Le Mans Ultimate: 2024 Content Comes In Four Packs, Imola in July

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Fans of Le Mans Ultimate can look forward to more 2024 content soon, as the first of four packs is launching in July - including Imola, as Studio 397 and Motorsport Games confirmed.

When Le Mans Ultimate released in early access back in February, the title contained all the cars and tracks from the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship season. But after releasing the BMW M Hybrid V8 in the week leading up to this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, more 2024 season content is set to start rolling out.

With visual confirmation, the Alpine A424 and Lamborghini SC63 Hypercars are on their way onto the platform, as are the GT3 cars that replace the GTE class from 2024 onwards. However, the question was when and how exactly this additional 2024 content would launch. Now, we have a better idea of that, thanks to the LMU July run-down.


Four DLC Packs​

The first of four changes to the 2024 WEC schedule from last year is the Imola circuit, and the track will feature in the first DLC releasing at the end of July. The remaining three tracks - Lusail, Interlagos and Circuit of the Americas - seem to be arriving individually in the rest of the DLC pack releases. Considering that two of the three respective rounds at the tracks have not happened yet (the exception being Lusail), this makes sense - the LMU team did scan Imola at the actual WEC round, after all.

The four new Hypercar entries for this year will also be included in these packs, namely the Isotta Fraschini Tipo 6 LMH-C, the aforementioned Lamborghini SC63 and Alpine A424, and finally the Peugeot 9X8, which saw an extensive rework compared to the 2023 car already in the game. Most prominently, the 2024 9X8 now features a rear wing, as debuted at the 6H of Imola in April.

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The LMU dev team have already shown their work in progress of the GT3 cars with the BMW M4 GT3. Image: Studio 397

GT3 After Hypercars Are Complete​

After the completion of the 2024 Hypercar grid, the GT3 cars will be making their eagerly-anticipated debut in the sim. These will include the Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo, BMW M4 GT3, Ferrari 296 GT3, McLaren 720S GT3 Evo, Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2, Ford Mustang GT3, Lexus RC F GT3, Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R and the 2024 Le Mans LMGT3 class-winning Porsche 911 GT3 R (992).

Two of those cars will be added to the platform free of charge to early access players like the BMW M Hybrid V8, whereas the remaining seven - along with the four new hypercars and the four new tracks - will be in paid DLC packs. If you intend to get all four, LMU will have a season pass that can be bought and work out at better value than buying them all individually.

Additionally, liveries for the LMP2 class field from the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans will be added in time to the game. Once we know when the LMU season pass can be bought as well as the first of the four DLC packs themselves, we will keep you updated, of course.

Which piece of upcoming Le Mans Ultimate content are you most eagerly anticipating? Let us know on Twitter @OverTake_gg or in the comments below!
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You stir up the wind.
It's an EA, no one said it wouldn't come out in v1.0.
VR implementation is planned.
What content was ripped ? anything. They add DLC content like 99% of sims and they will surely split it to release content regularly.
In this content there will be free content to allow everyone to play the 2024 content... who does that elsewhere?
I have been working longer than you, there is no connection, especially for 30 euros. You make me laugh
No one need to say it but thats the goal.
Otherwise its a failed project and complete lost of trust.

You ask whats ripped out?
Read my post. I wrote it already.
 
That didnt work out too well for the last person I heard say that. People DID NOT buy it and it hurt future development to the game.

I wonder if anyone knows the specific situation im referencing...
I do not understand what you're saying? I just see people complaining about everything, I just said "if you don't like something don't buy it" it seems legitimate to me. Instead everyone buys!
 
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"I don’t vote ’cause I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around. I know, they say, they say: “well if you don’t vote you have no right to complain”. But where’s the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent people, and they get into office and screw everything up, well you are responsible for what they have done, YOU caused the problem, you voted them in, you have no right to complain. I on the other hand, who did not vote, WHO DID NOT VOTE. Who in fact did not even leave the house on election-day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done, and have every RIGHT to complain as loud as I want, about the mess YOU created, that I had nothing to do with. "
The argument goes "You did not vote, so you didn't take your chance to vote the dishonest, incompetent people out of office, so don't complain, you could have done your part."
 
Thread full of the usual whiners and criers I see. The reason they will be pushing the 2024 dlc is most likely to meet contract requirements from FIA and WEC. Any game would be the same. So as much as they will be working on other "issues" there will be things they HAVE to release first to keep to the licence contracts.

But of course the whiners and criers can't understand this because they're too entitled.
 
The only content I'm anticipating is New season + save game. This is the only thing needed for the endurance experience I payed for.
The sprint experience available now is available on other platforms for everybody to choose from.
 
Definitely jumping on the Season Pass day one. Loving the game so far and can't wait to see what sort of a fleshed out product will look like in another 12 months.

