Assetto Corsa EVO

Alex

This enters early access on 16th of January.

At launch it will contain 20 cars and 5 tracks - Laguna Seca, Brands Hatch, Mount Panorama, and Suzuka. It will also have the free roam thing about Nürburgring, which doesn’t sound very interesting to me, but each to their own.

The track list is not that long obviously, and the car list doesn’t seem to feature any single-seaters, from what I can see. Hopefully they will expand it in the future. Here’s to hoping that it’s okay technically.

Jogort

Added to wishlist, might even open the psvr2 adaptor box and see how well that works.

Brave

Yeah. I’m probably going to get it anyway but I’d rather see a direct successor to ACC. I’ve always preferred that structure to the gt7 /forza style of game. It’s nice driving my old mini around but it gets stale pretty quickly.

That said, the mods are where it’s going to get really interesting.

Jogort

Out now on steam, I don’t think my work WiFi will let me download 100gig or so to my laptop 🤣 and my stupid 3 mobile data is capped at 12gig for roaming 😭

Brave

Leave it for now matey. Just watching a stream and the driving is looking good but there are some major functionality problems. Access to most of the cars that should be available is stuffed because it’s defaulting to offline.

And there doesn’t seem to have been any indication that online was required…

Alex

Had a wee blast there. No problems accessing content. Handling is interesting, very physical, you feel very connected to the wheels and road, but almost in an exaggerated way. It’s fun but very easy to thrash the cars around to a huge degree. Generally a bit glitchy and lacking content as you’d expect, but didn’t seem to be any way to calibrate the steering, so was always slightly steering left. Performance was fine but a few stutters here and there. First impression is generally positive so far.

Alex

Interesting video, a real life driver talks about how realistic AC Evo is.

The answer is… very. Too me it still feels a bit exaggerated compared to iRacing, but hey what do I know?

Brave

Yeah. I’ve been watching some Coach Dave stuff. He definitely knows what he’s talking about. Speaks very highly of LMU as well.

I think there’s some confusion with Evo. It’s as if people are expecting every car to feel visceral and snappy, but road cars are always going to feel safer compared to race cars. From what I can see the race variants in the game seem to handle pretty nicely and believably.

I’m currently building up a new set of pedals and haptics to go with them. If I can get it all plugged in tomorrow then I’ll grab it and give it a go.

Brave

Yeah I think the handling is fantastic. Taking the mx5 round brands Indy felt like exactly how an mx5 should feel. Lots of lively little touches too, in the cockpit but also in terms of sound.

Loved the Porsche as well.

I’m a bit concerned about performance though. In LMU ( which looks really nice imo) I can get 70 cars in game and hit 140 fps.

But I had one car in brands hatch Indy and could barely hit 100. Add a few AIs in there and it’ll tank hard. I’ve seen folk like Jimmy Broadbent and TraxionGG say they were down at 30/40 with a full grid.

It’s definitely proper early access but I’m really hoping they don’t just wait for hardware to fix the problem. ACC was a performance hog for a very long time.