Look What The Cat Hacked In - Summer Special 2016 - E01

Here is my little write up I did with the info from Marco. Sorry if I heard anything wrong or took anything out of context.

- There will be 3 Porsche packs for a total of 24 cars. Porsche actually reached out to Kunos, not the other way around. These cars are the absolute top priority. Apart from the console pack (which will cost a few dollars), the Porsches will all be out before they move onto others. The new R8 GT, M6 GT3, and TS040 are ones mentioned as early 2017.

- They will probably offer a "season pass" for the Porsches since it's a lot of cars and it can shave off a few dollars for people. Apparently Steam has some say in the way of season passes. 3 Porsches out of the 24 will be free.

- The Porsche 919 will come in both the 2015 and 2016 versions

- Classic Silverstone will finally be coming sometime before the end of the year.

- A new modern track license is close, and it was one of the very popular ones on the user poll on the AC forums from a few days ago and had around 50% of the vote. However, it's not LeMans or Suzuka. My best guess is Laguna Seca since it was highest on the poll and Kunos mentioned they wanted to do an American track. If it's not Laguna, Bathurst was next most popular.

- AC originally had a budget of 70k euros, now around 3 million.

- Maserati also approached Kunos but they had to originally turn them down as they didn't have any time to make their cars at that point.

- Maserati MC12 GT1 is in development (would be the first GT1 car)

- They recently turned another major unnamed manufacturer down for the moment.

- They've had contact with Koenigsegg, but it's gone quiet. This happened 3 times with Alfa, so it could still happen in the future.

- Bugatti very unlikely in AC 1

- Japanese manufacturers are hard to work with

- Could not come to an agreement with Aston Martin

- Probably no Bentley

- Suzuka license far too expensive. Kunos doesn't want to go the cheap way and make a similar fictional track. It's Marco's unicorn track after getting the Nordschleife license.

- Another fictional track like Black Cat County is likely. Possible locations are Tuscany or Scotland. Porsche and Maserati really wanted an open road circuit and that's one of the main reasons for these tracks.

- No Nascar or Indy Car.

- They do have the laser scan for historic Spa, but they aren't sure if the time it will take to properly make the track will be worth it for most players. Roughly 6 months of development time estimated.

Marco dislikes the Ferrari Enzo, so he hasn't really considered it. He has a bet with Stefano that the next Ferrari will be a 250 GTO if they do any more Ferraris.

 

Really great live stream and info. Great to hear from Marco...and about possible ( ) future content/plans!

Thanks!

 

Nooooo!!! What about those old teasers?

 

Old teasers???

 

If that teaser was the model of the Ferrari engine, it's probably for the MC12.

 

This teaser.

 

anybody knows what keys stefano uses to enable AI driver on his car?

 

Also Stefano said that it was possible to add AI to single player practice mode, but that the option is not in the launcher (maybe it can be added to custom launchers like CM), but that he wouldnt know why this would be needed..
i think it would be awesome to have this as a 'track day' mode specially for simulating nordschleife tourist on a regular tuesday

 

Ctrl+C to enable AI driver.

Setting up a trackday on any track other than Tourist Nords is as simple as setting up a long practice session under the race weekend tab.

 

Makes sense. Most prospective buyers are most likely to drive on a public road, and the manufacturers want AC to showcase their cars in that environment.

 

thanks
...obviously, which is what i do now. I was just answering to his question on why would this option (visibility in launcher) be used (its already coded no extra work).
to me nords is 70% of my single player time and in CM launcher i can have personalized preset car lists for the ai to use <- this + 'track day' practice mode check box is a great feature.. for me at least
i already requested if it can be added to CM u.u

 

Excellent stream thanks to marco for taking time to join the stream and for all the licensing info and dates he divulged . He coped really well with the barraging of questions he got asked

 

James Glickenhaus' Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina is also a car based on the Enzo that might get implemented in AC sooner or later.

 

I asked about that very car a few weeks ago and was told that there are no plans to bring it to AC. (I thought that it had been confirmed a couple years ago, but no)

 

Or the road version of P4/5

 

Most of your writeup was on my writeup, on page 5 But these were new additions/details, thanks
I also suspect it's Laguna Seca they pretty much gave it away. Or Bathurst (unlikely), both would be interesting

 

I'm excited for the performance improvements! In Benchmark mode I can easily set my rig to achieve 100% GPU while CPU stays at 70%. In MP it will usually stay below 40%. So having CPU help GPU render more frames is exactly what I could use.

 

Ah. Oh well. IMHO the P4/5C and MC12 GT1 are better choices to have instead but it'd have been nice to see that unique car in AC.

The McLaren F1 GTR is the first car in AC that raced in GT/GT1/GTS class. The next one before the MC12 GT1 will likely be the Porsche 911 GT1, maybe some 911 GT2.

edit: typo

 

Programming is mostly long and hard work to make everything run as it should, not a bunch of secret magic hacks that you can steal by looking at some code fragment during live stream.
Anyway, Stefano problably won't be showing the exact tyre model algorithm used by AC

That was about the guys being invited to Porsche museum during it's off hours, and having been able to sit, photograph and measure many unique historic cars, including those driven by McQueen. So with 24 cars coming in the DLC, probably at least one of them could be associated with him.

 

He drives a 917 and a 1970 911S in the Le Mans film iirc. Both cars still exist and are worth insane amounts of money now because of the association.

McQueen personally owned and raced a 908, it had cameras bolted to the outside of it and entered Le Mans to record footage for the film.