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 😬