IMO those alone will make Automation worth the $35 entrance fee. Currently only inline 4 engines are available but we are told others such as V6s and V8 are in the pipe line. The bottom line here is the demo makes Automation look extremely promising. The categories are many and you can see how they lead in to the scenario portion of the game. You will get a very nice read out of hp/torque curves as well as a whole host of information such as expected engine life, roughness, loudness, efficiency, etc. Lastly you get to tune your exhaust with several types of manifolds and headers as well as tweaking diameters of piping and types of mufflers.Īll of this leads up to testing the engine on the dyno. In the future we will get things like turbo and supercharging. After we get the head settle we will move on to the fuel system adjusting everything from carbs or efi, to throttle bodies, manifolds, ignition, fuel mixtures and so on. Again the game gives us a huge amount of choices here. Next you’ll move on to the top end which has things like head type (OHC, DOHC, OHV, etc) valve count, materials, compression, cam, vvt, cam profiles, etc.
All of these are tweakable in many ways really giving you the feel for building a bottom end. Then the crank, pistons, rods, bore, stroke, and flywheel. From there you will start with the bottom end of the engine selecting the block, size, and materials it’s made of. You’ll start with a bare engine stand on the engine dyno. I’d seen the videos for automation and what they were doing with the engine builder but I guess seeing is believing and after spending a good chunk of my Easter Sunday with the game I’m a firm believer. I’m a car nerd, well I’m a nerd in general and what I see here is sim city for car nerds.
Let’s discuss the engine building portion. The demo only gives us the engine builder part of the game which is looking very promising. I spent a lot of the day with the game today trying out the sandbox mode and various scenarios for the engine builder. Well the demo is here for us pre orderers and for you non committal types you’ll get a taste later in the month. The much anticipated sim Automation is nearly here.
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