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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If you are going to be a pedant about people's grammar, you had best not include spelling errors in your examples :).

Possessive apostrophes are a thing. Congratulations on picking out the one word where for no reason other than, we just don't, it isn't written but the sequence of letters and pronunciation are identical.


From your article:

If you see an apostrophe with a pronoun, it must be part of a contraction.

its—possessive adjective of it
it’s—contraction for “it is”
 
I've not got a great regard for people in general, but sim racers are, without a shadow of ANY doubt, the worst group of people on the face of the earth.
Every time I see someone claim that (in any community) I can't help but wonder, have you people actually been to the internet, seen the internet? It's EXACTLY the same in most communities with competitive people (like multiplayer games) where there is enough of them (only some very niche ones with few people are actually better). Sim racing is not an exception in any way. And several communities are actually much much worse.
 
I think both groups of people are right here: this is a really cool game (I will surely buy this DLC stuff) but also the company is hanging on by the skin of their teeth, next paycheck has to come from selling unfinished stuff, DLC and they have too little developers to make meaningfull improvements (VR, actual team endurance mode etc in a reasonable timeframe), and consequently the roadmap/monetization is a joke.

I guess for me the difference is that unlike iracing i do think more of my money is going to keeping developers employed to improve the game instead of payoffs/profits. But i kay be wrong here, i dont really understand the financials in detail.

And the people making the track graphics/mesh in S397 are great, I love the tracks they come up with since Sebring in rf2.
 
Its publisher*

Its and it's are different things. One his possessive ("its tootbrush"), the other is an abbreviation between pronoun and verb, it is ("it's his toothbrush").

They often get confused but it's important not to do so as they convey very different meanings.
It's TooTHbrush
 
What a ridiculous statement.
Well, looking at this comment section he isn't far off. This whole thing reminds me of Kunos releasing the Maserati SUV - for free - and everyone went nuts. I mean, you have a 30 Euro EA game, costing as much as two iRacing tracks with free MP and some of the 2024 content allready offered for free, a product that is pretty advanced for what it is called and you still have people arguing if DLCs are justified or not. Noone complaining here comes to the conclusion that everyone of us has a choice. How great would it be if people simply acknowledged that noone is forcing anyone but that people get more options what they can do with a product?

And looking at those checkboxes that people pull out from - you know from where - to determine if the product is ready or not to justify selling DLCs, while halve of those bullet points aren't even there in most of our recent titles that we play on a daily base just leads me to the conlcusion that the majority of people on this website have a wierd understanding how gamedevelopment works. Thatswhy I asked if people have a mental disorder, but luckily one of the admins cleaned up my comment. Promoting ripped content is perfectly fine as an OTGG ambessador, but asking a rethorical question that everyone should be able to reflect on his/her own isn't.

Great "community" ... at this point we can only hope that the people working for S397, Reiza, Kunos, S3 or Rennsport get it perfectly right because anything else will be a desaster to deal with for the people on this website if they can't cope with hitting the buy button or not.
 
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The delusion is strong.

Some people must have lead incredibly sheltered lives.
 
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From your article:

If you see an apostrophe with a pronoun, it must be part of a contraction.

its—possessive adjective of it
it’s—contraction for “it is”
Very good, thanks for checking back in to let us know you read it. As you will have you have seen and I'm sure you will hasten to tell us all that you knew already, very few examples exist. I'm just thankful that it's and its sound identical so that at least in day to day speech the layman can get by.

Now if it's OK, I'll trudge back into the mudslinging at hand about which sim is best. Don't tell me if there are grammar or spelling errors in it. I just don't care, it only needs to be readable and understood.

I can understand the frustration about selling DLC for a game that isn't finished. I was frustrated. I don't think they have any alternative though, the people coding the simulation, adding and repairing features aren't the same people who have the skills to build the models to add to the sim.

There isn't much point in having the 3d modellers and physics people who finished up to 1.0 sit idle while the programmers catch up. There isn't much point in having them produce work and not releasing it, they can't just give it away for free either, otherwise they can't pay anyone to make anything and programmers never get a chance to get the sim to 1.0.

....that's about as charitable as I feel like getting though.

I don't think the damage model has really progressed in ISI / gmotor etc since F1C. As much as the driving model might be iteratively better in feeling compared to how they did a decade ago, racing sims in general have done nothing to improve upon, and in many cases are actively worse at actually simulating motor races.

Why can't we have proper flags? Why can't we have proper vehicle recovery? Why can't we have proper damage in sessions that needs time to repair? Why can't we have tyre set management? You can get them in simcade F1, or had them in GP4 20 years ago.

Imagine you are driving your endurance sim, there is an accident, the cars get damage (I know, stay with me), they either limp back to the pits or, just maybe they can't. There are double yellows, then a slow zone while the car is recovered, maybe a safety car if it's needed. The immersion. Rather than, yeah the car teleports, depending on the sim you may or may not get light panels and flags....we had it 20 years ago. Just saying.

