Renato Simioni, CEO at Reiza Studios, shared the December 2026 growth preview for Automobilista 2 (AMS2).
He outlines an bold “12 months Seven” for the simulator. Following the huge V1.6 milestone, Reiza is shifting focus towards deeper simulation mechanics, a whole UI/HUD overhaul, and the groundwork for the long-awaited Profession Mode. The first objective for 2026 is Model 1.7.0, anticipated towards the top of Q2.
Key developments embody:
- Logistical Realism: Implementation of restricted tire units, spare elements, and “tow & restore” delays throughout pit stops so as to add consequence to break.
- Enhanced Race Laws: Assist for Digital Security Automobiles (VSC), Parc Fermé guidelines, and success ballast.
- Physics & Surroundings: Extra intrinsic tire injury properties, improved wind simulation, and additional refinements to the “LiveTrack” dynamic climate system.
- Person Customization: Improved modding help for particular person automotive efficiency (permitting leagues to create bespoke Steadiness of Efficiency) and the power to share customized automotive/observe presets.
- Immersion Upgrades: Animated trackside flag marshals, dynamic crowd reactions, and enhanced driver animations (together with animated wipers and suspension parts).
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Reiza Studios Quote:
Greetings everybody!
Our 2026 efforts are already effectively underway, however there are nonetheless some weeks to go till the primary main AMS2 replace of the 12 months; to assist fill the hole and provides some foresight into the highway forward, we wished to current some reflections on the place we’re with it, the way it has formed our plans for the 12 months and preview a number of the highlights to be anticipated for AMS2 in 2026.
As you learn this, please remember the fact that plans are all the time topic to vary; the objective right here is to supply foresight into the path we want to take the sport and inform a number of the content material and options we’re planning so as to add for it. Whereas we wouldn´t be presenting these plans if not assured we might ship on them, there can nonetheless be hurdles that delay or outright stop a few of these from changing into actuality; no assurances are given for particular person content material objects or options, nor will there be a schedule for his or her inclusion within the sport past the obscure references made alongside this preview. So please take this for what it’s value; when you ever determine to purchase AMS2 or extra of its DLCs, do it solely for the worth it affords on the day.
With this little disclaimer out of the best way, let´s look forward and look into what we’re pushing to convey for Automobilista 2 in 2026!
Reflections on Automobilista 2 going into 2026
AMS2 is about to enter what will likely be its seventh 12 months since its launch in March 2020, having continued to develop on this time year-on-year and searching set to cross a million copies sooner or later in 2026. These should not figures we anticipated to hit after we first began growing it. It could shock even a few of our followers and people who are inclined to learn an excessive amount of into concurrent participant figures. The actual fact is that AMS2 has slowly however steadily been discovering its area of interest, amassing a decent-sized person base for a PC racing sim title, with the optimistic critiques suggesting the overwhelming majority are pleased with what they´ve received.
As is nearly all the time the case, room for enchancment nonetheless exists and it’s what we want to discover; as is understood from person suggestions and backed up participant utilization stats, AMS2 at the moment appeals primarily to sim racers who don´t have as a lot time to dedicate to the interest; those that may race competitively elsewhere and soar into AMS2 often to unwind, in addition to those that simply don´t need the stress to do it competitively or as usually.
As a product that´s not a nasty place for AMS2 to be – it’s certainly the way it has continued to be related and made a distinct segment for itself inside an more and more crowded market; as a center aged man with a household myself with sim racing as a interest for 35 years who nonetheless digs the fun of driving & racing digital vehicles as realistically as attainable, I additionally more and more battle to seek out the time to do it outdoors growth work and subsequently choose the little I get to be probably the most enjoyable, with most selections for least trouble; no shock then that AMS2´s design caters primarily to that demand.
From a enterprise perspective, because the entry charges are the identical irrespective if customers put in 100h into the sport or 1000h, AMS2 doesn´t essentially have to do extra to maintain doing the numbers for the rest of its shelf life. We aren´t ones to settle, although – Reiza was based out of the collective ardour of a small group of modders turned builders, chasing the fun of growing the perfect sim we might presumably make; the enterprise was constructed to be the means for that finish, and 16 years on, that’s nonetheless how we function.
