Assetto Corsa Competizione | Something Cooking at Kunos Simulazioni

Paul Jeffrey · Dec 12, 2019

Kunos Simulazioni have revealed a rather cryptic image on social media recently - suggesting something interesting may be announced this December 16th...

... or it could genuinely be a question about colours and days of the month - who knows?!?

The sim racing community have always been a little bit interested in news related to Assetto Corsa Competizione, and with an upcoming Intercontinental GT Challenge DLC in development and receiving some sneak preview love these last couple of weeks, the ever present chatter from the community about in-game livery editors, and plenty of stuff I'm sure we don't even know about yet, could this be something to do with the December 16th teaser?

Not long left to find out...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1204426560532561920

Assetto Corsa Competizione is available exclusively on PC.

Online race? Setup advice? Latest news? All available on the Assetto Corsa Competizione sub forum here at RD! Head over, have a read or start a thread and let the fun begin!

Ryann · Dec 13, 2019

Ciccina2016 said:
mark my words.. in one 1 year this game will be dead

Before I do that, what is your definition of a "dead game"?

guidofoc · Dec 13, 2019

Ciccina2016 said:
mark my words.. in one 1 year this game will be dead

And why?

Davide Sciacca · Dec 13, 2019

Ciccina2016 said:
mark my words.. in one 1 year this game will be dead

Ok boomer.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

DrRob · Dec 13, 2019

Richard Hessels said:
Most games are dead after one year. First 3 months is where the money is made, after that you can stretch it a bit with DLC's.

I don't really care if the game is marked as "dead" by either the manufacturer or the community as long as I have fun playing it.
Means: I couldn't care less.

Alex Townsend · Dec 13, 2019

Ciccina2016 said:
It is more likely you winning the lottery than you understanding my opinion

Doubt that

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 13, 2019

What happened that we are now happy with a livery editor. For the last 20 years we have had complete freedom to add liveries, cars, tracks and other kind of brilliant stuff that sprung from the mind of very creative people.

Here we are fast-forwarded to 2019: happy with a color picker. I honestly don't get it why this is considered great news. In my personal opinion it's a massive limitation of ACC that you can't add your own custom designs. Makes it, similar as for R3E, very hard to use for widespread esports.

Ryann · Dec 13, 2019

Bram Hengeveld said:
What happened that we are now happy with a livery editor. For the last 20 years we have had complete freedom to add liveries, cars, tracks and other kind of brilliant stuff that sprung from the mind of very creative people.

Here we are fast-forwarded to 2019: happy with a color picker. I don't get it why this is good news. In my personal opinion it's a massive limitation of ACC that you can't add your own custom liveries. Makes it, similar as R3E, very hard to use for widespread esports.

Maybe because with livery editor it is easier to create something yourself without being a talented artist or without a need of knowing how to create your own skin textures? For some people good news for others not necessarily. Better than nothing, either way.

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 13, 2019

Ryann said:
Maybe because with livery editor it is easier to create something yourself without being a talented artist or without a need of knowing how to create your own skin textures? For some people good news for others not necessarily. Better than nothing, either way.

Sure, add it as an EXTRA feature. But the fact that custom liveries are not allowed is a massive limitation of ACC.

I mean I can't photoshop myself but it takes me less than a few minutes to contact a talented skincreator and have a kick ass custom livery designed. The joy of having access to an amazing community.

Nothing wrong with a livery editor to quickly make some color changes but it doesn't have to substitute the freedom we had before.

Deleted member 6919 · Dec 13, 2019

So everything revolves round Esports now! yeh I don't think so.
I think having sims that can't be modded or are limited is good, most times modded sims usually just fck the game up eventually.

Ryann · Dec 13, 2019

Bram Hengeveld said:
...I mean I can't photoshop myself but it takes me less than a few minutes to contact a talented skincreator and have a kick ass custom livery designed. The joy of having access to an amazing community....

Of course, everyone wants to create a custom livery for Bram himself.

Anyway, being able to create something yourself (even with help of a livery editor) is not exactly the same thing and accomplishment as asking someone to do it for you.

