (where I'd assume button bindings would be placed for it) there's no listing/section for specifically the Free Camera. Would love to see that changed!

For specifically the Indy Oval, it'd be nice to have an option of a 2-wide rolling start, instead of the default 3-wide.

 

NAMeS v5.7 is available, which includes real driver names for all USA Stock car classes and the expanded Supercars category.

 

As I asked yesterday, is it possible to fix the selected free camera setting to use during the same session, or even better, forever as a saved setup? The latter would be perfect.

 

Hello to all Ams2 enthusiasts, for me has been a very hard year in many sense.. And also this new year start with very bad situation... Maybe sounds stupid... But having these updates that keep me willing to play a bit time to time, gives me the possibility to forget bad things for a while... It means a lot to me.. Wish nice holidays to all of you and special wishes to all people that are facing hard situation like me

 

In my short tests I had the impression that the AI difficulty consistency has much improved. in 1.6.8 and earlier I was able to win consistently at Sebring but couldn't keep the pace even of the slowest AI at Imola, feeling like the AI just flew through corners while I was sliding around, trying desperately to keep up. Now at least I can regain some grounds on the last car after being tossed around and spinning out in the much more chaotic lap 1 frenzy...

Looking forward to Career Mode, seems like we are now closing in towards it!

 

Similar boat, brother. Hope you can escape a little and avoid stress as much as possible

 

Yeah as I race in VR using the keyboard is incredibly awkward, I do use Joy2Key for all my Sims (for various reasons) so I'll look into utilising my Xbox controller with Free Look later today to see if I can get it working that way.

 

Interesting reports folks, am really looking forward to evaluating the fruits of team Reiza's work. As a vocal critic of the AI (lap 1, balance, strategy, overtaking, flag behavior) it sounds, from what you report, as if a big step has been taken. I also read the AI are now faster, also great news!

Now only 1.5 hours left to wait for the download to complete (my internet sucks because I live in the middle of nowhere) and I'll able to try it out...

Thanks for all the hard work over the years, just because I criticise and get frustrated doesn't mean I don't enjoy or respect what Renato and his dedicated team do.

 

Ok just did this and it works just fine, what it is missing though is a Vertical (Up/Down) movement, if I could bind them to the Triggers then it'd be complete!

EDIT: Scratch that having pressed some keys Y & H are for Vertical and Z & C for Rotation of the view, awesome
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FREE CAMERA MODE
Users may now enable free camera in both live play and monitor screen using the following commands:

CTRL+F to Enable/Disable Free Camera
"W A S D" keys : Movement
Numpad "-" : FOV decrease
Numpad "+" : FOV increase
Numpad Arrows "2,4,6,8": Orientation
Numpad "5": reset orientation
H : Up Movement
Y : Down Movement
Z : Rotate Orientation Left
C : Rotate Orientation Right

 

Everything looks great so far – really enjoying the update, thanks a lot Reiza!
The 99/99 laps & position issue seems to be a small HUD bug, nothing game-breaking and most likely will be fixed soon.

No need to reinstall – it’s already been discussed and reproduced.
I also talked about it briefly here in my stream in case it helps:
https://youtube.com/live/DY9tlxfN1CY?feature=share

Overall, fantastic update and amazing content – looking forward to diving deeper into the new physics over the next days.

 

Great update, I drove 3h yesterday and 2h today, couple of things I've noticed, in no particular order:
- AI in superspeedway (Daytona oval) with the Stock USA g3 is weak, basically you can drive flatout for the whole lap which means its all about finding space and cooperation, atm the AI doesnt do any of that, they loose time in unnecesary battles which basically means that if I happen to be P1 I'll just drive away, doesnt matter the AI difficulty, at 105 is the same as 115.

- New HUD looks good in general, only a couple of things I've noticed
1- Standings seems to be constantly alternating between distance to the leader and distance to the car ahead, is there any way to stop it doing that? I already have the relative for that info
2- Relative on "minimum" info gives you a black bar, nothing else.
3- Car info display is too bulky IMO
4- Generaly not a fan of the semi transparent boxes, I'd like an option to control the opacity.

- The masserati MC20's ffb is very low, I had to crank it to 125%

The positives:
Very impresed with the driving experience, I wasn't expecting the changes to be so noticiable, but they are, the Z06 road car is finally fixed, I love the feel of the semislicks on the road cars and in general every car I've tried feels greatly improved, there's only a couple that I'm still not a fan (Lmdh mostly)
The AI seems also greatly improved into T1, although there are still some corners that are problematic, Monza T1 for example, their behaviour has improved again.

In general another good step forward, GJ Reiza!

 

• Improved TAA performance and VRAM usage especially at higher resolutions such as VR or triples"

Thanks you! No more stutters and performance loss streaming in some points of tracks in VR!!!

For me, the best performance update for VR for sure!

Amazing job!

 

US Stock Cars Gen 1 custom liveries do not support custom suits and helmets.
Not sure where to report is as i do not think that is a bug, just not implemented yet ?

 

Congratulations on the constant work of improvements. Just to reinforce that the biggest need for single-player is AI calibration. For each track, I need to do extensive testing to know what level of opposition to use. Using the same car on certain tracks, I need to set it to 100% to have balance against the AI, and on other tracks, I set it to 70% and can't even get close. This prevents me from using championship mode, forcing me to create championships in an external leaderboard, manually adding up the results of each race.

 

This update has made the cars so intuitive , I have for the first time been able to take that Viper by the scruff of its neck and rag it around the track. It does start fighting back once those tyres start getting hot but it feels brilliant.
Im like a broken record with a working flag system which is where AMS2 has fell short so it's nice to see attention to this area. Now we need the ability to save during a pit stop and I wont need another Sim , Well apart from LMU because of WEC

 

I've played Formula Ultimate Gen 2 for a long time, I also hold the Formula Ultimate Gen 2 lap record at Hockenheim,and after this update, I noticed that the rear tire slip threshold perception has improved.
However, the front tires felt terrible; they were prone to sudden understeer in high-speed corners, and their dynamics on straightaways were also strange, like they were shaking. I was using the previous version of setup.
In short, the front tires now feel very unnatural compared to the previous version. Is there a bug in this tire update?

 

Thank you so much for the great update!
But since the update, I've been hearing a crackling sound in my 5.1 system. It sounds like small stone chips! Weird!