Assetto Corsa EVO Early Access Delayed Until 2025

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The Board of Directors of the Digital Bros Group has approved the latest Financial Statement as of June 2024, consequently condemning Assetto Corsa EVO's early access to January 2025.

Assetto Corsa EVO is one of the most hotly anticipated sim racing titles of 2024, but it looks like fans of the franchise are going to have to wait for the new year to try Assetto Corsa EVO.

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Front page of the financial statement detailing Assetto Corsa EVO's delay. Image: Digital Bros

Unfortunately, this is not the first delay for the title. The original release was rumoured to be Spring, 2024 which was then delayed to late 2024. Following this further delay, the game is looking like it is being refined and not just pushed out to the market, which if you look a the financial situation of Digital Bros, is really good to see considering the less-than-ideal situation.

If you want to trawl through the latest financial reports that come alongside the Assetto Corsa EVO delay, check out the latest Digital Bro's Board of Directors post on their website.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839380253275484403

Assetto Corsa EVO is vitally important for the sim racing landscape, and this delay will not come as great news for a lot of sim racers. However, it is great to see that the team behind Assetto Corsa EVO are not being forced to release the game despite it not being ready. Look to Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown as an example of how badly a launch can go if your game is not ready to hit the market.

What do you think about the Assetto Corsa EVO delay? Let us know down in the comments.
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Trebor901
Sebastian Skinnari said:
i dont know what the future of Digital Bros Group's finances are gonna be.
but what should i know.
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Neither do i but if they were that bad this game would be being rushed to the public to try bring some money in. There is at some point going to be a crash in the gaming market. Far too many small companies going out of their way spending money they dont have to try compete with the big dog companies that are selling massive amounts of games while the quality is falling and theyre becoming lazy. They just have good marketing teams behind them to push the sales.
 
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I wish Kunos would communicate something. They put up the Steam page with some eyecandy in June, then silence. Now there is a financial statement leak to confirm the game is going to be delayed. Again silence from Kunos. I mean I get it, they don't want to build the hype half a year before release only to delay again. But a little something would be nice. Even with ACC, everyone is in the dark wether the last patch was the end of the line or is there still more support for the sim.
 
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MartinVRS said:
I wish Kunos would communicate something. They put up the Steam page with some eyecandy in June, then silence. Now there is a financial statement leak to confirm the game is going to be delayed. Again silence from Kunos. I mean I get it, they don't want to build the hype half a year before release only to delay again. But a little something would be nice. Even with ACC, everyone is in the dark wether the last patch was the end of the line or is there still more support for the sim.
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Sorry for OT but is this 1.9 patch a nightmare like many people say? I give up with ACC long time ago. I would give it a try again but I don't want to download it for 10 minutes. If it's bad then I give up forever with ACCUE5 and just wait for ACEvo (probably 2 years as I don't believe in 2025 release).
 
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So we may not get it before Putin nukes the planet!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Extra dev time can only be a good thing for Kunos fans who are buying into this blind, gutted at the news but 4 extra weeks isn't horrendous. More dev time means, more content in the base version we get, plus more time to update physics etc etc. So all is not lost.
 
Trebor901
MartinVRS said:
I wish Kunos would communicate something. They put up the Steam page with some eyecandy in June, then silence. Now there is a financial statement leak to confirm the game is going to be delayed. Again silence from Kunos. I mean I get it, they don't want to build the hype half a year before release only to delay again. But a little something would be nice. Even with ACC, everyone is in the dark wether the last patch was the end of the line or is there still more support for the sim.
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They don't owe anyone anything. Not even an explanation. They're clearly working hard behind the scenes on the game they don't need to waste time putting out statements to impatient people.
 
Pepper606
Well, I'm even more excited now. It's just heightened my anticipation, it isn't even very long to wait.
AC is my most played game ever, I must have done +1000 hours just hot lapping. I'm hoping Evo is pretty much just an updated modern AC.
 
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I don't care. I want it to be as good as possible, if it takes 6-12 months extra - so be it!
Quality over speed!!!
 
mantasisg
Ole Marius Myrvold said:
There is a massive chance that AC Evo will experience the same as rFactor 2 indeed.
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Definitely it will not. First of all I think there is slim chance it will be as ambitious as rF2. The more I learn about rF2, the more I see how incredibly crazy and far forward looking they were. And then they failed a lot to have a sim with satisfying amount of branded good quality base content, the sim was way too demanding for most of computers back then, it was massively rushed and unfinished.

#1 lesson to take from rF2 for Kunos is that people don't give a damn about all that depth of simulation... hell, they even got that lesson with ACC. What they need to do is to be definitely better than modded out AC. Have good content, drive similarly with slight "improvements" in perception of average guy, whatever that could mean. Sound a lil better. And also must look better.

There is almost zero chance AC2 could fail. Unless they will play it too safe, and will not have balls to be disliked for giving some lesser complimenting simulation experiences/features making driving too demanding, whatever that could mean - right ? Even then it might be an actual win, because "boys just want to have fu-un", as Cyndi Lauper sang in the 80s.

I wonder what they figured out to do with modding, as it was said they plan to have some control over it or something like that ? I think that is a good thing.

Back to rF2... nobody ever again will try to reach so far and so much again, as it was so deeply unfortunately for all of us showed that gamers just doesn't need all that. Or can't and won't notice.
 
guidofoc
Fine, in all honestly I am in no hurry. I hope that this means we will see some additional content for ACC in the meantime.
 
Cote Dazur
mantasisg said:
nobody ever again will try to reach so far and so much again
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And the legend of the so called superiority of RF2 lives again.
No proof, no evidence, just the usual believe me bro as I am one of the connoisseur. With the new twist, the superiority is so deep no one can see it! Really!

Beside a few Die hard aficionado particularly persistent here on RD/OT, no one cares about RF2 and even less believe it is superior to anything in any way.

Decent physic and decent FFB in a very messy package.

I enjoy it myself, but not often as I and many others have found a better SIM solution to enjoy our passion for simulation.

AC Evo will not likely fail, not because it is less ambitious than RF2, but because Kunos knows how to produce SIM that are great to play. They did it with AC, they did it again with ACC.
Not by cutting corners delivering a mess of a SIM but by fine craftsmanship and dedication to their customers.

All that said I genuinely hope you are enjoying the heck of RF2, at least as much as I enjoy AC, ACC and anticipate to enjoy AC Evo ( whatever it will be).
 
Ole Marius Myrvold
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I really didn't mean to start a "my sim has a bigger pe...engine than your sim" discussion
However.

Cote Dazur said:
AC Evo will not likely fail, not because it is less ambitious than RF2, but because Kunos knows how to produce SIM that are great to play. They did it with AC, they did it again with ACC.
Not by cutting corners delivering a mess of a SIM but by fine craftsmanship and dedication to their customers.
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You could say the exactly same about ISI though. Sports Car GT, F1 2000, 2001, 2002 & F1 Challenge, NASCAR Thunder 2003 and 2004 and then rFactor. Not all of them would be classics, but there weren't really any bad games there.

What I meant with my initial post is that Kunos need to take enough step forward in features and possibly complexity to make whatever price worth it. At the same time, if it is too complex and tricky, many modders will fall off. That's what happened with rF -> rF2 in terms of modding. Many just gave up, and kept modding for rF1, and then Assetto Corsa came along, filling the gap with simpler modding than rF2 and better graphics than rF1 (and rF2)
 

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