Assetto Corsa Rally

[Darren S]

I know this was mentioned in one of the other AC threads - but I thought it might be worthy of its own thread.

Early access of v0.1 has been released today and I have to say that first impressions are very good. It looks great, sounds good too - but the biggest plus point is the lack of that weird 'hand-holding' that Dirt Rally 2.0 seemed to do for you at random.

That game had a strange steering assist that would occasionally make you feel like you were a driving god. The first couple of times you were smug in thinking that you'd nailed a section of bends - but after a while, you knew the game was pseudo-assisting you. Worse, the corners or sections that you did want the assistance, we're never there when you needed them.

ACR has none of that - you feel like the control (or inherent lack of) with the car on the surface, is purely down to you. Although they have only worked with Kunos as a technical partnership - the v0.1 release absolutely pisses all over the Assetto Corsa Evo release efforts so far. It's already a much more polished and rewarding experience.

I've only tried it with the XBox controller so far - but will give it a go with the wheel over the weekend.

Only cost £17.99 on Steam as well - due to the other Assetto titles already in my library.

 

[McGherkin]

I picked it up the moment it dropped.
The hype from the likes of Broadbent etc saying it's really good was enough for me, and that was before I realised how cheap it is - for a modern title that's an absolute steal.

I've not had a chance to play it yet myself but I can't wait to at the first opportunity I get.
Saw this fairly interesting review, drove ACR, did a rally, drove ACR again.


If they eventually expand it to have every Subaru ever campaigned, the 04 Focus and the 307 WRC I'll be happy.

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

Really interested to see how this develops. I hope they make a console version too, as I assume it will require a pretty meaty PC to run otherwise, and I can't be doing with buying another computer.

 

[Darren S]

Really interested to see how this develops. I hope they make a console version too, as I assume it will require a pretty meaty PC to run otherwise, and I can't be doing with buying another computer.

Runs very slick on my system - a Ryzen 7 5800X3D with an RTX3090 at 1440 resolution.

It looks smoother than what DIRT 2.0 is in a number of places and I've not seen any evidence of texture pop-in yet either from poorly optimised draw distances, either.

 

[mace¬]

Mines broken, car keeps coming off the road into the trees.

Edit: Also can't get the the thumbstick to register for the menus either just doesn't recognise it is there when setting the buttons

 

[Christopher.]

Loving it. Makes me want a wheel and pedals 😬

 

[SharkyUK]

Straight in, didn't set any controls, just whacked up the graphics. Didn't end well.



EDIT: Second attempt, I added authentic/current Welsh weather. Still didn't go well.

 

[Darren S]

Noticed on mine that the graphics started to stutter a bit. Once every 10 seconds or so - went down to 9fps for the briefest of moments.

Downloaded nVidia Inspector and enabled Resize Bar globally - as for some strange reason the nVidia drivers don't always apply this, even when they say they do. Super smooth again after that.

 

[Darren S]

The classic Mini in Wales at night is a lot of fun.

 

[SharkyUK]

Noticed on mine that the graphics started to stutter a bit. Once every 10 seconds or so - went down to 9fps for the briefest of moments.

Downloaded nVidia Inspector and enabled Resize Bar globally - as for some strange reason the nVidia drivers don't always apply this, even when they say they do. Super smooth again after that.

I was curious and checked my setup... resizable bar was disabled on mine, too! It didn't make a massive difference on my system but it was still noticeable. It looks and sounds so good. Even playing on a controller right now, it is so rewarding when you nail a sequence of bends.

AC Evo feels quite flat in comparison.

 

[Darren S]

Not checked the specs, but I presume the damage/repair situation isn't fully implemented yet?

Apparently all is 'normal'?

 

[McGherkin]

It’s definitely WIP, realistic damage is nothing near, seems nigh on impossible to kill your car.

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

I'm sure I saw someone say that the damage is only visual at the moment, so doesn't affect the way the car drives.

 

[Darren S]

Pretty cheap on Loaded.com for anyone still wanting to buy...

 

[Matt Cup]

Booted it up today and had a little play. I have an odd graphical issue though. There is a horizontal scan line that works itself up the screen when driving the car. Not sure how to cure it or what the actual problem is though. It does it in medium and ultra settings too.

I must add I am using my works monitor at the moment which obviously isn’t optimised for gaming so maybe that isn’t helping matters?

 

[McGherkin]

Is Vsync on?

 

[Matt Cup]

I’ll get back to you on that.

 

[Matt Cup]

Is Vsync on?

