If you ever played Papyrus’ seminal Grand Prix Legends then you’ve read his name. Rich began working as a tester on NASCAR Racing (1994) and was with Papyrus at the end. In this interview, published in 2022, we discuss his time at the legendary studio and the design of Grand Prix Legends, including initial feelings of hurt at not being asked to join iRacing.
Shortly after the release of Grand Prix Legends the sim racing community looked forward to another title that promised to offer a similar insight into historic racing. Trans-Am Racing ’68-’72 ultimately never released, a victim of a publishers shady dealings, but as a part of my research I uncovered a VHS of a never-released trailer for the game. Watch the trailer and read about what sim racing missed out on.
Reiza have released an opt-in beta build as a release candidate of Automobilista 2 for users who want to test the upcoming physics changes. See the betas tab in Steam properties then select the “ReleaseCandidate” branch.
Their text:
V1.4.8 includes extensive physics revisions to an initial batch of car classes, revisions which are expected to be completed for all cars in the game by the update that follows this one 4-5 weeks from now (v1.5.0).
IMPORTANT: all revised cars MUST have the setup reset – users can do so either by resetting each model individually from their setup menu, or for all cars by deleting your local Documents\Automobilista 2\savegame\123456789\automobilista 2\vehiclesetups folder (please note however this would also delete your existing setups from currently unrevised cars that don´t require the reset yet).
The AI dry performance is supposed to be well calibrated to the player performance for all classes already revised – if you still notice any discrepancies please report the car / track combo along with eventual specific details. Wet weather is still not fully calibrated, with some classes still needing further adjustments both to player tire as well as wet calibration – this we expect to cover in time for official release.
CLASSES WITH COMPLETE V1.5 PHYSICS REVISIONS:
– Formula Retro Gen1 (all models)
– Formula Retro Gen2 (all models)
– Formula Retro Gen3 (all models)
– Formula Classic Gen1 (all models)
– Formula Classic Gen2 (all models)
– Formula Classic Gen3 (all models)
– Formula Classic Gen4 (all models)
– Formula Inter
– Formula USA 2023
– Formula Ultimate Gen2
– Formula Junior
– P1 (all models)CLASSES WITH PARTIAL WIP V1.5 PHYSICS REVISIONS (SHOULD BE IGNORED UNTIL COMPLETE):
– Formula USA Gen1 (all models)
– Formula USA Gen2 (all models)
– Formula USA Gen3 (all models)CLASSES WITH PHYSICS UNCHANGED FROM V1.4.7.2:
– Everything else.
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