The whingers will whinge. That's what they do. It's OK, we're too busy enjoying the little gem that LMU turned out to be despite all the odds, to be bothered by it.
 
There's currently no need to buy the 2024 season DLC you don't wish to; whether that prevents you from taking part in online racing in the future is a different issue.
From what I understand, car wise, all you need is one 2024 car (like the BMW) to take part in any 2024 content event. If you don’t have the track, it does not work, but with the existing 2023 tracks, no issue.
 
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Reading some comments here, it strikes me that people defending these practices are treating S397 as an independent studio. It's not: they are owned by a publisher that had lots of money to spare, and burned the cash via bad business practices, and now are counting on LMU to keep the ship afloat. And while I understand the need to have cash flow to keep the development going forward, I simply cannot forget that the budget was there, but was wasted. They had the opportunity to do a proper release with the product cooked to a better state, and have a more clear path forward regarding DLCs, online suscriptions, you name it.

This does not mean that S397 is to blame for what's happening: while some may call them sellouts for accepting to be bought by a bigger entity, it was also a way to get bigger investment and achieve things that were not possible for them before. It was a bet that did not work, and I do have some sympathy for them, even as a simracer that does not like rF2 (although I've recently reinstalled it to see how it's faring nowadays, have not given it a go yet). They are probably doing their absolute best at the moment, but their destiny is not in their own hands now.

Then there is a separate discussion about what's acceptable to have on an Early Access release and what's not. Again, guiding myself by the comments, some people deem it good because it drives well. While it's definitely a prerequisite, it's not the only one: Assetto Corsa, according to those who trialled it, was already driving quite well (for the standards of the time) when it was still in Alpha state back in 2011. Heck, there are even cases like iRacing, where the testers say that when they swapped tyre models in that year too, it actually drove better in the first internal tests than what was released afterwards! But a racing game is not JUST about how it drives.

You also have the denial of problems: if it's not happening to me, it's not happening to anyone. Which is nothing short of a laughable line of thinking for anybody that has at least a couple of years using PCs. Is it so hard to believe that a fellow simracer may be having a different experience than yours, and it may not be due to hardware power limitations? If you have been gaming for a few years using different titles, inside and outside the racing genre, chances are you have been at both sides of the fence at some point, even if you didn't realize.

I guess we are passionate to a fault, and it's hard for us to just get along.
 
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The argument goes "You did not vote, so you didn't take your chance to vote the dishonest, incompetent people out of office, so don't complain, you could have done your part."
And then the argument goes, "I see no point in voting to replace those dishonest, incompetent people with these dishonest, incompetent people."
Who ever you vote for, It always ends the same. If any of them did a good job, we wouldn't need elections.
 
I just don't get it, if you don't like what they are doing don't fecking buy the DLC!!! thing is if they don't get extra funds I don't think the issues and bugs will ever get fixed. <shrugs>
 
For Eutechnyx and Infogrames back in year 2000 it was possible to put it all together on a CDROM, all official teams included for $15 of which I could just go into the game store and grab.
Well, maybe the difference between a sim 24 years old and today sim it is HUGE. To be honest the price difference it is too small to reflect the difference in quality and amount of work required for today's titles.
As you have said back then, they put all on ONE CDROM. But, I'm old enough to have in my desk drawers Floppy disks 1.22 MB with few games on it. This means absolutely NOTHING. That was the past.
Today games? At least 30 CDROMs. And I can bet they don't have 30 x employees.
You can't compare a sim 24 years old with a today's modern one.
Today's complexity of a sim have a price. If you don't want to pay that price, it is OK. Internet it is full with old games. Just search for "free old racing games PC"

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It's not: they are owned by a publisher that had lots of money to spare, and burned the cash via bad business practices, and now are counting on LMU to keep the ship afloat. And while I understand the need to have cash flow to keep the development going forward, I simply cannot forget that the budget was there, but was wasted.
That hits the nail on the head.
It has been forgotten that this game should have been released as a 1.0 version back in December. Then it was postponed to February, only to then become an early access. Months have passed and no actual development/progress has been made on the game aside from a couple, not really relevant, features.
No road map as to what can be expected, despite it was promised back in late February/early March, no clear indication as to when the game will come out of early access, and yet they start selling additional content. It's like putting windows on a barebone building, with no walls, no plumbing, no electricity. Just foundations. Although it is what should have been a complete title over 6 months ago now.

The CEO himself said in his latest interview, and I quote, "Right now, LMU can be used as a sprint racing game".
LMU is a game about endurance racing. That quote is everything that's wrong about this product.

If people want to support it, feel free to do so, everyone's free and adult enough to make his/her own decision. The situation is pretty evident though.
 
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