The Feature Request Thread...

Hi, I'm a newer player. These are quality of life features I would love to see added:

• More information in monitor view. For example: more lap times (RaceRoom shows you all laps in a drop-down style menu) and amount of laps driven for practice and qualifying sessions. Amount of pit stops done by each driver. I want to be my friends' race engineer
• Aerial/helicopter camera for replays and monitor view. This camera angle could give a lot of clarity as to what is happening on track. Alternatively a form of free-look would be great also.
• Time stamps on the replay timeline and the ability to skip to specific laps.
• Improved mouse support in menus. I cannot scroll down the settings menus while also moving my mouse down, for example (at least not with a controller connected).

 

Automobilista is one of the sim game with the closest physics engine to real life feeling. However, game developers should seriously consider to update the graphics of Automobilista. Newly released sim games making you feel more realistic with their updated graphics engines, despite having worse physics engines. For example GT7 has best cars, ACE has the best asphalt and terrain, Forza Motorsport has the best lighting system like stop lamps, head lamps, sky and sun reflections. I think you should bring more realistic graphics and visuals on asphalt, lights, grass, updated car visuals, shaders, etc. and please also get licenses from other brands like Ferrari, Aston Martin, any other gt3 brands. Other games bringing all. I don't want you to fall behind. The graphics are starting to get outdated.

 

Either you posted this in the wrong part of the forum, because this is the Automobilista 2 part of the forum, or got your settings suboptimal.

If you are actually talking about AMS2, i would advise you to post your system specs, so people in here might be able to help you improve your settings, cause AMS2 is visually one of the best out there, especially considering it's from 2020, and the engine is even older.
Besides that, not so great visuals has worked very well for iRacing, so not really a need to update.

 

I would really like to finally see a normal AI. Endurance multiclass racing with AI in that game is a real disaster because of the terrible AI

 

It's not always the AI, very often it's the human....

 

What would help is if you post a proper report, ideally with screenshots/video footage of the issues you run into, looking at your post history, you only post generic things, giving the devs a more detailed report helps them to address things quicker, as that way they are pointed in the right direction.

I would suggest for you to make a post where you mention/show certain corners/part of tracks, where you experience issues.

A generic short post really doesn't help, as the devs are probably aware that the AI still needs work, having concrete examples is what helps them.

 

Exactly, you have to provide more evidence. A simple steam recording of the AI being "terrible" is so much better than randomly posting.

I just got out of a 90 minute race against the AI multiclass at Spa and had the opposite experience. It was fun battles and seeing the AI quickly get through traffic basically the entire time on medium aggression, (other than a few obvious blockages that I don't blame them for like getting stuck behind 2 wide GT3s fighting for position lol).

It may not be perfect but it's far from terrible unless you can point to some specific examples.

 

Deep breath, feeling the frustrations! Personally I'm trying (arguably not succeeding) to be patient... After all there is some exceeding good experiences to be found amongst the blatantly awful.

Perhaps, just maybe, there is some middle ground between the fan boys and the naysayers.

Just remind yourselves, it's a game. For fun.