Automobilista 2 News

Automobilista 2 V1.2.2.0 is now live! The latest update brings back the Salvador street circuit and introduces the mighty Porsche RSR 3.0 1974 as the initial entry to the GT Classics class.

The update also features another batch of fixes & improvements, including the option for users to create multiple controller profiles (please note this development may require reconfiguring your controller)

[h2]V1.2.1.4->V1.2.2.0 CHANGELOG[/h2]

[h3]CONTENT[/h3]

Tracks:

• Added Salvador Street Circuit
  
• Added Cascais Alternate Layout
  
• Added alternative Interlagos Stock Car / GP variants (latter features temporary grandstands from grand prix weekend)
  

Vehicles:

• Added Porsche RSR 3.0 1974 to GT Classics Series
  

[h3]GENERAL[/h3]

• Added support for 6 User control sets per profile. Slots can be renamed. (known issues: reset to defaults does not reset name, controller type (wheel/gamepad) is not retained with saved set)
  
• Disabled collisions during formation laps and rolling starts
  
• Fixed Championship editor saving incorrect dates for P/Q sessions
  
• Added custom Steering Lock setting when user is running with a gamepad or digital controller for less sensitive steering than regular default steering lock
  

[h3]UI & HUD[/h3]

• Added binding entries for on board TC/ABS adjustment (Assignments > Vehicle).
  
• Fixed save/load notification not displaying when switching user control presets
  
• Added ability to copy another user control preset to the currently active control set
  
• Moved controls screen 'Reset to Defaults' button up to user preset section to reinforce it is profile specific.
  
• Added the current user preset name to controls screen secondary tabs.
  
• Corrected various track UI information errors
  
• Fixed setup edit screen displaying adjustable dampers when they have none when unitless option is enabled
  
• Disabled redundant aerodynamic settings in setup screen for various wingless vehicles
  
• Fixed qualify session length not correctly displaying in championship overview for custom championships
  
• Fixed incorrect help text on test day custom date input
  
• Fixed French text appearing on German version of the Time Trial loading screen tip text
  
• Fixed Engine Breaking label in Edit Setup screen
  
• Fixed untranslated Live Track preset label on session settings screen
  
• Added texts for Laguna Seca and Daytona Nascar Layout
  

[h3]PHYSICS[/h3]

• Revised tire treads for M1 Procar, Group A cars
  
• Minor tire tread adjustments for Group C, Opalas, F-Vee, Lotus 23, Copa Classics, Mini, GT5, G40 Cup, F-3, F-Trainer, Omega Stock Car, Stock Car 2019, GT3, GT4, karts (all variants)
  
• Fixed error causing new traction control model not to be used in all cars featuring the system except F-V10 Gen2 & Mclaren 720S
  
• Adjusted baseline damper settings for F-Retro Gen1, F-Vee
  
• Revised brake heating functions for GTs & classic tintops
  
• Adjusted body drag coefficients for Group A, Procar & vintage touring cars
  
• Revised inertia values for both Vintage touring cars
  
• Revised differential ramp angles for Procar & Group A cars
  
• Adjusted default front wheel camber for all karts
  
• Revised diff settings for all GTs, Stock Cars
  
• Corrected Mini 1965 gear ratios
  
• Adjusted default toe settings for Ginetta G55, Mercedes GT3
  
• Adjusted Omega diff preload
  
• BMW M4 GT4: Stiffer rear suspension rates
  
• Revised engine lifetime ranges for all cars
  
• Cadillac DPi: Fixed bug causing pitstop CTD due to missing default compound option
  
• Adjusted front & rear toe ranges for F-Classics, Group C (requires setup reset)
  
• Minor default setup adjustments for both Group C cars (setup reset recommended)
  
• Added throttle map for Porsche GT3-R
  
• Minor manual H shift RPM tolerance adjustments for completing clutchless shifts
  
• Slightly reduced grass & gravel bump amplitude
  
• Minor revisions to grass, gravel, grasscrete friction coefficients
  

[h3]AI[/h3]

• General AI callibration pass for dry & wet weather performance
  
• Further reduced AI lateral rate in urgent moves
  
• Fixed bug where fuel would be consumed by AI during accelerated time or during skip to end when the fuel consumption is set to OFF
  
• Fixed some strategical decisions by AI not taking into account the fuel consumption setting when set to OFF
  
• Curitiba: Smoothed fastline start/finish joint to prevent AI slowdown crossing it
  
• Laguna Seca: Reset collision corridors at T11 (fix for AI pileups on rolling starts)
  
