Generic PSA: AC is practically single player only

We race every other night on p cars private lobby, blue screen, don't think so. It's the best sim/racer multiplayer there is currently on Xbox.
We can't keep on praising the handling and physics of AC when the rest of the game is so flawed. You say the multiplayer is better lol you can only take part in what's available, the frame rate is awful, dick heads going wrong way round track, gamers lying in weight to wipe out the leaders. How about the non existent track limits, its surposed to be a simulation racer, do you see race cars completely cuting corners, chicanes, take short cuts in real racing with out any penalty, well they sure do in this sim multiplayer.

Its probably the worst multiplayer ever released on Xbox one at the moment.
If they fix track limits, add the penalty system, fix the frame rate, give us private lobby's then it might be the best multiplayer on Xbox.

 

im not knocking anything these are facts. I enjoyed pcars for the last year and a half and still do.
You can't say you didn't experience pauses when players join lobby's or have crashes when SMS and Ian bell himself have acknowledged them.
PlayStation was the worst hit by crashes.
You can go on pcars forum and look for posts about it.

I'm simply offering a different perspective to the moaning that's going on here.
Thread titled AC is basically single player....well me and lots of others think different.

 

I can say Ive had no mp problems with pcars others may of done but myself and the team I race with have not , but none of this is relevant.

Pcars is busy mp AC is almost dead , Pcars forum is highly active here is mostly like a grave yard and the game has only been out a couple of weeks , this should be its busiest time , you simply cannot just ignore the facts, sadly apart from a small body of players the game isn't what players was expecting and its starting to show though in many avenues.

I'm keeping everything crossed hoping kudos can pull it back but I do not wear those rose tinted glasses like many do here, Kudos dropped the ball and dropped it hard, for todays standards sim or not this game just lacks to much far to much and the majority of players will not speak on this forum they wiĺl how ever speak with there wallets and move to a game they can better tailor to suit there needs, thats just human nature.

 

Yes in p cars we get the odd disconnection, yes we get that pause when people join, private lobby gets rid of that problem, because unless your invited you can't join. The clue is in the title AC is only a single player experience, there's just two much missing in multiplayer to bother playing it anymore.

 

Ah this maybe why we do not get this pause, we only play in private lobbies.

We name our tracks choose a discipline and agree our assists and tailor the game to suit, our mini championships normally run for a month averaging 30-50 laps a race with pits and we seldom have a problem.

This is why none of my team bother with AC anymore none of this customisation is available to us.

 

I'm hanging on to AC because I know the devs will sort the issues out. As for PCars, I've had it since launch day and have never experienced blue screen on PS4.

 

On the other hand, pCars still has some of the same bugs it had when it was released. Can't keep praising. Except on their forums, where criticism isn't allowed.

Everyone expects perfect games, at day one, patches for overlooked bugs on day two, and new, preferably free extra content on day three.

People need to chill a bit. Give them time. And don't expect perfection, because that doesn't exist.

 

Yay for you then, like I said common problem acknowledged by Ian bell and other SMS members on the pcars forum,countless videos of all I've talked about available too. Still a great game though don't get me wrong..

I'm hanging on to mine because I enjoy it as a game and just thinking about some of the upcoming dlc cars gets me excited, couple that with the possible fixes/new features that will come and it's going to be an exciting journey.

Having assetto corsa, pcars and dirt rally to play on a ps4 never leaves me wanting for racing fun.

 

I experience that very infrequently. Can't remember the last time, to be honest. Meanwhile, the issues with AC multiplayer are endemic to the design.

 

Again lucky for you on pcars and again problem acknowledged by Ian bell and SMS.

Well really the issue is with the users..the multiplayer aspect of the game works as intended by the game developers regardless of weather you like how it works or not it has no issues..

Hopefully they can add private lobby's at some stage but the doom and gloom posts on here are laughable.

 

Bra, if you can't tune, then that says a lot about you. A lack of understanding as to where speed comes from on a car's setup does not say much about the driver.

But as usual we greatly appreciate your "opinion". You have a wonderful day sir ;-)

 

Who says he can't tune? Maybe he likes the level playing field of stock setups.

 

What's laughable about the fact that AC is a ghost town on PS4?

 

I like your "opinion"!

 

I'm sure the Wii U has many titles with "kart" in title where tuning is off permanently for everyone.

By the way, I really, really respect and appreciate your... "opinion".

 

Not on my game it's not.. Lots of gt3 gt2 Classic formula, drifting and nords tourist available all the time. I play generally between 8 and 12 in the evening in Ireland.

 

The amount of "no true Scotsman" fallacies thrown around this forum is dangerously close to burying the entire community. Restricting setups is no different than any other homologation strategy. There's nothing fundamentally un-sim-like about homologation restrictions. Quite the opposite, really. If you want to simulate racing environments, you need support for varied homologation restrictions.

How about everyone take a step back any time they get to thinking things along the lines of "no true sim would X", or "feature X wouldn't be very sim-like". All you're doing is making a fool of yourself and alienating people from participating in the community.

 

Post a screenshot. I'd love to see it.

I've never seen more than three or four active servers (not including drift and Nords Tourist). In the first few days after launch, there was activity, but it's gone off a cliff recently.

 

No ghost town here And as I've said always plenty of races and good selection.
I totally agree with people that say private lobby's are needed but the game is still very playable as it is.

 

I literally just left my house and there were three servers with people in them. Is everyone getting on when I leave or is AC region specific?