- Love the exhaust abominations we can now create
- CVVL so far seems worse than regular VVL in every single metric, including emissions. There seems to be zero gameplay reason to choose it, other than less config to do (by the staggering amount of two sliders). Somehow it can be more expensive, despite saying otherwise in the tooltip? I havenāt tested it extensively, but out of those few times I wanted to use it, every time it wasnāt worth it in any way.
- Passing anything more than WES 7 seems hard now. Passing more than WES 9 on anything larger with performance seems nearly impossible without cheese - my engines previously safely within WES 11 limits are now often down to WES 8. Much of it is due to much higher CO emissions now, that are really hard to reduce without having a really lean (10-20) map and a really low cam profile (which basically mandates VVL or forgetting about any sensible performance). For example, a 2005 DOHC V12 with VVL and dual VVT, making ~80 hp/litre now without any changes gets WES5 instead of WES 10, 90% due to CO emissions being through the roof. Should we now just stick to around 0-40 range for the fuel maps for 90s onwards road cars, leaving anything above that for older or race stuff? Whereās the gameplay point in that?
- Nice to see PS as an option! However I guess it will replicate the real world confusion about power units here in the Automation community
- Lots of cool new lights!
- Some useful new bodies!
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Yeah, What happened to WES? Iām struggling to make a tiny 3 cylinder get wes 9 without grenading fuel economy.
Update: Managed to get WES 9 by grenading performance instead.
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Also decreasing weight and brake size decreases fuel economy in some cases nowā¦
in the words of a friend, āAUTOMATION IS A GLORIFIED CALCULATOR, HOW THE F*** DID THEY MESS THIS UPā.
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I guess Iāll just add it here - Iāve just noticed that a 90 degree V6 with balance shafts is (at least at a really large size, 7.7 litres that is) far smoother than a 60 degree V6 - is that supposed to be the case? I know V6s arenāt the smoothest layout out there, but 60 degrees are more ānaturalā to their balance than 90 degrees - would heavy balance shafts make such a difference in this case? Honestly Iām not sure if this was even touched in the update, but I guess it could be in some next one, if it doesnāt work as intended? But also I donāt exclude that it does work as intended.
Among these are the '86 Rosso and '90 Kompetitor - their predecessors had their roots in the Kee era, and werenāt updated as extensively as weād likedā¦ Until now, when they were finally replaced outright. Especially since the former is now available in front- and mid-engined configurations for added versatility.
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