I built a complete setup engineer and crew chief for AMS2 - ApexRivals 2.0 Career Mode
Hi, I would like to start this post with a quote from Jeremy Clarkson: "Racing drivers have tiny little brains"
It has always baffled me that racing sims make the driver responsible for literally everything:
- Drive the car
- Analyze how it handles
- Decide on setup adjustments
- Create a race strategy
- Adjust that strategy on the fly when something goes wrong, WHILE DRIVING
So I decided to automate everything outside of driving.
The pit engineer will analyze your driving and the car's behavior and give COMPLETE setup instructions and pit strategy
Quick disclosure before I go any further: This is currently a PAID beta, but like everything I make, I will release a free version that contains 99% of the features, and the last 1% will be as a thank you to the people who support me financially
I promise that all the critical adjustments (camber, gearing, ride height/stiffness, etc) will be free, and the adaptive race strategy will be free as well. I will only put the "extra" stuff as being paid features
Let me be clear
- This is not AI
- No internet connection is required
- There is no "driver survey" to fill out after each stint to tell it how the car felt
- You don't need to use your judgement, or your tiny little brain
- No fucking graphs
This is just math and physics.
You just drive the god damn car, turn your brain off, and let the engineer handle everything else
Who this is for
- If you hunt leaderboards and want a mathematically "perfect" setup, this isn't for you.
- If you enjoy staring at graphs and actually using your brain, this isn't for you.
- If creating setups and race strategies sounds fun to you, this isn't for you.
If you have ever wanted to feel like part of a proper racing team instead of merely being a guy driving a car, this IS for you.
Complete setup advice
When I say it provides complete setup advice, I mean it. The engineer can analyze and give recommendations for every adjustable setup setting available on the car, and it works for every car and track. No exceptions.
Setup advice is only provided during Practice. You make the recommended changes in the setup menu yourself
Live race strategy
The race strategy is adjusted in real time, no matter what happens. Have a massive lockup on lap 10 that changes the entire pit strategy? The engineer will call out updated pit instructions. Just call for the stop, enter what it tells you, and that's it
The engineer will never leave you stranded with an obsolete strategy.
Where it works
The Pit Engineer can be used throughout Automobilista 2, not only in ApexRivals Career Mode.
It works in:
- Online lobbies
- Regular single-player races
- ApexRivals Career Mode
- Reiza's upcoming Career Mode, when it arrives
I can also add support for mod cars. If you use one, please get in touch with me on Discord
This is currently only for Automobilista 2, but I will be working on adding it to Assetto Corsa as soon as possible. Mod cars may make things harder and I need time to figure things out correctly. More games will follow
For now, the engineer uses the basic Windows text-to-speech system. I am working on a proper voice pack and hope to release it during the beta. It just needs to cook a little longer
If you encounter strange behavior, tuning advice that doesn't make sense or an obvious strategy mistake, use Export Logs in the top-left corner and send me the exported file. I will be fine-tuning the engineer throughout the beta
Oh yeah, the ApexRivals career mode also received a huge update with a completely redesigned UI, special events, championship standings and a whole bunch of other stuff
If you want to see a visual demo: The pit engineer starts at ~11 minutes