LOVING Assetto Corsa, is there any chance we'll see it constantly evolve indefinitely?

Hey!

So, as you can see I'm new to AC and its awesome. I just love picking a car and racing against AI which is what draws me into sim racing.

So many options too. *_*

Just asking, has the team said (or if not, is anyone hoping) that they'll constantly evolve it with new expansions, mechanics like LoL or Simraceway? I am excited to see it becoming a huge game with plenty of cars and tracks, probably night racing.

Kunos, you outdid yourselves but I hope it doesn't go the "occasional sequel" route and into an everchanging experience.

 

Since i bougth AC before the 1.0 was released, we have seen constant updates & new content, yet there isn't very much info before new releases, sometimes nothing, sometimes just pure hype from one or two photos or a single comment of one of the developers.

Don't get bogged down on this "mysterious" approach from kunos, they just like the drama.

 

The game is constantly evolving with new tracks & cars as DLC and usually with bug fixes and features.
They already said that they have long term plans for AC.
However, don't get your hopes up specifically for night racing, they already said that it's not happening so is very unlikely.

I'm also a big fan of racing the AI.
Next update we are getting changes for it and maybe we will have custom championships as well.

Cheers!

 

Most of the bigger updates were always discussed in the forum or social media, especially in Stefano's livestreams. His youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7n_g2xDySrmKRaf41rSwlg and bottom of the page check the upcoming livestream, as we're going to be on 6th episode about the new 1.7 update and the Red Pack dlc.

 

It's frankly amazing that it's still being supported so well with updates and content.

 

Until the manpower necessary for the updates will be paid with the DLCs the game will evolve.
Major "updates" like rain and night that require huge amount of dev time in order to complete rewrite the engine would never compensated with DLCs.

 

I'd pay for updates like that.

Releasing AC 2.0 as a paid update (even a full game price) I have no issue with. At some point that might be necessary for whatever reason.

There are a few things I absolutely don't want to see:
1. Announce the successor right after you released the game (happened with pCars …)
2. Make us wait for (&buy?) all of the DLC again. If there is a AC 2.0, no matter if I pay for it or not, I want to drive it with everything with got now.

It's not about money. It's just that I hate to leave all the great stuff behind with the possibility that we might never see the cars and tracks again.

 

What I hope for is that they will be evolving AC till its end or till they run out of ideas and those improvements or things they couldn`t do will provide solid base for their next title. And that it will be more complete since 1.0 release.

I don`t mean it as criticism of curent dev.progress I just think that now with all those experiences, knowledges, mistakes they made, etc they could start with better base and less limitations and create the best, most complete racing game package (which eventhough they are good enough simly can`t). Lets hope AC will sell on consoles like tamagotchi in `90s

 

Maybe to start, you can buy all DLCs. Nothing against you but you come here telling how much you are excited for new content and you like the game so much but seems like you are not excited as well to support Kunos buying all packs.

 

I hope AC is going to live a long time. In terms of developing, sooner or later time will come to improve engines. Future of Kunos is no doubt interesting.

 

Not just buying dlcs is support. He bought the software and is spreading a good word which can convince others, to buy the game

 

I'd love to buy a shirt or jacket to support them, but sadly they are not available for sale.

 

If you watch the "What the cat hacked in" videos, its clear AC won't be evolved indefinitely. Major changes such as night racing won't come with AC1. Aside from the obvious financial requirements (DLC can't fund the team indefinitely) Stefano views the original minimum hardware requirements as a baseline. Updates can't be introduced which current AC owners can't run so in the longer run this will act as brake on development.

While I appreciate the ongoing support and development of the current generation of sims compared to the old model of release, patch and sequel, developers have taken the opportunity to release an unfinished product and so the new model does have its downsides.

I really feel sorry for game developers. Although the games we buy cost a tiny fraction of the cost of a graphics card let alone a complete PC or a VR headset, we expect that we must get 5 or 10 years use out of them or feel the developers are "money grabbing". But when it comes to hardware it seems we are only too happy to shell out a fortune every couple of years for the latest CPU, graphics card, steering wheel or phone.

 

Yeah, that's definitely true, although there are games out there which you can easily spend the same amount of money on as a graphics card (which by the way are way cheaper these days on average than 10-15 years ago for the relative performance to the top model).
FSX, X-Plane or DCS are examples on the sim-side. Easy to spend hundreds of euros there.

AC is awesomely cheap. I spent approx. 350 hours on the game, maybe spent 60 euros on it. That equals approx. 0.16 €/h. If I'd have waited for a sale it would likely be half that. And anyway it's still going down.
Only few games get within that reach. The Long Dark is likely the best on my side with 20 € for 130 hours, thus 0.15 €/h.
(Funnily that's another game that is constantly evolving in a really great manner.)

Take your typical first person shooter which has a play time of 10 to 15 hours (for one play through, of course you can play it more than once) for around 45 € resulting in 3 to 4.5 €/h!

So, as I said above, I really don't mind paying for AC2. I do mind however if I can't take the DLCs with me.
If it's out, I want to drive my Ferraris, Porsches etc. in AC2, like I could in AC1 (well, Porsche not yet …). If not, that would be a serious put-off for me.

 

One week more and we get the Red Pack dlc to buy Kunos, I buy all, AC is for me the best, keep up the awesome work, it is going better and better.

 

i've converted from rF2. I just love AC

 

DD

It is not a religion, you can use both, and IMO thats the way to go.

 

i did however for now i don't as i have relocated countries and dont have my wheel & rig any more. Withought the wheel i hardly play rF2 as AC is miles ahead for the controller + the eye candy...