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Greetings everyone!

It’s already September 17, and Summer (or Winter those of us down South) has just ended - time sure seems to fly when you’re overhauling a game from top to bottom!

In our last update back in May, we had hoped to share more about AMS2 V1.6 over its development during the months in between, however the nature of this update combined with the sheer amount of third-party IP it involved meant there was little concrete information to actually share; such have been the demands in putting it all together that we had to get our head down and focus 100% on delivering the update, leaving the writing about it for later.

We’ve now close enough to release that we can start sharing a little more - and do we have exciting news ot share! So much in fact that we are going to break this into two Dev Updates, with a third part to come later.

While IMSA and everything surrounding it (as well as some tidbits that aren´t) are the heart and soul of...

Greetings everyone!

As announced in our previous catch-up in March, the team have since been completely immersed in the work for what is promising to be the biggest AMS2 update yet – as with previous milestone updates, V1.6 will introduce major developments to every front of the game, the collective effect of which to constitute a leap that should surmount event that of V1.5 last year – the game will look, sound, feel and race better than ever, wrapped by a completely overhauled user interface and boosted by some of the coolest premium content we have ever worked on.

The depth of the changes in AMS2 V1.6 is such that we couldn´t possibly cover it all within a single dev update – given we are still several weeks away from its release, we will instead break the news in parts to give everyone the chance to digest all the features and content incoming with this update.

Please keep in mind the above in case you don´t see news you were most looking forward...

Along with the usual long list for general fixes & improvements, the new update adds the new Brazilian Stock Car 2024 season & a completely overhauled F-Ultimate Gen2.

As indicated in the 2024 March Dev Update, both the F-Ultimate Gen2 and the Stock Car 2024 already feature the V1.6 tire physics developments with adjusted hysteresis (but only partially revised thermodynamics & wear) - generally speaking the updates tires should feel slightly "sharper" and less tolerant to sliding than previously.

Both classes feature their 2024 respective DRS and Push-to-Pass rule updates, with DRS being allowed after lap 1 for the F-Ultimate Gen2 while the Stock Cars feature a higher number of shorter P2P boosts with no activation delay.

Still on the content front, following popular demand the Betonschleife (aka "concrete circuit") has been added as an option for the Historic Nürburgring , part of the Nürburgring DLC pack.

AMS2 V1.5.6 also features a much...

Greetings everyone!

We are approaching the fourth anniversary since the initial AMS2 Early Access release on Steam - and what a roller coaster these four years have been! Some lows along the way but many highs, with the overall trajectory firmly pointing upwards and leading to our highest peak right after our last catch-up in December.

Great timing then to go over some of the developments we´ve been putting together for 2024 - developments which we are confident will see AMS2 rising to a whole new atmospheric layer.

Most of the team has been working on major new features and some exciting content due to arrive with our next milestone update - Automobilista 2 V1.6 is expected to come sometime in the Summer (or Winter for those of us in the Southern hemisphere) - this will be in many ways the biggest & more important update to AMS2 yet.

We do have a smaller V1.5.6 update to deliver before that however, including some cool content updates...

It´s the end of an incredible year for Automobilista 2 - one that brought the sim major gameplay developments, many exciting new cars and tracks and scores of new players. It has also been its highest grossing year, almost four years after its initial release.

To celebrate the end of this great year in style with old and new players alike, the very last day of the year brings a new game update as AMS2 hits v1.5.5 along with Le Mans and several state-of-the-art 2023 Endurance race cars. The two new DLCs will remain free for all at release and into the first few days of 2024 so everyone gets to enjoy AMS2 at its very best.

We wish everyone a magnificent 2024 - we will continue pushing flat-out to keep it filled with great sim racing!


IMPORTANT NOTES:

Developments that haven´t made it to this release but that are in the works for future updates:

1- Developments to the headlight options...

Greetings Everyone!

It´s been almost 5 months since our last Dev Update in June and almost 3 months since our last public release - not exactly a lifetime in game development, but a first for AMS2. Never since its original Early Access release has there been such a big gap with neither new game updates nor detailed news about them.

This isn´t a sign of AMS2 development slowing down – on the contrary, behind the scenes this has been one of the most intense and productive development cycles we have had, the results from this especially long cycle soon to be shared with you all.

Those of you used to following these dev updates will have read a lot about the challenges to develop and manage a game of this size – many cars, many tracks, many simulation variables, all of which under constant development with new features and new variables being brought in all the time keeping goalposts ever moving and making it harder to make it all work cohesively. The...

Greetings Everyone!

It´s that time of the year again: as a new milestone update rises on the horizon, excitement is in the air, caffeine is being abused and crunch time is in overdrive as AMS2 is expected to hit v1.5 within the next few weeks.

Previous AMS2 milestone updates all represented big leaps in quality, features and content for the sim - among other highlights, AMS2 V1.2 introduced Real Weather, seasonal foliage, customizable championships & Racin´ USA Pt1, the first AMS2 DLC as covered in the May 2021 Dev Update; AMS2 V1.3 introduced the VW / Acelerados Demo, a critical driveline physics development to LSD differentials, a major FFB upgrade along with the initial step in AI modding support as covered in the November 2021 Dev...

