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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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 ?
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Oh boy, doesn't take much to trigger you. So the info is not in the Steam store yet. Wow! Tragedy! Outrage! Scandal! If you want to report that to the Steam Police, by all means, do it.

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Majuh said:
Sounds like a pretty bad deal then, considering even the WTCC and WTCR licenses provided access to all cars and tracks of the championships.
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That's what came to my mind at first aswell. That said, the interest in WTCC and WTCR has vanished completely. From the semi-great days in the early 2000s that still weren't enough to save Simbin with Race 07 to the shadow of it's former self that the top league of touring car racing has become in the last couple of years the interest in that series has completely faded from all sides. And I remember when visiting the events that spectator numbers weren't great either while simracing wasn't as popular as today. With WEC it's the other way around and I see a similar trend compared to the Group C days with different manufacturers, concepts and just general interest in the sport. I guess the license also helps with new potential DLCs that are ACO related, so I wouldn't call it a bad deal at this point as you don't need to license the cars a second time if you want to release an ELMS or ALMS DLC. It also helps to get connections. I think Suzuka is a difficult track to license for example but it found it's way into ACC due to the SRO lisence. Anyway, there is great potential for a game LMU for years to come but what they make out of it needs to be seen.
 
Oubaas
I don't know what's going on with games and DLC prices. I remember when I could fill the twenty-gallon tank of my Chevelle convertible when it was running on fumes, pay with a five dollar bill, and get a little change back.

A brand new Ferrari Daytona cost $14,000 in those days. The butcher would just give you chicken wings if you asked for them. The whole world is cattywampus and all tumped over. Nothing makes any sense anymore.

A new game should cost $1.98, and DLC packs should be $0.59 or so. This is what happens when you abandon the Gold Standard. I saw it coming!

Nevertheless, I think I'm going to buy this, with the Season Pass. I'll probably die of a stroke from the terrible strain of spending so much money, but what the heck. I'm retired. I need stuff to do. :roflmao:
 
Durge Driven
Oubaas said:
I need stuff to do. :roflmao:
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I with you :coffee:

Australia my earliest memories
Gallon of standard or pack Marlboro 20's were both 39 cents
Slab of beer ( 24 cans ) $6.00
Pool Table and Jukebox 20c
Fish and chips 40c

Now
Premium unleaded $2 liter, smokes $50 ( I don't smoke anymore mind you )
Slab $50
Pool Table / Jukebox $2-4
Fish and Chips - $8-10

Yesterday you had a few brands, today you have 100 times the variety

Thing is though first sims going back as far as GPL, SCGT and on were $90-100 here
So actually sims are cheaper now for base. ;)

They only going to get dearer, more studios, more DLC to share the same market.
 
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Oubaas said:
I don't know what's going on with games and DLC prices. I remember when I could fill the twenty-gallon tank of my Chevelle convertible when it was running on fumes, pay with a five dollar bill, and get a little change back.

A brand new Ferrari Daytona cost $14,000 in those days. The butcher would just give you chicken wings if you asked for them. The whole world is cattywampus and all tumped over. Nothing makes any sense anymore.

A new game should cost $1.98, and DLC packs should be $0.59 or so. This is what happens when you abandon the Gold Standard. I saw it coming!
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Durge Driven said:
Where are you reading that ?
Not saying is not the case just Season Passes are usually spread over longer timeframe.

Anyway passed my expectations, I stated a while ago I would be happy paying $75AU a Season.

EA - 48AU
Season Pass - 72AU ( that's rough guess, Steam usually favours AU / US rate )
So just $60AU a season :confused:

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$48 au buy roughly $60 au so we will say $50 au so what will be the price of the sim at release 1.0 ? as they said its cheaper to buy now then it will be then. so we are looking at over $100 au?
 
Durge Driven
Yeah point taken if you add in DLC as well most base sims have more content then old times.
But still not one the level of other things went up way more %.
I paid $100 for GPL (I think was $50US ? most were that price ? )
Remember back then $2AU was barely $1 US or we still be paying $100 ;)

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I did not like decimal currency either got ripped off. lol

Monday: Sixpence brought me 6 lollies or 12 @ 2 a penny right ?
Tuesday: Bank took my sixpence and gave me 5 cents
Go to the milkbar and now I only get 5 or 10 lollies !@!

