First Le Mans Ultimate DLC Releases July 23rd

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The first Le Mans Ultimate DLC pack has been announced, including two new Hypercars. Here is everything you need to know about the 'Tifosi Italia' DLC pack.

The first DLC pack has been anticipated for Le Mans Ultimate for months now. Just after the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo, the announcement is finally here and a wealth of content is coming to the official game of the World Endurance Championship. The Tifosi Italia DLC pack will form one-quarter of the 2024 DLC Season Pass.

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New Hypercars​

The Lamborghini SC63 and the modified and improved 2024 Peugeot 9X8 are making their virtual debuts in Le Mans Ultimate after more or less successful starts to both campaigns for their respective teams. While the Lamborghini made its debut at the Qatar season opener, the 2024 9X8 fittingly raced first at Imola this season.

The new 9X8 will have the new rear wing that the squad debuted on their cars at round two in Imola, as well as the updated liveries to match it. The French outfit's vehicle will be offered alongside the wingless 2023 variant.

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Peugeot 9X8 and Lamborghini SC63 at Imola.

Lamborgihini's Hypercar, the SC63, will feature alongside its French counterpart with its ear-splittingly loud 3.8-litre turbo V8 engine to match. This raging bull will likely charge into Le Mans Ultimate to a warm reception with the Lamborghini being such a crowd favourite at all of the events so far in 2024.

Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (Imola)​

The inclusion we all knew was coming, but still a much-welcomed addition to the ranks of Le Mans Ultimate. Imola provided some of the best racing we have seen this year in the WEC, and it is also a familiar circuit to a lot of sim racers new and old.

Over 70,000 endurance racing fans flocked to the Italian venue in 2024 over the three days when WEC visited in April. The iconic and history-soaked Italian motor racing venue n northern Italy will
become a permanent feature on the WEC calendar for the next four years.

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Imola debuts in Le Mans Ultimate.

The Italian-inspired pack will be available to purchase via Steam for £9.99 / €11.99 / $12.99 on the 23rd of July. This will also be available with the 2024 Season Pass for Le Mans Ultimate, granting players access to this DLC and more in the future.

2024 Season Pass​

The 2024 DLC Season Pass is the ticket to all of the current season's content and will enable players to download the latest cars and tracks the minute they are ready to be bought. It is priced at £39.99 / €46.99 / $49.99.

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Lamborghini SC63 at Imola.

The 2024 Season Pass will combine all the packs together, which will include four new Hypercars, four iconic circuits and seven brand-new LMGT3 cars. All players will be able to wishlist the 2024 Season Pass and first DLC pack on Steam ahead of it going on sale later this month, July 23rd.

Meanwhile, more free content (like the BMW M Hybrid V8 ahead of Le Mans) is on its way as well. “Development is well underway on the rest of the 2024 Season Pass Content as well as new gameplay features and quality of life updates which we hope to bring to the market in late September – just as the 2024 FIA WEC season reaches its exciting crescendo", stated Motorsport Games CEO Stephen Hood.

Will you be picking up this DLC pack for Le Mans Ultimate? Let us know over on X @OverTake_gg or down in the comments below!
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Badwheels
Am I confused? A DLC for a product that hasn't even been released? Are we really that stupid to buy this stuff ?
 
Peter Kerényi
shadow82 said:
That's why we have terminology like "release", "1.0", "early access", "open beta", "alpha test",... They hold a meaning to which we may or not keep the studio accountable for or not. Early Access means paid testers, which entails deep communication and regular patches. We get none of that here and end up with paid DLC.

Also there is a big stretch between "perfect state" and what LMU is in, yeah some may have too high expectations, but at some point you have to have a reality check.
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Unfortunately, "1.0" and "release" no longer mean anything in the gaming industry in general. The amount of games that are broken 5+ patches after "1.0" is quite something. Simracing is similar. For example in the case of AC 1.0 was content release. AI, tyre model, etc. were all being developed way after 1.0. AMS2 is another good example, it's still being developed on all fronts. rF2 AI got more or less sorted after like 9 years in one of the latest patches.

Early Access = rough
1.0 = a bit less rough, but no promises.
 
Lino Carreira
Every question will have a prompt answer, even accusing others of being tribal, when there's a few people in here that the developer could crap on their head that they would have a justification for that :) , I still have issues after jumping loops and reinstalling LMU and cleaning the shaders and whatnot ... Sebring for me since a few months is a no no you shall not pass 48%, the UI ( not sure what's the deal of these guys and UIs ) is the slowest thing I have ever seen, the performance of the game is appalling to say the least , only game I have that I cant play at the native resolution of my monitor ( 7680x2160) ... and even at 5120x1440 in some places it bogs down heavily ... no driver swaps on an endurance game , no meaningful use of Race control ( no championship or tables ) ... but hey, lets bring a DLC ... Im eagerly awaiting for some bugs to be fixed on the 26th together with the DLC sale ...