There may be nonetheless nice potential to be explored with AMS2 and loads of worth to be provided to our customers, so we´ve elected not solely to proceed as we had been however to present it a good more durable push in 2026, boosting the staff with new builders on each entrance, gathering new licensing offers, and renewing present ones. With firmer industrial, licensing and growth footings permitting for a greater outlined roadmap, the objective for 2026 is to construct more durable and quicker on the foundations we spent the previous few years diligently placing collectively, to retain what AMS2 already does effectively and increase on the areas it nonetheless wants to enhance so as to convey extra gamers in and preserve the prevailing base much more engaged.
Ever Evolving – AMS2 2026 Improvement Roadmap
As has been the case in most years thus far, sport updates ought to proceed to come back thick and quick, roughly one or two months aside from one another; the large milestone replace in 2026 ought to be V1.7.0 in direction of the top of Q2, packing many new vehicles and tracks together with what ought to be a number of the extra substantial developments of the 12 months, for Single Participant gameplay, the highlights ought to be additional AI race craft enhancements together with including the possibility for saving and resuming races already in progress (albeit with some inherent limitations), on the Multiplayer Entrance, the possibility to enroll and be a part of Scheduled Races from third celebration providers corresponding to LFM and JR (already built-in and accessible externally with the assistance of SimGrid in our new Automobilista portal) may even be built-in into the in-game Foyer.
A number of High quality-of-Life developments will likely be launched all year long, together with new UI localization choices & improved content material filtering/sorting choices, permitting customers extra assets to handle the ever-increasing (and typically even overwhelming) variety of vehicles and tracks within the sport in a approach that higher fits their preferences.
The overhauled HUD (accessible as a closely WIP beta possibility within the present launch) is predicted to be feature-complete as of the subsequent public launch.
Additional simulation enhancements embody extra intrinsic tire injury properties, higher wind simulation, and another dynamic climate & observe enhancements.
Logistical realism choices corresponding to restricted tire units, tow & restore delays after incidents or breakdowns, and restricted spare elements are options we have now been engaged on and off already over the previous two years, and which we will likely be pushing to conclude in time for v1.7.0.
Immersion options corresponding to animated trackside flag marshals, dynamic crowd reactions, and help for animated driver interactions are on the agenda.
All year long we may even be increasing help for extra various units of technical and sporting rules, together with completely different qualifying and race codecs, digital security vehicles, parc-ferme guidelines, ballast guidelines, a wider vary of pitstop restrictions, further championship scoring choices together with help for inter-series class cut up scoring/leaderboards (significantly related for collection corresponding to Ligier European Collection, Porsche Cup, F-3 and Lancer Cup during which two or extra courses of vehicles with completely different specs are supposed to share the grid).
We may even be pushing to increase person customization choices and enhance modding help, together with help for modding particular person automotive efficiency (each as a option to higher mannequin numerous seasons in modding packs in addition to producing bespoke BoP choices for MP leagues), creating and sharing customized presets, in addition to championship recordsdata for mod vehicles and tracks. Whereas customers mustn’t anticipate AMS2 to ever grow to be a full-blown modding platform (given not solely a number of the sport engine restrictions but in addition its very personal design), we’re pushing to take away or no less than decrease some hurdles so as to make AMS2 extra accessible for creators of high quality scratch-built content material.
Lastly, the large greyed out elephant in the primary display screen, the Single Participant Profession Mode, is each what ties the whole lot within the sport inside this preview, and is what requires the whole lot in place so as to ship the expertise wished from it. That’s the reason it has all the time been deliberate to be the final huge growth for AMS2.
There may be some dilemma to stability, implementing profession mode midway via the deliberate options would produce an immense quantity of upkeep overhead and result in profession progress continuously getting damaged over the course of sport updates; on the identical time, the extra AMS2 retains increasing and evolving, the longer profession mode will get pushed out, and we’re conscious that many customers are anxious for its arrival.
Finally, there’s greater pay-off in delayed gratification right here – it shouldn´t be controversial to recommend {that a} profession mode with the sport we have now at this time would definitely be much more partaking than at any level previously, and from the whole lot outlined right here it’s one might anticipate that will likely be true once more one 12 months from now; some issues are simply higher holding out for.
We’ll cowl extra of the profession mode´s design and the way its deployment ought to pan out as soon as we’re additional alongside; chances are you’ll anticipate its implementation to happen in phases, with preliminary nonetheless deliberate for the latter half of 2026.
