Assetto Corsa Competizione EA Release Date to Reveal at Spa 24 Hours

Paul Jeffrey · Jul 17, 2018

AC Competizione will once again be playable at the Total Spa 24H later this month - with an Early Access release date reveal to come too!

I suppose it is fair to say ACC doesn't really need much introduction to our readers here at RaceDepartment, so I'll spare you the few lines of text waxing lyrical about the Blancpain licence, night and day and weather representation, quality mix of cars, physics, features and all that stuff and get straight to the point..

Kunos Simulazioni have taken to social media earlier today to confirm that the upcoming Assetto Corsa Competizione racing simulation will be available for members of the public to play at Spa, the new Blancpain GT Series game having a dedicated space within the paddock at the famous circuit as Kunos look to again show the work in progress title to members of the racing public.

Although you will need a paddock pass to get into the area where Kunos will be showing ACC, confirmation that a playable version of the title is another positive boost for gamers excited to get their hands on some action before the new sim releases to Steam Early Access later this year.. oh and about that, Kunos have also confirmed Spa will be the location where the Italian developers confirm the release date to Early Access for the sim.. so double excitement, even for those who can't make it over to Belgium for the race itself..

On another ACC related topic, Marco Massarutto also took the time to respond to community members concerned that Assetto Corsa Competizione is set to be optimised for Nvidia software, rightly rubbishing the assumption that ACC will work better on Nvidia hardware than other major GPU manufacturers, whist also going on to confirm that the cars not yet seen in ACC gameplay videos that participate in Blancpain are under development, and will be revealed in due course:

"Some few notes for RD users:

I had an interview with NVIDIA because NVIDIA asked for it, not because we are providing any special optimization for NVIDIA (also because we are not EPIC Games, but Kunos Simulazioni, and the game engine is made by Epic, so any particular optimization must come from them, not from us). So I can just say "thank you" to NVIDIA for the kind visibility and support they are giving us. If AMD will contact us for any interview, to support us with specific features, to provide us their hardware for testing and evaluation, I will be glad to answer to their questions, too. BTW, please learn once for all (hopefully...) that there is NO reason WHY a game developer should not support at its best ANY possible hardware, if this means to make one more user happier, and to sell one more copy of its product. So, the option "let me put these two code lines to make the game better on NVIDIA and worse on AMD cards.." doesn't exist in the real world. Of course, if you want badly to blame someone when NVIDIA or AMD provides specific drivers (at their side) that makes a particular game better, probably you should blame the other one because it didn't, not the game developer that, please remember - always wants to sell as many copies as possible of its game, to any possible hardware owner, including Commodore 64 owners, wherever is possible.

About the cars: you didn't see yet the BMW, the Bentley, the Jaguar and so on because are still under development, or because we are waiting for the approvals from the respective Brands and SRO. As soon as possible we'll provide you some WIP screens to make you happy.

EDIT: About options once you are ingame: many of the options (video, sounds, etc) will be accessible so that you don't need to come back to main menu and load the session again (BTW, loading times seem to be very fast)."

For those who are interested, the article to which Marco refers can be read HERE.

Assetto Corsa Competizione should be available on Steam Early Access Summer 2018.

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whip · Jul 27, 2018

how can it cover the 2019 season when the game is released before it even starts?

Amir Vodokotlic · Jul 27, 2018

Late summer it is than.

Find interesting that we are getting car and track one by one, when in demos they have already shown pretty much all cars are in game, and most of the tracks covered.

So a bit strange that we are getting small pieces...

This feels like strategic decision till final game release.

manc0ntr0 · Jul 27, 2018

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Echo291191 · Jul 27, 2018

They are holding the content back to slowly create hype up to the final release of the game, if they released all the cars and tracks in build 1 then thats the whole game practically.
Think most people (Including myself) expected EA to be a full game but it isn't.

natedogg1867 · Jul 27, 2018

Echo291191 said:
Think most people (Including myself) expected EA to be a full game but it isn't.

How did you come to that conclusion?

If it would be a full game at the beginning of EA, it wouldnt be EA...

VR support likely wasnt going to be completely finished at the first EA build, the career wasnt going to be fully fleshed out yet, multiplayer wasnt going to be fleshed out, the ranking systems werent going to be finished, all of the content isnt ready, etc.

pafe · Jul 28, 2018

whip said:
how can it cover the 2019 season when the game is released before it even starts?

I guess new liveries, drivers, calender will be updated when known. Release seems to be just before new season, so maybe most will be already there.

Samuel Fuller · Jul 28, 2018

AC stated on Facebook that there would be more than one car at first release. Hopefully all the cars not mentioned, which are also the cars already in AC1.

Echo291191 · Jul 28, 2018

natedogg1867 said:
How did you come to that conclusion?

If it would be a full game at the beginning of EA, it wouldnt be EA...

VR support likely wasnt going to be completely finished at the first EA build, the career wasnt going to be fully fleshed out yet, multiplayer wasnt going to be fleshed out, the ranking systems werent going to be finished, all of the content isnt ready, etc.

I came to that conclusion because we have already seen gameplay and images of Porsche, Audi, Mercedes, Lambo, Ferrari and Mclaren, most tracks like Misano, Spa, Monza, Brands etc, but they have chosen to only let us play Lambo at Nurburgring alone.

When I said full game, I dont mean the whole finished product as obviously it is EA and they will add features as each build gets released. I expected most of the basic cars and tracks that are completed to be in build 1 but as I said, they are purposely holding content back.

natedogg1867 · Jul 28, 2018

Echo291191 said:
I came to that conclusion because we have already seen gameplay and images of Porsche, Audi, Mercedes, Lambo, Ferrari and Mclaren, most tracks like Misano, Spa, Monza, Brands etc, but they have chosen to only let us play Lambo at Nurburgring alone.

When I said full game, I dont mean the whole finished product as obviously it is EA and they will add features as each build gets released. I expected most of the basic cars and tracks that are completed to be in build 1 but as I said, they are purposely holding content back.

Ok, I can see what you meant by that now

I suppose I feel somewhat similar, but I was moreso of the mindset that cars not shown yet would be the ones that come along later, like the Bentley and NSX. Though, it strikes me as odd that one of the first tracks they showed off, Monza, is the last track to release lol.

That said, they confirmed on their FB page that the demo isnt just 1 car/1 track. They could have done better and saved themselves some trouble by saying specifically what will be included in the first build, but this is a bit pointless now since all that info will be known at the release of EA at the latest.

Mr Latte · Jul 28, 2018

RasmusP · Jul 29, 2018

Can't wait for early access! Sure, it's a small build, less hyped than before seeing the roadmap but it will still be cool to see it growing and having fun with the little but hopefully already awesome content.
Just worried about the price...

Since my birthday is the last day of summer, I'm kinda triggered when someone tells me that I'm "officially not born in summer". So here is something for all of you saying that. But hey, maybe google is lying and it's a big anti-september-conspiracy that's going on, eating away the summer!