Assetto Corsa Competizione Interview Questions Request!

[Paul Jeffrey]

Having snagged a nice interview with Kunos Simulazioni about the new Assetto Corsa Competizione simulation, we want your interview questions!

So in the spirit of community engagement I need your help once again! I've got an interview lined up with the developers of the upcoming Assetto Corsa Competizione and would like you all to throw down your burning questions for the devs...

Please keep it compact, sensible and concise and one question per post please. Make it easy on me, I expect lots of responses.. !

While I have your attention, feel free to pop in your wish list requests on this thread HERE.

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

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[MarcG]

Will the Mirrors in VR be Dynamic?
Is the Menu System designed with VR in mind? (for example Crosshair Dot when looking and button/click to Select, that sorta thing)

 

[Andy_J]

Just please concentrate on making the game the best it can be with the best AI since GP4. I'll be happy then.

 

[James Beam]

My burning question, what will the multiplayer format be? An integral part of the game with rating system or an afterthought as in AC?

 

[Deleted member 241736]

Will there be an extra ACC official forum? And will then KUNOS and his guys suffer negativ criticism like Paul J. reply gentle all the time in RD? Or fanboys only?

 

[johnny_91]

Will we have empty tracks for preseason-testing ? When i speak about empty tracks i mean, no spectators, no tents, no cameracranes, no movies on the trackscreens, no flagbanners and a complete empty paddock/pitlane.

Do cars have carbon or plain white liveries,when the team is in their pre-season preparation ?
Speaking in the kind of the preseson preperation it would be great to also have no liveries on the cars, like in reallife, when a team goes for a first rollout of their car of choice.

Does ACC include the official test days at Paul Ricard ?

Do we gonna get changing seasons like in Pcars2 ? (spring/summer/autumn/winter)

 

[David Wright]

I see lots of questions/requests for extra racing series involving lots of new tracks. Anyone who has followed AC development knows that while Kunos have plenty of capacity for making new cars, their track making capacity has always been limited. The majority of ACC tracks are already in AC though presumably they will require some reworking. So this prompts my question.

We have heard about expansion in the development team. Have you recruited any more track makers?

 

[RMR1]

Will there be an extra ACC official forum? And will then KUNOS and his guys suffer negativ criticism like Paul J. reply gentle all the time in RD? Or fanboys only?

There already is an ACC subsection on the Kunos support forum. Yeah, do you notice the name change?

 

[Alex72]

Will UE4 enable Kunos to implement mirrors that reflect the players' car itself?

They said it has "real mirrors".

 

[Bernd Graf]

Is the FFB code going to be completely rewritten, incorporated with elements of the new game engine, or based off the legendary Assetto Corsa FFB model?

 

[melanieuk]

To be fair it is mostly the same fifteen to twenty questions asked over and over again.

Exactly, I got bored reading the questions half way through page 3, the most absurd question of the lot was this one "Will those who purchased Assetto Corsa get this title for free?".

Do you work for free? ridiculous question...

Thumbs up 100 times, a absurd question, like really, so if every developer had that mind set, everyone who purchased Code Masters F1 201X should receive every single yearly copy of the F1 series for free, rFactor 2 should have been given for free if I owned rFactor 1, same goes for Project cars, and all the simbin race series, totally mind numbing questions from people you'd think are adults, with sense.

 

[TTM75]

Real time weather?

 

[mantasisg]

Yeah... be happy that it won't be a subscribtion model, like that sim which has a name and user base similar to iPhone. Or will it ?

 

[GranDoxin]

Will there be for offline endurance races have a AI partner?
Saving a long offline race, that would continue later?

Will we see in future dlc new series, for example ACC WEC, and whether historical series are possible, for example ACC Group-C 1993, ACC DTM 1993, ACC GrandPrix 1955, etc?

 

[dud]

Will mod support for Python (or equivalent language, Lua or whatever) be comparable to what AC has?

 

[mantasisg]

Will the lowest possible temp be 10C again, or now it will be all the way to the 0C ?

 

[Max Seidenstuecker]

How will a mod integration look like on Unreal 4? Is it planned to expose an SDK to Blueprints? Or an equivalent to ksEditor, which would be an UE4 editor plugin?

 

[dud]

Please clarify the scope of included grids:

• will it be GT3 cars only? (i.e. no LMP)
• will it be tracks and cars from one season only? If so, 2018 or something else?
• if it is one season, what are future plans? Just subsequent seasons or is there hope to hop back several years to get a different set of cars (looking at the 997 Carrera here)

Please clarify modding support:

• Expansion in a programming language, in or out? If in, which language? If in, will be amount of information sent to apps be comparable to AC?
• Will existing Unreal mechanisms such as their console and custom languages be supported?
• Will programmed extensions be able to render into 2D surfaces other than the screen? I am thinking of allowing us to draw into the car's 3D dashboard (providing us with one 2D pane, I understand Kunos probably won't let us render freely into 3D). Or render into a car's existing LCD screen. This would be very beneficial in VR. Flat screen-rendered things don't actually exist in VR anymore. Rendering into a surface fixed to the car's interior would greatly help with immersion.
• Loading of car and track mods comparable to AC? Throw in a 3D model, some sounds and a bunch of ASCII files?
• If loading of models for cars and tracks is supported, will it be Kunos-designed interfaces only like in AC or will special Unreal engine mechanisms be exposed?
• Any chance to be a bit easier on the modders sound-wise? I understand the bank support with no ability to override individual sounds for Kunos' own cars. For mods it would be great to use bank files and override individual items, the same way that your car 3D model comes will all the textures, but you can override individual textures simply to placing a texture file in a directory. Or to express it another way, "skins support for sounds"?

 

[Steve Worrell]

Will we have empty tracks for preseason-testing ? When i speak about empty tracks i mean, no spectators, no tents, no cameracranes, no movies on the trackscreens, no flagbanners and a complete empty paddock/pitlane.

Do cars have carbon or plain white liveries,when the team is in their pre-season preparation ?
Speaking in the kind of the preseson preperation it would be great to also have no liveries on the cars, like in reallife, when a team goes for a first rollout of their car of choice.

Does ACC include the official test days at Paul Ricard ?

Do we gonna get changing seasons like in Pcars2 ? (spring/summer/autumn/winter)

I can't imagine this will be a popular request but for the record I love this idea. This level of detail is what does it go me .

 

[dud]

I can't imagine this will be a popular request but for the record I love this idea. This level of detail is what does it go me .

I would think of this as "skins for tracks". The same way that you have a bunch of different skins for cars that override a couple of textures you can do it for tracks. Kill spectators and banners by overriding with a transparent texture in a skin.

Have different styles of skins for the same track, which results in different advertising, more or less spectators. Spectators in summer and winter clothing. The Huns invading. That sort of think.

Just think of spectators with umbrellas. How much that would do for a rain date?

 

[Moritz Hengelhaupt]

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Having snagged a nice interview with Kunos Simulazioni about the new Assetto Corsa Competizione simulation, we want your interview questions!

So in the spirit of community engagement I need your help once again! I've got an interview lined up with the developers of the upcoming Assetto Corsa Competizione and would like you all to throw down your burning questions for the devs...

Please keep it compact, sensible and concise and one question per post please. Make it easy on me, I expect lots of responses.. !

While I have your attention, feel free to pop in your wish list requests on this thread HERE.

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

Check out the Assetto Corsa Competizione here at RaceDepartment for the latest news and discussions regarding this exciting upcoming sim. We intend to host some quality League and Club Racing events as well as hosting some great community created mods (we hope!). Join in the discussion today.

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Go on then, get your questions in below!