Road to V1.6 Hype Train (cont.)

As renato mentioned previously, the overtakegg stream was a rushed stream that they didn't have much time to plan and it went pretty bad as we know, but even with the low amount of time they had planned it they mentioned that most things weren't final since they were still a bit away from release. Following that logic there's already been videos shown of 1.6 in the official Reiza channel, and it's up to them whether more stuff should be shown or not.

 

To clarify, my comments are based solely on the official videos shared on your YouTube channel and by Overtake.gg, not on any unauthorized or leaked material. My feedback is directed at the content in those official previews, where it would be great to see a bit more of the improvements that are being highlighted.

 

When approximatively can we expect more preview that doesn’t spoil new contents ?

 

I guess for Christmas

 

Hence it would be useful to open the beta to allowing streaming ASAP so some beta members can showcase it. I'm sure a few of them would do a great job at it, much better than this poor overtake guy who never even read the changelog, let alone followed the beta developments.

 

Yup, I was actually expecting more of a difference in terms of tyres "tackiness" From 1.6, especially at corner exit. I just cannot stand anymore that continuous slight oversteer after each mid-low speed corner.
Cannot wait to see (or drive) some actual 1.6.
Gfx looks good though, a tad oversaturated maybe but overall very nice.

 

100% agree. Having to counter steer on the exit of almost every corner for no reason is super annoying and largely why I haven’t played AMS2 in months.
The hard thing about this update is everything we HAVE seen about 1.6, legit or not, has gone against the hype we constantly hear (AI is great, tire improvements are amazing, etc).

It’s getting a little hard to ignore what my own eyes see….

 

Oh I’m sure it is! It’s an annoying situation for everyone, I am sure.
That said I am still putting my faith in the Nils Naujoks comment and trusting the process. Very excited for 1.6.

 

It's so cool to see the Canadian Tire circuit in there to add to the variety of less known/less popular tracks. In terms of the statements here it's a bit worrying if beta testers are on 2 month old builds. That does point to at least an extra month or something if this needs to go through yet another beta cycle.

 

Dear, you are trying to dry ice, haters will hate. Unfortunately, this type of person only makes work frustrating and discouraging. I'm not saying there's no room for criticism, but criticizing something that wasn't even released by a third party that may or may not be biased and dishonest is almost unethical. I look forward to 1.6.

 

The beta we beta users have access to was updated 4 days ago

 

Indeed amongst those leaked videos the audi dtm was the one I liked most!
Nono, don't get me wrong. I love slidey cars and tyres. It's just that ams2 until what is in public now tends to deliver an experience where the rear slides out very often and in a very predictable and controllable way.
Drift cars are built and setup to do so. They let go the rear very early and with a lot of wheelspeen and all of this makes it "predictable" (And coreographic). Race slick tyres are not meant to do so, and I would expect the need of a much more nervous and immediate correction when grip is gone, otherwise it's gone. I was able to dial this down in 1.5 by lowering the differential a ton on all cars. Hopefully 1.6 will deliver that "lacking" Danger.. . .

 

Gotcha, well, that is good to hear. And while in the wrong, those videos are cool to see and throwing a few of those out as teasers from some of the more respected/trusted youtubers in the beta list would be good to appease the hungry AMS2 masses.

 

Could be my imagination or just the settings (season/time of day, ect), but something about the shading of the cars in the leaked videos (and the bad Overtake stream) looks profoundly upgraded. Not sure if it is just that the reflection maps are much more detailed, but in general the cars themselves look much more photoreal, and the paint specially looks like real car paint.