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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174 playing it ATM soooooo... Hell even RRE has more playing lol

..........and how many can YOU drive with atm ? :rolleyes:

Is not like AC or rF2 that have thousands of combos.
ACC, AMS2, RRE, all sims have way more combos.
So they need the big numbers to spread across more combos.
They would have combos absolutely no one is driving everyday.
 
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You're talking nonsense...Already with the current content you get more than your money's worth. Value for money there is no better even for an EA. 30 euros is 2 fast food... What world do you live ? All work deserves a salary. Instant purchase for me because studio 397 does a wonderful job

+1 :x3: no surprises there :p

Well BTCC 4 tracks 14.51AU each so $58AU
In pack $32AU so $8AU a track is good for mine.

Not too hard to get close to season pack price 4 tracks and 11 cars is it for early adopters be $140/160AU
In pack should be close to $100AU for season plus initial $48AU .
If that is what it takes to get every correct year skin driver and improve engine as best as possible.
$75AU a season I would very happy.

So logic says buying today will get you three free cars :x3: better hurry ! :p
 
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It's a shame they choose for WEC and not IMSA. IMSA would have given awesome circuits, P1, P2 and GTR field.
Now that rF2 is dead on dev perspective, I hope devs will port all rF2 content into LMU.
 
It was a mistake to buy this thing....
Unfortunately missed the two weeks period (was under 2h, refund refused).

Game is in EA and now they push already DLCs?
Sorry, thats not the way.
How about to "fill the game with content" but not with DLCs?
I for one am not missing any sleep over my purchase and think it is well worth the $; it's cheaper than a good steak meal... need I say more?
 
I for one am not missing any sleep over my purchase and think it is well worth the $; it's cheaper than a good steak meal... need I say more?

It's base content is cheaper than ACC and better value... Because there's more classes and more ways to attack the same track as a result... I lose more sleep thinking about Rennsport being on Unreal because of how bad ACC has been over the years than I do about LMU...

Sure there's no official VR or private servers... But it's not like either is great in ACC right now years after release either...

It's also much cheaper than the F1 series... F1 23 is double the price still despite only having a few years of service left...

Sure the jack of all trades sims are cheaper, but they're also just like a jack of all trades repairman... They aren't focused on one discipline so leave a lot of things lacking... Especially for endurance content...
 
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There should be an expectation of Integrity, Its not about hope. They are broke due to their own business practises, and the fallout should be theirs to bear.

The delusion is the expectation that we should support a lack of integrity so someone else can maintain an income stream.

Thank you. Had a longer post but realized this was here and is much more succinct.

This "magnanimous" consumer desire to fund unfinished products like some sort of investor or benefactor is completely ludicrous. It has now been going on long enough, both in racing sims and elsewhere, that even major publishers and developers predictably strut out the "woe-is-us" song and dance when their launch product is lacking in content and full of bugs, performance problems and crashes. This is going on literally everywhere throughout the industry, and LMU is sim racing's latest and possibly most egregious example.

I, mister 30 year old boomer/dinosaur, expect a fully functioning, well-performing, complete base product for my money - regardless of financial circumstances that I honestly could not give a good god damn about. I am not a charity, I owe them nothing - and I for sure am not shelling out additional money for content when their software is in an openly incomplete state.

I wanted (and still want) this game to succeed, as I'm a huge fan of both the WEC and ELMS/ALMS/24H. But the shocking lack of content (7 total tracks in an Early Access title, and they expect money for the three new ones this year? Are they insane?) and the awful in-game performance are merely the tip of this money-hungry iceberg. Think the player count is low now? Wait until they roll that """subscription""" out. It'll be a ghost town.

Talk to me when the game is in a fully functioning state, with proportional content to other sims, and at a reasonable price. If that ever comes. Then I'll consider purchasing. And 397 can shove their monthly "subscription" - for multiplayer events in the lowest-charting sim released in the last decade - where the sun don't shine.
 
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This is quite simple everyone.If you like LMU and want it to improve you have to support the sim by paying for DLC,packs etc.Otherwise it will die along with the developer.To many sim racers think everything should be free because of the great free mods in Assetto Corsa.
Personally,I can wait and buy it when its finished in a sale on Steam.
 
It's a shame they choose for WEC and not IMSA. IMSA would have given awesome circuits, P1, P2 and GTR field.
Now that rF2 is dead on dev perspective, I hope devs will port all rF2 content into LMU.
rF2 may or may not be dead, but it has certainly been placed on the far back shelf for the time being. You will NEVER see rF2 content in LMU due to licensing agreements etc. LMU is Le Mans Ultimate, not yer uncle's favorite dirt track mod, it is not F1 cars without hybrids, it is not BTCC or Indycar or any of the hundreds of unofficial and official content from rF2. ( and YES that means NO NORDSCHLEIFFE!!!!!)
You will not see any mods, I would think, for LMU. Just like ACC does not do prototypes, LMU will not venture outside it's scope of the WEC Endurance Series. Your best hope for content similar to rF2 would be rF3, but even then, they wouldn't just port rF2 content over to the new title..Their business is selling content, not handing out freebies when they have bills to pay and salaries to cover and rents, and ... and...
Finally IMSA vs WEC. By GTR field, did you mean GTD? GTD are just GT3 cars with a Daytona/Nascar name. the 2024 DLC for LMU will include LMGT3 cars so that is covered by both series. Different tracks for sure, but American tracks are not any more Awesomer than Euro circuits. Just different. If they did IMSA instead of WEC, then no Le Mans.
In the end, there is very little difference between IMSA and WEC. they both have GT3 and Hybrid cars. IMSA has more classes and street circuits but an IMSA Caddy is the same as a WEC Caddy. Porsche Hybrids are the same on either side of the pond. Be happy, enjoy the most modern official endurance racing product available today. While IMSA already has some limited agreements with other sims, the 'official' nature of LMU precludes including other series such as IMSA. Asian Le Mans and Europeon Le Mans could possible be broght into LMU as as the host organization for both is still FIA/WEC. A Euro Le Mans would also provide unrestricted LMP2 cars and I bet the times set by the LMP2 cars might be embarrasing for Hybrids.(ever since LMP1 and DPi cars from both series have been limited by their own rules, the LMP2 cars have suffered repeated nerfing by having their max horsepower lowered among other performance robbing rules meant to keep the LMP2 class 2nd best.)
 
