ACC 0.7 Discussion

I was on that server with you and it looked very promising. I just did a few laps in FP and Q to check out the update. Too bad I had to leave but was great to see a few SA servers up and running higher ratings (40-50).

 

Now that refuelling is available and pitstops are therefore more likely, does anyone have any tips on hitting the pit box, I spend too much time shuffling forward a bit, back a bit until hit the correct position?

 

i guess you should approach your pit box in chase view... i don't know any better solution at the moment.

 

Hopfully they will have a bloke/woman with a lollipop on release

 

I did a few MP races today: Kunos #2 Server / Misano, ACC 0.7.2.

MP looks pretty solid now, usually no major lagging nor warping.

Racing is still a bit hit or miss, still many "bad apples" around.
Careless guys, revenge wreckers and so on.
Somewhat expected, as server had no minimum SA requirement.

Anyway, the most prominent change i noticed is that competition level got up a notch or two.
Qualifying in 1:35 didn't always grant a place in the front row at Misano, as it was a little ago.
I've seen many drivers doing 1:34 comfortably, which is a pretty decent pace.

It's quite challenging now.
Shame for the usual few shenanigans that do their best efforts to ruin overall experience.
Sadly you pay SA points due to their behaviour.

Bugs ? I seen a notable one i hadn't seen before: a formation lap spanning actually 3+ full laps . No idea why.
I got the pole, but after 3 formation laps the actual race start saw some guy starting from pits as leader.
He had about 20+ seconds advantage already

 

If it will be anything more distracting than this it will make me miss the spot even more often though

 

You mean something like this?

 

I was going to post the same thing, knowing where to stop for your pit box is hit and miss. You have to imagine that they'll have a lollipop person or similar for 1.0

 

There is a lolly pop man, here is what it used to look like:


They just disabled the animations for now.

 

The lolly pop guy put down the marker too late in my opinion here. Just after the car stops.
Is it also in real life the case?

 

Where on earth do you find this SA-rating? Never heard of it until today. Some guy said it was on my profile page in the main menu, but only my name is there and 'online stats' is greyed out. All I know is that my plan to go for a nice bit of racing tonight was ruïned because I wasn't welcome on Kunos servers and other ones.

 

Click Rating then safety you will see it. Drive against the AI to increase it.

 

+1 pit box margins are far too tight. Hard to gauge in cockpit mode. A centimeter here or there and your screwed.

 

I've customized my png file

 

The lollypop has to be a board you bonk with the car to show the perfect spot. It must be held down and only lifted once they are happy with your parking.

About wreckers; There could be a multiplier added at each incident which looks like wrecking by MR. First time at 1.0 then 2.0 etc. The wrecker will then ruin his SA fast and be kicked.
Would maybe help if we had to work for our places in the teams or something. Start out in the slow teams with old cars. Once you've earned the Lambo seat you don't want to blow it by getting mad in a revenge mode. Cars and teams gets locked out as you dump your points. When the wrecker tries to rejoin the server he'll only have the Datsun 2015 model LOL

 

Only had a few races with the AI with today's 0.7.2 update. Hats off @Lord Kunos , don't know what you did, but the AI now has a much better lateral awareness, also was not able to get rammed off by the AI.

Here are a few scenarios that before resulted in the AI ramming me off track, now I had to push my luck really hard to get a single contact (the last one), but even that did not result in the AI plowing through:

 

Yeah, the AI is miles better. Ironically I only got rammed after the race at the pit entry.

AI seems to have a hard time avoiding players (and other AI cars) on a pit entry road. At least in Zolder.

 

Yep, me too. Was cruising into pit lane and got smashed from the hole gang.

 

About AI, seems to be fast in general all around regarding laptimes, but it does not have the speed as I do on straights (I have op. skill of AI on 95%). They are fast in turns, but not fast enough in a straight line. Would be better to gain some speed on straights and loose some in turns. And they are missing the track width awareness, from that follows, that they are no trying to pass - we had same issue in AC, but eventually they figured it out.

PS: I was using aggressiveness on 50%, maybe was too low for AI to try passing me or other AI drivers. Will test with higher value, like 75%.¸

PS: tested AI on 100% skill and 75% aggression, and result is almost the same regarding top speed. They are approx. 5-10km/h slower on straights.

All test done in dry conditions. In wet they are almost as fast as I am.