Confirmed: Assetto Corsa 2 Will Be Called 'Assetto Corsa Evo'

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Images: Kunos/505 Games, plus in-game taken by OverTake
The name of the ‘second Assetto Corsa’ is believed to be ‘Evo’, following a teaser inside Competizione’s Nürburgring Nordschleife DLC.

UPDATE April 2, 2024:
A day after the ACC Nordschleife release, the new name for the highly-anticipated successor has been made official via the official Assetto Corsa X account. A post on the social media platform confirms that the new title is indeed going to be called Assetto Corsa Evo. The newsletter subscription widget now also works.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775161273166012727

Original article April 1, 2024:

Today is the day, for April Fool’s jokes – although 505 Games and Kunos Simulazioni didn’t get the memo, as they released the 24H Nürburgring Pack for Assetto Corsa Competizione and the name for its next project.

Assetto Corsa Evo.

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The mysterious banner in the new Nürburgring 24H layout within Assetto Corsa Competizione

When driving the Nürburgring 24H layout in the new DLC, on the Grand Prix Loop on the outside of the Michelin-Kurve you will see a billboard. It displayed ‘2024’ in large font, followed by a QR code.

Scan that with your phone and you are taken to a landing page for ‘Assetto Corsa Evo’ with the tagline “driving simulation evolved.”

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Scan the QR code to visit the new 'Assetto Corsa Evo' website

Sign-ups for an email newsletter are available but do not work at the time of publication.

While Evo is believed to be the designated title for the much-anticipated sequel to the 2014 driving simulation, Kunos nor 505 Games was able to confirm at this time.

Not much else is known at this point, other than financial documents as recently as last month slating the next Assetto Corsa game for a PC early access release in Summer 2024, and prior statements confirming a console launch later.

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“The new Assetto Corsa is going to follow what we did with Assetto Corsa 1,” said Executive Manager at developer Kunos Simulazioni, Marco Massarutto, to OverTake in March.

“Yet, it is not just a sequel, it is much, much, more. It’s definitely not a spin-off like Competizione.”

The countdown begins...

Let us know your wildest theories in the comments below or on X, @OverTake_gg.
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azaralamouri
Off-topic:

I hope there will be a feature to assign the blame when contact happen.

They have all the data in the physics engine, they can control how to use it. For example, who wasn't following the racing line, who was too fast and was understeering..etc
 
guidofoc
Chazz Ranger said:
Driving Simulation has me worried. I now have the bad feeling this is going to be more Forza Horizon than Assetto Corsa. Not a fan of road 'racing', especially fictional environments. AC fictional tracks were well done but I drove them maybe once or twice. Authentic track racing for me thanks, with race cars. No interest in driving consumer cars in a sim, I have my own :D
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Wow, so you have a LaFerrari in your garage! That is cool! :D

Joking aside, to me "driving" means that the sim covers a bigger scope of car-related activities than just racing on a track. I personally love driving Ferrari and Porsche road cars in AC, but love as well racing the racecars. Some other people love drifting in AC, others are crazy about touge, or tarmac rally, hillclimb etc, others love doing track days at the Nordschleife in their Miata. Even the original AC, before mods took over, was open to many disciplines.

It was a Kunos decision to create AC as an open platform, given how small the team was. But they could do that only because the underlying physics engine was good enough to be adapted to whatever you want and still provide a credible and fun driving experience. So driving is at the core of AC. Actually if i remember well I read that Marco said he originally wanted the slogan of AC to be "your driving simulator" but then he was convinced to change it to "your racing simulator".

Kunos will have definitely made some choices about what to focus on in AC Evo. I too hope this does not transform a "sim" into a "car-based videogame". I am confident they do understand, though, that without an engaging and credible driving "core" simulation it will be hard to make people leave AC for AC Evo, even with amazing career modes and single player championship options.

My hope is that they are building upon the key foundations of AC (credible and fun physics, cars and tracks built with quality in mind, tools to create new cars and tracks) and fixing the key weaknesses of AC (AI, netcode, rain and night cycle) by taking the best of what they have developed for ACC and improving on that.
 
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guidofoc said:
Wow, so you have a LaFerrari in your garage! That is cool! :D

Joking aside, to me "driving" means that the sim covers a bigger scope of car-related activities than just racing on a track. I personally love driving Ferrari and Porsche road cars in AC, but love as well racing the racecars. Some other people love drifting in AC, others are crazy about touge, or tarmac rally, hillclimb etc, others love doing track days at the Nordschleife in their Miata. Even the original AC, before mods took over, was open to many disciplines.

