The Big Assetto Corsa Competizione Interview (Part 2)

Paul Jeffrey · Mar 8, 2018

Catch part two of our exclusive Assetto Corsa Competizione interview with Marco Massarutto and Ste'fano Casillo of Kunos Simulazioni...

Causing a mass panic of excitement from the sim racing community following the announcement back on February 21st, it is probably fair to say plenty of people are excited for the upcoming Assetto Corsa Competizione racing simulation, and with a potential Early Access release coming to Steam this summer, we answered the community call and sat down with two of the men behind the simulation - Marco Massarutto and Stefano Casillo, founding members of Italian development studio Kunos Simulazioni.

If you are interested in learning more of about the official racing simulation of the Blancpain GT Series, check out part 2 of our exclusive interview at the head of this article.

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Dan Costa · Mar 13, 2018

arrgh, Paul missed an opportunity to ask them about two things I personally feel need improvement in close racing.

-Online physics when two cars touch. The impact and rebound forces can feel disproportional. Latency is complicated, sure, but I only complain because there is a game out there that does it better.

-Positional sound. The sound from cars behind seem to be post-processed to appear like they come from behind, but it doesn't actually use the back speakers in surround systems? It appears all sounds come from the front speakers, just like in Pcars2.

Coincidentally, these two areas are very notably improved when jumping from AC to R3E.

marcocale · Mar 13, 2018

Work in progress.....

Go to min 6:27

davewilliams000 · Mar 13, 2018

marcocale said:
Work in progress.....

Go to min 6:27

Haha I was just about to post the exact same thing. Nicki is a legend!

Watch the rest of it too... there's the new Bentley in the pit lane and the Manthey 'Grello' drives past also

marcocale · Mar 13, 2018

davewilliams000 said:
Haha I was just about to post the exact same thing. Nicki is a legend!

I really like Nicki Thiim youtube channel a lot, both on real racing and simracing. Immediately subscribed when I found.
He is a very funny (and fast) guy!

Only problem is that he is an iRacing fanboy!!!!!

ahhahaha! (just joking!)

davewilliams000 · Mar 13, 2018

marcocale said:
I really like Nicki Thiim youtube channel a lot, both on real racing and simracing. Immediately subscribed when I found.
He is a very funny (and fast) guy!

Only problem is that he is an iRacing fanboy!!!!! ahhahaha! (just joking!)

Yeah he does like his iRacing, although he did say that AC's tire model is far better than iRacing in the recent vid comparing the cup cars from those 2 and R3E

Shap · Mar 13, 2018

Is this legit or someone who sneaked in with AC merchandise?
jk

marcocale · Mar 13, 2018

davewilliams000 said:
Yeah he does like his iRacing, although he did say that AC's tire model is far better than iRacing in the recent vid comparing the cup cars from those 2 and R3E

Yes I'm following his slow "conversion" to AC, but I think ACC will be also for him the "turn point"....

davewilliams000 · Mar 13, 2018

marcocale said:
Yes I'm following his slow "conversion" to AC, but I think ACC will be also for him the "turn point"....

Yeah, he will be able to play as himself

I've asked him in the comments on YT if he's looking forward to it... he's pretty good and usually replies!

delpinsky · Mar 13, 2018

When the AC guy asks Nicki what fuction has that icon on the HUD, Nicki says: "Ehhhhhh... That's a good question...(laugh) I don't know! ".

Blancpain GT Series: full 2018 entry list with 50 cars representing 11 manufacturers

Endurance Cup

Sprint Cup

Cristian Haba · Mar 13, 2018

Wonder why the 911 GT3R is not as represented as other brands? Do they have the same soft tire issue we experience in AC?

delpinsky · Mar 13, 2018

@Cristian Haba
What do you mean?

Deleted member 130869 · Mar 14, 2018

@kunos or @Gergo Panker
What does this announcement mean for the historic Spa-Francorchamps circuit? Are there any artists working on it or has it been discarded?

Edit: Obviously for Assetto Corsa, not Competizione.

Rodger Davies · Mar 14, 2018

Gui Cramer said:
@kunos or @Gergo Panker
What does this announcement mean for the historic Spa-Francorchamps circuit? Are there any artists working on it or has it been discarded?

a) not part of ACC
b) Marco mentioned on a stream ages ago they had scan data but couldn't find a justifiable way to create it for AC

Rodger Davies · Mar 14, 2018

The full season entry lists look a little bit smaller than last year, but that might be better for the racing and certainly the variety has improved even further. Will be interesting to see if Kunos acquire both the old and new Bentley, Nissan and Lamborghini.

Unrelated point; two Garage 59 cars but neither are #59 - strange.

Hopefully there will be a few interesting race-by-race entries too; it would be great to see an Acura show up to a round.

Semi-confirmed race by race entries include:
Emil Frey - Jaguar
Black Swan - Porsche
Racing Tech - Porsche Cup
Audi Slovakia - Audi

Manuel Darin · Mar 14, 2018

Shap said:
Is this legit or someone who sneaked in with AC merchandise?
jk

That one is @Gergo Panker

Shap · Mar 14, 2018

Manuel Darin said:
That one is @Gergo Panker

Awesome. I never knew what he looked like. There was only an Audi image in my head

marcocale · Mar 14, 2018

First row from right to left: Marco, Valerio (According to a Lord Kunos post: not really part of the team but he usually helps with pictures), Gergo, Aris....

Celestiale · Mar 14, 2018

Dan Costa said:
Online physics when two cars touch. The impact and rebound forces can feel disproportional. Latency is complicated, sure, but I only complain because there is a game out there that does it better.

Agree. This is the reason why i prefer other sims in online racing. Because pretty much all of them handle it better then AC. I hope this will get resolved in ACC

natedogg1867 · Mar 14, 2018

Gui Cramer said:
What does this announcement mean for the historic Spa-Francorchamps circuit? Are there any artists working on it or has it been discarded?

Out of curiosity...

Why do you expect them to do anything like this for AC now that development has stopped and with historic spa seemingly being shelved 3 yrs ago?

Deleted member 130869 · Mar 14, 2018

natedogg1867 said:
Out of curiosity...
Why do you expect them to do anything like this for AC now that development has stopped and with historic spa seemingly being shelved 3 yrs ago?

It's not expectation, it's just a question since it was previously publicized and also something of interest. If the person replying to my post earlier is correct, then that's the answer to my question

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