Road Traffic

Any chance of Kunos introducing this. I loved the original need for speed series on the pc,to be able to cruise the street/highway circuits with slow moving road traffic. I will be downloading a few mods later which I know are not perfect. I saw them on youtube and brought back memories of having a look to make sure the way is clear for an overtake

Also a clip with this mod with VR looked pretty good how you could move your head and look around any blind spots to make the overtake maneuver more realistic.

Apparently it's not that difficult to code? Would be nice to have a vote atleast

 

People seem to have a really hard time to understand the concept of a racing simulator.

 

Traffic can be pretty cool. I really like it at sp237 which is a point to point course. Having to look out for traffic in the opposing lane while racing ups the ante for sure. Street racing but sans all the danger doing it in real life would entail.

 

It can be done by creating a AI fast lane on any "road" like track, as long as there is a loop at both end, try SP 237 available on Race Department.

 

Check this out too if you didn't yet: http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/highlands-traffic-ai.13954/

Traffic AI for Highlands

 

"Racing simulator" is a bad slogan for Assetto Corsa since it is very little developed in this sense. I'm not interested in traffic, but it would not be a bad choice for Trackday.

 

why ? because it has race track circuits ?
this is what I'm making. plenty road networks

 

No, let me elaborate.

I'm not against traffic, or open roads, in fact it would be a dream to have AC physics and graphics, and FZ Horizon like open road network, and that online, that would be totally awesome.

However, traffic ai has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with a racing simulator, so therefore it's not really needed.
Kunos is a relatively small developer, so I rather see them dedicate their resources to actual improve the racing features of the sim, and not some simcade features that a minority of the user base wants.

P.S your ''track'' looks amazing!

 

Minority? You should read posts to the full. I think we should have a vote to see the results. And are you a coder? Do you know how long it would take to code traffic in a sim. Nope.

 

Because its race system has not become a standard like on iRacing, for me Assetto Corsa is the best virtual driving experience so far. The steering, the weight sensation, the laserscanned tracks.
I mainly start long practice sessions with different cars to enjoy the ride and nothing else, no victory goals etc. To me Assetto Corsa is like the virtual pleasure of driving

 

this is why a cruise track can work. even loosely involved with real traffic rules, its still a blast. and let me tell you from my experiences all these cars I see in a different light because ive been able to drive on relatively realistic roads. their handling, their sense of personality simply comes alive other ways, its quite amazing from what ive been doing, very worth while and strangely enjoyable. navigation alone is a concept rarely enjoyed in a sim but its a real thing. that can be simulated

 

Btw the main problem is the speed sensation, take that video for example, it's not like in real life sensation, you can get corner also too fast and it's not immersive.

 

Yes (only a totally different occupation) and partially, please don't make a fool out of yourself

You asked for opinions and I expressed mine, so what are you trying to say here........?

 

Things around are too static, also inside the car you can't get that fast blur effect just around your eye sight that let you feel the speed. It s an old problem of Ac, try for example Trento-Bondone, drive on it at real speed like on your car irl. You can reach 100kmh and seems you re driving at 50kmh, and you can't get brake points right. On the hairpin feels quite odd and the dimension scale feels wrong to me.. I can get that kind of immersion.

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you`re wrong about the speed sensation. doing 220 mph on a built up highway in P1 left my heart racing. its a very intense speed to maintain and you certainly rarely get anywhere near this on anything else. watch my vid after 26 mins. I had to stop because of how intense it was. you havnt experienced that before in a physics heavy sim, trust me that its not conveyed very well in the video due to crap streaming quality but in game its something else entirely trying to concentrate.

 

Perhaps you should recheck your FOV, can make a massive difference to the perception of speed.


''you can't get that fast blur effect just around your eye sight''

I've never seen that happen, and I reached 320 on the Autobahn, it's just a trick some games did to give you a false sense of speed.

 

It's not really a kind of blur, sorry for my explanation, but while driving I mean..if you look outside on the car side near objects there is a kind of movements, not like a special effect of course, but in Assetto corsa if you look in the same way, looks like that movement is really slowed down and break the immersion.

 

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Just slow down mate and stop acting like a child. lol It's only a game and we are allowed to ask for a vote atleast. take care.

 

But from what can I understand, intense because you have to battle with the wheel, intense about the difficulty to drive the car at limit, but if you watch a replay onboard it feels static, not like irl.
Try for example and Abarth SS on Trento, drive it at maximum and is not that challanging like in real life, try that speed in real life and you get mad about the road is close to you. You can push over 120km/h but everything around seems totally static, for a small road like that. While irl just pushing at some lower speed you have to start pray..
Tried a lot of fov, don't know..

 

Sure, why not. They can also throw in some speed traps and police chases while at that, shouldn't be that hard, right?