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Assetto Corsa: Early Access |OT|
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This is the first game I've actually started to truly learn the tracks. I'm a sim newbie and I've only ever played Forza and GT with the suggested line. Actually feeling and learning tracks is so incredibly gratifying. The superb physics in AC don't hurt either and I love most of the cars already. I've been trying to play GT6 without the line, but I've yet to learn many of the tracks that aren't in AC.
Quick question: Is there any way to force paddle shifting with the older BMWs for example? On a wheel I mean*
Quick question: Is there any way to force paddle shifting with the older BMWs for example? On a wheel I mean*
Bahahahahahahaha.it's definitely not an easy track
Second only to Takeover's Formula Truck gif.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
A few questions:
- Is there a career mode worth playing yet? Or is this going to be strictly online racing?
- Can you navigate all the menus with a gamepad instead of mouse?
- Can you customize to the point that up you can accelerate/brake with the right anaolg on a controller?
- Are the car camera angles customizable at all?
- Is there a career mode worth playing yet? Or is this going to be strictly online racing?
- Can you navigate all the menus with a gamepad instead of mouse?
- Can you customize to the point that up you can accelerate/brake with the right anaolg on a controller?
- Are the car camera angles customizable at all?
This is an awesome gif.it's definitely not an easy track
I don't think they made any fuss about it being a huge announcement.
You're probably right about them needing to take a different approach with their PR. They have grossly overestimated the rationality of their customers.
No career mode yet. Not even any AI.
Menu navigation still requires a mouse as far as I'm aware.
Not sure about the other things.
Kunos don't have any marketing staff. Or a marketing budget for that matter. What were you expecting?
I thought I saw a post somewhere quoting Kunos as saying that there would be a gift on 31.12. Various places were speculating it might be ai, multiplayer, etc.
Obviously, speculating is silly, but a picture of a future car is pretty underwhelming to even those with realistic expectations.
Obviously, speculating is silly, but a picture of a future car is pretty underwhelming to even those with realistic expectations.
marvelharvey
Member
Yeah, I was going to mention this earlier. The word 'gift' was poorly used and perhaps 'We'll have a surprise for you on December 31st' would have been more appropriate.
Extended to include more cars I guess.
They probably mean the licence was extended to include more cars. For example Pagani might have only licenced them two cars but saw the profits and good vibes so far and extended it to a six car licence.
Betta Lines
Member
Marco Massarutto on facebook:
^ this post followed by this pic
i sure would love some japan rides.
TJP
Member
Really?
Kunos secured the LaFerrari licence and announced it is free addition to AC when version 1.0 ships as a thank you for the support. It's a pretty fucking generous freebee or gift as Kunos rightly stated given the attitude of many in the sim racing community.
Read all about it here: http://www.assettocorsa.net/laferrari-official-license-for-assetto-corsa/
It depends on each manufacturer and how precious they are about their brand and licencing deals. As an example, there are plenty of marques in the various SimBin titles available on Steam dating back to GTR and GT Legends. Porsche and Ferrari were removed from GTR 2 because of licencing issues; all other vehicles remain.
The extension of licences in Assetto Corsa confirmed Kunos will add more vehicles from the current manufacturers plus add a few new manufacturers 8)
TJP
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Joux Plane (from Richard Burns Rally) has been removed from very nearly every sim racing website and forum. Track conversions aren't really welcome on many websites whilst scratch made tracks are most welcome (ala Feels3 for rF2, Virtua LM for ISImotor). It will be interesting to see what happens with AC with mods going forward.
marvelharvey
Member
I eagerly await the conversions from the F1 games
TJP
Member
That's the wider issue as most tracks are converted with no permission granted. Look at the extra tracks for GSC; almost entirely ripped from SimBin's Race series, rFactor survived largely because of scratch made and 'illegal' mods and I've played Forza cars and converted cars and tracks from Shift and Unleashed in various ISImotor sims.
Reading the short thread on RD, it appears the publisher of RBR sent a request akin to a cease and desist letter and RD removed the track. I see the author still has it on his own website.
marvelharvey
Member
Rereading my post above, I realise that it wasn't particularly clear and could be interpreted as "I bet nobody will make mods lololol" comment. But no, I'm actually quite curious about the distribution method the mod community will eventually choose. A few paint jobs and wheel rims will certainly appear on the Steam Workshop and become the property of Valve, but tracks and vehicles built from scratch? I guess time will tell.
It's something that really irks me with Valve and the Steam workshop, they basically take the rights to the mods created.... And I doubt most people that create tracks or cars will be fine with it. Will be really interesting how that pans out. Also would Valve then be liable to legal implications of licences and such?
