Featured Automobilista 2 V1.6.9 RELEASED!

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.

 

I’m visiting my parents with my family over the holidays and am unable to update NAMeS in the usual way. Here are NAMeS files for the new USA Stock cars that I made during beta development. The Supercars file lacks Aston Martin and Maserati drivers, as these were last minute additions prior to release. I’ll finalize everything and post the update on OverTake by Boxing Day.

 

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.