Assetto Corsa (Racing Game)

[smarteyeball]

Cool. Mugello it is. Time to do some laps

 

[paulpicks21]

Funny you mention that, as I just did 3

Best was my 3rd at 1.51.084

 

[smarteyeball]

I've only managed 1.52.5~ so far. Plenty of room for improvement.

This game really rewards practice.

I wish they'd change the penalty system though. I'd rather an invalidated track than the jarring slow down for 5 secs. Really throws off your rhythm.

 

[paulpicks21]

Not bad Patrick, I gave it a few more laps, I restarted a few times as I was getting sick of completing a whole lap after running wide.

But I managed to trim a little more time off. It's a nice feeling when you finally get a personal best again.

 

[paulpicks21]

Actually the Zonda is not a bad car, managed to trim another 1.5 seconds off my Ferrari 599 time.

 

[Lava King]

Actually the Zonda is not a bad car, managed to trim another 1.5 seconds off my Ferrari 599 time.

You are the Stig, I claim my 5 Pounds.

 

[paulpicks21]

Lol, you gonna put in a time or what Kent!!

 

[smarteyeball]

The Zonda is a pretty damn quick car.

I tend to restart a fair bit myself after a few bad corners. But by then I've completely lost the groove and find it hard to get back into.

 

[paulpicks21]

Today's update 0.7

New car and track! Gonna have a blast now

0.7
- New car Lotus Exos 125
- New upgrade Lotus Exos 125 S1
- New track Nurburgring GP
- Less noisy bodywork sound for GT cars
- Fixed hotlap penalties always on
- Friends Leaderboard :: filters lap for hotlap mode
- Some performance improvements
- Replay size reduced by 25%
- Gui now restoring hidden apps on exit
- Fixed Gui issues on apps
- Fixed smoke issues on replay
- Tuned low-level settings for smoke
- Fixed time attack start
- Some texture update for Autodromo di Monza
- Anticipated pit limiter when entering pitlane for Silverstone and Silverstone International race circuits
- "New" badge in UI cars thumbnails
- New "special tags" filtering. When you select a player car, the AI opponents selection is now suggesting similar cars. You can of course dismiss the special tag and choose more
- New "add visible" and "clear grid" buttons in custom opponents panel UI
- Launcher theme optimizations.
- Personal best lap is now recorded if penalties are off - steam achievements and online leaderboard times are not.

 

[paulpicks21]

The new car is brutal, it's a real handful. I didn't realize until now, but when you go to choose a car, if it has a spanner symbol by it (see screenshot), you can click it and select a different/tuned version of that car.



This is the S1 version of the new car, trimmed 10 seconds off my previous best at Mugello in no time.

 

[paulpicks21]

Getting faster, this car is awesome

Edited with my fastest time of the night. Done for today.

 

[Lava King]

Nice one, Paul. That's quite an improvement.

I started my vacation from work a day early, woke up with a fever of 102.4F, at the moment it's 101F.

As soon as I get over whatever this is, I'll put in some laptimes.

 

[paulpicks21]

Sorry to hear that Kent, hope you feel better soon mate.

 

[smarteyeball]

The new car is brutal, it's a real handful.

My word it is. Very easy to spin and very easy to lock up the brakes.

But a lot of fun and quick. Sitting at 1.38~ after a few laps. But without assists, I don't think I'll be slashing that too much

 

[badger906]

I just purchased this for myself =) fancied a new race sim for a while.
now just have to save a few beer pounds and get myself a logitech g27!!

 

[badger906]

well my logitech g27 turned up this morning annnnnnnnd... im worse at it now im .100 of a second off my fastest time on silverstone in an formula arbarth!!

My one complaint with the wheel well.. the gear box, is that it feels in natural, im often finding myself putting it into the wrong gear. im sure ill get used to it though.

 

[smarteyeball]

You will.

I've found that using 20% stability control now makes the cars feel more natural. getting the tail out isn't an automatic spin. Besides half the cars use electronic assists in the real world, so it doesn't feel like cheating

 

[smarteyeball]

I'm really starting to hate the Pagani Hyura. Poor brakes and almost impossible to tune, never mind getting a good lap time. Some cars are great at default while others are pretty poor.

The AI improvement from 0.8 has made them a lot more fun to race against too. While I never win, racing them on hard helps "train" you on where you are losing time on the track.


I've also decided to get the TrackIr 5 for extra immersion. It's a subtle effect but really does add a lot to the game. It's one thing I miss from kinect/forza 4. An Oculous Rift would be more awesome, but I'm waiting for the consumer version and there's no firm eta on that yet. While all these little things may not make me a better driver, it does make being mediocre more fun

 

[paulpicks21]

I have been forced to give up on this game for now. I was really enjoying it, but a couple of updates back they have done something to people using Xbox controllers. I have no idea what they did to it but I simply cannot drive any car without spinning off the track at pretty much every corner.
I have spent a few hours trying all kinds of settings over the last month. I just cannot get it to run like it did before. I have searched the forums, I have tried other peoples settings but the problem remains.
It is really frustrating, it would actually be impossible for me to complete a lap without coming off the track now unless I drove round at like 10MPH and even then I might still spin.

 

[badger906]

when I first got the game I found the 360 controller really hard to drive with on low speed corners. then they updated this about 2 patches ago and it addressed the issue for me and it made me as much as 10 seconds a lap quicker!

but ive seen people on steam saying the same as you! which is a shame as if they dont address it soon theyll loose player.

you not a fan of wheels??