Studio-397, the developers of Le Mans Ultimate announced some very interesting news today. They gave us a breakdown of the latest update and DLC that's part of the 2024 Season pass.
New Features
- Co-op mode: Race with friends against customisable AI.
- Save & Load: Save your long races with up to three autosave.
- Season Select: Choose between seasons 2023 and 2024 separately and automatically get the relevant cars and tracks.
- Car Select: The new menu selection allows you to choose cars down to years, numbers and liveries.
DLC 2 Content
- Isotta Fraschini LMH Hypercar
- Alpine LMDh Hypercar
- Circuit of the Americas track
Miscellaneous
They also mentioned that in-car seat adjustment is on a per-car basis and not a global adjustment anymore. The AI will have better fuel management and force feedback has been improved. All of the 2024 Hypercar skins and LMP2 skins have been added
What's Next?
As part of the announcement, Studio-397 also touched on what lies ahead for 2024 and early 2025:
- Private Servers
- Broadcast Overlay for live broadcasts
- Online Championships
- VR is still in development but available now as a hidden feature
Final thoughts
This was a big announcement and content drop. We think that Le Mans Ultimate is progressing nicely and appreciate that Studio-397 used their recent community survey to give us, their loyal customers, what we want. However, we still think they should have delayed the game's launch instead of releasing it as a beta and then charging for DLC.
Nevertheless, it's still better than F1 24 in our humble opinion and much better than what happened with the dead-in-the-water IndyCar game.
This new DLC will be available on Steam for £9.99 / €11.99 /$12.99 on 24th September 2024. For everything that was announced, please read the release notes on LeMansUltimate.com.
