In this video, Jimmy managed to establish 2 things: - AMS2's biggest enemy is the tire model(s) - Jimmy's biggest enemy is 5th gear

Jimmy: here's what I think is wrong with your game. Devs: Fuck you, but also we agree

Jimmy : The cars feel weird something seems off with the physics model AMS2 : Fuck off AMS2 : Hey so a funny thing happened

Glad to see you having fun in the sim! I agree, whatever they've done has brought the whole thing alive Id love to see you try out the 1974 F1 cars at some point. If you like that 'edge of grip' thing, they're exactly what you're looking for :)

Since you are famous for your Nordschleife content it would be cool if you'd showcase the historic Nordschleife (and Südschleife maybe) at some point :]

With what happened between you and Reiza a couple years ago, I'm honestly impressed you gave it a second chance. No matter who was in the right back then, this was a very commendable step on your part that many people wouldn't have had the character to make after having such a "falling out". I also think it's justified. Being a regular forum user, there has always been a tendency of "one step forward, half a step back" with the physics of this game, resulting in some good and some horrible cars (like the Caterhams). Being a beta member now, I can honestly say that every car that receives these updates is either subtly or massively better off for it. Not to say it's perfect, because nothing will ever be, but it's much, much closer.

Jimmer, if you keep saying nice things about AMS2 maybe Rieza will give us a Praga.

The biggest step up for me is the formula ultimate gen 2. Before the update it just felt aweful to drive, but after the update it's one of my favourite current gen F1 experiences

The reason I come back to AMS 2 is because its super easy to set up a private online server, invite your friends, fill the lobby with AI, and go race with a bunch of options. There is a lot of fun to be had there. I am really excited to see the rest of the update as more and more cars get the physics patch since racing the GT3s, the mini JCWs, and some of the lower class cars still feels super disconnected. Ive really enjoyed my time with this game so far, always happy to see games move in a positive direction.

I know nothing about sim racing, don't even have a wheel with pedals. Playing with a PS4 controller but I love AMS2. Driving feels to me more organic than ACC. GT3 cars are the most fun to drive in AMS2.

If it's any consolation in regards to the devs' previous comments, there have been a few times recently where they've worded things... poorly, we'll say, and they promptly realized it and apologized for lashing out. Sometimes peoples' social skills receive updates just like their games. Unrelated, but the F-USA 2023s are absolutely mental in how good they feel. I absolutely urge everyone to drive them.

And THIS video, the closing statement in particular, proves, why YOU, fine Sir, are loved by you community so much. Fair, open minded, honest. Thank you Jimmer

i'm in the beta and can confirm the new tyres are a game changer on pretty much all cars

Awesome to see you try the game again! For me 1.5 is so substantial it's hard to drive any other content that doesn't have it, cannot wait for the full patch next week. The amount of tracks and racing series this game has out of the box, combined with the dynamic weather system and their AI improvements is some of the best sim racing experiences I've ever had. It really helps that the online community can be really chill to play with since it's so small and dedicated, and setting up a server and inviting your friends is a breeze (compared to RF2/AC/ACC anyways lol). I strongly recommend you give the historic Norsdchleife a go! Easily the best version of that historical track ever made in a sim, so detailed and the Sudschleife is absolutely incredible. Spa historical is up there too, I just did that last night with a couple friends in Group C cars and the experience was so intense and scary fast. Lots of content to be enjoyed in this sim even with this amount of cars with the new physics, but next week when they all get it it should be so fun, can't wait to discover what new cars are gonna be my favorite :D

Renato and his Reiza team are doing a monster effort against any madness, i.e. the Madness Engine. Since I acquired AMS2 just pre Cov19 I think maybe 35-40% of my total sim time has been dedicated to AMS2. For a jack of all trades sims new, old and ancient and mostly into huge databases of mods it tells me that they've been on the right track especially since the intro of the FFB+ controller option.

Once you find the good cars, AMS2 is awesome. For the past few days I've been driving the 1994 F1 car around the 1980's Jerez and Estoril, what a blast.

Jimmy once again proves he’s a better person then us, if I had the platform and devs talked to me like that I would be making a whole video about it

The thing that had always been a winner for me with AMS2 is the awesome selection of tracks (loads of South American ones I’ve never raced before) and the huge selection of cars. If the new updates are as good as they sound, this game could really take off. Fingers crossed!

AMS2 has been my racing sim of choice for the single player racing, especially with the racinglife mod. I have always thought there was just some weird things going on especially in the lower speed corners where grip just didn't feel right but I just chalked it up to me being bad. All the things you described in the video as issues are exactly what I was experiencing so I am very excited to get my rig setup again and get more time behind the wheel in AMS2.

