Winter gloom may shadow the lands, but for those battling over mastery of the lanes and destruction of an Ancient, nothing stops the action. And for the most dedicated, whose mastery is no longer in question, today’s update unveils a new level of greatness — Grandmaster — along with other seasonal updates for Dota Plus.

Dota Plus Grandmaster Tier
Dota Plus members can now level up heroes to a brand-new Grandmaster tier at level 30. In addition to the inherent intimidation factor, players who earn the title of Grandmaster have access to a new chat wheel voice line for that hero. Any hero challenges completed as a Grandmaster will also grant shards as a reward instead of hero XP.

Dota Plus Seasonal Treasure
To accompany the debut of Grandmaster, the Winter 2020 Seasonal Treasure is now available for purchase with shards. Exclusive to Dota Plus members, this treasure features all new sets for Dragon Knight, Puck, Spirit Breaker, Templar Assassin, Earth Spirit, Vengeful Spirit, Luna, Necrophos, Undying, Ember Spirit, and Centaur Warrunner. There’s also a chance to receive the Very Rare Hermid the Crab courier, which comes preloaded with random prismatic and kinetic gems.

Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards
Today’s update also comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to haul in some extra shards for the Seasonal Treasure, helping you earn up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season.

Not to be left out, the guild rewards for silver, gold, and platinum tier guilds have been switched out for the season.

Greetings everyone! Happy to be here again with our usual monthly catchup to bring you all up to date on the latest developments to Automobilista 2 - November has been another productive busy month, we have in fact run the clock all the way, having just wrapped our latest hotfix to Automobilista 2 (now up to v1.0.6.1), contibuting to this slightly delayed dev update :)

So it´s already December, and just like that 2020 has come and gone - firstly, we´d like to send our best wishes to everyone struggling to one degree or another through the latest wave of the pandemic - we hope you all are managing to stay safe as we approach what should hopefully be the final months of the ordeal we have collectively been through this year. All signs point to vaccines becoming available in the coming months so let´s all do our best to keep our heads down until we´re through to the other side!

If there is any plus side to our extended indoor routines is hopefully a bit more time to have fun with some quality sim racing, and we´ve been pushing hard to make our contribution towards making your extra hours at home a bit more enjoyable :)

Here´s a recap of what we´ve been up to and what you may expect in these final weeks of the year.


Our latest updates have brought substantial growth to Automobilista 2, with the initial batches of GT3 & GT4 cars being added to the sim as free additional content, the iconic Nurburgring Nordschleife arriving as our latest DLC, and another batch of valuable improvements to the game core, specially on the FFB, physics and AI fronts.

It hasn´t been all smooth sailing - we´ve clearly set a very aggressive development schedule for ourselves this year, and although we´ve been largely meeting our target milestones it hasn´t been without some stumbles and heartache, with licensing arrangements often progressing at unpredictable rates given all that is going on, and it´s forced us to dance to the music somewhat.

We like to think we´ve largely brought it all together to a satisfactory degree in our latest round of updates - special kudos going out to our track team for not only consistently meeting very demanding deadlines, but also finding the time to fit several upgrades to existing tracks so the experience remains largely consistent from one to another - although anything can always be a little bit better given enough time and resources, we are very pleased with what has been achieved in delivering so much good in such a relatively short window of time.


The Nurburgring and GT cars are a proud landmarks in our history - delivering a number of cars from such iconic brands as BMW, Mclaren, Mercedes, Porsche together in our first year, as free additional content no less took some manouvering, so we´re happy to have come through with it and with the substantial value they have brought to Automobilista 2.


All focus now is in wrapping this first year in AMS2´s dev cycle in a high note, and we´ll be pushing extra hard to try ensure the game features some quality developments in every front for the upcoming December update.

To this end, we have opted to dillute our release schedule for new content a bit over the initial months of 2021, to try ensure a better spread of efforts towards making the game more whole - and updated roadmap for 2021 will be presented in our final dev update of the year later this month.

While the schedule may be flexed, the order of priorities remain pretty much as the ywere - Single Player has seen a lot of good progress in recent updates, with several AI developments bringing the game closer to the baseline consistency that is needed from the AI in order for other single player features to deliver on their potential - we´re now pushing hard to expand Championship mode to feature more series, with a number of single and multiclass championships expected to be added in time for the next update.

We have also been making good progress in the Custom Championship feature, to allow users to create their own championships featuring the classes and events of their choice. There´s a chance we´ll have a preliminary version of this feature already in place for our December Update.

We´re also aware Multiplayer is in need of some further development to attend the requirements from the online community - we´re looking to make as much progress there as we can in time for the next update, and we welcome feedback from league runners as to what they currently most find lacking.

The Multiplayer Rating System is another key feature that has been anxiously antecipated, and while the legacy structure for its introduction has been fundamentally in place singe the beginning, we need to ensure a degree of reliability before its introduction is worthwhile - work is ongoing there and it remains a priority, but the timeline for its introduction remains open - this will roll into the first quarter of 2021.

There are a number of other developments to the UI, physics and audio on the pipeline and we´ll be pressing hard to introduce as many as we can already for the next update - should be a solid update all around.


