[RELEASE] Huge Comeback - Hometown Update V0.85 [OBSOLETE]

Welcome back ladies & gentlemen! I missed you soooo much 😭

I'm officially done with my long expedition through the texture and vertices jungle & will now surprise you with all ive got done in this time :)

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Downloads are at the very bottom.
Please read all of it as many parts are important. Thanks.

Starting off with the brand new Hometown update, including:

• Major Texture & Shader rework

• Major Vegetation expansion with almost 95.000 vegetation objects

• New method for TreeFX meshes which improves FPS (more on that below)

• Fully updated Minimap now with all roads + correct map placing

• Partially reworked Airport area + New Textures & Shaders

• Partial road reworks with more physical information

• New layouts specifically for Singleplayer & Servers

• New underground BUNKÖR spawn points

• Completely reworked Light settings

• Major GrassFX Texture & Setup rework

• Many things more that i already forgot about...

Next: Exclusive German Traffic Pack

• 28 different Traffic vehicles

• Low Poly

• Simple Shaders for easier computing

• For now only suited as Server Traffic Vehicles (Traffic planner ready soon)

"I was tired of seeing japanese or US traffic on my german roads, so i teamed up with Authentic Simulation & created this low poly traffic pack that almost exactly imitates the kind of traffic you would see on IRL german/EU roads." (WIP - Updates will come soon)

But wait there's more:
Custom Digital Speedometer & Custom Cut Up app skin

• I have released a custom digital speedometer: Check it out!

• And for servers I've got us a nice skin for the cut up points app (Required)

Minor things but noteworthy:
Discord rework & AC Server rework

• New Discord channels

• Complete AC server rework, New Premium Cars + using our Exclusive Traffic Pack

• Custom weather setup, Cut Up Points function + Discord Leaderboard

With all of this new stuff we have run into 2 "Red pill or Blue pill" moments...

Firstly Road texture format:

Those visual artifacts are especially noticeable in the Airport area - not so much on the Main roads.
It is currently unknown to me what causes the problem. I mean yea ive got a suspicion "why" - but i dont understand why it is behaving like that with DDS format - since its working fine with PNG format. Will need to find a definitive fix for this sooner or later.

Secondly TreeFX aka. 3D Trees - Looks & Performance:

If you plan to get smooth FPS I heavily recommend letting it like it is now...
At the end you will have to choose for yourself :)

Recommended Minimum System requirements for Singleplayer OMEGA's Hometown:

OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11

CPU: 6 cores @ 3.5/4Ghz or higher

RAM: 8GB of RAM or higher (16GB+ is HIGHLY recommended)

GPU: 6GB VRAM or higher (8GB+ is HIGHLY recommended)

Storage: HDD (SSD is HIGHLY recommended)

These minimum requirements are just a suggestion to be able to run Modded Assetto Corsa.
The game can run on lower specs, but your gameplay experience might not be enjoyable.

DOWNLOAD SECTION

>>> DOWNLOAD HOMETOWN TRACK UPDATE <<< | Get the password here
(Select your ASSETTO ROOT folder in the pop up window - also delete om_hometown folder before installing the new content)

>>> Track PNG texture format <<< (Optional - only apply if you know what your doing)

OMEGA's Hometown was developed with:
Assetto Corsa 1.16.4 , Content Manager, CSP 2.3 Preview1 , PURE 0.252 , C13 AEGIS 1.72 PP Filter
It will run just fine with non CSP Preview builds, SOL 2.X, and any PP Filter. Minimum CSP 0.1.79
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH: RESHADE or unmodded Assetto Corsa (any CSP below 0.1.79)

I personally thank you very much for your support! 💜