ACC Build 3 Released: Adds Multiplayer, Paul Ricard and BMW

[Paul Jeffrey]

The latest Assetto Corsa Competizione build is now live!

Adding a new car in the form of the BMW M6 GT3, a new laserscanned version of the Paul Ricard circuit and a first pass at multiplayer functionality, this is indeed a big day for the team over at Kunos Simulazioni as they move into the third stage of Early Access with Assetto Corsa Competizione.

As well as the new content added to the core title, today also brings a rather significant sized change log of fixes and amendments to the game. Well worth a read to understand some of the level of commitment being undertaken by Kunos at this early stage of development for ACC, the full update notes can be seen below:

• New BMW M6 GT3
  
• New Circuit Paul Ricard
  
• Introduced Practice Session Multiplayer Mode
  
• Introduced 3 Hours and 6 Hours Endurance race weekend
  
• New online Special Events with new content and online leaderboard
  
• Old offline Special Events (quick races) made available
  
• Setup Alignment Caster modification is now possible
  
• Setup bumpstop UP range is now in stable offset with wheel rate.
  
• Adjustments to the dry tyre model rolling resistance
  
• Adjustments to the rain tyre mode rolling resistance
  
• Wet and water surface rolling resistance and aero drag adjustments
  
• Brake ducts preparation on setup screen. Not yet available
  
• Fixed steering ratio right selector issue
  
• Fixed values on setup screen
  
• Improved trasmission and engine wobble and vibration simulation
  
• Improved start assist
  
• Improved TC logic
  
• TC logic simulation now takes into account engine and drivetrain vibration and tries to protect system malfunction.
  
• Improved pitlane limiter function.
  
• Pitlane limiter only available in 1st gear, disengages if 2nd gear selected.
  
• Ram-Air simulation for normal aspirated engines.
  
• Improvements on Lamborghini Huracán steering geometry
  
• Improvements and adjustments on all preset setups
  
• Introducing dirt buildup on cars (step 1)
  
• Fixed Bentley ABS same value 2
  
• Fixed Bentley Continental display issues with speed limiter
  
• Fixed gamepad deadzone forced in UE4
  
• Fixed z-fighting problem in replays
  
• Added Pixel Density setting in Video options for VR:
  
• pixel Density requires Resolution Scale to be set to 100
  
• removing external workarounds (e.g. modified engine.ini) recommended
  
• Nameplates with text scaling in screen space, and settings in nameplateSettings.json:
  
• textMinSizePerc: to make the text size bigger/smaller
  
• minVisibleSizePerc: to make it disappear sooner/later
  
• Added Replay tyre compounds, track lights and car dirt status
  
• New audio device selector in audio options
  
• Improved spatialization for tyres sound and all related effects
  
• Reworked logic for skid and scrub sound effects
  
• Tweaked dirtiness volume related to its level
  
• Tweaked distance attenuation for exterior sounds
  
• Radio comms resource usage optimization (loading audio on demand)
  
• Events poliphony optimization
  
• Fix missing exterior engine in some rare cases with chase camera
  
• Minor audio fixes
  
• Performance optimizations in the game thread
  
• Mouse not interfering with D-Pad \ Keyboard menu navigation anymore
  
• Added new menu page Driver Profile (only Rating section available at the moment)
  
• Fixed drivers without helmet in VR

With ACC now having reached the third update release, the title has bumped up in price accordingly. Any new adopters of the game will now have to pay a still very reasonable £29.99, and can pick the title up from the Steam platform for PC systems. Kunos have not yet revealed if the game will be moving to console in future, with more news on that subject expected when development matures heading into 2019.

Assetto Corsa Competizione is available on Steam Early Access now.

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[scottiedawg66]

Thanks for that update Kunos!
Dude the VR experience whit my rift is so horrible! Cant see nothing whit a 1080 ti..
I hope next update will optimize the VR experience.. and also mouse support in menu!
Keep the good work Kunos!

What are your issues specifically? I have a 1070 i8700 rig and rift and I get smooth Vr with mid settings and 120 pixel density. I do find it very hard to perceive the track at Paul Ricard. Other tracks/ wet are good for me

 

[Fanapryde]

This added some 15' to my driving, marginally over 4hrs now.
These blue track side lines at Ricard are not really helping (considering the lack of triple screen support), even make it worse, because they flicker.
Beamer looks OK.
Waiting for the next update, and the next, and....hoping there will be triple screen support by then. In the meantime I really have no reason to start ACC again.