ACC has a long list of features that will be added and who knows if in the end they don't allow us creating custom skins, afterall. For now, there will be an editor at least.

justfdl · Dec 13, 2019

neuer31 said:
And that is worthy of news?
Looks more like advertisment or fanboyism ...

I don't see what's wrong with that?

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 13, 2019

Ryann said:
Of course, everyone wants to create a custom livery for Bram himself.

That has nothing to do with me. I don't know of any person who gets a "no" if they approach a respected modder for a livery. In exchange for a cup of coffee donation or a small fee a lot can be done.

Jason Mullin · Dec 13, 2019

Ciccina2016 said:
mark my words.. in one 1 year this game will be dead

I don’t think so, possibly a in a year or two we’ll have an Assetto Corsa 2 announcement but I’ll still be running ACC this time next year.
I also think about what S397 Competition system will be, and of course AMS 2.
Many fine options upcoming.

Ciccina2016 · Dec 13, 2019

Jason Mullin said:
I don’t think so, possibly a in a year or two we’ll have an Assetto Corsa 2 announcement but I’ll still be running ACC this time next year.
I also think about what S397 Competition system will be, and of course AMS 2.
Many fine options upcoming.

Of course that is my opinion. Let's check next year.

simon2002 · Dec 13, 2019

Naliport Halulam said:
Nordschleif, it's limited to 248km/h now for GT3 cars!

Wait what? Any source to this ? Would like to know why.

After_Midnight · Dec 13, 2019

Bram Hengeveld said:
What happened that we are now happy with a livery editor. For the last 20 years we have had complete freedom to add liveries, cars, tracks and other kind of brilliant stuff that sprung from the mind of very creative people.

I've to agree here.

Bram Hengeveld said:
But the fact that custom liveries are not allowed is a massive limitation of ACC.

To be honest. I wouldn't classify this feature that high. It's just an EXTRA feature but nothing fundamental.

And it's already possible:

Skins - Kaspersky Ferrari 488 GT3 - don't work on v. 1.2.0

Cauri Design submitted a new resource: Kaspersky Ferrari 488 GT3 - Kaspersky Ferrari 488 GT3 -HOW TO INSTALL- You only have to extract the files in the main ACC folder in your HD:\Steam\steamapps\common\Assetto Corsa Competizione\AC2\Content\Packs -HOW TO USE IT- To use this skin, you have to...

www.racedepartment.com

Honda NSX 2017 - Realtime Racing

Works in 1.4.1

www.racedepartment.com

Huracan Unicef

Working in game v1.4.1

www.racedepartment.com

How:

ACC Skins Tutorial & Tools - don't work on v. 1.2.0

Hi everybody. I find out how to make skins on assetto corsa competizione working on a ride3 skin, wich is an unreal engine game too. i've tried hard for 5 days but did it, and now i want to share my knowledge. In the download you will find a...

www.racedepartment.com

Bram Hengeveld said:
I mean I can't photoshop myself but it takes me less than a few minutes to contact a talented skincreator and have a kick ass custom livery designed. The joy of having access to an amazing community.

It takes YOU less than a few minutes to contact a talented skincreator but it means hours of work for the livery creator

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 13, 2019

After_Midnight said:
It takes YOU less than a few minutes to contact a talented skincreator but it means hours of work for the livery creator

Yep, hence he or she always gets a proper compensation for the work done, as it should be.

madhopz · Dec 13, 2019

If it is a livery editor, great for the people who like to do that. I personally don't understand the need to customize a car that I am driving because I don't see the colors in the cockpit anyway. But some people like that, if they are giving that option., good deal. What always slays me is people saying " well they need to fix this and that first, they need to give me the ability to drive a GT3 car on tracks that don't have Blancpain races, when are they going to finish it, why do I have to pay for more content"

Gaming is cheap. I don't care if you go whole hog, like I did and buy each one of the "sims", it's a very cheap hobby from the software point of view. If there is something you don't like about one, play another one for what you are looking for. There will never be a complete sim.

j_troc_71 · Dec 13, 2019

Martin Fiala said:
What's with game developers and their guessing games lately? It's like an epidemic. I'm really getting kinda tired of those. Either show/announce something or don't. Stop trying to hype up announcements of announcements of announcements...

There is this thing called marketing.....