Two things that always kind of bug me about racing sims.

Hi,
Not a whine, loving the game, just 2 things I think should be easy to sort that I'd love to see more.

1. Grass.
I find it hard to believe given the level of graphics capabilities these days, that we still need to use 1 grass texture across an entire track.
I've done race days and lots of the time you use a bit of a weed sticking up out of the grass, or a blade of grass overgrowing the white line as your braking marker.
Surely it should be relatively easy to do some kind of overlay layer that adds a few bits of vegetation that aid the driver. You could even make a simple procedural layer that changes over time, forcing racers to find new markers for braking etc.

2. Tuning.
I know, many LOVE getting into the nitty gritty of every little nut and bolt in the car, and that's cool, but its not for everyone. I like Racing Sims, not Mechanic Sims. I'd love to see either a simplified tuning menu for us plebs that aren't as knowledgeable about wangdoodles and doohickys, or at least some simple templates like: Fast corners & long straights, bumpy and kerb riding, tight and slow....
I know enough that I can tell some cars are really poorly setup for certain tracks, but I don't really have the time or knowledge to fix it properly.

Thanks for listening.

 

I agree

 

1. I mostly dont recognise it. Rather from a AAA-title then a niche-game I would expect rather for animated people in the boxes, like in RRRE and animated pit stops + more detailed enironments, so small hills a few rocks and plants and stuff that let it look less plain outside the actual track.
+Cause performance, grass usually dont have shadows, which let it always look off and not very pretty.
While thats just the looks.

2. I believe on racedepartment you can find setups for different tracks for some cars, to deal with that or ask people hear/steamfriends (you can save setups so you only deal with it once).
Im have no clue what I do and just use aero, tire-pressure, rideheight and suspension-softness for vague adjustments for the track and make cars more drivable (higher aero for MP4 12C GT3 f.e.), but its cool to work with it or rather will be if you know what you do and you are free to set the setup to your personal driving style.
Adds overall depth to the game, as would pit-strategies etc..

 

Hold you're mouse over the settings for car setup and it tells you what they do.

 

rFactor actualy has the slider for easy setup, as you suggest.

 

It's this, but if you're not sure where you want to find time on the track, and which part of a corner you can improve the car then you're probably not at the limit and shouldn't be worrying about setup yet. Once you're at the limit and you've tried adjusting your racing lines and driving style to try to get around the car's problems but still can't go any faster you can't help but know what to adjust. For example you might be screaming for more front end bite on turn in, and less understeer under power.... then you'll find the solution pretty quickly in AC's setup pages. Setting up the car isn't difficult, finding the absolute limits of the car is the tricky part which takes time and practice.

A lot of people grumble that they don't have time for setting the car up but it's a big part of sim racing, if you don't put the hours in you can't expect to compete against someone who has. It would be like me grumbling that I'm slow at karting because I'm so heavy, but I can't expect everyone else to get fat too. It'll take time and effort for me to lose weight but I'll go faster and feel a great sense of achievement if I succeed. Same with setups.

I agree about the grass and trackside areas though, more detail would be great.

 

Nicer off tracks details are always nice but I'd think that more detailed road textures would be even more helpful. When possible I'd prefer to take my cues from the road itself but I guess new surfaces are too smooth for that.

I'm not great with setups, but I don't think a simplified version would really help. You do have to know what you're doing to get the most out of it. My time is restricted so I every time I consider spending time on setups I see it as time not spent on track. I do minor tweaks to gear ratios, tyre pressure and toe and camber to get tyres to better temperatures and I'm beginning to get my head around the rest but I just don't have the time or patients to spend the required amount of time testing.

I typically just download other peoples setups from racedepartment and then tweak that as needed.

 

1: Performance ...
2: Something I personally found immensely helpful and still use to alt-tab out of game to the guide and back into the game
http://www.racedepartment.com/threa...-guide-for-novice-and-advanced-drivers.87492/

 

Adding nicer grass means lowering the quality of something else. I'd rather have a nicer car model, than driving around in a red box surrounds by lush swaying grass.

Rememeber the law of diminishing returns applies to graphics. "Graphics" don't get twice as good year on year, its harder and hard to my siginicant graphical gains these days, unless we come up with a completly new way of woking.

 

Thanks for all the replies guys.

Anyone got any links to setups on Race Department? I looked and couldn't find any.
Also anyone know if Kunos plans to include some setups per car/per track ala Race 07 (found that really useful).

Re the grass, there are many ways of doing it without intense 3d models, Richard Burns Rally is a great example of using sprite based vegetation for very little hit, something surely we can handle with 2014 kit?

 

I am always suffering understeer and oversteer. I think it may " help " having a car setup for a track, but its my driving thats the issue, too much speed on entry and to much throttle on exit. This is on me to essentially learn to drive. I used to do alot of DTR (old game i know) but finding the setup was the fun in it, the time and effort you put into it. I dont think it is fair that someone who has put 100 hours into learning a car and track in order to make a great setup for his driving style should suffer the insult of someone being able to just " Move a slider " to get a faster car

 

http://www.racedepartment.com/forums/assetto-corsa-setups.116/

 

Thanks!
Was looking in downloads not the forum. Appreciate it.