Negli ultimi mesi, Polyphony Digital ha aggiunto una nuova variante delle condizioni di bagnato a numerose piste di Gran Turismo Sport. Le abbiamo viste per la prima volta all'evento del World Tour in Germania, con il Red Bull Ring bagnato. Da allora, il team ha aggiunto anche un pò di umidità alla Tokyo Expressway e, proprio la scorsa settimana, il circuito di Spa-Francorchamps ha debuttato con la pioggia.

È un processo lento che si riduce essenzialmente al modo in cui Polyphony Digital esegue il pre-rendering delle condizioni di illuminazione dei circuiti. L'illuminazione è naturalmente diversa anche durante la pioviggine più mite, quindi le varianti meteorologiche devono essere ridisegnate per far fronte alle precipitazioni. Ciò significa che è necessario attendere un pò di tempo prima di vedere la tua pista preferita aggiunta all'elenco wet.

Tuttavia, alcuni giocatori intraprendenti hanno scoperto qualcosa di simile a una scorciatoia. Con determinate impostazioni della lobby privata si può far si che le condizioni atmosferiche umide siano ora disponibili su qualsiasi pista del gioco, persino sui campi di rally. Creare da soli questa situazione è un processo semplice in due fasi. Innanzitutto, imposta una Lobby come preferisci - con le auto e le impostazioni che preferisci - ma imposta la pista su una qualsiasi di quelle abilitate alla pioggia e con le condizioni di pioggia. Una volta caricato, torna alle impostazioni dell'evento e cambia la pista con qualsiasi circuito desideri, all'ora del giorno predefinita. Ora hai tempo umido sulla tua "nuova" pista.

Funziona su tutti i circuiti, ma a vari livelli. Sembra che tutte le piste generino gocce di pioggia visibili, innescando i tergicristalli della macchina. Le condizioni riducono anche in particolare l'attrito superficiale e l'avvertimento del freno si adatta alla perdita di aderenza e all'aumento degli spazi di frenata.

Tuttavia, l'acqua della superficie è un pò incostante. Alcuni tracciati, come il percorso sud della Tokyo Expressway - l'unica pista di Tokyo che al momento manca di una variante in condizioni di bagnato - sembrano relativamente completi, con macchie di acqua stagnante e una strada più riflettente (anche se piove in modo improbabile nei tunnel e nella struttura del parcheggio in corsia dei box) ). Altri sembrano ossi secchi, ma agiscono bagnati.

Naturalmente, senza la piena illuminazione delle vere piste bagnate, queste condizioni glitch sono una cosa abbastanza scadente. Detto questo, hai l'opportunità di provare piste bagnate che non sarebbero disponibili normalmente.

Il glitch dovrebbe essere presto soggetto a una patch, quindi goditi questo momento se puoi.

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Ogni giocatore/pilota cerca ovviamente la sua massima prestazione possibile in pista con il suo bolide, ma quando i tempi sul giro iniziano ad abbassarsi in un modo abbastanza evidente, si cerca anche di capire se si è difronte ad un imbroglio del giocatore. 

Gran Turismo Sport è stato recentemente messo sotto la lente di ingrandimento sotto questo punto di vista. Sul circuito di SPA-Francorchamps, infatti, sono state notate delle anomalie sul tempo impiegato per concludere il giro, facendo risultare i tempi troppo irrealistici e che vanno oltre ciò che sembra possibile, anche se si tratta di un "semplice" videogame. La logica ci lascia intendere che siamo difronte all'uso di "cheating" e facendo degli approfondimenti sembra proprio cosi'.

