Automobilista 2 V1.6, IMSA Track Pack, Endurance Pt2 & Lamborghini DLCs RELEASED (V1.6.3.4 Live Now)

First, to confirm, are you talking about oscillations when the car is moving in a straight line on a smooth track? There are sometimes tiny oscillations when a car is stopped and idling...as is the case with real race cars lacking all bushings for noise, vibration and harshness that you find in a road car.

If you hit a curb the right way at the right speed in the right car, the wheel should be ripped from your hands. That, hopefully, is also not the oscillation you are referring to.

If all else seems good and the oscillation is the kind where you are simply driving straight then it could be induced by bumps on the track that are not properly damped. So, yes, slightly increasing the in-game Damping would be the first thing I would try to see if that can be mitigated.

 

Really? No setup change can affect the grip or handling of the car. You should definitely post that to the bug report thread. Good catch.

 

Yes reducing the clutch is somewhat smothering the sliding, but it costs laptime. In my experience, clutches on 6 in the GT3 cars and just accept the sliding is faster than setting the clutch on 2 and having a more stable car on corner exit.
What I also noticed: I used to setup the cars in AMS2 very stiff, it gave me a better feel and now this is not working for me anymore, the cars seem to spin for no reason - but this is not a game flaw, just a fact that a ridiculous setup is not working.

Edit: Ok, maybe I‘m wrong about the ridiculous setups, as they still seem to be a thing in time trial mode.
Why are there no decent setup sharing discussions going on? And why is setup sharing outisde of TT not possible?

 

I sometimes wonder what the general comments about sliding would be if they actually never exposed the "clutches" setting at all and had it set to 2 by default. No-one would be any the wiser and the comments about sliding by general youtubers for GT3 would probably be non-existent and certainly no-one would be complaining that its slower when doing so as there would be no comparison. After all, I don't see these settings in other Sims (but maybe I just missed them).

 

But does setting the clutch to 2 by default and than don‘t give the player the option to change it really „fix“ the sliding? Correct tire temperatures are also important (why don‘t we know these for every car? This info should be in the car information!) and anti rollbars etc. should also be considered.
I‘m not even sure if the cars are really sliding. To me, it feels like the cars get light when you open the steering wheel mid corner (like they do in real life) and than the car moves to the outside of the corner, but the chassis wants to keep its line and the whole car starts to „wobble“. Somehow, FFB translates this into a sliding feeling.
It‘s just my own feeling, but if you are driving two corners directly one after another, the sliding feeling is less preset (for example the whole last sector in Hockenheim).

 

Thank you for responding. Yes, the oscillations are when moving down a straight, smooth-ish road. To be clear it is a periodic oscillation (rather than the kind i might expect from a bumpy road, with variations in its behaviour) and only appears when I take my hands off the wheel and wait a short while. I believe it likely starts as a result of an impulse from some bump in the road. Specifically, I interpret it as a kind of steady state of the wheel that it reaches under no 'physical' damping (i.e. from my hand). If i touch the wheel even a little bit it stops, so I believe presumably a bit of damping and friction are what I need to add - your (force?) feedback is very appreciated and I will try this.

 

FYI
You can share setups in multiplayer with other people on the server, so not just in TT.

 

Pre-race 2 minute countdown screen (Not my screenshot and it seems the monitor screen shows it differently) - can this please be made more see-through when looking at the "standings" screen" ? Playing in VR and this feels extremely claustrophobic because in VR there is zero see-through, not even a slight blur.


Just look how much better the old one was, properly see-through, still easy to read everything, was VR not tested for the new one ? I hope the background will be reverted back to the old one or at least an ON / OFF option would be nice !


Dang "Stepy", imagine disagreeing about an OPTIONAL setting ?

 

I like the new one better, I'm not on the VR though.

 

I liked being able to see the track ahead , and it’s not just a VR thing .

 

You like having a brick wall as the menu before the race ? I mean sure if that is your thing, but in VR having that in your face is absolutely awful. It helped when it was see-through to give time during those 2 minutes to get mentally ready and visualise things better, since the moment the timer runs out/everyone is ready you only get about 3 - 5 seconds .

Heck there should be an option that if i click ready i would want the starting grid screen disappear so i can see everything clearly. I do not have the need to see the list of ready/unready drivers.

 

Great idea...could just display the number of un-ready drivers somewhere unobtrusive, like a count-down. Between that number and the timer countdown, you have some idea when the race might start and don't really need other information. As usual, just an option...

 

everyone’s entitled to there own views , without being told how they should feel , and there’s probably a reason for it within the limitations of what could be used as a template for improved leaderboard. You probably cant just have on/off buttons for everything.
I would like it more transparent as would others I know , but it’s not the end of the world .

 

Sure this has been brought up already but hope collisions in this sim are being worked on. Sometimes when I collide with AI cars in a manner which is bound to happen while racing, it feels like both our cars had velcro attached at the exact point of contact and just takes us both into the wall. Also, wall collisions sometimes cause stutters but I guess that's a me issue.

 

It just feels like a fix to something that was not broken in the first place. I find it a real issue because it feels very discomforting, for now i go to the Options menu while waiting because through it i can properly see and it auto-closes when the red lights start. Shouldn't have to be doing that though, would be really nice to just have the list of players completely disappear and let us see ahead.