Well people are making serious bank from Dota 2 & CS:GO. I guess it's up the devs to make the decision on how to reward the mod community. I imagine they might have to think outside of the box to come up with a solution which pleases everyone.
Yea, I've played a lot of illegally ripped tracks, but there was still a good amount of legal conversions being done when I was playing rFactor, too. I'm not expecting 100's of tracks like we had then, but I think it should still be enough to really keep things interesting.
Cool. If they stick to their 2 week plan after that, it means 1.0 would come at the end of March, making that month even crazier in terms of games I'll be playing.
You wouldn't. You'd also save for a Thrustmaster shifter too.
Betta Lines
Member
Nice. As pointed out in the description, funnelling into the chicane at a Monza start must be a nightmare for AI development - looks very impressive already.
Big Takeover
Member
Looking good.
I'm excited for an all new AI system, even if it is a work in progress. pCARS excluded, it feels like forever since I last raced AI in a serious sim that wasn't ISI based. That's not taking a dig necessarily. Just noting the breadth of isiMotor.
I'm excited for an all new AI system, even if it is a work in progress. pCARS excluded, it feels like forever since I last raced AI in a serious sim that wasn't ISI based. That's not taking a dig necessarily. Just noting the breadth of isiMotor.
TJP
Member
Ai is looking really promising especially for an early build.
I've just read elsewhere on the internet that the some people in the AC Steam forum were posting trying to get a class action lawsuit filed against Kunos for not updating Assetto Corsa until the middle of January...are people really this mentally deranged?
marvelharvey
Member
I was reading the thread yesterday, but it now seems to have... vanished. It was just one guy saying that he wanted to get lawyers involved, with two hundred others ridiculing him.
I believe developers are able to mod their own forums or something... so that's probably what happened.
But really... seriously? What the fuck is wrong with people?!?
Edit: About halfway down this page, a guy on another forum says the same thing!
Edit #2: God bless Google cache
Betta Lines
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They seem to race a wide range of cars (and bikes) there, GT and open wheel, so the P4/5 should be able to handle it.
It's a strange one though. Turn 4 is particularly awkward, as it doesn't look like a hairpin when you approach it. I was surprised how sharp it looks on a map.
It's a strange one though. Turn 4 is particularly awkward, as it doesn't look like a hairpin when you approach it. I was surprised how sharp it looks on a map.
I feel the track is just made for the X-Bow or the E30 Gr. A those cars are such insane fun on it. But yeah it works with nearly everything, but the F40 is just no fun on it those breaks....
Betta Lines
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The F40 is fun everywhere!
microtubule
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Just tried Magione for the first time last night. It's a fun track but only tried the Mp4-12C on it....so far.
If you like the 458: Spotted this really well made fan made video on YT
If you like the 458: Spotted this really well made fan made video on YT
That video is very nice, love a bit of chemical brothers.
Having tons of fun with this, still using a controller at the moment which is probably making life harder than it should be, but I have a config I feel pretty happy with for the 360 controller now.
Looking forward to this moving forward, there is huge potential in this game, the mechanics feel amazing.
Having tons of fun with this, still using a controller at the moment which is probably making life harder than it should be, but I have a config I feel pretty happy with for the 360 controller now.
Looking forward to this moving forward, there is huge potential in this game, the mechanics feel amazing.
Betta Lines
Member
Wow. That sets the bar. There were times where it was like a Gran Turismo trailer, such is the level of camera skill and editing. How do you even do this in AC?
Recorded some laps at Monza with the P4/5. This car honestly feels too easy to drive with the stock settings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBLKrY1-YIc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAntU2fzZ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBLKrY1-YIc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAntU2fzZ4
TJP
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It's a point that's been brought up before on the official forums and rebutted by the Kunos dev team who quoted a driver of the car - it's built for the 'gentleman racer' for enduro racing with ABS, TC plus a detuned engine per the regulations.
So good. What a magnificent car, too.
Something else I like about that video is that this is what the game actually looks like! Most trailers/vids are in-engine or have replay modes that add all sorts of post-processing effects, but this is a no nonsense, what you see is what you get vid.
It's so weird, looking at pCARS trailers and that AC one, there's still an artificial feeling to the former that the latter doesn't have, despite theoretically looking "better". I don't think it's just the suspension modelling either... maybe it's the colours.
Kunos are on such a winner with AC, it's kind of ridiculous just how small a team they are.
Kunos are on such a winner with AC, it's kind of ridiculous just how small a team they are.
Ah, well if they race the real thing with ABS on maybe I'll keep it on in that car. That's one thing I wish sims would do: provide a "real" assists setting where they have the assists turned on or off depending on what the real car has. Only game that's done it that I can think of is Enthusia for PS2.