It was a Kunos decision to create AC as an open platform, given how small the team was. But they could do that only because the underlying physics engine was good enough to be adapted to whatever you want and still provide a credible and fun driving experience. So driving is at the core of AC. Actually if i remember well I read that Marco said he originally wanted the slogan of AC to be "your driving simulator" but then he was convinced to change it to "your racing simulator".

Kunos will have definitely made some choices about what to focus on in AC Evo. I too hope this does not transform a "sim" into a "car-based videogame". I am confident they do understand, though, that without an engaging and credible driving "core" simulation it will be hard to make people leave AC for AC Evo, even with amazing career modes and single player championship options.

My hope is that they are building upon the key foundations of AC (credible and fun physics, cars and tracks built with quality in mind, tools to create new cars and tracks) and fixing the key weaknesses of AC (AI, netcode, rain and night cycle) by taking the best of what they have developed for ACC and improving on that.
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Yeah i think it's pretty clear that they always wanted to be a driving simulation and have space for all kinds of driving experiences, that's why the base game had drift content or a hillclimb stage and a couple rally cars. Was is thought to be used as a rally sim? Obviously not, but i think they wanted to set a base so if people was able to sort it, it would be easier for them (remember that kunos also did a hillclimb simulator). Same goes for drift for example. So the slogan reassures me, it means that it looks like they are keeping the way they did things with the first game.
 
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BernL
Give us better cameras please. Find RF2 Sebring, now that is track side camera work.
After all, it's about the visuals. Or even AC Road Atlanta Mod has way better camera work.
 
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*I haven't read most of the posts on this thread, just chipping in my opinion of mods vs unmoddable.

While I will always prefer a platform open to modding vs a closed one, I'll at least say I thought the original AC DLC packs were a decent value compared to some others. Hopefully that will remain the case with AC Evo. Of course, AC has become the legend it is because of mods. I'm sure Kunos are well aware of that.

I understand why devs would want to keep a 1st party DLC only product, but for the sim crowd in particular I feel like allowing mods is sort of a gesture of good will. And, in a roundabout way it still generates sales for the developer - I can think off the top of my head at least 6 games/sims I've purchased over the last 20 years specifically because they were open to mods.
 
maranello78
I hope Assetto Corsa Evo will be ACC on 2024 and next, i think we don´t need another simulator, we just need more DLC for ACC like TCR, FFSA and more tracks or licences like GT America, i hope they ´ll get RaceRoom as "a way to continues ACC" we got rain, random weather, day/night races, and many classes like GT2, GT3, GT4 and many more, so please Kunos continues with ACC with more DLC´s. If they add TCR and some LMP3 will be king.
 
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maranello78 said:
I hope Assetto Corsa Evo will be ACC on 2024 and next, i think we don´t need another simulator, we just need more DLC for ACC like TCR, FFSA and more tracks or licences like GT America, i hope they ´ll get RaceRoom as "a way to continues ACC" we got rain, random weather, day/night races, and many classes like GT2, GT3, GT4 and many more, so please Kunos continues with ACC with more DLC´s. If they add TCR and some LMP3 will be king.
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Please speak for yourself. ACC is fine - especially now with Nordschleife added - but I still need new and improved AC with modding support. While CM+CSP is good and all, it's time for something fresh from KS themselves.
 
maranello78
TzZyO said:
Please speak for yourself. ACC is fine - especially now with Nordschleife added - but I still need new and improved AC with modding support. While CM+CSP is good and all, it's time for something fresh from KS themselves.
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Ac modding? no thank you, i prefer buy a oficial DLC, i´m tired of disaster mods, with any real sensation with the original car. At least released by Kunos we understand someone put some interest on 3D models and physics. And modding is a open door for cheaters, no thank you, we got enough. Something fresh? what are u looking for? day/night races? rain? random weather? multiclass races?.. I played Ac1 since 2014, and still cannot see some original cars on servers...why?..is always the same thirsty feeling of gimme gimme more. Sorry, for me i learned works with ACC servers, skin system, weather, races...and i´m very happy, just need more tracks laser scaned and maybe more licences to be happier on ACC
 

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