La situazione è abbastanza simile a quando fu rilasciato il circuito di Goodwood Motor e tutto dipende dall'ultima chicane. In sostanza, i giocatori sfruttano il modo in cui il gioco calcola le penalità . Di seguito potete vedere il trucco in azione:

GT Sport divide i circuiti in mini-settori. Ogni volta che si passa un mini-settore, il gioco aggiorna i tuoi spazi vuoti con l'auto davanti o al tuo miglior tempo sul giro. Se lasci i limiti della pista, il gioco controlla i tempi del tuo mini-settore per vedere se hai guadagnato tempo e applica una penalità. Tuttavia, lo fa solo quando ritorni sul circuito e passi attraverso un mini-settore. Con il circuito di Spa-Francorchamps, come con Goodwood, il trucco consiste nel ridurre la chicane finale e poi rimanere fuori pista fino al traguardo. Rimanendo fuori pista, il gioco non rileva e applica la penalità fino all'inizio del giro successivo. Ciò significa che i giocatori possono tagliare circa tre secondi dal loro giro di qualificazione o giro finale della gara senza penalità.

In passato Polyphony Digital ha agito rapidamente per porre rimedio alla situazione sia a Goodwood sia al Time Trial a Willow Springs. Tuttavia, in entrambi i casi ha richiesto l'aggiunta di barriere antiestetiche. Aspettiamo di vedere se ci sarà una soluzione per SPA e quale forma prenderà.

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Ieri vi abbiamo parlato della nuova roadmap, ma le novità non sono finite qui. E' stata resa disponibile infatti la nuova build, la 1116.

Non aspettatevi grandi cambiamenti, infatti si tratta di fix per il comparto multiplayer: è ora possibile settare quante volte sarà possibile effettuare un "track cut" prima di ricevere una penalità. E' stato sistemato anche il problema che vedeva resettarsi il conto dei tagli di pista quando si cambiava il pilota e sono stati sistemati i marshal che non sventolavano le varie bandiere, specialmente al Nordschleife

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rFactor 2 - 1.1116 Now Available! Steam Build IDs client: 4356193 dedi: 4356207 Server admins must update all dedicated servers - Added "Track Cuts Allowed": You can now configure the number of track cuts before a penalty is given out, in single-player and multi-player. This entry can be found in your 'player.JSON' file. - Fixed number of track cuts resetting after a driver swap. - Fixed an issue where some marshals would not wave flags. This was an issue particular to the Nordschleife and the exceptionally large number of marshals.
- Added additional logging to help debug driver-swap issues.

Come già annunciato nell'articolo riguardante l'update 1.10, oggi è stato resto disponibile il nuovo stage finlandese di Jamsa.

Jamsa è una delle location più veloci e rinomate nel mondo del rally, con grandi salti e velocità medie elevatissime e avere il controllo della propria vettura è fondamentale per arrivare fino alla fine.

Questo stage fa parte della Stagione 3 ed è quindi incluso nelle seguenti release del gioco: DIRT Rally 2.0 Deluxe Content 2.0, DIRT Rally 2.0 Year One Pass e DIRT Rally 2.0 Super Deluxe Edition. Lo stage è anche disponibile per l'acquisto in standalone su Steam al prezzo di 3,49€

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The next DiRT Rally 2.0 location is here; let’s head to Jämsä, Finland.

Jämsä, Finland

This is one of the fastest and most renowned rally locations in the world, featuring colossal jumps and blisteringly high average speeds. The thick gravel and the undulating nature of this course mean that car control and balance are especially significant when navigating the Finish Stages.

Stage Conditions (General):

• Daytime / Clear / Dry Surface
• Daytime / Overcast / Dry Surface
• Sunset / Cloudy / Dry Surface
• Dusk / Cloudy / Wet Surface
• Dusk / Overcast / Dry Surface
• Night / Clear / Dry Surface

Stage Conditions (Time Trial):

• Daytime / Clear / Dry Surface
• Dusk / Cloudy / Wet Surface

Availability Information

Finland Rally is part of DiRT Rally 2.0 Season 3. The following game versions/bundles contain Season 3 (it is also available to buy as standalone DLC):

DiRT Rally 2.0 Deluxe Content 2.0

• Season 3 Content
• Season 4 Content

DiRT Rally 2.0 Year One Pass

• Season 1 Content
• Season 2 Content
• Season 3 Content
• Season 4 Content

DiRT Rally 2.0 Super Deluxe Edition

• DiRT Rally 2.0 Base Game
• Season 1 Content
• Season 2 Content
• Season 3 Content
• Season 4 Content

If you have Season 3 already you may have to head to your platform’s store to install Finland Rally.

