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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My expectation is they want to go in the esports direction.
And AC is not that. AC is primarily regarded as an open modding platform with nice freeroam content.

The main similarity I would say would just be the inclusion of road cars, but probably not as much as AC1. Also I expect a lot more drip feed DLC.. to an extent that ppl will barely tolerate.

AI and online should be a lot better though. And performance over ACC I would assume too.
 
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BertramRaven
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I have one worry over AC2 (ACE?), that it will use Unreal Engine. ACC performance is terrible because of the hoaky and often baffling interaction of options which produce worse performance, not better, when turning off options which should improve performance markedly. What is more, Unreal seems to go out of its way to screw-up anything which is not 16:9 or 4:3 ratio; a trait across all Unreal games which tank FPS when using other wider ratios even if the pixel count is far lower. For example, 4K (3840 × 2160) is no problem, but 3440x1440 (UHD) is a slide-show without very specific in-game options selected and graphical driver tweaks which may be fine in one release and then missing from the next. (NVIDIA, I am looking at you!)
LOW settings are frequently slower than Medium or High, and Epic is a soft-focus smudge-fest which would have convinced me my glasses are covered in Vaseline if it were not for the pixel-perfect sharp and clear dashboard inside the car.

So for me, ACE will be a "no-buy" if Kunos keep using Unreal Engine. I just could not stand my hobby and passion be blighted by such a spiteful graphical engine.
 
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BertramRaven said:
I have one worry over AC2 (ACE?), that it will use the Unreal Engine. ACC performance is terrible because of the hoaky and often baffling interaction of options which produce worse performance, not better, when turning off options which should improve performance markedly. What is more, Unreal seems to go out of its way to screw-up anything which is not 16:9 or 4:3 ratio; a trait across all Unreal games which tank FPS when using other wider ratios even if the pixel count is far lower. For example, 4K (3840 × 2160) is no problem, but 3440x1440 (UHD) is a slide-show without very specific in-game options selected and graphical driver tweaks which may be fine in one release and then missing from the next. (NVIDIA, I am looking at you!)
LOW settings are frequently slower than Medium or High, and Epic are a smudge fest which convinces me my glasses must covered in Vaseline.

So for me, ACE will be a "no-buy" if Kunos keep using Unreal Engine. I just could not stand my hobby and passion be blighted by such a spiteful graphical engine.
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No need for worry. This is from an article form Feb. 2022. From Marco Massarutto.

"While the team did investigate Unreal Engine 5 as a potential basis for AC2 — with UE4 underpinning ACC — it will instead be using its own newly developed engine, just as it did with AC originally."
 
Trezoitao38
I think the marketplace for mods is not for the quality, but to avoid cars from automakers that dont want their content in ACE, like Porsche or Ferrari. Or, just to avoid ripped content.

As long as mods do not harm intellectual property, whether from manufacturers or other games, they should be allowed even if the quality of physics, models, sound and other things is far below ACE's own original content.
 
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b)b said:
A lost opportunity to call it:

- Asseto Corsa Infinite
- Asseto Corsa Ultimate
- Asseto Corsa Revolution
- Asseto Corsa Generations
- Asseto Corsa Revelations
- Asseto Corsa: Origins
- Asseto Corsa Eternal
...
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Asseto Corsa Evo: Ultimate Pro: Anniversary Edition: Complete ... 2

I see a colon war coming on!
 
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Trezoitao38 said:
I think the marketplace for mods is not for the quality, but to avoid cars from automakers that dont want their content in ACE, like Porsche or Ferrari. Or, just to avoid ripped content.

As long as mods do not harm intellectual property, whether from manufacturers or other games, they should be allowed even if the quality of physics, models, sound and other things is far below ACE's own original content.
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That was true with AC.
Community didn't give two fecks and carried on anyway.
 
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Majuh said:
The fact that their slogan "Driving Simulation Evolved" doesn't mention "Racing" is somewhat worrying unfortunately.
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IIRC Stefano once said they wanted the tagline to the original AC be "Your Driving Simulator" instead of "Your Racing Simulator", but it would have been too similar to Gran Turismos tagline. So I guess it was always meant to be something like a driving sim, and it still was what it was in the end. If we already put so much weight on words in a title, it's still called "Assetto Corsa", right? :)
 
azaralamouri
Majuh said:
The fact that their slogan "Driving Simulation Evolved" doesn't mention "Racing" is somewhat worrying unfortunately.
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The majority here usually say that the the racing sims market is over-saturated.

Personally I would LOVE it if Konus makes a DRIVING simulator.
 
McGherkin
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I’d like to think that Kunos are going to make AC2 moddable. Let’s face it, all the detractors who say that they’d be sued for allowing it, well they never did with AC, and even Scawen, who spent DECADES insisting that mods would kill the game and would get them sued finally saw the light and allowed mods in LFS. AC is brilliant now, and I think they would do themselves a MASSIVE favour by allowing backwards compatibility with AC mods as it immediately opens the sim up to a huge amount of content, with better graphics, physics etc.

However, as obvious a choice as it is, Completely Barmy Studios decided that PCARS3 was a good idea, so I’m not ruling anything out.
 

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