• Bathurst: Minor AI Grip adjustment
  
• Further increased AI performance in qualifying vs race
  
• Taruma: Adjust pitlane exit speed
  
• Interlagos Kart: Adjusted AI Grip for all layouts
  

[h3]AUDIO[/h3]

• Surface sounds: lowered flat curbs volume, increased dirty debris off line occurence
  
• BMW M1 Procar adjusted chase cam live-play sound
  

[h3]TRACKS[/h3]

• VIR: Added seasonal foliage; Optimized track cut mesh; Minor art & optimization pass; Fix broken shrubs
  
• Montreal (Modern & Historic): Added seasonal foliage
  
• Cascavel: Fixed terrain hole and gap in the barriers near the old pit
  
• Laguna Seca: Fixed some object LOD popping
  
• Oulton Park: Updated seasonal foliage textures
  
• Cascais: Minor art & optimization pass
  
• Spielberg GP: Add missing brake marker boards at T6
  
• Hockenheimring: Enable playground for short layouts
  
• Interlagos Kart1: Relax track limits at T7
  
• Kansai: Minor LOD tweaks
  
• Adjusted Interlagos, Nurburgring, Snetterton trackside camera glitches
  
• Spielberg Historic: added VR cams
  
• Cadwell Park: fixed invisible bits of road
  
• Added working trackside cameras to all Speedland layouts
  

[h3]VEHICLES[/h3]

• Superkart / Kart Shifter: Added shifter & driver shifting animations
  
• Stock Car Corolla 2021: Updated front bumper and hood model as per recent series facelift
  
• Stock Car Cruze 2020: Fixed the cockpit bonnet and external damage clipping on the top
  
• Minor adjustment to first shadow cascade radius from cockpit view
  
• Switched Vintage Touring Car drivers to GT vintage models
  
• Adjusted driver LOD levels to minimise driver parts from popping out while still in sight
  
• F-Ultimate: Fixed inverted left mirror
  

Automobilista 2 V1.2.1.4 is now live - one more complementary update, hopefully addressing recent conflicts with the latest versions of Logitech GHub and users of related hardware. The latest build also adds seasonal foliage for Cadwell Park, Donington Park, Oulton Park & Snetterton.

[h3]V1.2.1.2 -> V1.2.1.4 CHANGELOG
[/h3]

GENERAL

• Fixed a bug where player could receive instant wrong way DQ for no reason when leaving the pits.
  
• Disable collisions for vehicles on pit exit in sessions with AI present (prevents AI on main track colliding with vehicle existing pits, pending further updates to behaviour)
  
• Fixed and issue that could result in CTD when launching the game with G923 device connected and recent versions of G Hub installed
  
• Fixed Logitech G923 LEDs flickering in menu.
  
• Fixed an issue that could lead to a false positive/negative cut detection in some rare instances
  
• Fixed pit exit cut block not immediately issuing a penalty/warning when triggered. (Currently affects Azure, Laguna Seca, and Long Beach)
  

PHYSICS & AI

• Further updates to traction control system
  
• Minor tire tread adjustments to GTE, GT3, Stock Car, P2, P3, P4 tires & all wet tires
  
• Mclaren 720S GT3: Slightly stiffened default front suspension, adjusted diffuser center of pressure
  
• Minor diffuser adjustments to Porsche GTE, GT3-R & Metalmoro AJR
  
• Further AI callibration passes
  
• Further reduction of AI pace while running off the ideal racing line
  
• Revised Bathurst & Silverstone AI paths
  
• Further increased AI Grip at Nurburgring (all modern track layouts)
  

TRACKS

• Added seasonal foliage to Cadwell Park, Donington Park, Oulton Park, Snetterton
  
• Updated Brands Hatch seasonal foliage
  
• Brands Hatch seasonal texture update, to match with other brit track standards
  
• Long Beach: Fixed pit lane exit penalty
  

VEHICLES

• F-Ultimate: Fixed right mirror mapping issue
  

Automobilista 2 V1.2.1.2 is now live - this is another complementary update to the V1.2 release, featuring a new batch of fixed and improvements.


[h3]IMPORTANT NOTE FOR G29 / G920 / G923: [/h3]There is currently a conflict with the latest Logitech G Hub software causing the game to crash at startup - we are working on a temporary workaround to the issue to be deployed early on next week, for the time being in order to run AMS2 users of these wheels need to either uninstall G HUB or roll back to the previous 2021.3, disabling auto-update right after installation to prevent it from updating to any of the more recent versions.