Please note that your content may not be unlocked immediately, or the items on your platform’s storefront may appear to require additional purchase. While they can be bought individually Season 3 players will not need to do this; the content will be added automatically, typically within the day of release. As always, keep an eye on our Twitter and Facebook pages for updates on when everything is live on your platform.

Post-release DLC content is currently not available on Oculus. We plan to release DLC content on the platform at a later date, and will provide more information as things are finalised.

SCS Software continua ad aggiornare, migliorare ed arricchire i suoi due titoli dedicati agli appassionati di camion. Già da qualche settimana è disponibile l'update 1.36 open beta per Euro Truck Simulator 2, per il quale è stato anche rilasciato un addon dedicato alla mappa della Corsica, presentata nel trailer qui sotto.

Chi invece preferisce attraversare gli Stati Uniti con il proprio bisonte della strada, può lanciarsi su American Truck Simulator, aggiornato proprio oggi alla versione 1.36. Sempre per ATS, sarà disponibile a partire dal 7 novembre la nuova mappa del territorio dello Utah, che vedete presentata nel trailer di seguito.

Come ogni mese Studio 397 rilascia la roadmap che ci aggiorna su ciò che arriverà. Nonostante qualche giorno di ritardo anche la roadmap relativa ad Ottobre 2019 è disponibile.

La notizia che sicuramente salta all'occhio per prima è la Rerun della rF24, ovvero la 24 Ore di Le Mans, che avverrà il 9 novembre con un premio in denaro per un totale di 15000€. Questa garà sarà corsa con la partnership del film di prossima uscita "Le Mans 66"

Nuove notizie anche dal fronte UI: la prima beta pubblica sarà resa disponibile da metà dicembre. Non ne farà parte il competition system che pare comunque essere a buon punto, con tanto di primi screen

Sono in arrivo nei prossimi giorni 3 nuovi layout per il Nurburgring: due layout "Sprint" e la versione "Endurance" completa. Inoltre la Nissan GT500 è stata aggiornata con il nuovo material system

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Roadmap Update October 2019

Hot on the tail of the Halloween Sale, we’re here to present you another monthly roadmap. As usual we have a lot going on and some juicy announcements we’re sure you’ll salivate over. Every month, we work in many diverse areas – that’s why the roadmap exists: we sew it all together and deliver it in a neat little package for you to digest. So let’s get started, you know the drill!

rF24h the Rerun – start your engines!

The fight for the endurance crown on the iconic Le Mans Circuit isn’t over for this year, and as promised previously, we are bringing back the rF24h event for the official rerun. France is calling on the 9th of November for the best of the best to once again take on the challenge.

One might say that a rerun isn’t a thrilling thing to announce, but we are sure you’ll get excited about this one. To ensure that the endurance battle will be at the top of its game and to honor the effort and time the top teams from around the globe put into our big events, we decided to come up with a juicy prize pool that should get every single driver to strive for nothing short of victory.

The 2019 rF24h – Le Mans Circuit will offer a total prize pool of €15.000!

This is split into our two classes as follows:

LMP 2:

• 1st place €3.500
• 2nd place €2.500
• 3rd Place €1.500

GTE:

• 1st place €3.500
• 2nd place €2.500
• 3rd Place €1.500

That is a big chunk of money right there for the best teams in the simracing world to grab! As this is a rerun, teams from the first iteration of this year who confirmed their attendance are set for this race as well. Remaining spots will be given out with a small qualifier event to make sure we have a full grid that we will all enjoy watching.

Talking about watching, of course we will broadcast our major event as we did for the previous one. So gather your friends, drinks and chips and head on over to http://www.twitch.tv/rfactorlive from the 9th – 10th of November to witness simracing at its best.

Not much more to say other than that we can’t wait to hear the screaming sounds of cars throughout the night as drivers are battling not just their opponents but also themselves as the clock is moving on.

