Straight4 Studios Joins Forces with Reiza Studios

smcinnis · May 19, 2023

Kind of excited to see what comes. I just hope they muzzle anyone with the last name Bell.

Deleted member 217114 · May 19, 2023

Interesting. Reiza surely going to grow and grow. Wish Ian and Renato all the luck!

R.Man · May 19, 2023

A kind of partnership didn't really work with AMS2. Let see with this one.

ivanalesi · May 19, 2023

A lot of synergies between the two companies. I think this is good news, AMS2 is my favorite sim.

I just hope they make modding easy.

npsxbox · May 19, 2023

love it!

Richard Wilks · May 19, 2023

Hold on a minute, so Reiza can't even finish one game, working on it for years now, and now they are going to work on a totally different one?... that doesn't sound that good to me.

Kingkoenig · May 19, 2023

I just hope this won't be detrimental to the development of AMS2, my favorite sim at the moment.

On the other hand, it makes sense for a small and very talented studio like Reiza to join forces with another studio. So, let's wait and see.

Mekonrider · May 19, 2023

Richard Wilks said:
Hold on a minute, so Reiza can't even finish one game, working on it for years now, and now they are going to work on a totally different one?... that doesn't sound that good to me.

What's unfinished about it? Do sims games ever get finished these days? Everything current is still getting updates. Rfactor2 isn't finished, same with ACC, iRacing, Raceroom. AC is an ongoing modders labour of love.

VFX Pro · May 19, 2023

This is FANTASTIC NEWS!!

Richard Wilks · May 19, 2023

Mekonrider said:
What's unfinished about it? Do sims games ever get finished these days? Everything current is still getting updates. Rfactor2 isn't finished, same with ACC, iRacing, Raceroom. AC is an ongoing modders labour of love.

You know very well what i mean. AMS2 main selling point for some was the fact that was a "work in progress" with full atention from Reiza to improve it and fulfill it's potential. So now what? Will they divide their atention accross two games? Will AMS2 get any atention at all going forward? Will all the plans for it that were announced be fulfilled? This is what i am asking.

Bazooka_Joe · May 19, 2023

Renato clarified that it has no impact on AMS2 development here: https://forum.reizastudios.com/thre...-development-update.30680/page-49#post-234354

Straight 4 will probably get some physics models/calculations from Reiza and Reiza may get some dev expertise in return to resolve MP structure updated for example.

Shovas · May 19, 2023

Wow. That makes this much more interesting. I don't think Reiza would want to be caught up in Bell's drama so they may bring a little bit of gravitas and commitment to the product.

Beezer215 · May 19, 2023

Richard Wilks said:
You know very well what i mean. AMS2 main selling point for some was the fact that was a "work in progress" with full atention from Reiza to improve it and fulfill it's potential. So now what? Will they divide their atention accross two games? Will AMS2 get any atention at all going forward? Will all the plans for it that were announced be fulfilled? This is what i am asking.

Nice doomsday naysayer approach to this. They've already put the work into updating/fixing some of the problems the madness engine had. In order to share their knowledge and work, they have partnered. This is good for us. Better use of pooled knowledge and ability benefits us all. You act as though they will just move every Reiza employee to GTR Revival when you/we know that's just not the truth.

Richard Wilks · May 19, 2023

Beezer215 said:
Nice doomsday naysayer approach to this. They've already put the work into updating/fixing some of the problems the madness engine had. In order to share their knowledge and work, they have partnered. This is good for us. Better use of pooled knowledge and ability benefits us all. You act as though they will just move every Reiza employee to GTR Revival when you/we know that's just not the truth.

I am not being naysayer, i am asking questions. Given the fact that i don't know about the Reiza staff increasing, and that the article is sparse on details, what this all means in the long run?

You say they fixed some of the problems, sure, but i am not talking about what has been done, i am talking about what needs to be done still.

Momperface · May 19, 2023

i don't trust Ian Bell at all, or any company "partnering" with him, reiza have gone from excellent reputation and physics with AMS1 to questionable physics and a little less reputation with AMS2 because of one "partnership" with ian bell, why the hell would they do it again?

abecede · May 19, 2023

@Yannik Haustein , you haven't been bad, have you? (See Youtube video description ;-) )

I'm a bit hopeful, but also hesitant. Time will tell if this cooperation will be good for us customers...

Fineraft · May 19, 2023

Momperface said:
i don't trust Ian Bell at all, or any company "partnering" with him, reiza have gone from excellent reputation and physics with AMS1 to questionable physics and a little less reputation with AMS2 because of one "partnership" with ian bell, why the hell would they do it again?

Thats your opinion about their reputation. Reiza have done things with the madness engine that the folk at Slightly Mad Studios couldn't, with a team much smaller than SMS'. AMS1 was only a continuation of an aged engine which was perfected by Reiza, just as they're doing now with the Madness Engine.

Just to add, you call them questionable physics. But what's realistic? Have you ever driven a V8 Supercar or a DPi? Guess not yet you claim to know what's right and what's wrong

pcraenme · May 19, 2023

“Straight4's patented AI-based commentary and race engineer system that was first demoed using Automobilista 2 and Project CARS 2.“.
The demo in the YT video is terrible… bla bla bla… very tiring. Does also sound scripted and not AI generated. But saying it is AI generated is very trendy of course.

The combination of both studios can be interesting though. I still wish PC2 with all its great content would get the physics and FFB updates that Reiza did for AMS2. SMS pulled the plug on PC2 way too fast! But maybe that can now be incorporated in the new game.

Going into business with Ian Bell is a big risk for Reiza’s very good reputation though. Let’s hope for something positive this time from Mr. Bell…

Yannik Haustein · May 19, 2023

abecede said:
@Yannik Haustein , you haven't been bad, have you? (See Youtube video description ;-) )

Looks like they forgot to update that part - it's been publicly available for quite a while

Wreckoning · May 19, 2023

Momperface said:
i don't trust Ian Bell at all, or any company "partnering" with him, reiza have gone from excellent reputation and physics with AMS1 to questionable physics and a little less reputation with AMS2 because of one "partnership" with ian bell, why the hell would they do it again?

I don’t think they partnered with Ian Bell on AMS 2 they licensed the engine and had some initial support, thats about it. I’m not a fan of Ian Bell and the Madness engine has its limitations but developing a racing sim engine isn’t the easiest job in the world and this could actually be an interesting blend of talent. They are using Unreal Engine 5 this time so any hangover from the Madness engine shouldn’t be a factor.

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