 

[Ole Andreasen]

Hey guys.
This is probably going to sound stupid and strange, but I´ll try it out anyway.

First of all - we have once again established the fact that gaming is religion. I mean - I have seen a lot of titles (also in Early Access) being judged. Being judged hard. Being judged violently even. And this title - ACC, well I see people saying that the VR sucks, that the FBB sucks, that the AI sucks that the UI sucks... and so on and so on - and still most have those closing remarks stating that "the future looks bright", "The end result will be epic", and all that.
Nothing wrong with that - don´t get me wrong. I purchased it too, and I update it and try it out when the updates come - but then I seem to forget it until next update.

Now - what is to say about ACC? I am not really sure. I load it up - find a car, and a track - and hey luckily the choices are now much broader than couple of months ago - I mean - one car, one track - one choice. Then two cars, two tracks - four combinations. And as of yesterday, three cars, three tracks - nine combinations... so getting better in that department for sure - and soon it will be 16.

So - as i said, I enter a car on a track. Sit there, and feel - nothing! I don´t know why, but the title, at least for now gives me nothing at all in the joyful emotions department. I don´t feel "Yeaaaa going to race now" It feels more like I am looking at a picture - a painting, of a car on a track. Graphics are nice enough - but it dosen´t exactly feel... real.
It feels to me, kind of like Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator" - the original one. Arnold had it all. body, muscles, skin and attitude. But he didn´t have any soul at all. He felt OFF. This was on purpose of course and part of his charm. They did put some soul into him in the sequel, which was kind of a shame - but hey that´s Hollywood for ya.

Entering ACC, I have the same feeling. The game has the Cars, the Tracks, the bells and whistles. But for me at least - it lacks soul. It feels OFF somehow. Feels like kissing your sister...

Not to flame anything - not to be rude. But this is, in all honesty how I feel about it - and I don´t really know why. Cannot put a finger on what it is - why it feels like that to me, but it does.

Not really helping the devs with this, I am aware, and I´ll try to figure out something more helpful to say - but for now this is my $0.02.

 

[Alex72]

What are your issues specifically? I have a 1070 i8700 rig and rift and I get smooth Vr with mid settings and 120 pixel density. I do find it very hard to perceive the track at Paul Ricard. Other tracks/ wet are good for me

You: "I do find it very hard to perceive the track at Paul Ricard".
Other dude: "Cant see nothing whit a 1080 ti..".

Im guessing its the same issue, lol?

 

[dave kirk]

Thanks for that update Kunos!
Dude the VR experience whit my rift is so horrible! Cant see nothing whit a 1080 ti..
I hope next update will optimize the VR experience.. and also mouse support in menu!
Keep the good work Kunos!

In practice/Hotlap I can get VR looking nice, as soon as there are other cars it's just crap

 

[Alex Townsend]

Do you know what EA means at all?

Ok then, @Piotr Dul , how does one disagree with a user asking another of their understanding of the term, "Early Access"?
I'm genuinely interested.

 

[leillo1975]

After 0.3 update the game still continues being playable in Linux with Steam Play/Proton, with Force Feedback support in my G27. I have a little better performance than in 0.2 release. Important: Multiplayer online also works, but with the same problems as in Windows. The starting video is not played as always
I'm using Proton 3.16-4 beta with nvida 415.13 beta drivers in Ubuntu 18.10.
Obviously, is always better a native versión (with UE4 is perfectly possible, even with Vulkan support).

 

[Richard Dastardly]

Entering ACC, I have the same feeling. The game has the Cars, the Tracks, the bells and whistles. But for me at least - it lacks soul. It feels OFF somehow. Feels like kissing your sister...

Not to flame anything - not to be rude. But this is, in all honesty how I feel about it - and I don´t really know why. Cannot put a finger on what it is - why it feels like that to me, but it does.

Well, I don't have a sister so I can't say how that feels but I think I get what you're saying anyway; I suspect some of that really is expectations but more is that this is not very instantly accessible for anyone, I haven't really started feeling anything in any build until half an hour or so of driving. After a while something creeps up on me & I realise that wow, yes, I'm actually really enjoying this experience.

It's a bit of a fragile situation because of the current technical issues & content limitations, but I think it's enough to see that there is a good core there, which is also enough to be optimistic about later builds.

 

[Robin_NL]

Completely disagree but I would say that is how I would describe the Bentley right now, anyways the future looks promising for the game!