LEMANS 66 – new partner for the rF24h

The announcement of the return of the rF24h – Le Mans Circuit isn’t the only exciting news we want to share with you in this month’s roadmap. When looking for partners for our events, we want to make sure that they fit right in – no artificial ways of connecting them to what we do and love. With “Le Mans 66 – Gegen jede Chance” (the German language version of the movie ‘Le Mans 66’) we found just the right partner for this major rFactor 2 event. In case you live under a rock or behind the moon on the right side (same for everyone that lives on the left side or down the road), let us quickly inform you what this is all about. As you can probably tell by the title already, the main focus of the new movie by 20th Century Fox is the story around the iconic Le Mans race back in 1966, for which American car designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and driver Ken Miles (Christian Bale) team up with Ford to battle Ferrari for the top spot at the prestigious endurance event. Based on a true story, this movie highlights the heroes behind this major achievement in motorsport, just like the heroes and their stories in our events.

The movie will be released on the 14th of November in cinemas across Europe, which gives us enough time to celebrate this release in and around rFactor2. “Le Mans 66 – Gegen jede Chance” will not just be our main sponsor for the rF24h – Le Mans Circuit, we will also get some hotlap challenges running (only for Germany) until the release of the movie, where you can win tickets to watch this epic battle unfold on the big screen yourself.

As a result of this partnership, don’t be surprised if your daily launch of rFactor 2 looks slightly different (wink)

We are very proud of the chance to partner up with 20th Century Fox and the “Le Mans 66 – Gegen jede Chance” movie to get people excited about everything around fast cars and thrilling races!

New User Interface

We’ve been teasing the new UI for what seems like ages, and you’ve been waiting patiently on the sidelines for “that day” to come. All along the way, you’ve been part of the development process through sneak previews and updates in our monthly roadmaps. To keep you in the know, we’ve shared our progress in as much detail as possible. The challenges and the overall complexity we faced required a steady and determined approach to get this very essential set of new features firing on all cylinders.

But all things need to eventually see the light of day, so we are now “revving the engine” with intent! We’re proud to be launching the first ‘public beta’ of the UI in mid-December – it’s your chance to finally get your hands on it to test drive!

This first public beta will allow us to gauge two important things. Firstly, how well the system is working for everybody in terms of performance and stability. Secondly, and this is an important step for us, on how you want this system to evolve. By collecting this data based on your participation, we will be able to systematically improve the system in the months to come. Our goal is to make sure the whole system is robust, and then make it the default. When that happens, we will also switch our releases to 64 bit only.

Competition

Expect the first public beta to not yet include the new competition system. We simply did not want to throw too many things at you at once. By December, we will be in a good position to test the comp system, and rest assured that there will be a steady stream of updates from the first public beta onward.

The first steps will include testing both the “mechanics” of the different competition formats, as well as collecting data based on your participation so we will be able to test out our ‘driver rating’ algorithms. Here too, your personal feedback will be a crucial element in deciding how we go forward and which particular improvements we focus on during the next phase of development.

To show you an in-development sneak peek of the competition system, here’s a look at the current front-end.

Content

On the content side of things, we are uber busy working on new top secret projects, so we can’t announce anything just yet.

In the meantime, here’s a snap update we’ve done for the Nissan GT500 to bring it in line with the new materials! We can’t wait to see your new skin creations on this enigmatic Japanese beast! Look out for this update to come down in the next few days.

And in other news,  the Nürburgring is the track that keeps on giving! There are three new layouts incoming in the next few days: two ‘Sprint’ layouts (with and without chicane), these are shortened versions of the GP layout, and of course the epic full ‘Endurance’ layout that combines most of the GP layout as well as the full Nordschleife.

That’s it for this month! Happy racing and until the next one!

Codemasters ci ricorda tramite un tweet che F1 2019 è ancora disponibile per una prova gratuita per i prossimi due giorni circa su Steam (PC), Xbox One e PS4 tramite i rispettivi store. Inoltre il gioco è ancora scontato del 40%.