Vsync turned on sorted it! Cheers

 

[Darren S]

IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES​

• Introduced snow physics and studded tyres
• Improved overall steering wheels support. (We will keep improving the codebase until all steering wheel and sim-racing peripherals are fully supported and working)
• Improved FFB
• Improved Gravel and Tarmac physics
• Improved Audio
• Added show/hide HUD option

Patch Notes:​

NEW CONTENT:​

• Added Alpine A110 Group 4 1973
• Added “Ghiacciodromo Livigno” Ice Circuit
• Added 2 new ACR Events groups, and a total of 25 new ACR Events
• Added snow physics and snow studded tyres

STAGES AND CIRCUITS:​

• Added Ghiacciodromo Livigno Ice Circuit
• Added missing trees to backdrop areas throughout Saverne
• Improved collisions on some log piles in Saverne and Wales
• Fixed “that” traffic sign pole in the town of Saverne

CARS:​

• Added Alpine A110 Group 4 1973
• Added studded tires
• Fixed issues related to wheel offsets
• Fixed missing textures on some rims
• Mitigated pixelated glows on car lights
• Added support for all country flags on air intakes
• Fixed suspension issues
• Fixed tire flex direction

INPUT:​

• Improved overall steering wheels support. We will keep improving the codebase until all steering wheel and sim-racing peripherals are fully supported and working
• Added Hat Switch (e.g. directional buttons) support for steering wheels
• Added double gear up/down inputs
• Added possibility to bind Neutral gear on steering wheels
• Added wipers input

PHYSICS:​

• Fixed FFB inconsistency with some cars
• Improved FFB under braking
• Fixed some FFB effects that were pushing the steering wheel on the wrong side
• Improved throttle to make it more linear with gas pedal
• Improved brake power for some discs and calipers
• Improved Gravel and Tarmac physics and tyre models based on new data that we acquired. Rally drivers validated the new handling. The tyre model will keep evolving during the Early Access based on new field research, data and feedback from players and rally drivers.
• Introduced Snow physics and Snow studded tires
• Improved the behavior of tyre model at extreme drift angles
• Retuned some differentials and some setup presets

AUDIO:​

• Added engine/exhaust sounds for Alpine A110 Group 4 1973
• Added first implementation of Snow tyres surface audio
• Livigno Ice Circuit environmental audio setup
• Improved responsiveness of asphalt skid audio
• Improved vehicle scraping responsiveness
• Removed slowdown UI sounds in replay.
• Fixed issue with wall reverb being louder in cabin than external views.
• Moved rear engine emitters further forwards in surround mix.
• Many small audio mix tweaks across the game.

GAMEPLAY AND UI:​

• Added 2 new ACR Events groups and a total of 25 new ACR Events
• Fixed frequent crash after exiting the leaderboards page
• Fixes for Chinese language
• Increased ranges for camera customization settings
• Reduced allocated memory in race
• Added AI tires management to make AI times more accurate depending on race conditions
• Fixed start sequence cheat found by users
• Improved helmet camera movements
• Fix French Codriver issue with some calls having Left and Right inverted
• Fix Multiple text errors and typo
• Improved description for Differentials setup and Gear sets
• Fix UI not hidden correctly during replay and main menu
• Fixed Lithuanian Flag
• Improved time of day for each location to better reflect the period of the year
• New opening splash screen
• Fixed some road signs on Wales Hafren North and Saverne not reacting to physics
• Pace notes revision to Wales Hafren North and Saverne Reverse stages.
• Added missing dressing to some junctions of Wales Hafren North
• Fixed race start marshals not working properly on Hafren North Reverse Cut 1
• Fixed intersecting barriers at Munster
• Fixed some missing characters for player profile name
• Fixed “Service Park” time not resetting after the first service park in a rally weekend
• Added Hide/Show HUD option

ONLINE:​

• Time attack, “Recommended Time” feature: now players can choose reference times from the leaderboards and compete against them
• Faster leaderboards download
• Faster download of “best player time”
• Faster time upload
• Improved login recovery mechanism
• Fixed an authentication error that prevented the game from coming back online
• Fixed an issue with Profiles API that prevented some requests from completing in a certain scenario
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Leaderboard upload/download from completing in a certain scenario
• Migrated to a different hosting service
• Improved clustering settings
• Reduced the amount of technical telemetry recorded
• Display name is now synchronized with the Steam's one

VFX, LIGHTING AND ART DIRECTION​

• New vehicle particles for snow surfaces
• New, more persistent particle emitters for dusty materials
• New particle systems for collisions against snow
• Support for subsurface scattering on environment and props shaders
• Base track shader improvements to better support snow materials, different road conditions and track flows
• Overall shaders optimization to slightly reduce GPU and memory load
• Fixed a bug where track materials could sometimes use dynamic parameters (dynamic track) for tarmac on all other surface types
• Improved particle lighting coming from headlights and backlights
• Added support to blend some of the ground scatter meshes with the ground materials
• Added new Sky setup with Livigno Ice Circuit geographic coordinates
• Added weather presets for snowy conditions
• Updated sky system to improve the visual rendering of the atmosphere
• Added custom lighting setup for Livigno Ice Circuit

 

[SharkyUK]

I'm really enjoying this! Just about to try the latest update with a laser-scanned Monte Carlo rally over the Col de Turini.

In the meantime, a sedate drive through Wales. 👀

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

Following this with interest, though will wait for full console release, as don't have much of a gaming PC.

I really hope they get the tarmac physics right, as that seems to let down most rally games.

 

[Darren S]

Following this with interest, though will wait for full console release, as don't have much of a gaming PC.

I really hope they get the tarmac physics right, as that seems to let down most rally games.