M6 drives way better and nicely balanced als on the wet. Not saying it's miles ahead of Lambo/Bentley, it just drives/slides(in the rain with TC off) realistically imho.
I attend track and driftdays in real life but never drove an M6 GT3 irl though

Cheers
Robin

 

[Oldzeb]

Early game ok, but they made us photo realistic screens with a UE4 sold as the messi, but in game none of that yet... and I'm not even talking about the VR for now AC is better, the paul ricard is awful in VR I'm not talking about performance or IA/ffb/physics it's too early yet! still a lot of work to do!

 

[whip]

What are your issues specifically? I have a 1070 i8700 rig and rift and I get smooth Vr with mid settings and 120 pixel density. I do find it very hard to perceive the track at Paul Ricard. Other tracks/ wet are good for me

i can guarantee you that you will not be getting 90 fps on them settings in multiplayer or any session with other cars about

i hate it when ppl claim a smooth experience and vr is running well when they are getting 45fps, its like ppl claiming a games frame rate is ok on a monitor when they are getting 30

 

[Andreas Knöpke]

The track seems to have a lot of flickering.

Does anybody have experience with the sharpness slider?
It's default at 80% but goes up to 300%.
Big FPS loss there?
Didnt have much time to test yesterday.

 

[Ben Lee]

So I tried the update last night, just a single car on Paul Ricard. The FFB whilst pretty good, still isn’t quite in the same league as AC. The BMW felt ok when I drove it, I also drove the Lambo around Paul Ricard, it still has this slightly digital feel to it the way the car loses and regains grip at the rear, just feels odd, the BMW and Bentley feel better in this regard, so maybe it’s just the Lambo. I also have a general lack of front end feel with all cars, I can’t really tell when the front is understeering, it just feels kinda numb to me.

 

[Erazor77]

Hey guys.
This is probably going to sound stupid and strange, but I´ll try it out anyway.

First of all - we have once again established the fact that gaming is religion. I mean - I have seen a lot of titles (also in Early Access) being judged. Being judged hard. Being judged violently even. And this title - ACC, well I see people saying that the VR sucks, that the FBB sucks, that the AI sucks that the UI sucks... and so on and so on - and still most have those closing remarks stating that "the future looks bright", "The end result will be epic", and all that.
Nothing wrong with that - don´t get me wrong. I purchased it too, and I update it and try it out when the updates come - but then I seem to forget it until next update.

Now - what is to say about ACC? I am not really sure. I load it up - find a car, and a track - and hey luckily the choices are now much broader than couple of months ago - I mean - one car, one track - one choice. Then two cars, two tracks - four combinations. And as of yesterday, three cars, three tracks - nine combinations... so getting better in that department for sure - and soon it will be 16.

So - as i said, I enter a car on a track. Sit there, and feel - nothing! I don´t know why, but the title, at least for now gives me nothing at all in the joyful emotions department. I don´t feel "Yeaaaa going to race now" It feels more like I am looking at a picture - a painting, of a car on a track. Graphics are nice enough - but it dosen´t exactly feel... real.
It feels to me, kind of like Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator" - the original one. Arnold had it all. body, muscles, skin and attitude. But he didn´t have any soul at all. He felt OFF. This was on purpose of course and part of his charm. They did put some soul into him in the sequel, which was kind of a shame - but hey that´s Hollywood for ya.

Entering ACC, I have the same feeling. The game has the Cars, the Tracks, the bells and whistles. But for me at least - it lacks soul. It feels OFF somehow. Feels like kissing your sister...

Not to flame anything - not to be rude. But this is, in all honesty how I feel about it - and I don´t really know why. Cannot put a finger on what it is - why it feels like that to me, but it does.

Not really helping the devs with this, I am aware, and I´ll try to figure out something more helpful to say - but for now this is my $0.02.

Your post expresses exactly my feelings about this title at the moment. It has no soul, it feels sterile. The graphics and the sound are there, but I don't feel connected with the car. It feels somewhat strange to me.

 

[Zoltan76]

Hey guys.
This is probably going to sound stupid and strange, but I´ll try it out anyway.

First of all - we have once again established the fact that gaming is religion. I mean - I have seen a lot of titles (also in Early Access) being judged. Being judged hard. Being judged violently even. And this title - ACC, well I see people saying that the VR sucks, that the FBB sucks, that the AI sucks that the UI sucks... and so on and so on - and still most have those closing remarks stating that "the future looks bright", "The end result e has the Cars, the Tracks, the bells and whistles. But for me at least - it lacks soul. It feels OFF somehow. Feels like kissing your sister...

