Alright, enough cars for the moment...

Hi, i am not sure what is Kunos planning on focusing after this Ferrari DLC, or what changes will come with it aside from the cars themselves, but there's some concern i would like to communicate to the Kunos team.

These are awesome packs, awesome cars, i really love them, every one of them, but releasing DLC after DLC full of new cars doesn't mean much when there's so much of the game itself that needs to be done. Adding more cars doesn't mean much when we have just a bunch of tracks... i know we have lots of mods, i myself am a track modder, but mods are rarely seen on public servers. We need more tracks... but tracks aren't the thing that worries me the most, it's FEATURES.
We still don't have offline mandatory pit stops, and online mandatory pit stops have some issues that need to be addressed. It's a racing sim but we don't have pit limiter button, or engine stall... or warm up/formation lap, or rolling starts, or multi-class racing, or driver change for endurance races. There's no final standings screen when racing online, the race ends and we come back to practice session giving absolutely no recognition for those who won the race or passed from 14th to 4th. These kind of details would definitely add up to the experience... servers can't change between tracks...
Interior car sounds are good, but exterior sounds are pretty bad... there's no pavement rolling sound, just wind. Sometimes you crash and nothing sounds... tyre sound is clearly not right, this can be noticed when launching using TC..
Soft lock is still rattling, a racing sim should have decent soft lock. Tyre smoke is not right, it can be clearly noticed when locking front wheels in a single seater open cockpit car.
Penalization system when going off the track is ridiculous.

Please guys take this as a constructive criticism. I know Kunos is not a big team, and that's precisely the reason why you shouln't be focusing in so many things at a time... Please try to focus on improving the sim itself for the next updates instead of making more and more cars, i would gladly change a couple of car DLC's for all these features finished. Love you guys, keep the good work.

Cheers!

 

I agree that we have enough cars for now. Although i still miss some proper FWD touring cars. I think some new tracks would really be awesome. Let's see what they'll have in store for us.

 

Understood, Number One

 

Come on, come on ... but in a racing game what do you do? do you drive cars or not?
We have almost a dozen tracks made by the modders: ok, ok ... but they are not always in laserscan

 

Almost a dozen? Hundreds. But then, not all in top notch quality, and, yes, not laserscanned. I'd like more official tracks.

 

Out of curiousity: do you know one that does?
Because I don't. I've tried a few and most of them don't even adjust the lock-to-lock such that it's correct for the driven car but rather stretch the signal across the whole range (meaning you'd have to turn 900° even if the car normally would only have 360°).

Apart from that, I doubt this thread will have a long live.

 

Rfactor 2 has some decent soft lock :/ and by decent i mean that it doesn't rattle all over the place when you do a hairpin on an F1...

 

Hm, then it's at least not activated by default and I couldn't find an option for it in the UI, because for me it was behaving like described above.

 

AMS seems to change degrees of rotation in my wheel software, this is annoying because I forget to change it back to 1080 but if AC did the same it wouldnt be a problem. It seems the best way to get a decent softlock? (not that i really need softlock)

 

I totally agree with the OP, this simulator is very good but has many shortcomings in race characteristics, it is hard to believe that in a simulator you can not limit the speed to enter the pits and be sanctioned if it does not. I really think it's not Kunos's fault, his players do not claim career characteristics, for them everything is fine and his only illusion is a graphic improvement, sparks, aerostatic balloons and this kind of thing ...

 

I just really wish they'd stop everything and work on surround sound. This game is so very, very, very good...it's like one of the best movies you've ever seen...and the sound simply falls flat on its face.

True surround on this game would elevate it to a level so realistic as to be simply unbelievable. That it still doesn't have it to this day is the only crying shame about the game at all.

 

Go to \Steam\steamapps\common\assettocorsa\system\cfg\assetto_corsa.ini. Then at the bottom- [SOFT_LOCK] ENABLED=1

It is disabled by default, precisely because it is still beta

 

Soft lock IS rattley. I really notice how nice it works in other sims for sure.

Soft Lock: steering wheel stops when front wheels hit the end of travel.

 

I know where it is for AC and it's not in the UI, because it's very experimental. I was asking for rF2.

@andy-riches: hm ok, that might explain why it's not working for me (not a common steering wheel).

@vegaguy 5555: you don't need to explain what it is ... I know that.

 

They are talking about RF2.

@Berniyh I meant for AMS if you didnt see in my post. If you meant AMS and it isnt working then yeah, I guess that is a problem. Maybe someone can make some kind of universal wheel software thingy just for wheel rotation and all games can support that so people with uncommon wheels can join the party?

 

Car actually stalls in AC. It just auto starts when you give it gas. I assume it's designed like this because they don't have recordings for engine start sounds for every car (PCars has manual engine start but no engine start sound and it just feels bad and unfinished).

I'm always confused when people talk about "features in sims". People call R3E a complete sim yet features like custom livery, multiclass racing, tire compound selection aren't there for quite a while, and people call AMS a complete package yet custom championship is new and done by a different program, HUD is troublesome with triple monitor, multiclass racing is pretty bad, and there aren't settings available for track temperature or status of the track surface.

Does that AC automatically sets shifting device between paddle shift vs H pattern according to the real car count as a must-have feature? Does search function for car and track without having to scroll a list count as an important feature? Does proper trouble monitor support (in which you can set angles between monitors and bezel size on each monitor etc) and VR support count as must-have features? Does making your own track layout by placing cones and tires on existing tracks count as a must-have feature? Does 3D modeled trackside marshalls waving flags count as a must-have feature? How about safety car (not just the car itself but also proper rules including un-lapping) and virtual safety car?

I remember about a year ago when people talked about missing features in AC it would be guaranteed that they mention "no way to choose the color of your car", but now, no one talks about it any more. If I'm not mistaken in public pick-up servers car skins are still assigned by the server and randomly given to players. Did people forget about the request, or do people find that it is actually not a must-have feature worth whining about?

I'm not defending or criticizing anyone or any sim. I'm just expressing my confusion - which features are the REAL features?

 

My bad. I dunno, i haven't messed with anything in the UI, it just noticed when steering and locking on a car that's 180º for example, i can feel the lock and drive the corner in a way that i don't wake up all the people in my house.
You say AC soft lock it's experimental, well the point of my post is that it shouldn't be experimental anymore, i think it should be finished already and be usable. If RF2's soft lock has issues or not has anything to do with the point of the post.

 

I'm confused now. What does that option do? I thought AC had a soft lock (if i get the meaning correctly. I mean the "bump" when the steering hits the rotation limit of the car's steering).

 

For me, it's always been simple:

• Does it look like you're really driving a car?
• Does it sound like you're really driving a car?
• Does it feel like you're really driving a car?

Assetto Corsa does all of that but only suffers on number two. Stereo sound in a racing sim is simply not good. If you can't hear what's happening behind you, beside you and in front of you simultaneously, it takes away a LOT of the immersion experience.

Everything else, if you ask me, is just nitpicking. They fix that, this game is worth 5 times its weight in gold.