Assetto Corsa Competizione - 2020 Generic discussion

You plug one hole in the Dike and another 2 will spike. I only have 10 digits, maybe kunos needs to make a new widget. I've added 2 more titles, and they are both acc rivals. Ac-1 has the better game engine, the unreal code inconsistency is like bad religion.

 

AC took an eternity to get to the state where it's at now. The complexity of ACC makes this a massive venture. Not realistic for a small indie team.

 

@moeppling - they are no indie team since years. Small team, thats right.

 

Can't you connect using the LAN option and using some kind of VPN connection? Just a thought.

 

I think that it’s all Kunos own engine except graphics, where UE is used.

If ACC could be divided in 3 big areas - physics, online (including multiplayer and ratings) and graphics - and if I’m not mistaken, all that is related to the first two (physics and online) is built in house, using Stefano Castillo’s (Lord Kunos) engine, currently lead and developed by Fernando Barbarossa with Kevin Stuck looking out for the online.

From my understanding, much of the headaches with graphics come because Kunos needed to integrate UE graphics with their own engine and the task is overwhelming.
VR, Track IR, triple screens are examples of things very much dependent of UE, thus why took more effort to make it work.

Stefano Casillo, in his streams about the sailing simulator development (where he’s building his own engine), briefly talked about the work and difficulties of “merging” Kunos engine with UE graphics and how the engine concept and initial choices can have repercussions as the development progresses.
For instance, referring to the multiplayer aspect, Stefano said that one thing that he would do differently now, from discussing about it with Kevin, is how the engine is built with the premise that the car player is always present, which is good for single player but raises unexpected difficulties for multiplayer.

 

But it has no sp? I dont get why you need a server to lap alone.

 

@Luis Branco Can I find this particular stream somewhere?

 

Hey guys what happened to redlinemotorsport

 

See the screenshot

 

What screenshot?

 

https://us.reddit.com/r/simracing/comments/grip8t/redline_motorsport/

 

What's the backstory on that one?

 

Weird.

 

I believe this video is the summary of the stream in question, but don’t remember exactly if it’s the one.


Stefano comments, sometimes, gives insight of development challenges he had to overcome, but they can be scattered throughout his streams.

Edit:
Nevertheless, you can follow Stefano in his twitch and/or youtube channel because it’s really interesting to see how his game his progressing and how he develops his engine. I do recommend it, even if (now) not directly related to simracing (or perhaps it is, just not with cars, but boats )

 

Anyway guys if the multiplayer is down, it means they are working on multiplayer. In all sro egts we watch a lot of microlag and netcode issues, if they can get rid of it...well, it's better, isn't?

 

Lol. The amount of contortionism you do to defend the game is impressive.

No, if the multiplayer is down several times a day, including stats and rating screen, I would say that means it's unstable, and in need of work to work most of the times...

If the split 3 server is down since last week I would say that's because there are issues that need resolving, and not because they are working on it or it's Sunday...

 

Thanks, I actually do follow him on twitch. I'm just not using it too much and was secretly hoping for a timestamp .

I know, I'm lazier than the lazy Kunos devs.

 

I don't do contorsionism...It just worked for long period. Don't get impressed too easely dude

 

lol last sunday an SRO race almost couldn't start because servers were down, that's not due to work

 

It sounds like they 'planned' server work during a few SRO events in that case


I remember launch day when 4000 people jumped on at once and the servers died because that level of traffic was unexpected and the infrastructure wasn't in place to support it. Now the game is close to those player levels daily (and has been for months) and the servers still can't handle it.

It seems even the public SRO events aren't important enough to trigger Kunos to stop cheaping out on their servers, so I don't think the rolling server blackouts will stop any time soon.