Kunos Simulazioni Celebrates 8 Year Anniversary of Assetto Corsa Launch

passenger said:

Didn't Kunos say that AC was going to be updated in terms of physics?
Will there be an update soon? I think I read that somewhere some time ago... That would be great.

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I heard something like that, but it'd break entirety of CSP I'm fairly sure; and anyway, there is no point, Cphys is already better than anything else out there. ACC has some minor advantages over Cphys but that's not going to be true later once some more features get completed.

Besides, anything substantial would be parametrized, and I don't think Aris is going to come back and look at 150+ cars again. Most of them need to be redone from the ground up anyway with better data and more time spent, which is what I had to do. There's your physics update.

Kyuubeey said:

I heard something like that, but it'd break entirety of CSP I'm fairly sure; and anyway, there is no point, Cphys is already better than anything else out there. ACC has some minor advantages over Cphys but that's not going to be true later once some more features get completed.

Besides, anything substantial would be parametrized, and I don't think Aris is going to come back and look at 150+ cars again. Most of them need to be redone from the ground up anyway with better data and more time spent, which is what I had to do. There's your physics update.

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Stefano as much as said they couldn't update it as it would break CSP. He wasn't too happy about that.

Oh well... Now I remember that I read that on one of their ACC's latest roadmaps. Time will tell.

If there was one game that would be for why mod support should be present in games, it's this one.

Mods have easily made this one of the goated sims

mantasisg said:

I certainly hope AC2 would be moddable and actually more red pilled than AC, and ACC, hopefully on iR or even rF2 realism level.
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My prediction about AC2: no modding and that it will be blue pilled. Wish being wrong.

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I just think it would be the dumbest possible thing to make Assetto Corsa 2: the squel to AC without mods. It is just so dumb because if they don't want mods then they can literally call it something else. Assetto Corsa: Extreme, AC: Evolution. For me Assetto is a certain kind of product. It has strong emphasis on modding, multiplayer and wide selection of cars. Modding is a lot more than just cars and tracks. Ac is almost fully and completely moddable. People can make a mod car, someone else can make a skin for it, someone else can make new soundbank, all textures can be changed without extracting or unpacking or reverse-engineering anything while after all this it is still 100% working thing online. Apps, graphics mods, custom launchers and whole new UIs with physics improvements. The word modding contains so much stuff that that any other modding platform pales totally in comparison.

AC also has its obvious downsides. Career and single player modes are awful, cars and tracks instead of series. Individual pieces of content from whereever instead of organized content packs. No support for racing rules and physics support for various things is rather thin.

To go from that to no-moddable monthly dlc game like ams2 is simply not Assetto Corsa 2. It is something else just like ACC is something else. There is a good reason ACC is not called AC2 (don't care about what the exe name is called).

gamma123152 said:

I don't see why it must explicitly be modded content to be good? Good content is good content, no matter how it's generated.

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Modding is more than just being able to download content. It is also about making it. Personally I really like doing stuff for ac. Cars and tracks. Liveries. Maybe some day I learn to code some app. All these different things I can do in ac. If there is an obvious omission with cars I can just make it and even release for other people to enjoy as well. Or hope that someone else makes it. Regardless someone else will make something interesting and high quality.

I can race it online and get even more enjoyment out of it. Sometimes I don't feel like driving so I can just start blender and do some 3d modelling. Or work on some cars. Sometimes the other way around. I just enjoy doing all these different parts that for me are simracing. Modding is for me part of simracing hobby just like the driving, racing, making car liveries or organizing league events might be for someone else. Someone might be satisfied with the base content and I get that too. Someone might rarely download a mod. Been there, done that and was happy doing just that. But such limited scope does not interest me anymore.

Thank you Kunos, I love AC. I have so much to do in the sim, loads of mods, it's just brilliant. Sometimes I just go and race some old classic round a vintage track, other times off to modern cars and the latest track updates, also sometimes I just add to my collection of cars, and take them for a spin.
Even with all the latest sims, DLCs and updates I still smile when launch AC, and I still have so much fun !

"iR or even rF2 realism level" lol. Good one.

i love Kunos so much

AC is still my favourite and the amazing mods have transformed it into something truly special.
If I was knit-picking, those cardboard cut-out trees looked 'last-gen' even back when AC was first released. I'd love to see them updated to something more aesthetically realistic.

Literally I cant see difference between maxed graphics on Assetto Corsa 4K and high graphics on Forza Horizon 5. Even weather implementation in AC - thanks to Peter Boese amazing SOL - is much better looking in an 8 year old game than Newest AAA...

passenger said:

Oh well... Now I remember that I read that on one of their ACC's latest roadmaps. Time will tell.

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I remember reading something as well but I think they were talking about ACC.

As a simple player, I am feeling very grateful to how AC became so special as a sim, not only thanks to its base game quality. But by opening the core to the moding community, AC grow far beyond its initial developpement. Sounds to me like a successful utopia of a sim, especially in these days where studios business plans are globally getting harder. I don't know if Kunos devs had a guess where the venture would lead their baby, but considering the incredible and wonderful contribution from the modding community, it was a great and beautiful bet! AC now is a very unique sim, a great automotive time machine and, cherry on top, I am still learning from it!

Grazie ragazzi, grazie Kunos! 8 wonderful years and 8 more to come, I'm sure.
But I would also thanks people like Ilja, who made possible the impossible, with his Content Manager and Custom Shaders Patch! Peter Boese and his SOL. And all the modders who made AC a neverending story in the racing simulation genre.
Thank you all. I really hope an Assetto Corsa 2, moddable as AC, will blow our minds!

how do i get that pagani in the pic?

shmuca said:

how do i get that pagani in the pic?

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its standard content, everybody should have it, edit: who bought the game