Not to flame anything - not to be rude. But this is, in all honesty how I feel about it - and I don´t really know why. Cannot put a finger on what it is - why it feels like that to me, but it does.

Not really helping the devs with this, I am aware, and I´ll try to figure out something more helpful to say - but for now this is my $0.02.

Hey guys.
This is probably going to sound stupid and strange, but I´ll try it out anyway.

First of all - we have once again established the fact that gaming is religion. I mean - I have seen a lot of titles (also in Early Access) being judged. Being judged hard. Being judged violently even. And this title - ACC, well I see people saying that the VR sucks, that the FBB sucks, that the AI sucks that the UI sucks... and so on and so on - and still most have those closing remarks stating that "the future looks bright", "The end result will be epic", and all that.
Nothing wrong with that - don´t get me wrong. I purchased it too, and I update it and try it out when the updates come - but then I seem to forget it until next update.

Now - what is to say about ACC? I am not really sure. I load it up - find a car, and a track - and hey luckily the choices are now much broader than couple of months ago - I mean - one car, one track - one choice. Then two cars, two tracks - four combinations. And as of yesterday, three cars, three tracks - nine combinations... so getting better in that department for sure - and soon it will be 16.

So - as i said, I enter a car on a track. Sit there, and feel - nothing! I don´t know why, but the title, at least for now gives me nothing at all in the joyful emotions department. I don´t feel "Yeaaaa going to race now" It feels more like I am looking at a picture - a painting, of a car on a track. Graphics are nice enough - but it dosen´t exactly feel... real.
It feels to me, kind of like Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator" - the original one. Arnold had it all. body, muscles, skin and attitude. But he didn´t have any soul at all. He felt OFF. This was on purpose of course and part of his charm. They did put some soul into him in the sequel, which was kind of a shame - but hey that´s Hollywood for ya.

Entering ACC, I have the same feeling. The game has the Cars, the Tracks, the bells and whistles. But for me at least - it lacks soul. It feels OFF somehow. Feels like kissing your sister...

Not to flame anything - not to be rude. But this is, in all honesty how I feel about it - and I don´t really know why. Cannot put a finger on what it is - why it feels like that to me, but it does.

Not really helping the devs with this, I am aware, and I´ll try to figure out something more helpful to say - but for now this is my $0.02.

It depends on how hot your sister is...

 

[Andreas Knöpke]

Multiplayer was impossible to test yesterday as every server was laggy AF.
No complaining though.
#babysteps

 

[Brent Mills]

Funny how people's impressions can be so different. For me ACC is leagues ahead of AC in everything: handling, FFB, sound and graphics. I'm only on a single screen but it's most immersive sim racing experience I've ever had, it just makes my brain think 'yeh this is how a real racecar handles', even though I don't actually know.

I hope RD will be organising a race event soon. I know we only have practise mode but it could be done over teamspeak getting people to grid up and then a countdown.

 

[Jempy]

Entering ACC, I have the same feeling. The game has the Cars, the Tracks, the bells and whistles. But for me at least - it lacks soul. It feels OFF somehow. Feels like kissing your sister...

Not to flame anything - not to be rude. But this is, in all honesty how I feel about it - and I don´t really know why. Cannot put a finger on what it is - why it feels like that to me, but it does.

That's exactly what I'm also feeling .... something is disturbing but I cannot find exactly why and what.
I have the new update but I'm not even eager to test it ... as I'm already feeling that nothing's changed at this point of view.

Just a big 1st impression that I'm not at ease in any view: cockpit, dash or helmet ( other views are a no-go for me ). ....
is this the fact that I'm used with TrackIR and there's no support for it ?.... is this a FOV problem on a 21/9 monitor ? ...is this a seat settings problem ? .... I don't know exactly but I always feel like a prisoner in a cage who just see the road through a narrow horizontal hole.

 

[TobiasR]

Biggest question for me: Can I run it on a secondary monitor yet?

 

[Brent Mills]

That's exactly what I'm also feeling .... something is disturbing but I cannot find exactly why and what.
I have the new update but I'm not even eager to test it ... as I'm already feeling that nothing's changed at this point of view.

Just a big 1st impression that I'm not at ease in any view: cockpit, dash or helmet ( other views are a no-go for me ). ....
is this the fact that I'm used with TrackIR and there's no support for it ?.... is this a FOV problem on a 21/9 monitor ? ...is this a seat settings problem ? .... I don't know exactly but I always feel like a prisoner in a cage who just see the road through a narrow horizontal hole.

Try bonnet cam, you won't look back.