Assetto Corsa EVO: Steam Page & System Specs Available

TRASGU · Friday at 07:32

I can't believe all the people here believing that a AC EVO is not going to have modding. That's stupid, the key to success of AC was the modding capabilities, they never sent a cease and desist letter to Ilja to stop his shaders patch and content manager despite reverse engineering the game and making their old game compete with the newer one. That is them acknowledging that modding gives them more money in the long run.

I don't understand from where this lack of faith comes from, they have never been that way in the past, I even remember them purchasing and including modded content into the game: the AC Cobra, the Toyota 787B and the Zandvoort track.

If they were against modding, then Ilja would had been sued by now, or they would had released a new AC patch that would modify the game inner workings enough to kill content manager and the shaders patch. Instead they did the opposite: they never asked Ilja to stop, and they though about releasing a patch upgrading AC some of the new physics features of ACC, but they never did because it would risk getting broken the shaders patch and content manager.

Come on, they know that if they release a game without modding support and multiplayer support they are dead in the water.

Jerec · Friday at 07:43

Please not only road cars!!! Something like ACC with more car classes would be great!

McGherkin · Friday at 07:50

Jerec said:
Please not only road cars!!! Something like ACC with more car classes would be great!

ACC is the opposite of what we want. AC has always been a good mix of cars.

Anomalistics · Friday at 08:56

Kunos make terrible AI. I see no hint that this is changing in this game which is concerning. I want to enjoy the game but if its anything like AC & ACC for offline, the game is already dead for me.

Maro_Marinov · Friday at 08:57

Jerec said:
Please not only road cars!!! Something like ACC with more car classes would be great!

Please, more road cars. A lot MORE!
We have more then enough RACING sims with race cars. What we don't have is a Forza Horizon/Gran Turismo/NFS/Test Drive/etc. with PROPER physics and FFB.
And I really hope that AC Evo can deliver on that, at least to some extent.
One of the great pleasures in my life is to boot AC and drive for hours exotic supercars and sports cars that I cannot dream of driving, let alone owning in real life.

Mitja Bonca · Friday at 08:58

Again that ugly looking grass from AC1

How come they can't use something like custom shader Grass FX? Looks 1000x times better.

Stanislas · Friday at 11:10

Lafrente said:
Don't think NKP was free. And he isn't involved at all in EVO. He left Kunos during the early years of ACC.

Also AC easily sold DLCs while modding was already available. In fact some mod cars were liked so much that they were turned into official content by Kunos. AFAIK Shelby and Mazda.

Yes NKP wasn't free, but I was talking of it's predecessor... netKar Namie!

But you are right... now I remember that Stefano left simracing for sailing (by the way definitely not for money)... but I thought he came back for ACE... are your sure he will not be involved at all in the development?

decapnz · Friday at 11:15

it appears my robotic arm is stuck in hammer mode D:

Wreckoning · Friday at 11:43

It will be interesting to see how Kunos play this one. AC is different things to different people so trying to hit all of those expectations out of the gate is next to impossible.

As others have mentioned it doesn’t make financial/licensing sense to support full car or track mods at least for a while so my guess is some people will be disappointed.

Kunas probably have a decent idea of what type of “play” people are interested in, racing, free roam, drifting etc but trying to get the right balance for the initial launch might be difficult. Alot of us might well find that half of the launch content might not be the type of stuff we like.

Hope they get some more details out soon.

SharkVA · Friday at 12:40

Very interested to find out where they've taken the driving experience with tire modeling, suspension, etc. Between AC1 and ACC, Kunos have a lot of knowledge and experience accrued to apply to their latest and greatest in-house engine.

I'm also very excited for what could easily become the best VR experience we've encountered in sim racing to date. The amount of detail present and the "photorealism" could easily result in the most convincing interiors we have seen.

Not one to put the cart before the horse, but there's no fighting the hype on this one. Fingers crossed the AI blows AC and ACC AI out of the water, my body is ready for some 992 cup car action.

