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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...

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...

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!

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...

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 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...

Featuring a total of 6 vehicles and 4 unique venues in 10 different layouts, mixing world-class race tracks such as Imola and VIR with exotic locations such as Ibarra and Guaporé; powerful modern prototypes such as the Metalmoro AJR with the challenging Formula Vee trainer, the Reiza rF2 Bundle combines the diverse content developed with quality standards and attention to detail Reiza became known for, with rFactor 2´s advanced simulation technology for a powerful sim racing experience!

Items from the bundle can be purchased individually as well as in packs:

Track Pack: rFactor 2 on Steam

Car Pack: rFactor 2 on Steam

And finally the complete Bundle featuring all items in a single specially priced purchase: rFactor...

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...

Automobilista 2 V1.2 is finally here, and arriving with its massive set of improvements and new features also comes the Racin´ USA Expansion Pack Pt1 !

V1.2.0.0 CHANGELOG

CONTENT

Tracks:

• Added Daytona International Speedway (Part of Racin´ USA Pt1 DLC)
• Added Long Beach(Part of Racin´ USA Pt1 DLC)
• Added Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca(Part of Racin´ USA Pt1 DLC)

Cars:

• Added GTE class featuring BMW M8, Corvette C8-R, Porsche 911 RSR (Part of Racin´ USA Pt1 DLC)
• Added DPi class featuring Cadillac DPi.V.R (Part of Racin´ USA Pt1 DLC)
• Added BMW M4 to GT4 class

GENERAL

• Added custom championship feature to championship mode (BETA)
• Added option for Real Weather, synchronizing the weather conditions to the currrent & forecast conditions on the location of the track
• Added option to customize date...

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...

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...

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! 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...

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...

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...

The new Automobilista 2 update brings some fantastic historical content, another major batch of FFB, physics & AI developments along with several improvements & fixes.

V1.1.1.3 -> V1.1.2.0 CHANGELOG

CONTENT

Tracks

• Added Spa Francorchamps 1993 layout

Vehicles

• Added Group C class featuring Sauber Mercedes C9 & Porsche 962C
• Added Stock Car 1999 Omega series

GENERAL

• Implemented new LiveTrack wet weather rubber washing (rubber is now gradually washed away from track surface as it gets saturated with water)
• Expanded available opponent classes to 9 (10 total)
• Bumped headlight range from 160 to 240m for all cars
• Corrected number of opponents in Championship mode to match the series current total number of opponents
• Added function to set different presets of rubber depending on type of session (making option available to player will soon follow)
• Added new...

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...

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 V1.3.4.0 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:...

It´s time for fireworks! A new year is soon (already?) upon us, and we at Reiza have been working flatout through this Holiday season to celebrate it with a bang - the most famous race track in the world, some amazing historical sports cars, new features and many improvements mark v1.1.0.0 as the biggest Automobilista 2 update yet!

IMPORTANT: Given the amount of substantive changes in this update, we strongly recommend all users to start a fresh profile by deleting their Documents/Automobilista 2 folder to avoid issues (this will be requested with far less regularity from this update onwards).

The Livery System Override is now fully implemented - to get your hands on the templates for all cars currently in the game and learn more about how you can go about replacing the original car liveries with your own please check this topic (will be updated with new...