A new release candidate build of Automobilista 2 is now available as a Steam beta branch for those interested in testing the new update before its official release in the coming days.

AMS2 users can now select the latest release candidate, currently V1.4.8.1 build 2300 - to access this build, right-click Automobilista 2 on your Steam Library, go into Properties -> Beta tab, and select the “ReleaseCandidate” branch for the dropdown menu.



V1.5 PHYSICS REVISIONS

As per the latest dev update, V1.4.8 includes extensive physics revisions to an initial batch of car classes, revisions which are expected to be completed for all cars in the game by the update that follows this one 4-5 weeks from now (v1.5.0).

IMPORTANT: all revised cars MUST have the setup reset - users can do so either by...

Greetings Everyone! Here we are for the second Dev Update of 2023, and we have tons of exciting stuff to talk about on this one.

Just this past week, we have deployed V1.4.7 featuring the fantastic Nürburgring Historic 1971, the conclusion of a mammoth project on which our track team worked so hard for so long. It has taken much longer than even our latest forecast suggested, as has been often the case specially with these historical projects which seems that always provide room for going a little bit further.

Partially because of the ever-expanding demands involved in the historical track projects, the neat bimonthly release schedule we had mapped our for 2023 isn´t really panning out so far, and the updates also haven´t included everything we had planned for them - reality once again demonstrates it can and often will mess up the most carefully crafted plans.

The silver lining here is that work going beyond schedule is not work gone to waste, so...

A new release candidate build of Automobilista 2 is now available as a Steam beta branch for those interested in testing the new update before its official release in the coming days.

AMS2 users can now select the latest release candidate, currently V1.4.7.0 build 2276 - to access this build, right-click Automobilista 2 on your Steam Library, go into Properties -> Beta tab, and select the “ReleaseCandidate” branch for the dropdown menu.

Please note that Nürburgring Historic is still being populated with further trackside objects over the next few days on course to official release.

V1.4.6.4 -> V1.4.7.0 CHANGELOG

CONTENT
Tracks

• Added Nürburgring Historic 1971 featuring Nordschleife, Südschleife & Gesamtstrecke layouts (Part of Nürburgring DLC(

Cars

• Added Stock Car Pro Series season 2023

GENERAL

• Fixed wear state of all tires being reset in pit stops when less than four...

Greetings everyone, we hope you all have been enjoying a great start to 2023!

We have an extremely promising year ahead of us for Automobilista 2 - it hasn´t been the smoothest start however as evidenced by the new update being a bit behind schedule. Some of the developments we had planned in this cycle are proving a bit more troublesome than expected, so in order to avoid a longer delay for valuable developments and bug fixes we already had in the bag we´ve decided to break the update into parts - the first is just around the corner and should be available at least as a release candidate for this weekend, and it will then be complemented with further updates over the course of March.

Let´s get into it then and have a look into what we have been working on lately for the next update and beyond.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

The last update slipped out with a few bugs which have taken us a while to figure out, but that have...

Automobilista 2 V1.4.5.2 Update is now released, along with 3 new DLC packs: Brazilian Racing Legends, Supercars & Historical Track Pack* are all available now!

*Please note Bathurst 1983 is part of this package but not yet available in-game, will be added over the course of January.

Beyong the new content, the new update brings a long list of valuable improvements - check out the complete list below.


V1.4.3.3 -> V1.4.5.2 CHANGELOG

CONTENT

Free:

• Added Nissan R89C to Group C class
• Added Nissan R390 GT1 to GT1 class
• Added 2017 Nissan GT-R to GT3 class
• Added new F-Classic Gen3 class (4 generic models)

Brazilian Racing Legends Pt1 DLC:

• Added Brabham BT49 to F-Retro Gen2 Class
• Added Brabham BT52 to Formula Retro Gen3 Class
• Added Lotus 98T to...

Greetings everyone!

The checkered flag is about to wave for 2022, but we are not quite done with it yet! By the time you read this final dev update of the year, the Christmas gifts will most likely already have been unwrapped, but as I finish writing this Dev Update in the late hours of Christmas day, we are still putting the finishing touches to wrap up our last update of the year - the Reiza Santa may be late to arrive, but he´s got a bag full of exciting toys!

2022 was another positive year for AMS2 - the game continues to grow, and some substantial progress has been made in every front over the course of the year. It´s only fitting then to end the year with a bang: no less than 3 new DLC packs, 3 historical tracks, a whopping 12 new cars in total - evenly split between open wheelers and tin tops, with 9 cars coming in two new DLC packages featuring some of the greatest motorcars ever created, plus 3 long-awaited cars being added free of charge to...

Automobilista 2 V1.4.1 has finally arrived - the new update packs a mega list of game-changing improvements, new features, cars and a great surprise - the 2022 reform of Spa-Francorchamps as a free addition to the existing Spa-Francorchamps DLC!

The official release of Racin´ USA Pt3 has been delayed while we work out some new items for the pack, but you won´t have to wait longer to do some oval racing - the two ovals already confirmed as part of Racin´ USA Pt3 along with all oval variants of F-USA Gen1-3 from Pt2 as well as Daytona from Pt1 will all be available with V1.4 tomorrow, the Pt 3 content as a free trial for all owners of the base game until they become part of the official Racin´ USA Pt3 release!