Michael Krone · Friday at 12:47

kpduke said:
Only a tiny, miniscule part of the mod community care about free roaming, just look through the mods on overtake. I very much doubt they have any interest in doing that.

Seriously? Look at the server list in AC, the top servers are all free roam. I think SRP alone has held the top spot for over a year now.

Lafrente · Friday at 13:52

Stanislas said:
Yes NKP wasn't free, but I was talking of it's predecessor... netKar Namie!

But you are right... now I remember that Stefano left simracing for sailing (by the way definitely not for money)... but I thought he came back for ACE... are your sure will he not be involved at all in the development?

Not for money, but you'd not have zero financial expectations, you'd want to do what you want with at least some financial return.

AC is probably like 95% his work. But I assume with ACC, he just "got it to work" with UE and then left and not involved in ACE at all. Maybe except for a few calls explaining remote technical properties of a line of code in the depths of the engine.

Would he be back or not, not with EVO I don't think. Because with EVO he has to "report" to the big company. I don't think he likes working like that.

He has incredible amount of experience, skill and knowledge that others will need a decade to catch up to. (If they ever do) It'd be a shame if he didn't put all this into another simracing title. His stuff and his decisions and no big company bs, just like AC was for quite a while, irrespective of the success or failure of Evo.

Lafrente · Friday at 13:59

Michael Krone said:
Seriously? Look at the server list in AC, the top servers are all free roam. I think SRP alone has held the top spot for over a year now.

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Who cares? It's a driving sim, and people are driving. Who says that you gotta be racing all the time? Still even counting only racing or qualifying servers, AC is the most popular if not one of the most popular sims.

Do we "blame" iRacing users for not actually racing, but really just grinding for some arbitrary numbers on the screen?

wolftree · Friday at 14:02

My view is that if ACE turns out to be just "AC with better graphics and physics but no modding", it will fail.

The original AC1 had a combination of road cars and a smattering of race cars plus a bunch of racing circuits - it was a smorgasbord sim. That doesn't work as a coherent game in 2024 because you have nothing to do with the road cars and the racing aspect is very bare bones. Luckily, Kunos made AC1 moddable so the modders fixed it by adding all the stuff it was missing - free-roam maps, traffic, better drift cars etc.

AC1 succeeded mainly because of its approachable physics - many sims in the 2008-2013 era had completely cracked physics models that at the time were either straight up arcade (RaceRoom) or drove like crap (iRacing, rFactor 2). Today we have much better physics models across the board so it's hard to go beyond what already exists. Also, ACE physics won't be as detailed as in ACC because they can't focus on a single class.

I think that they should just make ACE a street racing / drifting game (and not a smorgasbord sim) with reasonable physics (read: better than GT7) and modern graphics, plus actual game modes that people engage in instead of just endless cruising servers. Most AC1 players are racing through traffic at Shutoko, so put something like that in the game at launch. There are already too many smorgasbord sims with <1000 concurrent players, we don't need another one.

Wreckoning · Friday at 14:08

I don't necessarily think that who's currently playing what online in AC at the moment tells the story of what the wider AC base wants from the sequel. Far more people bought the game than are now playing it online.

Wolfzz · Friday at 16:10

I want one of these.... The Hoodie of Course

tr1v1um · Friday at 16:37

wolftree said:
My view is that if ACE turns out to be just "AC with better graphics and physics but no modding", it will fail.

The original AC1 had a combination of road cars and a smattering of race cars plus a bunch of racing circuits - it was a smorgasbord sim. That doesn't work as a coherent game in 2024 because you have nothing to do with the road cars and the racing aspect is very bare bones. Luckily, Kunos made AC1 moddable so the modders fixed it by adding all the stuff it was missing - free-roam maps, traffic, better drift cars etc.