They just lucky paddle pops and sunnyboys never changed ! lol ;)
Both cost sixpence when I was a kid so they changed in 1966 to 5 cents each.
Now what are they ? $2.50 lol

I just saw a guy complaining that he used to only pay 70cents for a paddle pop, just a pup. lol
P.S You read one guy says they were still 5 cents in 1973 that's ten years later and still price had not gone up.
 
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I will buy the season-pass to support the developers!

People are spending hundreds or thousands of euros for hardware, but then crying when developers want to see some bucks for their work. No company can work for free!
 
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DonaldRacer said:
I will buy the season-pass to support the developers!

People are spending hundreds or thousands of euros for hardware, but then crying when developers want to see some bucks for their work. No company can work for free!
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And it's not like they're the only sim racing developer with an unfinished product...

No matter what company you buy from you are supporting the developers with their DLC... If they drop dodgy DLC and leave it broken then sell more DLC, then I complain...

Otherwise it's just business as usual for the gaming industry...
 
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zxd1997 said:
ah, yep, 6 cars with 1 Zandvoort (although it's never updated until now and it's AC's non laser scanned one from modders and updated for ACC), it's great, which LMU only give half amount (1 hypercar 2 gt3s) for EA. anyway, it's more kind as kunos did provide more, so I still consider LMU's pricing strategy between ACC and other sims which need to buy contents piece by piece. And, it's reasonable to me as I listed.
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LMU early access gives 3 car classes and 7 tracks
 
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pz666 said:
And it's not like they're the only sim racing developer with an unfinished product...

No matter what company you buy from you are supporting the developers with their DLC... If they drop dodgy DLC and leave it broken then sell more DLC, then I complain...

Otherwise it's just business as usual for the gaming industry...
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I bought the season pass and when they get it , I get it. For something unfinished, it's better than a lot of others!
 
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BBoppie said:
I bought the season pass and when they get it , I get it. For something unfinished, it's better than a lot of others!
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It's definitely got the on track package that I'm looking for, ticks the driving feel, looks and sounds boxes... Has the best hypercars on the market and what it's missing is all in the "Being improved from the rF2" basket...

It just ticks all the right boxes except for private servers and driver swaps... Once they're in... It'll be a lot of people's main WEC sim...
 
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pz666 said:
Once they're in... It'll be a lot of people's main WEC sim...
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Yes I agree once they add a single player game mode with a career mode, until then, this game/Sim will miss out on more than 50% of purchase it would have had if it had included a career mode, with some sort of single player mode.

They are looking to release this game on console, console users will not tolerate missing single player features, even if the career mode is bog standard like those found in AC and ACC will do.

In fact where is the road map that mentions career mode or single player, what is their ultimate end goal for this game as a complete Le Mans package.
 
pz666
melanieuk said:
Yes I agree once they add a single player game mode with a career mode, until then, this game/Sim will miss out on more than 50% of purchase it would have had if it had included a career mode, with some sort of single player mode.

They are looking to release this game on console, console users will not tolerate missing single player features, even if the career mode is bog standard like those found in AC and ACC will do.

In fact where is the road map that mentions career mode or single player, what is their ultimate end goal for this game as a complete Le Mans package.
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Are you kidding me?

Only 50%?

Without these modes it's barely a game... It's just a racing experience...

And MSGS have so much hate that a large portion of the sim racing community would of waited for reviews and not dived in, and that's not even talking about the VR mafia... Even casuals would check the feature list unless they're keen on supporting a company that up until this year looked doomed to be paying out 10 times more than it earns in 1 year... Ignition was after all a massive failure... And the cost of living will make casuals question a frivolous purchase...

There's plenty of chatter about how they want to go about a career mode, especially their online variant... Which would be easily converted to the offline as well... I believe there is an article or a interview with CEO Hood about it on here... A good career mode idea, as it's focused around AI developing narratives so it's less scripted...

However that's going to be behind a subscription paywall... If it's good it'll be popular on both SP and MP... But it has to be good to be worth being behind a paywall... So the bar has to be higher...

Given what was in the survey the basic path to the career mode will involve the ELMS and ALMS championships in the new future... Which would be quickly expanded on with the LMP1 era... And even further with IMSA...

If enough funding goes through for me to have the ultimate career mode it would have to include each item listed in their DLC of the survey... A sportscar racers career can see them race until their 60s... And racing from the 50s into the 90s would be an epic journey if they could fill in all the eras represented... As would racing the pre war era cars at a historic race inbetween the modern career paths...
 

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