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