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Automobilista 2 V1.6.8.5 is due to be released tomorrow October 31st! This is the biggest update of the year so far for AMS2 and not just because of all the exciting content - and there is a lot of it, with two new DLC packs of historical Endurance cars and tracks and one free-for-all 2005 GT2 - but all the major game developments that are coming along with them.

In this thread we will be bringing you all the information you need to have to be ready for the time the update hits; you may also check the cool previews for the new cars and tracks we and others will be sharing and discuss your expectations as we make the final preparations on the run-up to release.

Let´s begin with the content - with v1.6.8.5 we will be launching two new DLCs, one featuring three 2005-era Endurance tracks and another featuring no less than eleven 2005 Endurance machines in between LMP and GT cars - check out the full breakdown with the previews below!...

Automobilista 2 V1.6.8 is now live! Along with another substantive list of improvements to both Single & Multiplayer, the new update is accompanied by the release of the Lamborghini Dream Pack Pt2, bringing four more distinct but equally iconic V12 machines from the prestigious Italian brand - Lamborghini Miura SV, Lamborghini Diablo SV-R, Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT and the brand new Lamborghini Revuelto.


Each of these cars offers a completely unique driving experience relative not only to each other, but to every other car in the game - a true V12 treat for every sim racing enthusiast!

As is tradition for AMS2, the new DLC content will have a free trial period for all users to check it out, but this should only last for 24h this time so don´t sit it out!

Users who for whatever reason encounter issues with the new V1.6.8 or who might have an imminent league race to run may still remain on the previous V1.6.7.2 by...

Greetings everyone!

Just a month after the release of V1.6.7 and two months after v1.6.6 release to the day, we are again on the verge of another exciting AMS2 update as V1.6.8 is due to be rolling out very soon!

It is in fact not just one, but two major updates to be delivered in the coming weeks, along with three DLC packages which will extend the AMS2 world into one of the most memorable eras for Endurance Motorsports.

In this dev update we will cover what is incoming with the new update but also take a glance into what you may expect just a few weeks later – strap tight!

MULTI & SINGLE PLAYER DEVELOPMENTS

AMS2 V1.6.8 once brings several improvements to both Multiplayer and Single Player components of the game.

On the Multiplayer front, we have conclude Stage 2 of the ongoing MP overhaul, and with it the most notorious MP reliability issues - some being part of this game engine for well over a decade - have finally...

We are currently taking several steps to improve AMS2´s DLC structure on Steam, with the goal making it more cohesive, intuitive and assessible especially for newcomers to the sim. These include:

• Creating thematic DLC bundles with the base game (first of which being the recently deployed IMSA Bundle)

• Re-organizing the DLC list so that related items are grouped together

• Streamlining the DLC list by delisting some older and / or redundant options

• Reducing baseline price of some of the bigger & older packs to make them more affordable with the delisting of their individual items

• Updating DLC store page descriptions & respective translations for the supported languages to better inform what they include

The changes to the DLC list are outlined in detail below - please note that these have no impact on any DLC...

AMS2 is now updated to V1.6.5.0; the latest release focuses on bug fixes, various improvements to existing car & track content along with some fresh Quality-of-Life developments before the introduction of new content over the next few weeks.

Some highlights of the update include support for launching AMS2 straight to the MP lobby via web browser; To launch into a dedicated server from a web browser combine the 'Steam Browser Protocol' with the new '-connect' cli switch to create a url like the example below, substituting items in angled brackest as appropriate:
and for VR:




AMS2 V1.6.5 also brings some further tire physics delelopments these are mostly subtle in effect but might be more perceptible for certain classes

This build also...

Automobilista 2 V1.6.4.2 is now live - this update introduces Super Trophy Trucks with the new Adrenaline Pt2 DLC along with several other fixes and improvements.

Adrenaline Pt2 is available for purchase here, but as is customary it will remain free for all users over the next couple of days.

If by any chance you encounter issues with this build, the previous V1.6.3.6 remains available as a Beta Branch on Steam ("previousbuild")

As part of a series of optimization measures taken for this update, the physics engine now runs on four CPU threads by default instead of the previous default of two; this however might not be a net positive for users running substantially older systems, if that is your case you may revert to the old standard by running the command line -pthreads 2



V1.6.3.6 -> V1.6.4.2...

Greetings Everyone!

We have a new update incoming for AMS2, and as hinted upon on the run-up to V1.6 release late last year our dev updates will now be focused on covering the highlights of these upcoming releases, which you should be able to check out for yourself very soon!

So here are some of the highlights of the upcoming AMS2 V1.6.4 to be deployed in time for the weekend!

Adrenaline Pt2 – Super Trophy Trucks


On the content front it´s time for another shot of Adrenaline with the introduction of one of the most extravagant forms of motorsports ever seen any time, anywhere - the Super Trophy Trucks in AMS2 (like the Supertrucks in AMS1 before it) are loosely inspired by the Stadium SuperTrucks series in America, with Trucks weighing 1400kg delivering over 600 HP hustling through road and street courses filled with jumping ramps making for some insane air time and spectacular action;...

Automobilista V1.6.3 Is Now Released! This is a major game-changing update that transforms AMS2 in multiple Racing Simulators - all packaged into just one.

One of these is the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscars Championship, featuring the vast majority of cars, liveries and circuits that made up the 2024 Season of one of the most prestigious Endurance series in the World, with more to come!

Along with V1.6.3, three new DLCs have been released - the contents of which however are FREE to all AMS2 users to enjoy over this initial release weekend:

The IMSA Track Pack

The Endurance Pack Pt2

The Lamborghini...

Greetings Everyone!

First of all, some great news - we are happy to confirm the V1.6 update to AMS2 and all associated DLCs are rolling out over the course of today. We also have a Dev Update following up shortly with some notes about the udpate and the IMSA Track Pack, whch previous Dev Updates on V1.6 haven´t yet covered.

The above is the most relevant bit of this letter - if you are in the silent majority of users who are happy with AMS2 as is, happy to see V1.6 incoming and to take updates and developments as they come there is precious little further below you´ll find iof interest so you might as well skip it; if however you are one of those outraged or simply disappointed by how we have communicated (or not) during the course of V1.6 development and even before that, or if you are outraged at the outrage and thus taking part on the usual merry-go-around of internet drama, it might be worth reading on

We have always been a group of developers...

In this part we are going to cover the new cars that are incoming to the sim with the V1.6 update - two car-centric DLC packs featuring nine models between them, four new free base game cars, one upgraded version of an existing car and an alternative version of an existing car. Let´s get to them!
Lamborghini Dream Pack PT1
Beginning with the super-exciting annoucement of a new licensing partnership with iconic Italian manufacturer Automobili Lamborghini, which will see at least eight models from the legendary car maker coming to Automobilista 2, split into two DLCs of four models each.

Two of the models are no-brainers in the context of our ongoing push to feature as many cars from the 2024 IMSA Sportscar season as we can - first and foremost, the beautiful Lamborghini SC63:


The SC63 made its debut in both IMSA and the Le Mans 24h this year, running in the GTP and LMDh classes respectively, experiencing some...

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...