Rip open wheel multiplayer

We'll miss open wheel racing online in AC. In particular the F1 beasts. They were a wonderful use of AC physics and on track gameplay. Sure the public servers can be nightmares, but sometimes a full grid would get through turn 1 then even 2. This worked for a while. Then week after week less people would show up. Then nothing; not even on weekends. I can't find a single decent (unlocked) open wheel server with people in it. The servers are there, just empty. Maybe you're all so fast that you're invisible and neither I nor timing and scoring can see you. Nope you are just not there.

I am officially declaring Open wheel MP racing in AC dead.

Yes I see the Formula Abarth Championship thread below mine. Is that all we can hope for?

 

Last week I had a race at Mugello with ferrar 312t. But a few months ago I raced more the lotus formula exos (s1). But there was much cheating with the exos s1 at monza...

Will see after v1.1 and dlc release, we'll have flags and penalty system., and nords is also good for open wheelers.

 

Not only do we have the Formula Abarth league starting on 11th March, in our racing club section we encourage members to suggest and even organise race nights. We'll be doing some GP2 and F1 nights so keep looking out for them - or feel free to join us and post / suggest an event yourself - the more the merrier...

https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/formula-abarth-championship.21080/

 

Public servers are for the part time gamers.
There's been no new content for a while, so they're bored and playing other things (or coming up with dumb schemes to try make developers release more content quicker).
Once there's some more new content, they'll be back for a few days, then they'll be bored again and leave.
The only longevity is in leagues and clubs.

 

One reason that they dont play on public servers might be because its a crash party and not because they are tired of the content. I guess most people just have went on to leagues or just doing hotlaps.

 

I'm not a all into open wheel racing but, I don't see how creating a thread saying open wheel racing is dead will (as you seems to wish) re-launch the hype for that type of racing.

Maybe you could try creating your own league, propose yourself to administer an open wheel public server with some specific rules or organize a championship.

 

there's an Italian Formula Abarth server that is quite often populated, good racing

 

I don't wish open wheel to be dead in AC. Just stating my opinion on the current state of this sim's community.

I don't need to start an open wheel server. There are plenty out there that are empty every time I check. There are so many great servers out there with mix class open wheel and single spec racing, but they are empty at all times of the day.

Being able to start league threads on this forum is a start, but creating a league, server, etc for a community that isn't there is a waste of time. I feel sorry for these guys that are paying for a server that never has anyone in it.

 

It isn't just open wheelers, Peter. It seems that most people are only interested in racing the GT2 and GT3 cars. Heck, even the Lotus Evora GTC has trouble getting through the turnstyles, and that can give those cars a run for their money in the right hands. Unfortunately, if it ain't GT2 or 3, then hardly anyone seems to care where the public servers are concerned. There are so many other cars to enjoy in AC, and there will be another ten very soon!! We need to encourage more people to race the road cars (or in your case the open wheelers), and the only way we are likely to do that is by booting those GT2 and GT3 cars out of the server lobby!

 

Kunos really need to do an entry level open wheeler like the Formula Ford or Skip Barber as most of the current open wheelers are probably to difficult for many people to get to grips with as far as the casual public server racers.

The pub servers also need to take damage off as it only hinders those that want to race and if they do make a mistake or are the victim of someone else's mistake, being able to continue. The guys who want to cause carnage couldn't care less about damage, and in fact it encourages them.

 

Well it's just the margin of error is smaller on faster cars - can't really have a good race with someone you can't drive near because the netcode makes their braking points erratic, and every incident immediately destroys all cars involved.

I can kinda get the gut appeal of F1 cars but I have never seen good racing with them in sims (as an average driver).. if I want competitive drivers and most of the field finishing the race, it's the Skip Barbers and stuff.

 

Naaah, it is not that bad. Find some people and start a league.
You can use one of the speedwise servers if you want to:
http://www.speedwise.de

 

I can't believe more people aren't running the 2009 Formula Master mod...I don't typically care for open wheel cars and at the moment it is my favorite mod car available. The way it transfers what the car is doing through my wheel is absolutely magical. I've hosted servers with it a couple times and a few people join, but not many.

I tend to agree with your statement, but when the netcode is working good and this happens:


Pure Awesomeness!!!

 

Indeed this is the main problem. In an Exo S1 race for example you can easily have a 25 second time spread between 15 racers. They are simply too difficult for the majority of racers.

 

I agree that the faster cars are the harder ones. That's my appeal. AC is a hard driving sim in general with it's strong dependence on setup compared to titles I'm used to. It's young too; so community is small and changing. These modders are pumping out cars that I don't see getting used. I can't wrap my head around no one wanting to do Lauda vs Hunt with the M23 out now. Anyway people are actually in a 98T room. Gotta go.

 

Very few of the mods physics are right. That's why I don't like them anyway.

 

Is the F A not beginner friendly enough? I am an openwheeler noob but find it very forgiving. Skip Barber is NA while this is Turbo but the F A has much better aero so it balances out to create an easy to drive very fast (relatively) car. If I am wrong, please tell me why, I want to know more.

 

I would love to do open wheeler mp for sure. I just have to wait for better netcode and penalties as there are to much crashers and bad pings, which totaly kill the fun. This will be fixed. Im pretty sure about that.

 

Pub servers should have assists enabled for those that want to use them.
They're mostly for casuals, pro's will always tell you that they're faster without assists so there should be no problem with leaving them available for those that want to use them.
At the very least ABS and autogears. Lots of pub players use controllers (get over it - if you're such a wheel using pro then get off the pubs and onto a league server) - and braking is very hard with a controller, especially the open-wheelers.

Pub servers with snobby no-assists settings make no sense at all.

 

The Formula Abarth is similar to Formula Renault or Formula 4. Just because it has slicks and wings doesn't make it some sort of hot rod. It's a race school car.

Formula Ford is dying out now, kids are moving straight from karts to Formula 4 or Formula Renault. Managing slicks, paddle shift, setting up and driving a car with aero and left foot braking are the skills of the modern single seat racer. Treaded tyres in the dry, H pattern, H&T, mechanical grip, these things are fun in sims but not really what a 14 year old career racer needs to be familiar with.

For what it's worth I would like to see a Formula Ford in AC though.