Assetto Corsa Reveal New Porsche DLC

Paul Jeffrey · Jun 17, 2016

Kunos said save the date, big news upcoming they say... many F5 key pressing moments on Facebook later and finally the wait is over.... Kunos Simulazioni have today announced that the Porsche brand will be making its debut in the best selling Italian simulation.

Following a 12 year absence from sim racing titles German marque Porsche have signed a deal to bring a selection of licenced cars as part of two upcoming DLC packs for both console and PC versions of Assetto Corsa.

Exciting news for racing fans throughout the world, today's announcement offers plenty of food for thought for sim racing enthusiasts to look forward to in the coming weeks and months. No further details from Kunos regarding the DLC content is available at this stage however stay tuned in to RaceDepartment for more news on the announcement as it becomes available.

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The big news is out - what do you think the arrival of the Porsche brand in Assetto Corsa? Are you happy the German marque have finally broken out into mainstream racing simulators? What could this mean for the prospects of other racing sims securing the Porsche licence? Let us know in the comments section below!

Metalogic · Jun 17, 2016

Does this mean more likelihood or less likelihood of seeing Porsches in other sims, like R3E, someday?

Emerson Meyer · Jun 17, 2016

After 12 years off...and people already start to complain ...race or road, this will be a instabuy for every true sim racer.

Rodent · Jun 17, 2016

Whoa, even though I'm not a porsche fan boy howdy did Kunos bag a white whale with this one.

Baki · Jun 17, 2016

What a great day for simracing! Thank you kunos so much

Now lets bring also dodge and honda to us, Marco

REM1976 · Jun 17, 2016

kedy89 said:
I just hope it'll be one race car and one road car DLC, not both types in each of the two...

More than likely, Porsche will be pushing the road cars.But I am confident there will be a good balance of road and race cars.

Emerson Meyer · Jun 17, 2016

Metalogic said:
Does this mean more likelihood or less likelihood of seeing Porsches in other sims, like R3E, someday?

Maybe, but just after R3E be able to change the all around generic LCD panel

ouvert · Jun 17, 2016

http://www.porsche.com/international/models/911/
bum .. 16 cars done

Gran turismo style ...

MoerasGrizzly · Jun 17, 2016

This is the greatest thing.

Rodent · Jun 17, 2016

Another very good thing about this is now perhaps people can stop pretending AC had Lambo and Ferrarri licensed because Italians are cartoon racists who won't let non italian sims license their content, turns out Kunos is just good at getting licenses.

Will be interesting to see if it lights an appropriate fire under some lazy buttocks.

Brownninja97 · Jun 17, 2016

Metalogic said:
Does this mean more likelihood or less likelihood of seeing Porsches in other sims, like R3E, someday?

chances increase massively id imagine, likely every dev is gonna jump on this after seeing the kunos announcement thinking its finally possible.

Kakusso · Jun 17, 2016

With Porsche, the success of the console launch is guaranteed.
Good job Kunos.
Assetto Corsa is about to become an iconic title.

Michael Hornbuckle · Jun 17, 2016

Interesting quote from Aris regarding exclusivity:
Aristotelis Vasilakos EA still has the rights up to 2016 or 2017 can't remember. But Porsche has a special agreement with us

Fat Rich · Jun 17, 2016

Epic news! Well done Kunos.

I wonder what the makers of iRacing, Forza, Gran Tourismo, etc. are thinking about this weekend

ouvert · Jun 17, 2016

which studio involved in PC racing sims could afford it? perhaps iR or WMD .. Reiza hardly, S3 who knows, Kunos without 505 (and their Rocket League

) probably niether .. there are not that many big studios in sim racing playing field ...

REM1976 · Jun 17, 2016

It's great news. It means AC are still progressing and expanding. They take so much care modelling these cars and it attracts the big players to see their cars represented so well.

AC is my sim of choice, this news makes it so much better.

Davide Sciacca · Jun 17, 2016

997 GT3 please

betterstranger · Jun 17, 2016

I truely hope that after THIS, the Jag & Aston licences are just a matter of time

Torcano · Jun 17, 2016

Aww man... just can't decide if I should make a happy comment and be considered a total peasant or put on my SaltGoggles with +10 Skepticism and Cynicism enchantments and be a high and mighty party pooper so that I can be considered a part of the kool kid klub. /s

JK, don't care what people might think but I love that Porsche is back into sim racing. And kudos to Kunos for being successful enough in this industry to accomplish this task. This could easily bring more people into sim racing.

Kampalaigner · Jun 17, 2016

What a marvellous news

I still remember how disappointing it was when EA got exclusive rights to use Porsches in it's goofy arcade games. Like a slap on simracers face. And now this... My respects to Kunos, you are tough guys of simracing development. You have your own brilliant game engine while almost everybody else uses gmotor2, and now you have Porsche lisence, which propably nobody could believe few hours back. Keep on what you are doing, in your own way like so far. You rock! You are great!