And the Cherry on the top of the cake is ... forget rF2 , no more support for that ( you know the original one these avid fans said it would be taking off like theres no tomorrow before LMU )
 
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mcroshaw said:
I'm confused too, have you been hiding under a rock? These plans have been known about for months.
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How about no ?

Early access was announced a couple of weeks before its release after pushing back the "release" everyone expected as 1.0 multiple time. Then DLC were announced in May officially as part of the still early access. As of today, its is still not clear on the Steam shop page what cost will be the DLC and even less what will be the content of the so called "Season pass". If you just go about the info available there, you are left in the dark, buying unknown things on promises and "future release" without a clear plan. This is honestly going against the defined rules of the Steam Early Access guidelines, which states clearly, you should never be asked for an investment on promises.

So to say we should know the "plans" is a bit of a stretch when it seem as if the studio does not even know if they gonna make it past the summer and just keep everything as unclear as possible.
 
trichens
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The DLC would appear to be 2024 tracks and cars as announced previously.
The initial release (EA or not) was only ever planned to be for the 2023 WEC series.
I'd rather pay £40 for all the 2024 season content than £80 for LMU 2024
With few changes expected for the 2025 season we not really expecting much new next year except for any different liveries (at a guess).
I hope that will mean that more resources will then become available for fixing issues and enhancements; although I'd expect there are different development teams for core game and DLC
 
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Badwheels said:
Am I confused? A DLC for a product that hasn't even been released? Are we really that stupid to buy this stuff ?
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with +50 000 sales expected, yes ;) and remember s397 tracks and FFB physics are the best you can have.
 
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Durge Driven
I would go as far to say they need a major fix or feature for every DLC or they going to be up against it imho.
That is why I rather it takes another 12 months.

Still don't believe you will see 4 DLC this year. For mine looks like they slanted season pass to start end around Le Mans not the WEC season.
 
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shadow82 said:
As of today, its is still not clear on the Steam shop page what cost will be the DLC and even less what will be the content of the so called "Season pass".
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Did you even read the article?

"The Italian-inspired pack will be available to purchase via Steam for £9.99 / €11.99 / $12.99 on the 23rd of July."

"The 2024 DLC Season Pass is the ticket to all of the current season's content and will enable players to download the latest cars and tracks the minute they are ready to be bought. It is priced at £39.99 / €46.99 / $49.99."
 
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Lino Carreira said:
Every question will have a prompt answer, even accusing others of being tribal, when there's a few people in here that the developer could crap on their head that they would have a justification for that :) , I still have issues after jumping loops and reinstalling LMU and cleaning the shaders and whatnot ... Sebring for me since a few months is a no no you shall not pass 48%, the UI ( not sure what's the deal of these guys and UIs ) is the slowest thing I have ever seen, the performance of the game is appalling to say the least , only game I have that I cant play at the native resolution of my monitor ( 7680x2160) ... and even at 5120x1440 in some places it bogs down heavily ... no driver swaps on an endurance game , no meaningful use of Race control ( no championship or tables ) ... but hey, lets bring a DLC ... Im eagerly awaiting for some bugs to be fixed on the 26th together with the DLC sale ...

And the Cherry on the top of the cake is ... forget rF2 , no more support for that ( you know the original one these avid fans said it would be taking off like theres no tomorrow before LMU )
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Is your gfx driver up to date? I remember having the 48 % issue at one point aswell and simply updating my drivers helped. Cleaned the shaders and was ready to go again after that. I am also not sure how you go on about dealing with performance issues at that resolution. I have seen other people running triples just fine. Requires some beefy hardware though. I would start with caping the frames and start with relatively low gfx settings. Your resolution is certainly not the norm to say the least and the game looks pretty decent with a mix of high and medium settings too.

And why should they be updating rF2 at this point when LMU is the product you are requesting updates for? Do you see any other developer maintaining two products at the same time? Sometimes you guys come up with really strange ideas.
 
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wowbagger said:
If they are hurting for capital, it seems weird they didn't have even a slight sale of rF2 stuff during the Steam summer sale.

I was all ready to buy a particular track if it was on sale, and had even convinced myself that I'd probably get it even if it wasn't part of the sale. When I saw nothing was on sale ... kinda turned me off, bought nothing and am holding off for now.
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Why doesn't IBM host a car wash in their parking lot? The amount of $$ that can still be generated by rF2 is not enough to make any real dent in MSG's financial woes. I believe they did have the base game on sale at a substantial discount, but nothing else that I recall.
 
Lino Carreira
tr1v1um said:
Is your gfx driver up to date? I remember having the 48 % issue at one point aswell and simply updating my drivers helped. Cleaned the shaders and was ready to go again after that. I am also not sure how you go on about dealing with performance issues at that resolution. I have seen other people running triples just fine. Requires some beefy hardware though. I would start with caping the frames and start with relatively low gfx settings. Your resolution is certainly not the norm to say the least and the game looks pretty decent with a mix of high and medium settings too.

