#46 | Daytona 6hr | JCW Mini Cooper Challenge | AMS2

[@Sabsterjoon]

I haven't tried iRacing's tempest, but I was under the impression that rain in AMS2 is superb

[@andy_east]

@Sabsterjoon I'm not able to comment on iRacing as I haven't used it either. I only use AMS2 now, and haven't used anything else for long enough that any experience I had is now no longer relevant. Yes, wet conditions can be very good within AMS2. It does come with a "but" though. If you find yourself in the situation where the track conditions are changing and you are in the slicks vs wets window of conditions, you will find that the balance of performance swings wildly in favour of the AI in most cases. Which makes creating races of mixed conditions very awkward. However, if you're setting a purely wet race, you'll have a blast. You may need to re-calibrate the AI strength in some cases, as sometimes it can work in your favour and others in favour of the AI, it seems to be track-dependent. Reiza are very aware of it and my understanding is that they are working on it as part of the v1.6 release. The v1.6 release reads as a substantial amount of work for them. Not easy work either, as pretty much everything affects everything else. That they've kept target dates out of their information regarding this new release makes complete sense to me, just due to the nature of what they are changing makes it a constantly moving target. But, to get back to your original question. Driving in the rain in AMS2 can be brilliant. The depth of water can be felt as it can send the car a meter off-line if you catch it wrong. This is a very cool aspect to it. You can see these rivers or puddles as well, it's not like it's a random thing that you only find out when it's too late and you're not able to plan for. It's there, it's visible and it's avoidable if you take the right line. In some cases, it's beneficial to take the wet racing line, but in most cases the normal racing line is still faster. This is something else that Reiza are working on as part of v1.6. If you haven't seen them yet, there's a few video's here that have some purely wet races: kzbin.info/www/bejne/opy5inpqn5J1fac kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4a6iH-FfdF6aJo kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWilmYiGaMtsfsk For an example of the dry-wet condition AI performance swing I mentioned, have a watch of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWSnY4RvfpaSprc All the best and thanks for supporting. Andy

[@Sabsterjoon]

@andy_east this makes a lot of sense, thanks for the explanation!! I didn't think that I could get more excited for v1.6 :D

[@andy_east]

@Sabsterjoon I haven’t really read anything negative about the work done, which is a good sign. As always though, I’m sure the truth and reality will be somewhere in the middle of what we already have and what has been said/reported by the beta users. Also, as is always the way with software development, nobody really tests it like the real-world users test it. So expect a number of smaller patches/hot-fixes to be released in quick succession after its initial release. They’ll be very busy with support and bug reports, I’m sure… hopefully only minor ones. They’ve clearly worked their backsides off for this release version, I really hope that it goes smoothly for them. 🤞