Valencia completes upcoming ACC DLC pack

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Kunos is heavily teasing its next update for Assetto Corsa Competizione. The latest piece of content announced to be joining the game next week is the Valencia circuit.

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Teasing its supposed 'biggest ACC update ever,' Kunos has just announced the track set to join the upcoming DLC pack for Assetto Corsa Competizione. Circuit Ricardo Tormo has featured in GT World Challenge Europe for three years now and is coming to ACC next week.

The circuit completes the soon-to-be-released DLC alongside a trio of new cars. The Ferrari 296 GT3, Porsche 992 911 GT3 R and Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo 2 are also coming to the sim on 19 April.

In a Tweet announcing the track, Kunos also revealed that the content pack will be called the 2023 GT World Challenge DLC. Surprisingly enough, it will focus on this year's premier European GT3 championship. It should also bring all the drivers, teams and liveries from this coming year to the game. But don't expect every livery to feature quite yet as we are yet to see the cars compete in Round 1.

Another incomplete DLC pack​

Whilst the addition of three new cars and a circuit will provide a new lease of life to the game, it is true that the so-called 2023 GT World Challenge pack won't fully represent this season. Prior to heading to Spain for the Valencia Sprint round, the SRO series will also pay a visit to the Hockenheim Ring this year. Unfortunately, it seems this much-desired venue will remain missing from the game.

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This isn't the first time that a DLC pack for Assetto Corsa Competizione will lack key content. Back in 2020, the DLC pack for that year brought Imola to the game alongside a pair of new cars. But it lacked Magny Cours, another round from that year's season. Today, fans still call out for this gap to be filled.

Whilst it is disappointing to see the German track lack representation in the game, we remain positive about the inclusion of Valencia. Traditionally a bike track, it often lacks representation in simracing. The last time it officially featured in a title was back in the GTR2 days.

The 2023 GT World Challenge DLC will release on 19 April alongside the next update for the game which is said to be a revolutionary one. Just one week away from the big release, we are excited to see the now five year-old game rejuvenated.

Which piece of content are you most excited for in the new 2023 GT World Challenge DLC?
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For me its a sim that will never realize its full potential. A fully licensed product that will still be missing key content on the calendar (tracks). Makes no sense at all unless the hype around the DLC is to sell. Yes it will get new physics and tire updates but after a week or so you will figure it out then what???. GT2 DLC coming..........who is going to play that??? I would rather have a complete season calendar with updated and new tracks.
 
Just a speculation, but.. we know the contents of the DLC. However Kunos has never said that the DLC contains all the content coming to the game with the patch. Could be that the update will contain also a free track - Hockenheim.
 
Without more circuits the game is half dead. It's just a matter of time. I guess they are investing in Assetto Corsa 2 and they keep it with the minimum to last a couple more years (some evolution of cars and new libraries). It's a shame, the game is good.
 
Well, this may be considered good news, all things considered - but not "the greatest update ever", indeed.
Talking ACC potential, I do agree personally with all those wishing its engine overall to be enhanced (unless Kunos' folks might be already thinking about a future ACC2 to be released one day instead, of course).
But I'm still wondering why some essential tracks are still missing anyway in ACC, and Magny Cours in particular: its major competitor has it.
Boh? Would it be this too the case to wait and see what the future will bring us?
With best regards.
 
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Nice additions to be sure, but a narrow-focus sim that has held exclusive rights to the SRO series for years should include 100% of its content (e.g., cars, tracks, etc.) throughout the term of the license. Hockenheim in particular is available in several titles, so it is obviously amenable to virtual representation. And Magny-Cours also officially exists elsewhere in the sim racing space. A nice update, but the “biggest ACC update ever” moniker (which may be technically accurate based on download size) seems like underwhelming praise for an otherwise fine—yet incomplete—modern SRO simulation.
 
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So this means that the hints about GT2 they gave last year were BS? There was talk about 5-6 new cars at least.
Personally for me there is absolutely no reason to go to ACC. AC still has a lot of free and paid mods coming out, it looks better and better with each CSP update, and if I want online, I go to iRacing. ACC public servers are only Monza anyway.
GT2 is coming. They literally agreed to it the day before they announced it at Spa. This is so they can get the new GT3s out while also including a track that SRO races at. Its a stop-gap
 
Without more circuits the game is half dead. It's just a matter of time. I guess they are investing in Assetto Corsa 2 and they keep it with the minimum to last a couple more years (some evolution of cars and new libraries). It's a shame, the game is good.
Half dead comparing to what other game? RF2 and AMS2 combined dont get half as many users on steam at any given time...
 
Amazing: a full day of comments and no one has mentioned the Nordschleife yet! :D
It was your turn this week.

For me its a sim that will never realize its full potential. A fully licensed product that will still be missing key content on the calendar (tracks). Makes no sense at all unless the hype around the DLC is to sell. Yes it will get new physics and tire updates but after a week or so you will figure it out then what???. GT2 DLC coming..........who is going to play that??? I would rather have a complete season calendar with updated and new tracks.
There's some truth to that, but I'd still rather have a sim with most content than no sim at all. ACC was a stage in Kunos development as a company. This title did hit a bit of a wall with regards performance and getting all the content, some of that is due to licensing, some is probably due to covid and probably also work hours available.

ACC is still my favourite sim at the moment. Any content that comes for it now is a bonus in my mind, they should have more or less moved onto AC2. AC2 allows them to create a sim that better meets peoples expectations. It won't meet all of them but it will get closer.
 
Teasing its supposed 'biggest ACC update ever,' Kunos has just announced the track set to join the upcoming DLC pack for Assetto Corsa Competizione.
Hoping this "biggest update ever" talk means that some of the outstanding bugs will be fixed and missing quality-of-life changes made. Someone mentioned default setups... would be fantastic to have up-to-date setups that are appropriate for the latest physics engine. Would also love to see a final pass on AI lines at tracks as well (to fix corners where they are taking a line very much unlike what a human would do e.g. the chicane at Imola).
 
excellent, everyone is asking for more cars so we are getting more cars and almost noone is asking for tracks so we are not getting any tracks. Perfect...!!!
 
excellent, everyone is asking for more cars so we are getting more cars and almost noone is asking for tracks so we are not getting any tracks. Perfect...!!!

I don't see Nordschleife announcement, yet in every post we are asking for it. Not so perfect anymore innit?
 
Just a speculation, but.. we know the contents of the DLC. However Kunos has never said that the DLC contains all the content coming to the game with the patch. Could be that the update will contain also a free track - Hockenheim.
Free circuits from kunos? Don’t make me laugh.

Making tracks is like squeezing blood out of a stone for kunos. They have been one of the slowest in terms of track production.
 

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