Se siete appassionati della Formula 1 e volete dare una chance al nuovo capitolo targato Codemasters (che ha esteso l'accordo con la F1 fino al 2025), beh, questo è il momento per farlo

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Con un post sul suo blog SCS Software ha annunciato la data di rilascio del DLC relativo allo Utah per American Truck Simulator: l'espansione è infatti in arrivo il 7 Novembre.

Insieme all'espansione di mappa sono previste anche nuove missioni per il DLC Trasporto Speciale

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Utah: Release Date Announcement

 

With the final touches being made to the upcoming map expansion we are excited to announce the release date of the latest map addition to American Truck Simulator. 

 

Utah map expansion will be published on the 7th of November 2019

 

We hope that this trailer will give you a tantalizing glimpse of what you will be able to explore for yourself very soon.

 

 

And as you can see, Utah will be rich in content for drivers to explore. Main features include:
 

• 3.500 miles of road network
• 10 major cities (Salt Lake City, St. George, Moab)
• New quarries and mines including the largest open excavation Kennecott Copper Mine
• Expanded oil industry (oil mining sites, oil storage sites)
• Improved agriculture production chain (country stores, feed mills)
• Famous landmark sites: Great Salt Lake, Monument Valley, Virgin River Canyon
• Over 260 recognizable natural and man-made landmarks
• 12 well-known truck stops
• New and improved process of landscape creation
• Utah achievements to unlock

Included with the release of Utah will be 2 new and challenging Special Transport DLC missions. With loads starting from Vernal to Salt Lake City (Kennecott Copper Mine) and from Provo to Price (Oil Industry), can you complete the task of delivering these challenging loads?
 

 

From the famous red rocks all the way to the Great Salt Lake, we can't wait for you haul and explore this beautiful state. Make sure to add Utah to your wishlist on Steam and be the first to be notified of its release on November 7th!

Tramite un post sul suo forum Codemasters ha rilasciato il changelog dell'update 1.10 per DIRT Rally 2.0. Tanti i fix, ma soprattutto abbiamo l'annuncio di 3 nuovi stage in arrivo prossimamente: Jamsa (Finlandia) in arrivo il 5 Novembre, Killarney International Raceway (Sudafrica) in arrivo il 19 Novembre e Lydden Hill (Regno Unito) in arrivo il 3 Dicembre

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Version 1.10

October 30, 2019

 

Content:

• New Location: Jämsä, Finland - Available November 5 (Season 3)
• New Location: Killarney International Raceway, South Africa - Available November 19 (Season 4)
• New Location: Lydden Hill, UK - Available December 3 (Season 4)
• New Liveries: Season 3, Stage 3 - Available November 5 (Season 3)
• New Liveries: Season 4, Stage 1 - Available December 3 (Season 4)
   

VR:

• Optimised overall SteamVR performance, to match that of Oculus SDK.
• Reassigned Oculus SDK preset graphics settings, to use VR config file (same file used by SteamVR in previous versions).

 

Microsoft Store PC version:

• Added ability to change game language.

 

Achievements:

• New Achievement: Finnesse - Roll your car and continue in Finland.
• New Achievement: Flying Finn - Get airborne 100 times in Finland.
• New Achievement: Greece Lightning - Win an Event in Greece by over a minute with Hardcore Damage enabled.
• New Achievement: Have a Break - Buy a Kitcar.
• Past & Present: Resolved issue where Achievement would not unlock when a player retires from the final Event.

 

Locations:

• Ribadelles, Spain: Adjusted sunset time on loading screen.
• Ribadelles, Spain: Corrected specific pace note in Italian language.
• Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi: Adjusted various Track Reset lines
  (note: Leaderboards will be reset for this Location during update rollout).
• Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi: Resolved issue where black boxes were appearing behind cars at Dusk. 
• Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi: Made numerous minor improvements and bug fixes.
• Estering, Germany: Added spotter callout reminder for final lap, if the player has not yet taken their Joker.
• Powys, Wales: Resolved issue where dust-based visual effects were not appearing when player rejoined track.

 

Cars:

• BMW M2 Competition: Added ability to repair Turbo components in My Team.
• Peugeot 206 Rally: Added exhaust flame visual effects. 