I don't know why, but I just cannot get the flow right with rally games and using a wheel and pedals setup. It's like there's too much delay on the inputs, then completely the opposite where it's hyper sensitive and you seemingly can't even drive in a straight line.

I always do much better with an XBox pad in the end.

 

[McGherkin]

Dusted off the sim rig and had a crack at AC Rally again this evening (and AC Evo too, but I'll update that one seperately)

When I first played, the control settings were really weird. You set both ingame and the wheel to 900 degrees and the steering would be wildly off, and soft lock didn't work properly. No two cars would scale properly. I also found the steering to be massively twitchy and bouncy.

I'm happy to report that's all sorted now, soft lock works nicely and the cars all turn the right amount. I added some damper in AC Rally (20) and that massively improved things in terms of the twitchy springiness of the steering and it's now an absolute blast to drive.

The Monte stages are fecking brilliant. Fast, twisty, and a great atmosphere with plenty of cuts too. The flares and fireworks at night are great.

I do still have a couple of issues though, that I hope will get fixed. Certainly not enough to stop me enjoying it though.

No crowd noise, I know that's a bit of a low priority on a rally sim but you can hear the fireworks popping off but not the people screaming and blowing horns alongside them? It feels weird.

I'm getting a weird kind of chromatic abberation effect on the trees, but pink/green. They very faintly flicker those different colours as I'm driving the stage, it's a bit distracting.

Some of the pace notes are so early I forget them by the time I reach the corner, but others are well timed, I'll see about whether I can adjust the timing but I feel like it'll end up being a tradeoff between some being too early and some being too late.

 

[SharkyUK]

This is definitely one of my faves at the moment, even on a gamepad! I haven't even touched AC EVO recently.

I am still trying to nail a decent stage but there's always a handful of mistakes!

 

[Darren S]

Dusted off the sim rig and had a crack at AC Rally again this evening (and AC Evo too, but I'll update that one seperately)

When I first played, the control settings were really weird. You set both ingame and the wheel to 900 degrees and the steering would be wildly off, and soft lock didn't work properly. No two cars would scale properly. I also found the steering to be massively twitchy and bouncy.

I'm happy to report that's all sorted now, soft lock works nicely and the cars all turn the right amount. I added some damper in AC Rally (20) and that massively improved things in terms of the twitchy springiness of the steering and it's now an absolute blast to drive.

The Monte stages are fecking brilliant. Fast, twisty, and a great atmosphere with plenty of cuts too. The flares and fireworks at night are great.

I do still have a couple of issues though, that I hope will get fixed. Certainly not enough to stop me enjoying it though.

No crowd noise, I know that's a bit of a low priority on a rally sim but you can hear the fireworks popping off but not the people screaming and blowing horns alongside them? It feels weird.

I'm getting a weird kind of chromatic abberation effect on the trees, but pink/green. They very faintly flicker those different colours as I'm driving the stage, it's a bit distracting.

Some of the pace notes are so early I forget them by the time I reach the corner, but others are well timed, I'll see about whether I can adjust the timing but I feel like it'll end up being a tradeoff between some being too early and some being too late.

Glad I wasn't the only one who found the controls a bit weird. Not tried it since the update, so will give the wheel another bash with it at some point.

 

[Matt Cup]

This is definitely one of my faves at the moment, even on a gamepad! I haven't even touched AC EVO recently.

I am still trying to nail a decent stage but there's always a handful of mistakes!

What settings do you use for game pad and which game pad do you use? I’m finding it difficult to control the Pug 208 as the rear end is extremely skittish and am wondering if it’s the set up that I’ve got wrong.

 

[SharkyUK]

What settings do you use for game pad and which game pad do you use? I’m finding it difficult to control the Pug 208 as the rear end is extremely skittish and am wondering if it’s the set up that I’ve got wrong.

After much faffing and tweaking, I ended up back on default settings! 🤣 I think each car needs dialling in with different pad tweaks, but I haven't had time to do that. Hence, I have found the defaults to be a good all rounder and stuck with that for now. I am playing on an Xbox controller (wired, from my Xbox One X).

 

[Darren S]

So, tried the wheel with this at dinner. The feedback is absolutely lifeless - like nothing at all coming through the wheel. Almost went off into the hedges on the first bend.

Wonder if there are some Fanatec wheel setups online. Both ACC and AC Evo have way more feel than this.

 

[Matt Cup]

So, tried the wheel with this at dinner. The feedback is absolutely lifeless - like nothing at all coming through the wheel. Almost went off into the hedges on the first bend.

Wonder if there are some Fanatec wheel setups online. Both ACC and AC Evo have way more feel than this.

Have you tried this?

 

[Darren S]

Have you tried this?

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Cheers - I'll give that a try.

It's also got the issue with the PXN-CB1 switch box as well where its reading an incorrect signal from it. I have to disconnect it to use it currently, though there's likely a fix online somewhere.

 

[Darren S]

Still utterly lifeless unfortunately - did half of the Wales test turning the wheel with my little finger.

Then fired up AC Evo and immediately the FFB was there.

 

[McGherkin]

try increasing the minimum force slider.

 

[SharkyUK]

I think I will stick to gamepad for now!