The Big Assetto Corsa Competizione Interview (Part 1)

Paul Jeffrey · Mar 6, 2018

RaceDepartment quiz Marco Massarutto and Stefano Casillo of Kunos Simulazioni about the upcoming Assetto Corsa Competizione.

We asked the community to submit a few questions to the developers of the upcoming Assetto Corsa Competizione racing simulation, and frankly the response we received was incredible. Some 245 posts later and we've picked out a few key questions to throw at the guys, with some interesting responses...

So if you are keen to hear more about this exciting new title, catch the first part of our interview at the head of this article, and don't forget to subscribe!

Assetto Corsa Competizione should be available on Steam Early Access Summer 2018.

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Excited for the future of ACC? Learn anything interesting from the interview? Let us know in the comments section below!

bgil66 · Mar 7, 2018

neil rosson said:
chill dude i'm pulling his leg. nice shorts btw.

punk

Neils on Wheels · Mar 7, 2018

bgil66 said:
punk

oh i get it you're both from the 60's makes sense now.

bgil66 · Mar 7, 2018

neil rosson said:
oh i get it you're both from the 60's makes sense now.

david bowie rules!

Will Mazeo · Mar 7, 2018

Blame73 said:
Without your shirt there would be just 100 posts

Oh no please, I dont need that view, keep the shirt on Paul!!

Steve Worrell · Mar 7, 2018

neil rosson said:
chill dude i'm pulling his leg. nice shorts btw.

They are nice you're right.

Deleted member 503495 · Mar 7, 2018

It was good to know about Vulkan. Upgrading to W10 is undesirable and not being tied to it for DirectX is great.

r@m · Mar 7, 2018

Ok, that's more that 200 replies...where's part 2 ? I'm only interested in it's potential modding capability.

bgil66 · Mar 8, 2018

VernWozza said:
They are nice you're right.

Ha! 19.99 at Kohls

Paul Jeffrey · Mar 8, 2018

r@m said:
Ok, that's more that 200 replies...where's part 2 ? I'm only interested in it's potential modding capability.

Sorry man, taking longer to get stuff sorted than planned (plus we reached 200 waaaay faster than I thought!!) so it'll have to be tomorrow now..

Sorry fella

r@m · Mar 8, 2018

Paul Jeffrey said:
Sorry man, taking longer to get stuff sorted than planned (plus we reached 200 waaaay faster than I thought!!) so it'll have to be tomorrow now.. Sorry fella

No worries, most of it is OT anyway

CobraCat · Mar 8, 2018

r@m said:
Ok, that's more that 200 replies...where's part 2 ? I'm only interested in it's potential modding capability.

Did you see this ?

http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/2-words-on-modding-support.49208/

r@m · Mar 8, 2018

CobraCat said:
Did you see this ?

http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/2-words-on-modding-support.49208/

Yes but I prefer word of mouth, I just want to hear what they have to say and not get involved in endless speculation and surmising.

Gevatter · Mar 8, 2018

r@m said:
Yes but I prefer word of mouth, I just want to hear what they have to say and not get involved in endless speculation and surmising.

That's actually Stefano himself, so I doubt he'll say much different in the interview compared to his post.

Rob · Mar 8, 2018

Paul Jeffrey said:
Spoiler from part 2. I asked if super hardcore features like gravel traps that you can get stuck in will come to ACC. Marco responded something like "would you really want to get stuck in the gravel after 23 1/2 hours of racing".

My response:

Paul Jefferey proves again he is one of he best journalists that exist in this genre. He simply takes the pulse of the audience and asks those questions accordingly. It's not rocket science, but it's a rare trait in the world of "journalism" these days. And because of that, it's damn riveting.

CobraCat · Mar 8, 2018

r@m said:
Yes but I prefer word of mouth, I just want to hear what they have to say and not get involved in endless speculation and surmising.

The first post is from Stefano, Kunos Dev, the man himself, it doesn't get anymore direct than this.

quote:

We are totally aware of the importance of modding and its contribution to the success of Assetto Corsa.
It's a great way for new talents to emerge, for the community to "suggest" new directions and/or simply to make a product richer. It is not a coincidence that some of the best guys in this community are now contributing with us to the evolution of the software.

However, for ACC this element will have to be put in stand-by mode for a series of reasons. The most important one is that we have given ourselves an enormous task of rebuilding, once again our software from (almost) scratch. In a world where pretty much every product you see on the market in simracing is an evolution of games that have been on the market 10-15 years ago, our approach is to get a big axe and reset things to (almost) zero before starting with a new project, ACC is no exception.

In this case the task is rendered more complex by the fact that we are using, for the first time a third party engine that we did not design ourselves and the truth is, given the amount of time we have available to deliver ACC to the public, we have more than enough on our hands trying to figure out how to use the engine effectively to also think about how to make the platform moddable.

As you can imagine, this has been source of endless discussions in the last year and half as every decision comes with pros and cons, there is going to be pain no matter what your final call will be. It goes without saying that we believe we made the right call even if that means loosing the huge benefits of a moddable platform.

So to recap, there will be no action from our side regarding modding, both in the direction of promoting nor offering any kind of forum support for it as in the opposite direction, we have no intent to stop it from happening if some smart guy figure out how to do it.

Daggerman · Mar 8, 2018

I'm aware the stance on modding has been stated, however does that extend as far as doing skins for cars too or is that not going to be possible either?

Mike Kadlcak · Mar 8, 2018

Good Stuff Paul.. well done!

Piotr · Mar 8, 2018

Steve Worrell · Mar 8, 2018

Daggerman said:
I'm aware the stance on modding has been stated, however does that extend as far as doing skins for cars too or is that not going to be possible either?

I'm desperate to hear about that too. Fingers crossed we can skin the cars.

r@m · Mar 8, 2018

CobraCat said:
The first post is from Stefano, Kunos Dev, the man himself, it doesn't get anymore direct than this.

quote:

We are totally aware of the importance of modding and its contribution to the success of Assetto Corsa.
It's a great way for new talents to emerge, for the community to "suggest" new directions and/or simply to make a product richer. It is not a coincidence that some of the best guys in this community are now contributing with us to the evolution of the software.

However, for ACC this element will have to be put in stand-by mode for a series of reasons. The most important one is that we have given ourselves an enormous task of rebuilding, once again our software from (almost) scratch. In a world where pretty much every product you see on the market in simracing is an evolution of games that have been on the market 10-15 years ago, our approach is to get a big axe and reset things to (almost) zero before starting with a new project, ACC is no exception.

In this case the task is rendered more complex by the fact that we are using, for the first time a third party engine that we did not design ourselves and the truth is, given the amount of time we have available to deliver ACC to the public, we have more than enough on our hands trying to figure out how to use the engine effectively to also think about how to make the platform moddable.

As you can imagine, this has been source of endless discussions in the last year and half as every decision comes with pros and cons, there is going to be pain no matter what your final call will be. It goes without saying that we believe we made the right call even if that means loosing the huge benefits of a moddable platform.

So to recap, there will be no action from our side regarding modding, both in the direction of promoting nor offering any kind of forum support for it as in the opposite direction, we have no intent to stop it from happening if some smart guy figure out how to do it.