[h3]V1.2.1.0 -> V1.2.1.2 CHANGELOG
[/h3]

GENERAL

• Added LiveTrack Preset support to multiplayer and dedicated server
  
• Fixed an issue that would result in a crash when switching to a second custom championship save that was not created in the current session
  
• Fixed refuelling disallowed in custom championships (does not apply retroactively to existing saves)
  
• Fixed an issue where incorrect location would be selected in saved setups screen in multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue that could result in a CTD when determining pit speed limit on loading screen in some cases
  

UI & HUD

• Fixed Real Weather status text of session settings "Weather Forecast" input from displaying incorrectly in some cases.
  
• Made "Dry" Track Wetness label on in-game screens based on wetness of whole track not just main driving line.
  
• Added missing texts for fuel/tire multipliers 3-5x (lobby detail screen).
  
• Added detailed lobby information to MP Lobby Screen. (highlight 'Session Settings' block to view it)
  
• Added sub-menu to lobby screen where host can access/change rules/realism/session settings in multiplayer games. (cannot override dedi controlled games)
  

PHYSICS & AI

• Further adjusted AI speed while running offline
  
• Increased AI Grip for Bathurst, Imola, Silverstone
  
• Rebuilt AI paths for Nurburgring GP & Silverstone from scratch
  

TRACKS

• Added seasonal foliage to Hockenheim & Brands Hatch
  
• Silverstone: Rebuilt new pit lane cement wall and armco collision
  
• Oulton Park: Minor performance pass
  
• Updated Interlagos & Nurbugring TV cams in attempt to reduce shimmering
  

VEHICLES

• Stock Car 2021: Updated Guga Lima livery
  

Greetings everyone!

The month of June already is in the rear view mirror, and what a month it was - first with the release of V1.2 and the Racin´ USA DLC (which we were thrilled to see so widely well received), followed by a hard push towards bug hunting and further improvements in the subsequent weeks.

In fact this slightly delayed Dev Update is largely because we are still at it, working on a new complementary update due out this weekend - and given we´ve been pushing out complementary updates over the last couple of weeks to get some outstanding issues fixed ASAP, there won´t be the usual big update this time but rather another smaller collection of fixes & improvements to wrap up this dev cycle.

Our focus continues to be on complementing the work on the new features and fixing issues that have come up since V1.2, as well as some older issues which we had been struggling for a while to track down - to this end it´s very important that users continue to submit their Bugsplat reports if they do run into a crash, if possible including information about their previous steps leading to the crash as those are most helpful to track down its source.

This focus will carry on over July for the next big update, as along with trying to resolve any pending issues we manage to track down and generally further tidy things up, we´ll be pushing to add a few more options and quality-of-life improvements that have been commonly requested by users.

So let´s go over what we´ve got on the immediate horizon:



We have further developments to Real Weather and dynamic LiveTrack presets, with some improvements to the system and Multiplayer support hopefully already integrated in this weekend´s update.


By the end of the month we´ll also have live storage of weather data for new days (currently weather from days in between releases is not stored so Real Weather doesn´t work for recent days and weeks since the initial June 4th release of this feature), and also expect to integrate real feed for environment temperatures and humidity data, doing away with the overly generic regional lookup tables for good.

Work continues also on bringing Seasonal Foliage to the remaining tracks - next up for this weekend will be Hockenheim along with its historical variants, making the trips into the long forest straights very different experiences depending on whether your session is run on the fall, winter or spring.





With the addition of Hockenheim, all premium tracks along with Bathurst, Imola and Spielberg will be featuring seasonal foliage, along with the more discreet variations of Brazilian tracks. By the end of the month we hope to have completed this feature and have all tracks in AMS2 presenting their appropriate seasonal foliage.

On the Physics side, the biggest incoming development is the completion of the Traction Control system revamp that we´ve been working on through this cycle, as well as adding input binding to adjust both TC & ABS in-car (and not just via ICM as it is currently).

Still on the topic of input bindings, by the end of the month we hope to offer the often-requested option to map multiple commands to the same key or button.

On the AI front, where we also have some nice further developments - with V1.2 we introduced unique personalities to each AI driver, which means all drivers in the sim (real, fictional or generic) have their own unique personality and skillset not shared with another AI driver. Within the next couple of months we´ll reduce the presence of generic drivers, with most series getting drivers (real or fictional) assigned to each car; their personalities in turn will be substantially fleshed out with several new variables, leading to AI drivers having varied ability in managing tire wear or running on the wet, staying cool when under pressure, keeping a consistent pace without mistakes, fighting back after being passed amongst other cool details - some drivers will also be more skilled on some tracks than in others, with all these elements hopefully leading up to a more varied and organic AI racing experience.