It was a mistake to buy this thing....
Unfortunately missed the two weeks period (was under 2h, refund refused).

Game is in EA and now they push already DLCs?
Sorry, thats not the way.
How about to "fill the game with content" but not with DLCs?
As far as I know there are struggling financially, hence the planned DLCs.
 
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Let me sell you a house.

Sorry, we didn't finish it on time, in fact we can't, so we are going to reduce the cost and give you early access. Move right in, Tell everyone you know how cheap it was!


Hi, Me again, Sorry, still haven't finished the house, But we have a pack of curtains you can buy from us, We really need the money and can't finish the house unless you also buy these. Yes, I know there aren't any windows installed yet, we will do that later. Patch it in. That is if we sell enough curtains.
 
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They are just ridiculous, it's still in early access and instead of fixing more and more problems (which they have a forum full of, like with rF2), they just think about releasing paid dlc for new content. Do you want to do that? Okay, but fix it first and release version 1.0, then maybe they'll talk about the dlc. Ah no, wait ... S397 they did this with rF2 as well, and we saw how that turned out ... so much so that rF2 will no longer be developed at all ...
 
buying a DLC in LMU is the most desperated move to save a sinking boat. Nobody is forced to buy, but we are forced to admit it's a fail.
The game is full of bugs, without the most common features, and I remember s397 has taken 5 years to change the UI in rF2, dont hope faster developpement for LMU.
It should be a free alpha version access, with all the work to give a working product, nothing else.
My opinion it's a total success, it's the best current simulation in terms of sensations and value for money. "The game is full of bugs" Completely false...With 131 hours of play I have never encountered any bugs in online races. The basic features are there and the multiplayer is much more solid than games that were released years ago. I advise you to play lmu again to form a more solid opinion. Thx
 
Le Mans Ultimate is not a perfect sim. But many of you said it releases and gets abandoned. It has all the content for the 2023 season, already has probably the best AI for multiclass navigation. Sure, a couple of features are missing, needs more polish (that, by the way, applies for all sims pretty much, including those out of EA for years).

Would it be better if they didn't even show they are working on new content? Did you expect them to release a bunch of new content incl. a whole new class for free? Even companies with great financials wouldn't. Do you want an annual release instead of DLC? What the hell do you expect?
 
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I can see the way forward in this thinking, but it seems to be being bungled through incompetence and the rush to get some money for whats highly likely to be not very stable yet.

Were they to create and deliver a VERY stable platform, for both off and online racing,* with the provisions for new and perhaps even unexpected features... drum /Iron disc brakes, Gas turbine power... whatever! skin it with a couple of bare bones classes of cars and sell it at a reasonable price, perhaps even offering benefits for Week One purchase of discount for (as yet unpriced) future DLC.
Then offer top tier DLC** for an attractively medium high price, which would include encouragement for online challenges and rankings, but importantly allowing the player/customer to mix and match how they build their game, and online servers would obviously match player game build.

*being off line the AI should be an important consideration, and online players should have a stable and easy to use server, perhaps even sub servers available for clubs... I dunno!
**Not 'Horse Armour' at $13.99.

Disclaimer: The above is not a thoroughly thought out business plan, it's simply something that came from the rambling mind of an old man!
 
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Let me sell you a house.

Sorry, we didn't finish it on time, in fact we can't, so we are going to reduce the cost and give you early access. Move right in, Tell everyone you know how cheap it was!


Hi, Me again, Sorry, still haven't finished the house, But we have a pack of curtains you can buy from us, We really need the money and can't finish the house unless you also buy these. Yes, I know there aren't any windows installed yet, we will do that later. Patch it in. That is if we sell enough curtains.
Not again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The same comparation was used for ACC EA at his time.
A game it is not a house.
But using this parallel, yes, you can pay someone to build your house and, again, yes, you will be asked to pay 50% of price in advance.
For your money, the constructor tell you in 3 months you will have your house erected (EA). Now if you came after 3 months and want to take a **** in your house will be a problem. The toilet seat it is a DLC and you must pay for it. I'm sure this is not a surprise for you.
And also if it is raining in this 3 months, you will have water inside your house (because there is no roof yet) because it is just under development.
And if you want to boil some eggs, another surprise, another DLC, the stove.
But WHY ??????? You have payed 50% of your house and you don't understand why you can't use it!!!!!
Refund, return, demolish, etc. it is the solution?
No, patient it is the solution. Wait for your house to be completed before **** inside.
 
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80% of reviews of this sim are unfounded or are made by people who don't play it or we played it 2 hours. I just laugh when I see the number of hours and the profile player of negative review on Steam. Having an official Wec simulation with current physical, graphic and hardware quality is a godsend. I invite all simracers to form their own opinion and not listen to these types of individuals
 
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80% of reviews of this sim are unfounded or are made by people who don't play it or we played it 2 hours. I just laugh when I see the number of hours and the profile player of negative review on Steam. Having an official Wec simulation with current physical, graphic and hardware quality is a godsend. I invite all simracers to form their own opinion and not listen to these types of individuals
You sound more and more like someone working for Studio 397...
 

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