Bug Reports - Automobilista 2 (Read the Opening Post)

Title: Country flags gets changed to incorrect values.
Version: 1.4.6.4.2270.AVX
Track & Layout Used: Any
Car Used: Any
Applicable Settings: Joined an MP lobby with no practice after a qualification you might randomly see a different flag next to your name.

 

Version: 1.4.6.4
Track & Layout Used: Road America
Car Used: GT4s
Applicable Settings: 24 driver multi-player
Report: Vote to kick kicked the wrong player !
A multi-player league race needed to remove a driver - all drivers were asked to vote to kick player A but player B was kicked instead (and therefore could not get back into the lobby) while player A remained unaffected by 20+ vote to kicks.

VERY EMBARRISING ! the game kicked one of our good guys despite 20+ votes to kick a different guy.

The 2 names started with the same letter, and it appeared one person may have miss clicked and voted to kick player B - but 99% of votes were for player A. The chat window is small and the number of votes scrolled very quickly.
Despite all the votes Player A was not kicked !

Steps to reproduce: don't think it was track or car based.
Multiplayer, Qualifying, 24 drivers, 23 votes to kick player A, 1 vote to kick player B ?

 

Version: 1.4.6.4
Track & Layout Used: Modern Montreal
Car Used: n/a
Applicable Settings:
Report: Modern Montreal last chicane (turns 14 and 15) do not have track cuts on the left hand side. A 2.5second + advantage can be gained here.
This error is in every format (Race, Quali, TT and Test).

In the picture below, the green paint is valid track.
To the left of the red line is out of bounds.

 

Track & Layout Used: any
Car Used: Copa Uno (also Porsche GT3R and others)
Applicable Settings: any
Report: changing gears (especially from 3rd to 2nd) with clutch engaged, results in a very heavy surge jolt
Steps to reproduce: drive the car up to speed in low 3rd gear, engage clutch (engine revs down to idle), shift gear to 2nd gear (with or without rev matching) and the telemetrydelivers a very heavy surge jolt. With motion system it is very unnatural. In general, also shifting up with or without clutch results in the same surge jolt.

 

Track & Layout Used: any
Car Used: Formula Classic gen.4 (also other formula classic cars and formula V12)
Applicable Settings: any
Report: telemetry "sway" channel delivers continuous random noise even when stopped and parked (like if engine vibrations is delivered through sway channel). It becomes unuseable with motion system.
Steps to reproduce: start session with Formula classic gen.4, keep the car still, in neutral. Check sway telemetry.

 

Track & Layout Used: any
Car Used: Trucks (tested IVECO)
Applicable Settings: any
Report: With ffb setting to custom (never modified custom ini file from original), the ffb is reversed. (my gear is simucube OSW)
Steps to reproduce: N/A

 

Car Used: Dallara F301/ Dallara F309 (F3 Brasil)
Applicable Settings: Headphone Mix
Report: Engine noise is slightly louder from the right side

 

Brabham BT49
Steering wheel out of the center, offset to the left

 

In race against the AI, the artificial buddies love to use this line in order to avoid being overtaken by human player.

 

Track & Layout Used: nurburgring track (gp, veedol and sprint track)
Car Used: any
Applicable Settings: any
Report: Every time i enter this straight, those billboard graphics (yellow circle) along with some cars and tents - which are near - do pop up

Not a bug but rather optimization thing

 

This is a common issue in many games. It's usually caused by the track modelers using grid-snapping. This causes objects to share the exact z-space. The renderer doesn't know which object has the z-order priority, thus causing flickering. It happens in a quite a few places in AMS2. It's also called z-fighting. It takes a huge amount of human discipline to avoid this issue or creating a script that detects z-fighting to validate the asset as the modeler checks-in the asset back into the game building pipeline.

Here's a 10 year old example...
technical issues battlefield 3 - Rendering artifacts (flickering/z-fighting in scope) - Arqade (stackexchange.com)

 

This could also be caused by offset driver-view (head).

 

Version: 1.4.6.4
Track & Layout Used: Any
Car Used: Any
Applicable Settings: Multiplayer with practice session
Report: I'm experimenting only at practice sessions weird input freezes, where the game keeps running but inputs get locked up, often resulting in a loss of control, near miss, loss of time, and crashing. It usually lasts 2 or 3 seconds. It can also evolve into a complete game crash where I have to manually close the game via Task Manager. Problem is, I also use Simhub for Wind and Tactile Simulation, and the data output to it gets hang up. Even if I close and restart Simhub with the game shutdown, it keeps telling me that the game is running with a given data, so fans start spinning and shakers vibrating constantly, even with the game closed and no trace of it at Task Manager. The only way to solve this is doing a full restart. It does not happen offline (have not tried a full race weekend scenario with offline practice sessions, only test days), it does not happen at either qualy or race sessions online (thankfully), just practice. But it causes a big loss of time and disruption.
Steps to reproduce: In my case, join any multiplayer lobby with a Practice session that is long enough for this problems to surface, usually 30 minutes.

If there is any other data I would need to provide to trace this problem, please let me know.

 

Does not look out of line with what I see here: BT49-PHOTO1
It was not a totally uncommon practice to do this, for giving more room to operate shifter. The Lotus 49 did the same thing a decade before.

 

Track Used: Bathurst retro & 2020 version
Applicable Settings: sunny few clouds
2580x1080 resolution
X4 msaa
X16 af
All settings high

Report: on the inside of turn 4 and throughout the esses where the track meets the vegetation, I'm getting semi transparent grey triangles coming up from the ground.

Edit: Bathurst 2020, same locations, there is semi transparent boxes coming off the sidewall

 

That seems to happen everywhere there is a high bank in Bathurst 1983... regardless of graphic settings. Nothing beats a screenshot

 

Scary

 

Version: 1.4.6.4
Track & Layout Used: Any
Car Used: GT3/4
Applicable Settings: Any
Report: Onboard Traction Control is still not working, either through rotary encoders or other button configurations; onboard ABS does work. Game breaker for GT3/4 cars, especially in changeable weather conditions. I’ve reported this at least 3 times over a 6 month period, & will keep regularly reporting this glaring issue, until someone finally listens!

 

What you mean onboard? Are you saying the TC doesn't change on the dashboard of the car? I sure does change for me when using rotary buttons by my thumbs on a fanatec wheel FWIW. Are you talking about the rotary encoder are not being registered when configuring the button assignment?

IMHO, it's never about listening for Reiza, it's about lack of resources and prioritizing financially impactful issues (like improving MP mode, releasing assets, etc...)....

 

Follow up. Last night I was practicing with the 390R at Imola 01 and it happened a couple times on Test Day. The Simhub data hanged up again, but fortunately I could check that the output reset when the car and track were loaded again, it's something I did not dare to check while at online sessions in fear of missing too much. I got another crash and game closed a few minutes later, this time displaying an OpenXR error. I took a screenshot of it that I have at my simrig. Went to the OXR app and found there was an update, did it, and the issue did not repeat itself for the rest of that session, nor for the following one with Stock Car 22 at Buenos Aires. Jury is still out, but maybe issue rectified itself with that? Will follow up again as I log a couple more sessions, both offline and online.