 

Audio:

• Volkswagen Golf Kitcar: Updated exhaust audio. 
• Added ability to disable post-Stage comments at Finish Line.
• Resolved issue where audio was missing from internal camera views in Time Trial.
• Resolved issue where podium crowd audio was too quiet after winning Rallycross Finals.

 

Broadcast Mode:

• Added ability to use Trackside cameras. 
• Added ability to select a specific player to spectate and follow through multiple Stages/Races.
• Made numerous minor improvements and bug fixes.

 

Clubs:

• Added UI indicator to show if a Championship has enabled Hardcore Damage setting.
• Added UI indicator to show if a Championship has enabled Force Cockpit Camera setting.
• Added UI indicator to show if a Championship has enabled Allow Assists setting.

 

Hardware:

• Ensured that Handbrake Deadzone and Handbrake Saturation settings work correctly across all game modes.
• Added input reporting slider for when players are configuring handbrake settings.

 

My Team:

• Corrected UI display of Staff members in My Team after a player resets their RaceNet data.

 

Miscellaneous:

• Made several minor bug-fixes throughout title.
• Made several minor stability improvements throughout title.

 

Version 1.11 is in development and is expected to release around December 10.

Il team Reiza Studios ci aggiorna sullo sviluppo del suo nuovo Automobilista 2: la brutta notizia di oggi è che, a causa della gran mole di lavoro ancora da fare, il rilascio del nuovo simulatore viene spostato da dicembre al prossimo mese di marzo 2020, ma di contro sono numerose le novità interessanti alle quali il team brasiliano sta lavorando, come una nuova fisica e force feedback, nuova IA, tool dedicato per i server in multiplayer, meteo dinamico, animazioni 3D ed il tracciato di Jerez con licenza ufficiale!

Il nuovo Automobilista 2 potrebbe rivelarsi come grande sorpresa del 2020, voi cosa ne pensate? Ditecelo sul forum.

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October has come and gone - another month of intense work for us as we enter the latter stage of Automobilista 2 development before its initial release.
After months grinding away producing, updating and exporting a large number of cars and tracks, figuring the ins and outs of the new game engine and developing the required additional resources, things are now beginning to take form and potential is starting to turn into reality as the focus shifts from assembling the meat and bones of the sim to fine tuning the game into a cohesive whole.
There´s a lot of work still to be done to achieve that, so let´s go over where we are 

AMS2 Release Schedule Update
Beginning with what may not be so good news - although things have been progressing nicely and more or less within the planned schedule, with most major issues already cleared and a large content base already in place, we have decided to push release a bit from December 2019 to March 2020.
This is not a decision we have taken lightly - we understand many people are anxious for AMS2 to come out (not least ourselves), and even if we might have been able to just get to a releasable state by December, the content, features and polish we can add in these 3 extra months more than justifies the delay and will ultimately lead to a stronger launch for Automobilista 2.
For Early Backers the wait will be a little shorter as Automobilista 2 Beta should become available in February.
In the next two months we will be fleshing out our plans for Automobilista 2 in more detail, which hopefully will make the extra wait more understandable as well as more bearable 
For now, here is what we have been up to this past month:

Progress, Progress Everywhere


On top of many cool cars and tracks continuing to make their way into the game (like this sweet new and revamped Super V8), we covered a lot of groundwork in various essential fronts of the sim. Some of the highlights:

Physics & FFB - We have made a couple of small but significant adjustments to the physics code, crucially fixing a bug in unsprung inertia calculation (which was already fixed in AMS1 but not yet in this version of the physics engine).
We are also working on a new FFB system which basically works very similarly to Realfeel system used in AMS1 (basically converting the forces coming through the steering arm into the FFB).
The combination of bridging these gaps with the ongoing development of the physics derived from AMS1 and a growing understanding of the SETA Tyre Model is starting to net some very exciting results - Over the next two months I´ll try to expand a bit more on where these improvements are coming from, but for now I can say we´re growing more confident that the overall physics and resulting driving experience in AMS2 is going to deliver the step forward we hoped to achieve.