Explaining the gear shifting issue, you can damage gears with repeated bad shifts. It shouldn't be that easy to mess up upshifts with that car as I believe it should have auto-cut (maybe a bug that slipped through), but it absolutely will happen with some of the F-Classics that had sequentials and no auto-cut if you don't rev match.

Hopefully AMS2 and the devs' attitude keep improving. I love AMS2 despite it's issues since it's the only sim I've found that works really well in VR.

This combination looks like so much fun, those old CARTs / Indycars and their race tracks are so rare to find on console sadly

I hope you do a newer video after they release the full 1.5 version for all cars.

If you drive in VR, the Madness graphics engine is too good to be ignored. I doubt Reiza had any idea how much would be involved in turning around the PC2 handling and FFB, but kudos to them for putting in massive work to tear it all down and rebuild it into something much improved. I've been on the beta branch and they are working through the car classes updating to the 1.5 model and tuning the AI. They've really pushed the engine quite far from the point where the PC2 developers gave up and walked away.

Also for ams2 a good starting point for beginners, is to download car setups, from the ghost of the fastest lap time for your car on a certain track.

The guys who built this gave you crap!! that really isn't cool.. but they have fixed it. They are lucky you revisited this. given how they behaved, I've had people review my products and say bad things, we went back to the drawing board and improved. Feedback is all we have sometimes! it's always a blessing unless you have ego issues.

you HAVE to do some videos on historic nords

I am loving smug Jimmy at the start of this vid. You let em know, king

Not sure what happened with the devs but I found reiza to be one of the best, most open and keen to listen to fans teams out there…the updates they give fans and the quality / price of DLC has been class leading. As with ANY sim some cars feel great and others not so much. This is not unique to AMS2 - it’s still not rf2 levels of FFB but it’s damn good fun, and sometimes that’s all that matters!!

Glad you are enjoying AMS2 - it's been my personal favorite for well over a year. The new tyre model and physics are a total game changer - absolutely loving them myself!

It’s good the madness engine is still used somewhere, absolutely huge potential with it still.

Thanks, Jimmy, for taking a fresh look at AMS2 and delivering another fair assessment of the sim. In the three years since its initial release, AMS2 certainly has generated more than its fair share of frustration--for simracers, developers, and content creators alike. Fortunately, Reiza appear to have identified the remaining hive of physics gremlins and are in the process of rooting them out. The upcoming V1.5 physics and tire model updates have the potential to elevate the driving experience in AMS2 out of the "Simulator-ish" tier and into the upper echelon of racing sims. Undoubtedly, other areas remain that can benefit from further development, but class-leading VR, a wide range of content, and (finally) a realistic, predictable, and entertaining driving experience is more than enough to merit a second chance.

Jimmer has a run-in with the nicest Brazilians on the internet.

Cool to see you give a sim another try.

Now you've got to try the old Nordschliefe.

Jimmy is a physics-engine-testing genius

I'm really excited for the new tire model to get distributed to all cars. I understand if you're still soured on the game due to the developer feedback, but I'd love to see more AMS2 content from you, since there's so much wierd and historically significant content in the game. Wierd and historically significant Assetto Corsa content have been my favorite Jimmy videos for years.

I love ams2 for race night with the bros, easy server setup, great vr.. and now handling better! Thx for checking it out again

The brazilian stock cars are incredibly fun to drive in this sim, deffo worth checking out.

For me, I couldn't stand the physics of AMS2 either for a long time. I think it was late 2021 where they finally released a big FFB and tire model overhaul that finally made the driving mostly enjoyable. Still wasn't perfect as that simultaneous oversteer/understeer/floaty feeling never fully went away, but at least with the new FFB and tire model, you could tune most of it out. That update finally got me comfortable with the driving, but it was the AI that honestly kept me playing it. Every other sim, the AI just drive around single file and are very predictable to race against. The AI in AMS2 still struggle and can be predictable through certain corners, but they're so much more aggressive when battling other cars that it just creates for some really fun and brilliant racing. Coming from AC where the AI just give you the corner even though they still have two car lengths on you, AMS2's AI will pin you on the outside of the track, try to out break you, and actually try to come back on you before you get away. When you get near them, they'll push themselves further and sometimes make mistakes because so like missing the apex or hitting track limits. So I'm really excited for the Le Mans update coming later this year. Only thing I feel AMS2 is missing are modern prototypes and GTs. Also Reiza's historic tracks have just been absolutely amazing. You have to give a 70s F1 car ago on the 1971 Nordschliefe.

