In case you didnt know, a little while back maybe 8 months ago they discovered theyre tyre physics was fighting with an older version in the game engine, so it resulted in tyres having two confused tyres states at any given time

Try the Group A German cars at Bathurst. What a blast. Especially in VR.

No wonder it looks great: it uses the same Madness Engine that was used for Project Cars 1 & 2... You can hate it or love it.. but the visuals and the weather in that sim.. pure bliss! There are some videos of some guys driving at night, in the rain at LeMans in the 50s cars... and it looks spectacular!

AMS 2 is by far the best feeling sim on the market atm imo. I've been sim racing for well over 20 years and have tried them all, but what Reiza have done to the madness engine is just awesome!!! The only downside is the multiplayer side of things. They are doing testing currently in the BETA version, but the test sessions I've joined I have yet to see any improvement in MP. Cars magnetise to each other, the LiveTrack 3.0 doesn't sync across all clients correctly, start lights don't sync and the list goes on. :(

Now you should also try custom ffb settings. I can highly recommend the V400 from Danielkart from the Reiza forum. Its on page 355, but be sure that you pick the right one. Daniel made 7 different for different Nm. I picked the one with 11-13 Nm. You don't even have to care about damping, friction or inertia. Its all in the file now. Imho this is the peak of FFB.

Thanks for sharing.

I said 2 years ago that it alot of potential. It used to feel a bit dodgy the physics but I seem how much work reiza were putting into it. But now it's a total different sim. The f1 cars with alot of aero are amazing

I also took a break from AMS2 and came back after two years. It's such a different game. BTW it's worth checking out the adrenaline pack for the fabulous dirt road content. 🎉

They improved a lot. Reiza studios working with devs from project cars 2 now and soon they release GTR Revival. Based on that PC2 devs maked this engine and now they cooperate is amazing

If iRacing excels at multiplayer then Ams2 is the Daddy for off-line AI racing. Easily the most enjoyable AI to race against. Reiza have done a great job with this sim and for me it's ffb is 2nd only to rF2 but without some of the frustrations of that particular sim (which has also improved recently particularly the online racing). If you haven't tried Ams2 for awhile then you should definitely give it another go.

AMS2 is godly, and the next update is going to be HUGE TOO

I weirdly haven’t played it, idk why. Waiting for a steam sale!

This game is also really good for VR

i think the sim is in a pretty good spot, the cars feel good to drive, the ffb has gotten quite good especially on a direct drive wheel. my biggest complaints with the game is the BOP for classes such as GT4, it can be a little unbalanced. and it might be a bit on the forgiving side? im not sure, i have no real life driving experience, but it does seem more forgiving than assetto corsa and iracing.

BeamNG is another title that has made significant improvements in the past couple years

I feel very in control in every car. Made it all the way to S2001 online rating

Does this game have a good solo career mode? Something like project cars 2?

You probably have tested other cars already, but anyway: Caterhams has always been "that silly car" of AMS2, and I don't think even the 1.5 update managed to save it. As other people stated, have a look at the latest custom FFB, they are out of this world. Only thing this game lacks now, is proper incentive given to the gamer to do stuff beyond the sandbox aspect (which is incredible).

Can I play on controller?

Please tell me it's a lot better than forza motorsport on a wheel?

Still terrible on the limit with this still annoying sliding feel on all cars. It has no distinct feeling of grip, then loss of grip, then grip again.

Best sim out.

I got to get into the title. I hardly ran it since getting it. I got to give Forza a break anyways.

"it felt like on the limit all the time" and that's what I used so love about AMS2, which is now almost completely gone. It's just way too easy to drive nowadays and IMO they went way too far. I've warned them months ago that Forza is going sim and was never easy to drive. I think I got that right because the essential part of what I liked about AMS2 is back thanks to Forza Motorsport. AMS2 was a bit too temp-sensible with the tyres, but now it feels like they completely deleted the short-term tyre-temps and tyre-wear is almost non-existing no matter what the HUD is showing. AMS2 feels simcade to me while Forza is IMO the best sim.