Seriously poor physics

I'm going to start by saying that I paid £39.99 for this game after having seen trailers online and it looked amazing! However, within the first minute of game play I was seriously dissapointed and instantly felt I'd just been ripped off ! The first career event a time attack in a Fiat 500, was appalling. At first I thought ok I need to adjust some settings, the car handled like it was on bricks even in a straight line! When I so much as touched to steering in the slightest it wanted to f*ck off onto the grass and just under steered majorly and in real life if you swerved that hard the vehicles shock absorbers and springs would cause.it.to lean gradually.not instantly like it was programmed either on or off with no stress in between! I prey to almighty god this game is a work in progress. I assumed my settings were wrong so I adjused the steering sensitivity reducing it.by 20% but still it's. No better, played around with the gamma bla bla bla every setting but still it's awful. So I tried the alfa romeo giulietta event.... same story there too and finally the M3 e30 step 1 event but guess what , that just ruined all hopes I. Had in the game being half.decent. I honestly feel like.I've been robbed and violated by the amount of money over spent on this .... junk! I read the physics were simulation etc... They were programmed by a 2 year old by the feel of it. Will it get any better? It's equally as bad as RIDE

 

Oh my god.

 

What an ace opening! Good luck with getting support.

 

I think the physics are the best I've ever experienced on a console. I thought the physics on pcars cars were good,but this is on another level.

 

Sorry, but the physics are arguably the best there are.

AC has a lot of problems, physics aren't one of them.

 

Yea because when you want to turn the car instantly rolls over in a microsecond yea just like real life isn't it! I am seriously.wounded by the fact I paid £39.99 for this.. is it still.in development ? Live for speed on pc was better than this. And it was advertised as the cars being "overly detailed" well, I've seen better models in other games and these are nothing in comparison, in fact they're quite low poly, the giulietta for example and the worst thing is the camera, it's rigid it's not smooth it feels like.I'm playing ferrari challenge on the Amiga

 

What driving games were you into prior to purchasing Assetto Corsa ?

 

Yes the cornering physics are great once the controller is set up (which ive finally managed to get about right) however my point is that there's no tension feel.on the suspension the car just seems to fall left to right as though the springs/dampers and shocks are either fully stressed or not stressed I can't feel anything.in between.

 

Which car? Some of the Drift cars can feel a bit like that.

 

I've played all sorts, forza 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, all the need for speeds, live for speed on PC, rfactor (which felt pretty similar to AC) and some... I read they didn't put time changing and weather effects in due to file size, well GTA 5 was around 50GB and they managed to fit it.onto a disc and I downloaded AC and it was only 13.6GB ...

 

That was the Fiat 500 it just seemed strange to me. And the giulietta wasn't much better. I.had seriously.high.hopes and my first impression was seriously rock.bottom but I just managed to set controller up a little.better! And the M3 e30 felt a bit more realistic just now.

 

Try the Z4, both the road and the gt3 version, driving them back to back should give you a bit more of an idea of the fidelity of the physics.

 

Take the Z4 GT3 around Imola then come back to this thread.

Fiats have a lot of body roll. I don't think you could take the corners at 30mph, although it feels a lot slower in game.

 

OK I followed your advice, and wow is all.I can say, somehow you can throw the z4 GT round imola with minimal body roll. And it was quite fun actually :-D so the game has potential for perfection but just not with the Fiat 500 esse esse lol. Appolagies if I offended anyone and I take.back what I complained about. Anyone got.it on xbox1 what are your gamer tags ? Multilayer lobby sounds good

 

I use a wheel,so I guess that's why we experience the game differently?

 

You need to bear in mind road cars dont have the same sort of suspension or aero that a GT car would have they generally have quite a soft suspension which means more body roll and have to take corners slower, plus im sure the giulietta and fiat 500 are front wheel drive so they will understeer like a pig and if your tyres were cold then you will have even less grip until they have got some heat into them.

 

this is the beauty in AC, every car need some time and care, the physics are very good, i know it´s a pain to set controller/wheel settings many times, plus setting setups for any car/track, but if you dedicate time to lapidate the cars and controls to your needs, you´ll have a blast, my "boring" slow road cars as abarths, giulietta etc are racing very good now, i play with a wheel on one PC and a Xbox360 controller on another PC, don´t know how this is working on XboxONE, but i save many setups for car/tracks and many configurations of wheel and controllers too.

 

Yea it took me a while to grasp that, most racing games are just get in and go but this does require a tuned setup but once it's done it's brilliant. I'm just not used to a game where you have to tailor the settings and car to your need, all the other I play (apart from project cars) as I said you just click on race and go. This is much better though

 

the Abarth 500 is a great little car. here's a multiplayer race on PC using street tyres and the 500's arent all on the grass

 

And that is the difference between simulator games and arcade/simcade games. In sims you need to spend a lot of time to get the idea on how to drive (especially if you don't have experience with simracing and/or it's a new game), in the latter you just pick the most powerful car, hit the throttle and after two laps you can win all races.

I see that's the problem for a lot of console users that aren't aware of that and bought AC expecting another arcade game or expecting a simulator like those games on consoles that PR departments call "the best simulators". Sad part is that then there are posts on forums/reviews slashing the game because people don't understand what's this all about.

Glad that you at least noticing it now.