Ever Increasing – AMS2 2026 Content material Roadmap
Transferring on to plans on the content material entrance: AMS2 has been designed to be as thorough a motorsports simulator as we might presumably make it; how far that may go was “To Be Determined’ after we began and that continues to be the case at this time, the baseline concept which has endured is to characterize (to 1 diploma or one other) the most well-liked motorsports collection from the fashionable period going again no less than six many years into the mid-Sixties, together with a number of the most original & unique courses that albeit not as well-known, may be simply as instigating to drive or compelling to compete in and which expands the attain of the sim in thrilling instructions.
Regrettably, delivering such bold plan in full with the depth and completeness all of us would like to see is technically and commercially inviable, it could take many years to supply, many further zeros in our finances and the untangling of an impossibly advanced net of third celebration IPs (lots of which inaccessible or just defunct); our rationale right here has all the time been that even a partial strike ratio would already make for a really compelling sim, in order that´s what we got down to ship; because the years preserve rolling and AMS2 retains including extra dots to that timeline, the next decision snapshot of those six many years of motorsports historical past step by step retains build up, and we discover ourselves ever nearer to one thing much more consultant than we thought could be attainable.
Let´s take a step again and ensure unrealistic expectations should not being fed right here: out of the field, AMS2 won’t ever fairly assemble full Sixties Grand Prix, Eighties Group Cs, 2000s GT1s, 2020s IMSA seasons with full grids together with a complete catalogue of regional collection and the whole lot which may, What may be completed although – and what we have now been steadily assembling for no less than a decade already since AMS1, is to construct a parallel universe for these 60 years of motorsports historical past, matching the true one on many ranges, resembling it in some and abbreviating it in others; that is the “AMS2Verse” you’re already aware of, mixing actual and fictional courses, vehicles, tracks and drivers; this universe is certain to increase considerably this 12 months, with many gaps being crammed because it evolves towards a simulated motorsports ecosystem of unparalleled depth even relative to its present customary.
Be it with extra historic formulation or touring vehicles, trendy prototypes or basic GTs, prolonged karting & dust racing help, we will likely be each increasing our present roster of courses in addition to boosting the grid of present courses with further contenders. We may even be including extra circuits, each new and historic variants of these we have already got. Specializing in these of larger relevance for the collection and courses we have now within the sport in order that extra of them get extra totally represented.
In the intervening time the content material roadmap seems to be roughly like this: the primary replace ought to characteristic a method pack filling numerous gaps in our 2000s/2010s method roster; from there we take a step again to enrich our very talked-about 2005 Endurance Pack from final 12 months with the second a part of our Historic Endurance Pack; we’ll then journey approach again for part3 to convey late Sixties Can-Ams and early to late Seventies Le Mans prototypes and late Seventies Group 5s, together with a number of circuits from that period; from there it´s a soar up a few many years for some Nineteen Nineties British Touring Automobiles, again to 2005 for German Touring Automobiles and it´s lastly again to trendy occasions so as to meet up with as a lot as we’re ready in what we’d nonetheless be lacking in numerous fronts.
Do take note once more, please, that this roadmap isn´t definitive – issues might and sometimes do get shuffled round. The order of the components, although, mustn’t alter the ultimate 2026 AMS2 product.
The way in which the content material is delivered ought to in flip observe a extra well-defined technique, just like what we has already been completed in recent times: automotive packs centered round a given period or collection, usually accompanied by a number of circuits befitting that period or collection, wrapped with a sport replace that brings options, guidelines & different developments which are pertinent to that period/collection.
Provided that the objects in these packs will usually proceed to contain numerous IP licenses, the paid DLC route is how we are able to handle to maintain them viable; we do, nonetheless, have plans for extra free base sport vehicles and tracks within the combine as effectively.
How will you contribute?
In the event you purchased the sport and are nonetheless engaged with it to make it this far, you have already got; relaxation assured, we have now the means to maintain pushing with our plans. In the event you haven´t received the sport but, doing that together with the DLCs that entice you must cowl it – it’s due to each previous timers and their continued help, together with inflow of the relative newcomers, that we nonetheless are in a position to sustain the tempo and even shift up a gear at this level.
We’re evaluating a few choices to take care of those that actually need to take their involvement one step additional, in addition to these urging for a “one and completed” buy possibility, together with probably re-opening the Paddock Membership for brand new members – extra on this quickly.
That covers it for this preview! We hope this has made you excited for the 12 months, as we absolutely already are. We sit up for catching up once more for extra particulars on the primary replace of the 12 months sooner or later in March!