Oh and mid race saves. I'm not even asking for a rewind button which would make any dodgy AI business non-gamebreaking. Just the ability to properly let an endurance race play out over time without spending an inordinate amount of time in one sitting.
 
The delusion is strong.

Some people must have lead incredibly sheltered lives.

With your statements in this thread, that's hilariously ironic...

You're too late to complain about BETA level games having DLC as it's accepted practice in sim racing these days... They just market them as full releases...
 
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With your statements in this thread, that's hilariously ironic...

You're too late to complain about BETA level games having DLC as it's accepted practice in sim racing these days... They just market them as full releases...
I'm not offended by anyone holding or expressing an opinion different from mine in a discussion, I don't consider that makes someone a bad person in any way, and consider it an extreme and nonsensical statement that it somehow makes someone one of the "worst" This is the delusion I was referring to.

I'll maintain a position of an expectation of integratory and authenticity from companies that want my money.

Even if I'm too late as you say, My standards are my own .I would go as far as to state that calling a spade a spade is quite far removed from a delusional stance.
 
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Funny enough, I'd respect them more if they were honest and presented it as their full release. We can see its their best attempt as poor as it is, and they are treating it as such while hiding behind EA.

But that requires integrity and to be authentic.
 
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Even if I'm too late as you say, My standards are my own . <snip>
You mean, you twist and turn them as it fit's your argumentation?

If I applied your standards and princicples of integrity and authenticy as you say, then how does it come that the developer of your favorite product needs years and years after promises after promises to update it's DLC that is still sold on Steam at full price without a warning. How does it come that such integral parts as a proper MP system, that works much better in LMU btw, get's outsourced with statements like "we don't intend to develop it beyond what it is now". How does it come that a certain studio get's away with selling DLCs that aren't ready with features that are completely rushed. I am especialy looking at the hybrid system that get's updated now, but that DLC was sold more than half a year ago to get higher return during christmas sales. If you really have a set standard you should apply it equaly and not call people delusional who simply aren't blind enough to see that most if not all products have their pros and cons and that LMU isn't any exception in the grand scheme of things.
 
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Dunno , what's my favourite product?

Overall there are many developers that fall below where my standards sit, And I dont defend them for it.

A lot of the criticisms of many titles in the racesim space are valid , well deserved and show the frustration of the community.
 
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If people can't handle grown up speak maybe they shouldn't blow on ambers in a fire?
whining about a computer game is about as immature as you can get, the only thing more immature is those sci fi nerd types whinging about Star Wars/Star Trek/Avengers etc etc ( I love Sci Fi but the whinging nerds in the chats do my head in!)
 
whining about a computer game is about as immature as you can get, the only thing more immature is those sci fi nerd types whinging about Star Wars/Star Trek/Avengers etc etc ( I love Sci Fi but the whinging nerds in the chats do my head in!)
Everyone has the right to complain about what they want, especially when money and incompetence of those who produce it are involved. If you don't like it, that's your problem, I wonder what you're doing in the conversation if you're not interested in the topic?
 
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Its a community issue, Its worthy of community discussion.

The over-sensitive or the deluded shouldn't get to gate keep discussion or input.

Thats Kennys job.
 
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Thing is, this stuff needs to be discussed.

15+ years ago Bethesda was the first to sell DLCs. Extra content, of debatable worth, for some extra pennies. People laughed and criticised but in the end, they bought them. Because they couldn't see the harm in it.
Now we are swarmed with DLCs.

Accepting the practice of buying extra stuff for unreleased games might not be a isolated case in the future if we, as consumers, don't stand against it. In the future, we might not get a choice or be limited in what we can choose.

However as I said, everyone's free. Just don't cry for the good old times in 10-20 years.
 
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Everyone has the right to complain about what they want, especially when money and incompetence of those who produce it are involved. If you don't like it, that's your problem, I wonder what you're doing in the conversation if you're not interested in the topic?
They don't have the right to insult people!! If you don't like it DON'T FARKING BUY IT!!! People need to stop pushing THEIR agendas onto other people.

For me it's blatantly obvious WHY this is happening, but It's the ONLY WEC game and I got 2023 for 25 quid which today is a fricken bargain even if the game is incomplete.

I'm honestly amazed that I see time and time and TIME again for DIFFERENT sims people moaning that DLC is released before problems are fixed.

DIFFERENT PEOPLE DO CAR MODELLING/TRACK MODELLING, it's really NOT rocket science to understand that those who 3d model CANNOT fix MP issues, game performance issues, GUI issues, VR issues, Physics issues, Ai issues.

After years and years of this sort of UTTERLY pointless discussion I'm just SO jaded and I have EVERY right to express how jaded I am and THAT is why I am here in the topic and there's fook all you can do about it!!
 

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