AI - A lot of attention was given to AI this month. One of the main differences vs AMS2 AI is that while the player physics run the SMS SETA Tyre Model, the AI still runs the old Pacejka Model similar to what we had in AMS1 which was by and large the same as the player´s.
This means both models need to be developed for each tyre type so that the AI has tyres that match the characteristics and performance of the player be that on straights, in and out of corners, running cold, hot, under or over pressure, come rain or sunshine and over a wide range of difficulty and aggression settings - a lot of variables to fine tune.
Luckily we do have quite a bit of experience with a similar AI code and this fine tuning process, and elsewhere in the code SMS has been very thorough in making AI functions fully parametrized, making it an easier (if still time consuming) process to experiment and fine tune the AI to get them to perform, behave and battle as one would like in all conditions.
There´s still some ways to go to make things work smoothly accross the board, but the good news hopefully demonstrated in the previews below is that we have the resources we need to get the AI as good if not better than AMS1 already for initial release, and then build on that with new features to try make AI racing more satisfying than ever before.

AMS2 Dedicated Tool - Another important milestone has been putting together the AMS2 Dedicated Tool so servers can host multiplayer sessions not necessarily through the game itself - this was one of the main requests we received from leagues and luckily here too we were able to rely on SMS providing us with something that was already over halfway there and we are now pushing accross to hopefully a releaseable state in v1.0

Weather & Climates - Similarly we´ve been doing some work on various weather and climate profiles to achieve more accurate rain volume, lighting and temperature ranges for the various locations we have in the sim - significant even within a country of continental proportions like Brazil where climate varies a lot from the southern tracks to the ones further north.
These weather and climate profiles also affect how much rain you may get in different places and the temperatures will affect how quickly or not it dries up.
It also helps recreating the kind of warm summer sunset you´d experience at a seaside italian kart track as can be seen here in intense VR glory:

 

3D Animations
One new front we have started tackling this month are 3d animations, as even though we have been able re-use some of the assets that came with the engine for things like driver animation, animated crowds and pit crews, there is a lot more that can be done elsewhere. For cars specifically, the suspension assembly is now fully articulated; then there are wipers, vibrating components, damage, switches and a bunch of different things we can add to make the environment both inside the cockpit and out more lively.
To help us out making quicker progress on this front we have partnered up with a South African Studio whose expertise is already proving invaluable getting us up to speed on this front. Below you can see a demo reel of various such animations being added to the Caterham:

 

Jerez coming for Automobilista 2!

We are thrilled to confirm another traditional circuit is coming for Automobilista 2: Jerez de la Frontera is a challenging Spanish track of rich heritage, having hosted several GPs in the 80s and 90s and continuing as popular testing venue well into recent years.
Jerez was stage to several historical moments in F1, from the classic 1986 photo-finish between Senna and Mansell, to Senna´s record-breaking 50th Pole Position in 1990 following Martin Donnely´s massive accident, to the infamous Villeneuve-Schumacher title deciding collision in 1997.
As with other recent tracks, Jerez has been modelled for Automobilista 2 with the aid of accurate LIDAR data, and will be included in the initial release of the sim. Also as per usual when going for circuits of such history, we plan to include the historical layout used through the 80s, although most likely after AMS2 release.
Jerez has been one of the tracks we have managed to fast-track licensing and production thanks to the influx from the AMS2 Early Backing Campaign, so thanks to everyone who has already opted in and helped us move this along!

Automobilista 2 Community Skins
Last month we announced that those who joined the AMS2 Early Backing Campaign would also have the opportunity to become part of Automobilista 2 by creating their own livery for any of the various fictional or semi-fictional series in the sim.
Some great results are already coming in and several drivers have already earned their place in the AMS2 grid, such as this beauttiful F-V10 by @Bruno Mendes


If you also want to be a part of AMS2 there is still time - check out the AMS2 Early Backing Campaign!
That is all for October! Even though release may not be quite around the corner anymore we are confident there is still plenty to look forward to before the end of the year as we outline our 2020 roadmap for Automobilista 2 - plenty of exciting news on the way still so stay tuned