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Reiza Preview 2022 GP Car, Stock Cars, Galeão Airport in Automobilista 2 Dev Update
Tim Wheatley - Game News | Apr 5, 2022
0 CommentsReiza Studios published their monthly-ish development update over the weekend. The big news is obviously the 2022-spec Grand Prix car, but the news of a 2022 Spa-Francorchamps layout is also very welcome.
Things of interest are:
– Formula Ultimate – Generation 2 coming (for free). Appears to be a 2022-spec Grand Prix car.
– 2022 Stock Car Pro Series coming (for free), with revised physics.
– Galeão Airport Temporary track in Rio coming (for free).
– Nürburgring 1971 still coming, free to those who own the pack.
– Spa-Francorchamps 1970 has been push back to accommodate construction of the 2022 layout (free to those who own Spa).
– The third part of Racin´ USA will be focused on oval racing and is planned for release before the end of July.
– Fourth bonus part of Racin´ USA is also in development, due 2023 (free to all owners of the full Racin´ USA pack as well as packs that include it). Content unknown.
– All 2020-2022 DLC packs should arrive before the end of this year.
– Going to start pushing beta updates to a beta branch (optional on Steam) for users to test/preview.
– It is two years since early access, and Reiza intend to keep developing for at least two more years.
– Planning one update per month for the remainder of 2022, but won’t be detailing a full development plan.
– One of Reiza’s lead developers had to move to Brazil due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
– Another developer is located in Kyiv and currently continues to work.
– Renato says he has been slightly less involved with AMS2 than usual, doesn’t go into specifics.
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