AC1 succeeded mainly because of its approachable physics - many sims in the 2008-2013 era had completely cracked physics models that at the time were either straight up arcade (RaceRoom) or drove like crap (iRacing, rFactor 2). Today we have much better physics models across the board so it's hard to go beyond what already exists. Also, ACE physics won't be as detailed as in ACC because they can't focus on a single class.

I think that they should just make ACE a street racing / drifting game (and not a smorgasbord sim) with reasonable physics (read: better than GT7) and modern graphics, plus actual game modes that people engage in instead of just endless cruising servers. Most AC1 players are racing through traffic at Shutoko, so put something like that in the game at launch. There are already too many smorgasbord sims with <1000 concurrent players, we don't need another one.

I don't get this wierd sentiment that AC needs to be just a driving sim. It's the thing that allways annoyed me about AC - so many great endurance racing cars but allmost zero racing(endurance) features, wierd limitations and shortcuts in the whole game. How hard can it be to come up with a modern version of rF1? Decent physics model, endless options for customization may it be racing or just driving, easy modding options and a decent netcode. AC didn't deliver in that aspect except for it's easy moddability. There is no moddable sim currently in active development wich is quite a bit if a shame.

I also find it a far stretch to claim that rF2 didn't succeed because it drove like crap. The sole reason why it survived as long as it did was due to it's physics model and FFB that made people cope with all the shortcommings that it had and it was it's biggest strong point and obstacle at the same time. It's the number 1 reason why modding never took off for it as it did for AC. And I am allmost 100 % sure that ACE won't have the same fidelity either. Those visuals will come at a cost. And while people get a boner about how well stuff is modeled that none of us will ever be able to see while racing, it also makes it pretty clear that it'll not run as smooth as AC. I see a screenshot generator incomming, but hope to be proven wrong.

Maro_Marinov · Friday at 16:42

tr1v1um said:
I don't get this wierd sentiment that AC needs to be just a driving sim. It's the thing that allways annoyed me about AC - so many great endurance racing cars but allmost zero racing(endurance) features, wierd limitations and shortcuts in the whole game.

Because there are so many racing sims, all filled to the brink with the same GT/Endurance racing cars?

Why the hell should we want or need another one with the same content features instead of something different?

Wreckoning · Friday at 17:04

Maro_Marinov said:
Because there are so many racing sims, all filled to the brink with the same GT/Endurance racing cars?
Why the hell should we want or need another one with the same content features instead of something different?

Because we all like different stuff. I like race cars in a variety of different forms and vintages but I've got no interest in road cars, drifting or cruising.

Most people want the latest and greatest version of anything to be targeted at the stuff they like. If AC evo came out with the best optimised graphics/physics/AI engine and 90% of it was road cars and cruising maps I'd be pissed off, other people would think it was great.

Trezoitao38 · Friday at 17:14

TRASGU said:
I can't believe all the people here believing that a AC EVO is not going to have modding. That's stupid, the key to success of AC was the modding capabilities, they never sent a cease and desist letter to Ilja to stop his shaders patch and content manager despite reverse engineering the game and making their old game compete with the newer one. That is them acknowledging that modding gives them more money in the long run.

I don't understand from where this lack of faith comes from, they have never been that way in the past, I even remember them purchasing and including modded content into the game: the AC Cobra, the Toyota 787B and the Zandvoort track.

If they were against modding, then Ilja would had been sued by now, or they would had released a new AC patch that would modify the game inner workings enough to kill content manager and the shaders patch. Instead they did the opposite: they never asked Ilja to stop, and they though about releasing a patch upgrading AC some of the new physics features of ACC, but they never did because it would risk getting broken the shaders patch and content manager.

Come on, they know that if they release a game without modding support and multiplayer support they are dead in the water.

Content Manager and Custom Shader Patch is not a issue. The issue is the many content ripped from other games and other licence issues.

Assetto Corsa EVO: Steam Page & System Specs Available

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