On to UI & HUD Development - while our man @Dave Stephenson continues to push hard in tidying some remaining issues with the Custom Championship tool and adding a few more options, the work should be largely completed after this weekend´s update, which means he´s finally unleashed to catch up with some other UI & HUD updates, including substantial reforms to the Multiplayer Lobby & monitor screens - the former previews below and expected to be ready for the weekend:


Once these are completed we´ll dive into the driver profile page, and with that completing the development of the long awaited Multiplayer Rating System (at least a couple of months still to go there though).


Finally on to the Content - while the focus over the next few weeks will continue to be on delivering more of these groundwork improvements, we still have a fleshy bit of content to brighten up our next release, as the classic Porsche 911 Carrera RSR from 1974 will arrive as a free-for-all initial entry into 1970´s GT racing.


This 3.0L beast was very succesful on the track and remains widely popular to this day for its racey looks, sounds and performance, so we are naturally delighted to be bringing it to all AMS2 users.

Speaking of classics, we are also currently working on a track from Automobilista 1 and hoping to have it ready for the end of the month - no previews yet as we´re still early in the process, so I´ll leave you all to guess which one is it, as well as pitch in as to which other remaining AMS1 tracks you´d like to see brought over next!

That´s all the good stuff we have to share this month - and now it´s time to get back to work and get this next update ready for the weekend!

Automobilista 2 has now been updated to v1.2.1.0 - this is another complementary update to our v1.2 release, following a good week of bug-hunting and further improvements.

The update also expands visual seasonal variations to a new location, as all versions of Silverstone now feature seasonal foliage.

[h3]V1.2.0.8 -> V1.2.1.0 CHANGELOG[/h3]

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue that could lead to CTD on loading screen when using French localization in some instances
  
• Fixed an issue that could lead to CTD when selecting an existing championship save in some instances
  
• Fixed real weather in championships sometimes loading from wrong location.
  
• Fixed incorrect track info when saving vehicle setups in championship mode
  
• Added default compound assignments to various series that didn´t have one, fixing bug that could cause CTD during pitstops
  
• Fixed inconsistencies in various similar material settings which could cause slick tires to become completely gripless in certain surfaces when very wet
  

UI & HUD

• Added "ENABLE ANALOGUE INPUTS IN MENU" option to 'Controller > Configuration' options screen to disable analogue inputs in menus. Defaults to disabled for wheels with presets available and can be set per input type
  

PHYSICS

• Added updated traction control scaling for cars that have the device
  
• Fixed error in Caterham Supersport tire tread
  
• Minor adjustments to GTE, GT3, Stock Car tire treads
  
• Minor suspension geometry & wheel rate multiplier adjustments for cars in GTE, GT3, GT4, GT5, Ginetta G40, Stock Cars, Sprint Race, F3 classes
  
• Adjusted front splitter height sensitivity for Ginetta G55, Camaro GT4R, BMW M4, Stock Car 2020/2021
  
• Minor diffuser aero revisions & BoP pass to GT3 cars
  
• Minor aero revisions for Ultima GTR Race
  
• Fixed error in camber ranges of Metalmoro MRX, Montana
  
• Various aero & default setup adjustments for Metalmoro MRX, Roco
  
• Adjusted default power ramp angle in Mclaren GT4, GT3, C8.R, Sprint Race & Stock Cars
  
• Mclaren 720S GT3: Revised diffuser, front brakes, ride height range & default settings
  
• Mclaren 570S GT3: Adjusted rear ride height
  
• Fixed corrected GTE fuel capacity from a previous build which had been reversed by accident
  
• Enabled onboard adjustable roll bars for MCR2000
  
• Reenabled refuelling in formula series that shouldn´t have them allowed (this will be added back as an option later)
  

AI

• GTE, GT3 AI performance callibration pass
  
• Adjusted speed AI can sustain while running off the ideal racing line
  
• Increased 2020 AI Grip at Silverstone 2020
  
• Adjusted AI for slightly lateral swerving in urgent reaction at max aggression / slightly higher concede drops, lower boosts during overtaking conditions
  

TRACKS

• Added seasonal foliage to Silverstone (all versions)
  
• Long Beach: Fix tire wall adverts material issue; removed wandering fence poles from T8 runoff; Revised pit lane exit limits, Cheat block follows the yellow (was blue) pit exit line.
  
• Hockenheim Historics: Minor performance pass; Revised startlight glows
  
• Slight zoom tweaks to Long Beach & updated FOV at Interlagos trackside cameras to minimise shimmering
  

VEHICLES

• Ginetta G58 P1: Added 6 new liveries
  
• Added day running lights to Porsche Cup, Metalmoro AJR, Stock Cars
  
• Porsche Cayman GT4: Add Pirelli tire branding to the sidewall