Generic Laserscanned Laguna Seca + 6 bonus cars will be free!

The cost calculation wasn't just financial, but time too. A 3 track DLC would take ages to complete.

Really? You're trying to compare the two? I don't know why you're pretending It's the same thing. A track is just a piece of tarmac. Totally the same as driving a prestigious car marques you've dreamed of owning since childhood because of the sounds and looks.

Yea i share the same thoughts, but I'd happily take 3 or 4 fantasy locations over 1 laser scanned real world track if it means we will get more tracks.

 

Well, sure that a good laser scan make a track quite accurate for sure!

But it isn't all... Surface and FFB is also important.

Look at Zaandvoort in Assetto... I is not laserscaned (and it's on of my favourite tracks in the game)

If I'm correct, Silverstone classic isn't scanned also and from Monza 1966 only the curbs of the oval section are scanned.

BCC and Highlands are fictional and not scanned, but like the tracks I've mentioned above they received a very good work on surface and FFB..

Finally that is important, because makes the track alive trough the wheel.

 

Pro drivers train with simulators, also players want to compare their performances to reality as close as possible. Real cars, real tracks. People may want to learn a track for a trackday, and improve their skills switching between IRL (trackdays) and sim. Value of laserscanning should not be underestimated either tbh... iRacing has all tracks scanned, and it's major competition point for them. Even if people never drove the real track, many still like "the idea" of it. If no other option, nonscanned is okay. Modders have no resources for laserscan, so people are happy with what they can get, and they get it for free so why complain. But laserscan still holds a lot of value in "hyper realistic" sims, it's the new standard. Makes jumping from sim like iRacing to another easier too, because the tracks are identical.

I hope Kunos doesn't do any more fictional ones if I'm completely honest.. rather real tracks or nothing. People won't be as willing to pay for non-scanned DLC and giving/creating many tracks for free is not profitable business.

I would have wanted that they add some best mod tracks into the game (so even console users can enjoy it) but they said it takes more time to check the origin/legality of all assets/textures and polish the track up to their standard, than creating a new track from scratch. They had noticed this with Zandvoort. So better not then. Also, the licensing costs would still be there, afaik the laser scanning cost is not the biggest part of cost with larger tracks, it's the license... that you need to pay even if non-scanned mod track is made official. Would also assume, that laserscan makes work of Simone easier, because he knows already where everything should be from the point cloud, he just needs to create it.

Could be that Laguna Seca is the last track we get. Giving all this for free could be a "Farewell gift" to community. Kunos is moving to their next project, in the background, you can tell this from the Sim Racing Expo interviews, also the one I linked here but others too. They said they are in R&D phase for next project, scoping options for new graphics engine. Hopefully more scanned tracks in AC2 out of the box, if their next project is circuit racing too.

 

My fear is that they can't bring everything they licensed from AC1 to AC2.

Well, having in mind the historic ones too.

 

At least they have solid 3D models to build on, if they are able to re-license cars. Also point clouds of current LS tracks, while some scans are oldish. And all the connections to big marques now, which they didn't in beginning of AC.

 

Not true; more and more scans are becoming publicly available.

Bingo!

 

I agree with you both guys. It should be very nice to get some fictional tracks well made. Granturismo became famous with Autumn Ring, High Speed Ring, Grand Valley, Trial Mountains (my favourite), Deep Forest...Only for AC I should like they should be racing tracks and not road tracks as Black Cat and Highland. A city fictional race track in psrticular should be very attractive for me as completely missing in AC.

 

Have other mod tracks used laserscan data, than Tor Poznań? That only one I'm aware of

 

Goodwood is made from a scan, the WIP Watkins Glen is made from a scan, and possibly VIR.

Anyways, pretty sure that Laguna Seca will be the last official track in AC.

 

LIDAR and laser scanning Kunos uses are not the same thing. While LIDAR is very good, and I'm very glad to see people using it to make tracks, proper laser scanning is far more precise.

 

Kinda sad if we don't get Le Mans at all for AC. We have all those LM-cars, but we don't have that "right" track for them. It's not same to use those cars on other tracks.

 

Kunos have proven they are really great at track surfaces, even on non laser scanned tracks.

I get all that, I want to compare myself too. I want laser scanned Monaco and Me Manns, just to name a few. But circuits only in a game is utterly boring. Some of us don't want to race all the time, we want to play the game but don't always feel like racing, but just chillin and driving. And that is boring on circuits.

I should also point out I do not want fantasy circuits, but locations like Highlands, public driving roads and city tracks. I'd pay for that. Kunos could always include them in a car pack. This game doesn't belong only to circuit SIM racers, it belongs to people who just like to drive and enjoy cars too ( Highlands and tourist are the most popular lobbies on PS4), Kunos made highlands specifically for those that struggle with the rigours of circuits and they hit the nail on the head. I give highlands a 8/10 overall, I'd give it a 10 if there was a longer version of the city track too. I'd love some more locations like that. That doesn't mean one has to be at the expense of the other, but Kunos can't carer just to the hardcore simmers who take themselves far too seriously.

Completely agree with city tracks, Tokyo in GT5 was one of my favourites and its not fictional either, definitely need more city tracks. Obviously I don't agree that there should not be road tracks, the road cars need somewhere to play.

Oh yea, also some hill climbs and some rally tarmac stages would be great too, fictional or not.

It's long been established we won't be getting it.

 

Acording to other interviewer of Marco in Expo, 1 of the cars in the Bonus back will be 2017 Pagani Huayra BC

http://www.pagani.com/huayra-bc/

 

I thought BC standed for Bonus Car

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I think the Sesto is bigger news ( to me anyway). The
Performante is interesting too. What a great pack, a nice Lancia Delta Evo will really be the cherry on top of the cake.

 

I wonder what it be like driving up it. Need to test in iracing now. All these years never drove backwards on it

 

I never tried going backward up The Corkscrew either. I'll try it later.

Did you ever try going backward at Nordschleife or Spa-Francorchamps? They are the ultimate mind benders.

 

Remember not to do that on race, you could get yourself banned for long lime

 

Im no sim elitist but I want the tracks as accurate as they possibly can just as i want the physics to be accurate as they possibly can. Kunos let us enjoy cars that we will never ever be able to drive and imo they do a good job. I want the same accuracy when they let us experience tracks.

 

It will be interesting to see how it compares to Project Cars 4