The iconic Spa-Francorchamps needs no introduction, and its merits as one of the most thorough and exciting tests for driving ability as well as a great track for racing is uncontested - like the Nurburgring, it is a track like no other, and its popularity in sim racing is fully warranted.

It´s with great excitement then that we confirm we are now working hard to deliver Spa for Automobilista 2 before the end of the year - the whole track team is invested on the project to do the justice it deserves, with accuracy being assured by the high quality laser scan data we are using for its modelling.

As per previous releases, we will be expanding on the legacy of Spa as the ultimate race track by also offering historical variants of the track - both the infamous long lap through the surrounding Belgian villages as seen up to the early 1970s, as well as the 1991 version, with high curbs and short run-offs providing an even more demanding challenge with much less for error.

The December release however will only feature the Modern version of the track, with the historical variants being added in subsequent updates (free of any additional charge for those who buy the DLC or any of the packages that include it).


Our last update of the year will also expand on the car roster with another exciting class - the mighty late 1990s GT1 cars will come to life again In AMS2, initially represented with at least two models - the Mercedes CLK and the Porsche 911 GT1 previewed above.

The update will feature at least a couple more cars - we´ll save a few surprises for Christmas, but here´s a glance to whet your appetite :)


That is all for this month! We´ll have another Dev Update before the end of the year to offer some foresight into what you may expect for Automobilista 2 in 2021 - you won´t want to miss it!

arriving Dec. 14th, this is the largest update yet and we’ve added features that were requested by the community.

group 2: le gorde, la regina
group 3: la hepta, the pebble v1, the pebble v2, the zetto
group 4: la super montaine, la longana

see your local ghost for your fastest times!

player-created liveries will be downloaded from Race Department. the liveries can be created from our templates with a .psd editor (photoshop, gimp, etc.), then exported as a png to add to the game files.

photos you take in photo mode will be loaded into the polaroids in the main menu, so you can relive your favorite moments every time you boot up the game.

jump landings are much less bouncy
rotate cars in the main menu with the right thumbstick on controllers
view previous daily/weekly leaderboards

we’re already working on more cars, songs, features and a new location for updates next year!



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Version 0.5.1.33 (EA Beta)

* Improvements
- increased number of working slots for luggage in terminal 1950
- improved runway exits snapping

* Bug fixes
- fixed B707_320
- fixed invisible AGS AL62(again)
- fixed research descriptions
- fixed game crash when rescheduling a flight which is currently on the pending list
- fixed crashes when there are too many passengers want to line up
- fixed agent next velocity determination issue
- fixed loading saves with attaching vehicles in action
- fixed a bug with runway exits placing

-fixed a bug where you get stuck in the treehouse
-no more jumpscares while Buffy is on the couch (unless you get too close)
-Improved AI
-Buffy no longer gets stuck
-fixed a bug where Buffy teleports too close randomly and unusual
-tearing screen fixed
-added a smoke effect for everytime he spawns and despawns - POOF! like a magician

Automobilista 2 has now been updated to v1.0.6.1 - this is a hotfix complementing the latest release with some further improvements and fixes.

• Revised BMW M6 setup ranges & default settings (requires car setup reset to default)
  
• Further GT3/GT4 brake revisions, also for Ultima Race, Super V8, Sigma P1, Lancer Cup cars
  
• Reduced brake wear rate by 25% (both carbon and steel)
  
• Slightly increased downshift protection function (less overreving allowed)
  
• Improved GT3/GT4 AI launch on starts
  
• Reduced GT3 AI rolling resistance to better match player´s straightline speed
  
• Fixed Ginetta G55 Supercup ABS range
  
• Nurburgring/Nordschleife: Terrain/roads material optimization, new armcos with new more detailed meshes, new armco graffiti, resolved flickering of armco graffiti; Further improvements to shimmering issues on TV cameras of Nordschleife / 24h layouts
  
• Montreal: Various minor fixes, optimization & art revisions
  
• Montreal Historic: Various minor fixes, optimization & art revisions
  
• Silverstone: Fixed disappearing helicopter
  
• BMW M6 GT3: Added Racelogic timing display and improved alcantara material in cockpit dash

CHALLENGE 48

Congratulations to all of you that managed to complete our 47th challenge puzzle, we hope you all enjoyed it and thanks for taking part.

The 48th challenge is here and your next Ultimate Piece up for grabs.

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Challenge 48 will run from 1/DECEMBER/2020 - 1/JANUARY/2021.

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Enjoy!!!

Santa Ride map is now available till January!

We will be performing scheduled maintenance beginning on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, at 6:00 PM (PST) and expect the service to be unavailable for approximately 2-3 hours.

Reason:

• Routine server checks and modification.
  
• Changed system mileage text from "Server 13" to Not enough treasure chest.
  
• Fixed an issue where double-clicking an item in NPC Trade UI causes the client to crash.
  
• Fixed the issue where all the new Kylin's 1-day epithet cannot be activated.
  
• Hero Band and Master & Disciple list will be reset.
  
• Infinite Dungeon ranking will be reset, and points will be distributed to the top 50.

We'll update this post when the maintenance is complete and servers are available. Thank you for your patience during the maintenance.