I have been playing AMS2 nearly every Saturday for the last year and a half. I have always felt the cars were on the brink of uncontrollable. Eventually you get use to it and drive them within the limits of the game. However, with this new update, the cars behave more predictably. Spinning around is less likely and when you do start to spin there is a chance to save it. Previously, if you spun it was pretty much game over.

Can I just say- the FPOV and the replay "tv camera" is such a great idea. Keep doing this!

Hi Jimmy. Another great video by you. Really fun race to watch. I played Automobilista 2 since it came out. And I must say it changed a lot over time. There were some cars that felt way too snappy that over time gradually got better to drive with the updates. As I understand the next update will apply the changes to all cars ingame. I´m also excited for the content they teased like 3 versions of Le Mans (70s,90s and modern) as well as prototypes and touring cars etc from the 70s up to modern days with LmdH and new gt3 cars. If they keep finetuning the game it will be very cool I think. Thank you for your videos Jimmy. They´re always good to watch. Wish you all the best!

Glad you're giving AMS2 another chance and getting to like it. I've said it before, I'm going to say it again - you should give the Brazilian Stock Cars a go, they look absolutely mental.

>Standing start >H-shifting a '98 CART car :P

I love AMS2, it is my sim of choice and the current cars with the updated physics feel great. I cannot wait for 1.5. I didn't know that Reiza left bad comments in the past, that is pretty shit but I'm glad you gave it another shot and I hope you do more coverage of it in the future.

Very cool to see you revisit this sim as it's my current favorite and it's nice to see positive attention. Would love to see your thoughts on it after 1.5

Must do VR with AMS2

Great to see you having fun with Automobilista 2 again. I'd love to see more of this sim!

Some friends and I started what will hopefully become an annual series where we race pretty much every month, and 99% of our races/planned races are in AMS2. And yes, we've run into some problems here and there, especially in multiplayer, but overall it's been a fun series so far. I've personally been mainly playing AMS2 over other games since I bought it around the middle of last year because the physics, especially after I got used to them, felt nicer for me personally to deal with. Sure, some cars are insanely difficult to drive and I won't really bother touching them much, but over time I've definitely found myself liking more and more of the cars either from updates or me simply being more used to how they run. And our little series isn't exactly a group of veteran sim racers, I'm one of the most experienced and before this, I spent more time on Project CARS than anything else. One of the others comes from iRacing, meanwhile, the remaining two are totally new to sim racing. Heck, one of those two is using a controller lmao I know a lot of people have their problems with this game, and we'd certainly like for some of the glitches we've run into to be fixed (some already have thankfully), but overall for us it's a fun experience and kinda fits our playstyle now. Next session incidentally is actually at Long Beach, we're taking the Copa Montanas for 158 laps and those things are surprisingly fun to drive for all of us!

I'm much more of a casual driver, but when I started trying out AMS2, I immediately went back to Assetto Corsa, as it felt much better. However with every major update I checked back into AMS2 and it's now at the point for me, where I consider it to be as good as AC. And since they're not stopping with development anytime soon, it will probably be my favorite race sim farely soon.

really glad to see Jimmy back at it and playing one of my fav if truly floored sims!

Love the loafer 13s in the pedal cam

Excited to give this update a try with Indy oval course. Seems like the best sim out there as far as realism for that track that isn't iRacing.

Finally he does it again

Great to see that the game is improved since release. You should definitely try the 1970 nordshleife.

To clarify these cars are updated to the new "1.5 physics standards" but the game is not version 1.5 yet (that should come later this month, or early August). But yes huge steps in the right direction month after month from Reiza.

For sure we’ve been waiting for them to figure it all out. Glad you gave that a go again. 😊

It feels really good now, the transformation is enormous!

One thing that drives me crazy about AMS2 is how the tires will break loose while upshifting under full throttle on a lot of the sequential manual cars.

Having never heard about the AMS2 devs and community coming after you, my first thought upon hearing about it was "Well, it's not like he wants to not like it." and I glad you echoed my thoughts during the video. Sometimes you just don't enjoy an experience, and that's fine, and it's fine when others disagree. No one jumps into a game (or anything for that matter) wanting to not like it, and people get so worked up over differing opinions. You enjoy it, cool. If you don't enjoy it, also cool. Well done though for actually coming back after the bad experience, despite everything you've given it another go and enjoyed it. As you said, hopefully the AMS2 community can be a bit kinder about it all in the future.