Introducing Advanced Mechanical Damage Modeling: AMDM is currently featuring with most open wheelers, GTs and faster prototypes. To make use of it, make sure to enable MECHANICAL FAILURES in GAMEPLAY UI. Try a race any of the historic open...

Greetings everyone!

As you all probably have noticed, late July has come and gone and with it the not-so-great news of v1.4 and Racin´ USA Pt3 being postponed to the end of this month - there has been some very good reasons for this decision however, and in this Dev Update we´re going to cover that and also expand on some of the key features we have coming up.

Since our last catch-up in late June, we have merged features and content into the game that had been in gestation for months - the extent of these developments are actually beyond our original plans, which will make v1.4 an even bigger milestone than we had originally antecipated.

Some of these new features did still need further troubleshooting in order to be release-ready however, so taking it all into account we decided to keep working on it for a few more weeks and effectively merge July and August into a single cycle for an update later this month, with no public releases in between.

Normally we would have been...

A new release candidate build of Automobilista 2 is now available as a Steam beta branch for those interested in testing the new update before its official release in the coming days.

From this build onwards, AMS2 users have the two following beta branches available:

ReleaseCandidate: This is the latest release candidate, currently V1.3.5.0 build 1980. To access this build, right-click Automobilista 2 on your Steam Library, go into Properties -> Beta tab, and select the “ReleaseCandidate” branch for the dropdown menu. This branch will be disabled after the official public release and return you to the default AMS2 branch, if you then want to opt in for the beta in a next update you just need to repeat this process.

PreviousBuild: This option allows users to revert back to the previous release version in case they encounter any issues with a new update, or want to compare changes if they are interested in doing so. To access it,...

Greetings Everyone - we are happy to finally be back with our first Development Update of 2022!

To begin with I´d like to apologize for not providing these updates in the early months of the year - for a variety of reasons these have been challenging times during which I´ve been personally less involved with the development of AMS2 than usual, and by extension less engaged with the community to provide you all with the level of information you have been used to.

So let´s try make up for some of that and bring you up to date with what´s going with Reiza and the development of AMS2!

Housekeeping!

Just a couple of days ago on March 31st we completed two years since the initial Early Access release of Automobilista 2 on Steam - in this time we made some big strides with the game and while we are proud of the pace of development, the number of improvements and new content we´ve introduced to the sim over this time, we know...

Automobilista 2 V1.3.4.0 is now live - this update adds the F-USA Gen1 class featuring the Reynard 95i and Lola T95/00 as the last component of the Racin´USA Pt2 DLC, along with various improvements & bug fixes.


V1.3.3.1 -> V1.3.4.0 CHANGELOG

CONTENT

• Added F-USA Gen 1 class featuring Lola T95/00 & Reynard 95i (part of Racin´ USA Pt2 DLC)

GENERAL

• Added VR mirror adjustment screen and fixed in-game VR options link incorrectly pointing to main VR options
• Shared Memory: Fixed DRS state, added TCS/ABS garage setting entries; Updated changelog and fixed comment text of TCS setting
• Optimized internal FFB subroutines, removed some unused FFB script values & exposed static caster trail to FFB scripts
• Added ability to define track specific value overides for custom AI drivers. (Documentation available in the official forum thread:...

Greetings everyone!

It´s now New Year´s eve - or maybe even already the New Year depending on where you are in the world! It´s been a busy month on a personal level in and out of Reiza to cap what has been another very busy year, but we couldn´t let it end without a proper send-off and some important updates to all of you!

Automobilista 2 in 2021 - A Great Year!

What a year it has been for our team & AMS2 - 12 new tracks, 22 new cars, and a long list of new features & improvements have been delivered to the game over the course of the year, developments which we can all agree brought the game to another level relative to where we started 2021.

From the very first announcement, we´ve always maintained that AMS2 was a long-term project which would evolve considerably over the years, but even for ourselves plans are only reality after they have been successfully executed - although there´s been some stumbles along the way...

Automobilista 2 V1.3.1.0 is now live along with the release of Racin´ USA Part 2, featuring 1990s american open wheelers from Reynard, Lola & Swift as well as the Cleveland Burke Lakefront Road Course & Watkins Glen International - Road America to be added to the pack early on 2022 with further machines from that same era!

Happy Racing!

V1.3.0.1 -> V1.3.1.0 CHANGELOG

CONTENT
Tracks

• Added Cleveland Burke Lakefront airport circuit (part of the Racin´ USA Pt2 DLC pack)
• Added Watkins Glen International (4 layouts) (part of the Racin´ USA Pt2 DLC pack)

Vehicles

• Added Reynard 98i, Swift 009C, Lola T98 to Formula USA Gen2 class (part of the Racin´ USA Pt2 DLC pack)

GENERAL

• Optimized FFB/custom script performance
• Further revisions to shadow cascading parameters
• Revised AI suspension rates to minimise some cars appearing to "jitter" in online...