And why should they be updating rF2 at this point when LMU is the product you are requesting updates for? Do you see any other developer maintaining two products at the same time? Sometimes you guys come up with really strange ideas.
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Yes its all up to date and even did clean installs and deleted the shaders, i belive that with a 13900K and 4090 i shouldnt need to start with minimum settings .

rF2 was mentioned since everyone had high hopes after launch control was launched onyl to be promptly abandoned after LMU went early access . Anyway... lets see how it unfolds.

PS: And i dont have it maxed at all
 
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pz666
shadow82 said:
That's why we have terminology like "release", "1.0", "early access", "open beta", "alpha test",... They hold a meaning to which we may or not keep the studio accountable for or not. Early Access means paid testers, which entails deep communication and regular patches. We get none of that here and end up with paid DLC.

Also there is a big stretch between "perfect state" and what LMU is in, yeah some may have too high expectations, but at some point you have to have a reality check.
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We can't hold anyone accountable... iRacing has been getting away without using those terms for over a decade, so the rest of the industry followed suit...

We should be glad that a development company has gone "We don't have a complete game yet we are going to warn people" rather than denying that they need to work on things like dedicated servers and telling people to wait until LMU 2 for a dedicated server upgrade... Like Reiza had until public pressure got too much on AMS2...

EA plops out 1.0s that are clearly still BETA products, but because it's F1 it sells like hotcakes... LMU will be no different because the WEC Hypercars are just that popular worldwide atm...

So all this hot air about holding development companies is just that hot air... That in the long run is just a waste of time... You aren't getting MSGS to close down or change their development processes that match the rest of the industry...

LMU is already a great game with the best developer made hypercars on the market... Works as well as AMS2 in terms of CTDs and works better for graphics as I can use in car mirrors... Has better netcode than anything I've seen including ACC, AC, iRacing and Rennsport... And has great potential for the AI when it's calibrated, it was in the early stages, but AI should always be last as any player side fixes will screw with the calibration...

It just needs private servers and better UI for me to be completely happy... And UI isn't even a problem for me atm it's just a sticking point for a lot of people... But it'll have a huge boom as each of the missing features are added, especially VR, so I have no worries about it's future...
 
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Kingkoenig said:
Did you even read the article?

"The Italian-inspired pack will be available to purchase via Steam for £9.99 / €11.99 / $12.99 on the 23rd of July."

"The 2024 DLC Season Pass is the ticket to all of the current season's content and will enable players to download the latest cars and tracks the minute they are ready to be bought. It is priced at £39.99 / €46.99 / $49.99."
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Did you read my entire post or do you have understanding issues ? Info should be available in the shop as per Steam regulation, they currently are not compliant and as such one could conduct legal action against them depending on local customer protection system. Do you understand better now ?

EA plops out 1.0s that are clearly still BETA products, but because it's F1 it sells like hotcakes... LMU will be no different because the WEC Hypercars are just that popular worldwide atm...
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Sorry to brake you world, but WEC Hy are not popular outside of some specific spheres, most people don't even know that races outside of LeMans with similar format exist... Going back to topic though, even if EA release 1.0 that are still beta, you can hold them accountable for it way more easily without having the "early access" mob coming in to defend and interfere.
 
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shadow82 said:
Did you read my entire post or do you have understanding issues ? Info should be available in the shop as per Steam regulation, they currently are not compliant and as such one could conduct legal action against them depending on local customer protection system. Do you understand better now ?


Sorry to brake you world, but WEC Hy are not popular outside of some specific spheres, most people don't even know that races outside of LeMans with similar format exist... Going back to topic though, even if EA release 1.0 that are still beta, you can hold them accountable for it way more easily without having the "early access" mob coming in to defend and interfere.
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I am not sure if there is a rule on Steam that forces publishers or developers to add a price tag to something that is yet to release. You can't buy it atm so I don't see where your issues is. And it's been clearly explained what everything will cost at the end. So why make such a big drama about something that is pretty straight forward? Sometimes I get the feeling that you guys simply dig for some dirt no matter how easy it is to comprehend just for the sake of complaining about the evil gaming industry that forces you to buy unfinished products. Aren't we adult enough to make up our mind for ourselve if we deem something worth it or not? Otherwise you can still enjoy your finished 1.0 titles from 15 years ago. Nobody is stoping you to boot up GTR2 or rF1.

And regarding the popularity of Hypercars I would add that Le Mans was sold out this year for a reason. It's not as popular as F1 or even MotoGP but there certainly is a growing interest from fans, manufacturers and everyone else involved.
 
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Antonio Castagna
"tifosi italia" ... they don't need to know swear words in Italian to have the nerve to want to bestow paid DLC in early access phase ... 4, no 1, 4 ...
 
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