Cool video! AMS2 deserves some TLC now and again. BTW did you move the shed in the house? Suspiciously shed-like video.

Happy to see you're enjoying it! I've been beta testing and I can confidently say that the new physics are a huge improvement over the whole sim. I hope more people pick it up once 1.5 hits.

Glad to see your enjoying this sim. Its reiza studios what i really believe in, they haven't given in with the madness engine. They just want ams 2 to be the best they can make it.

Quick correction the F-vintages have not got the new tyre model yet

Yes I bought AMS2 years ago and haven't really used it much because of the "floaty" feeling. But the big update has certainly made a big improvement in the driving experience.

Can't wait for the 'How fast can a Crosskart lap the Nordschleife' video

AMS2 deserves some love. You are a real professional, i expected nothing less from you. Please give us more of this

Long Beach. Nice. I swear I never see this track in games. I think the last game I played with it was one of the Forza Motorsport games.

This man is so brave driving in real life for a video

blew my mind the first time i tried the new physics, been waiting for Jim to have a go, you might not think so but your seal of approval holds a crap tonne of weight mate

I'll have to try it again when they update the GT and DPI classes. I actually love their system for setting up mixed racing, its the best out there. Their AI is also really good. The one thing for me that i just couldnt get passed is the brake feeling. Its like there was no sensation at all if the tires were locking up or if they had traction, so i could never brake consistently in that game.

You're definitely in for a big surprise when the actual v1.5 drops. Every car has changed in the beta, even the ones there were already with the new tires.

AMS1 and 2 have always been my personal go-to sims, other than NR2003. I know it's not the most "realistic", but it has fun AI to race and believable enough physics, graphics are well optimized, and it's the best sim for "jump in and have fun", which is something alot of sim racing games struggle at, the pick up and play experience.

youre a better man than i. i would hold a grudge and be way more smug about being right all this time.

Hey jimmer! Love the vids!

1:10 Ferrari F14T in a nutshell

I love project cars 2 ...knowing its the same engine basically just with better handling id love to try this one...have tried the first one

Awesome video Jimmer, looking healthy my guy!

You should definitely give it a go on the Brazilian Stock Car

VR in AMS2 is amazing, especially with the helmet cam but I also didn't play it a lot. just tried it out because I heard good things and went back to iRacing.

I could believe the difference when I fired it up several weeks ago. Been hooked on the old f1 car, so fun to drive.

Automobilista is amazing in VR. Truly feels like the most modern take on VR in simracing yet.

I bought it 3 days ago and playing a custom 2023 Brazil stock car, and it's so addictive

Damn this has came on leaps and bounds since the last video 😮

+ 1 for milky legs and grandpa slipper cam 🤣

Funny I spent all the video remembering what driver was he racing against if it was reaal life, brought back memories of that time :D

I enjoy a car sponsored by LAGER. I hope there's another sponsored by CIGARETTES and maybe OIL.

Thank you for giving this game another try, it legitimately looks fun, I may have to snag this game on sale :)

AMS 2 Redemption Arc??

LETS GOOOO I’ve been waiting for this for so long AMS2 is my favorite

Love your work Jimmy, Youre the GOAT. All the best to you man

Jimmer your opinion means the world to most of us if you say dont do it we ain't an if you say it's worth your time we take it as gospel mate legend keep it up

FINALLY! Installing it again then, i love AMS2's immersion but the physics were just not there. Definitely giving it a go, thank you for this vid, i would have never known otherwise.

Hey Jimmer. Your experience has been mine all the same basically. AMS2 always felt like it had a lot of potential which was not realized due to weird hit or miss car behaviour which I couldn't get my head around. I dropped the title and have now returned some weeks ago after reading about the upgrade. And boy does it feel good. Racing in VR this was a feast thundering across the Nordschleife in various cars as well as different weather and date time settings. So happy this title is coming along now :)

This has always been my favorite PC Sim. I "play" PC, PC2, AC, ACC, Grid Series, GT Legends, RRRE, RF2 and ASM2. They are all differnet and each have their strengths and weaknesses but AMS2 has the best balance of features and in VR it beats the rest hands down

Great seeing you play AMS2 so hope Reize fixes tire models on all their cars. VR + AMS2 is awesome.

Thats some impressive footwork!

5:06 That sound effect tho 😂

If you want a real challenge on this sim, play with a Chevrolet Opala (I personally like the 86' era car) with some cars of the same time period... The car is very fun to drive, goes a bit like a Porsche 911 or an old Mustang.... I love it!