Immersion! immersion! immersion!

Well, I really didn't wanna create this thread in the first place because it just seems redundant, but in the end I had to unburden myself:

The reason I bought Assetto Corsa just after I got my first steering wheel and started 'simracing' for real is because of the physics, some time ago I've seen a guy from Kunos saying they'll take no shortcuts to make this the most realistic racing game there is physics wise, and I really can't disagree with that, that effort is clear when you play it: you buy the game, open it, choose a car and a track, do some hot lapping and it feels like you're doing it for real.

But then the excitement of hot lapping fades a little bit, and you start looking for something else, but there really isn't anything else to it. The career modes are just hot laps or races of few laps, the track always seems to be abandoned for decades, there's no crowd noise, no pit crew, no pit stops (on single player), the colours seem too unrealisticly bright, the AI is crap and just drives along the track like you're not there (it's a little bit better lately, but far from ideal), no multi grooving on the track, and the quality and realism of the tracks is astonishing, but there's no more than 10 of them unless you go for mods, which there really aren't many of quality to this day, amongst many other details that just kill the mood when you try to take this game seriously.

I don't really know if the developers read these suggestions. The fact that the suggestions topic is in the 'chit chat room' tells me a lot. Don't get me wrong: I'm a big fan of the game and really want it to be the best there is, but I believe that even before they try to push another "Dream Pack" to the public, they should adress these issues.

What good is it having the most realistic cars and tracks when after a month you're gonna be bored to death because you can't put it to good use?

 

I agree with most of your points but still there is a way to breathe new life into your game: racing online.

 

join a league and do the fun runs you will not regret! check out aloog.net every wednesday and sundays theres fun runs. A new league on sundays in some months.

 

I agree with you at most of your points while it's still impossible to say this game is bad. I tried most of sim racing games and AC is a few steps ahead in my opinion.
Bringing a paid DLC without solving a lot of problems, it was weird.. AI, multiplayer, living world (dull circuits)... And still there is no time limited race option like gt open... Yeah, graphics are nice but I have to change PP filter (using mostly modders pp filters) often..

 

Agreed.
I get their point of making the game "very moddable", because it would be impossible to them to make the amound of content that a whole modding community can, but the base content is still their responsability. You can't make a game that relies on mods for every little aspect like the pp philters, otherwise you'll spend more time downloading mods than playing the game.

That was my intention from the beggining, but considering my skill level, joining a league would just make everybody want to kill me. So I'd like to practice some more offline, which is difficult because the AI is useless and hotlapping an empty track is boring.
I'm thinking I'll just get GSCE until AC is actually 'playable', if it ever comes to that point.

 

I agree with you mate, same story here. I bought a good wheel just for assetto corsa (when young I used a plastic toy wheel for simracing...fact is that I was more faster before than now...how strange), and I feel the game the same way of you. GSCE is a good game to learn driving, I bought it too and started kart career just to learn driving again...

 

@Poguinhas - Most leagues have drivers of very different levels. You do not need to be an ace to enjoy a good race, but rather other drivers of roughly the same level racing fair.

 

You don't have to join a league to race online. I wouldn't worry about whether you are good enough or not. If you can keep your car on track for multiple laps, then you're already better than 50% of the online field

 

Unless you are reading this forum in Braille you will be fine online so you won't be a problem yet you won't see any good racing either. Kinda a double edge sword. Everyone sucks so you won't be a problem but then everyone sucks.