Assetto Corsa Competizione’s Nordschleife Set For 1st April Release

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The Season 2024 DLC pack for Assetto Corsa Competizione now has a release date, as revealed by parent company Digital Bros.

For years, fans of Assetto Corsa Competizione have been campaigning for the Nürburgring Nordschleife to be included in the official GT World Challenge simulation – and now it seems that the interminable wait will be over sooner rather than later.

News first broke in July 2023, when motorsport series organiser SRO agreed a deal with the 24 Hours of Nürburgring to include the venerated event within the 2024 Intercontinental GT Challenge.


That then opened the door for sim developer Kunos Simulazioni to add the ‘Green Hell’ to the platform – which was not possible previously with the content being intrinsically linked to SRO-backed championships. Development of the 24-hour layout was confirmed in November 2023.

Today, 13th Match 2024, a release date for the content has been announced – 1st April 2024.

We certainly hope this is not some kind of intricate April Fool’s joke, but the financial results covering the first half of the fiscal year 2023-2024 for parent company Digital Bros reveal all:

“The Group’s release schedule for the second half of this fiscal year includes; the launch of the Season 2024 pack for Assetto Corsa Competizione on April 1st, 2024. The official video game for the Fanatec GT World Challenge championship will feature the iconic Nürburgring Nordscheifle [sic] circuit for the first time.”

Assetto Corsa Competizione’s Nordschleife Season 2024 DLC Digital Bros.jpg


The report also noted strong revenue generated from the entire Assetto Corsa franchise, including game and DLC sales across PC and console:

“…Outstanding performance of the different versions of Assetto Corsa. The franchise developed by the fully owned studio Kunos Simulazioni generated Euro 12.2 million revenue in the reporting period.”

That leaves just over two weeks until PC players, at least, can experience the ‘full’ ‘Ring within Assetto Corsa Competizione. However, additional content, such as cars and liveries, included in the ‘Season 2024’ pack remains unconfirmed.

Update, 14th March 10 am UTC​

The formal name of the DLC has now been confirmed, entitled ‘Nürburgring 24H Pack DLC’, in contrast to the ‘Season 2024 pack’ originally touted.

A PC-first release is now also locked in.


What would you like to see alongside the Nordschleife in the upcoming Season 2024 pack for ACC when it launches in April? Let us know in the comments below, or discuss in the forum.
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yeah no reason at all to race any other game, unless you want to drive something that isn't GT cars, or drive a track that isn't in ACC, or have any tastes in racing sims different than TeddyBearx which is incredibly easy to do because he comes in to be a troll on every single thread RaceDepartment opens
 
yeah no reason at all to race any other game, unless you want to drive something that isn't GT cars, or drive a track that isn't in ACC, or have any tastes in racing sims different than TeddyBearx which is incredibly easy to do because he comes in to be a troll on every single thread RaceDepartment opens
you wont change ACC has the highest players number as a "sim" in steam ;), if you want endurance, LMU/rF2...or Iracing, that's all about "sim"

edit : are you ams2 fan ? it can explain everything ;)
 
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After iRacing's April Fool's day release turned out to be quite real two years or so ago, I would keep an open mind on this. Probably an in-joke on that iRacing release, cause they couldn't be more different.
 
I highly question the accuracy here....
  • no SRO race yet (2024 liveries)
  • only very limited time left to start and run the hypetrain!
Yet I hope it's accurate, of course. :D
 
Is it just me, who reads that statement as if the 2024 season update will arrive on the first of April, to the sim that WILL (eventually at a later date) feature the Nordschleife too? I hope I'm not right, but to me it does sound like it seperate updates, and the Nords is only mentioned there to show that the game is not at it's end of support yet. I think this is just an unfortunate wording of a slide for a corporate meeting, that's all.
 
you wont change ACC has the highest players number as a "sim" in steam ;), if you want endurance, LMU/rF2...or Iracing, that's all about "sim"

edit : are you ams2 fan ? it can explain everything ;)
I play a bit of everything. iRacing, AMS1, AMS2, NR2003, Assetto Corsa, Dirt Rally, even the Codies F1 games and rFactor 1 occasionally. I have plenty of hours in AMS2 as I do enjoy the historical content it has and love just booting up and AI race and having fun in my spare time.

But the crazy part is even though there are sims I don't particularly like or play, I don't feel a need to go onto every single RaceDepartment thread about any other sim and put those sims and the people who may enjoy them down because I enjoy other sims more. Insane that that is something we as humans can do.
 
Assuming the news is correct, my brainstormed scenario would be this:
  • Kunos facing delays with data / building the Mustang & the Corvette
  • given that the Nordschleife has been in a near-finished state for a few months already
  • perhaps Kunos decided to split the planned pack into 2 seperate DLCs
  • thus releasing Nords a bit earlier and then the 2 cars a little later towards the end of summer perhaps

Advantages:
  • possibly double the cash
  • a later date for a last DLC would mean a later release date for AC2, thus more time to work on that as well
 
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