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[noikeee]

I'm still league racing ACC regularly but on PC. If all goes well I'll finally have my first team endurance race this Sunday after Monaco.

[thefinalapex]

I'm still league racing ACC regularly but on PC. If all goes well I'll finally have my first team endurance race this Sunday after Monaco.

 

Where do you league race?

[noikeee]

Where do you league race?

https://www.rwbracing.club/

RWB, it's a great bunch of folks, been racing with them for almost a year. At the moment I'm doing the Tuesdays league.

They do a few different sims on PC (ACC, Raceroom, rFactor 2) but nothing on consoles so I don't know if this group would suit you.

[thefinalapex]

https://www.rwbracing.club/

RWB, it's a great bunch of folks, been racing with them for almost a year. At the moment I'm doing the Tuesdays league.

They do a few different sims on PC (ACC, Raceroom, rFactor 2) but nothing on consoles so I don't know if this group would suit you.

 

I am doing theusdays aswell but on Apex online racing. Acc is a great game  and endurance is a hell of a lot of fun.

Edited by thefinalapex, 24 May 2021 - 09:41.

[messy]

Now I'm playing this on a Series X it's like a new game - the improved frame rate just makes everything so much more fluid and responsive. But I'm pretty daunted by it really, I don't feel like it's a game where I can just pick up a controller and start doing good times straight away, I'll need to learn how to be quick and dedicate some proper time to the gamebefore I'm halfway confident with it. What did you guys do - did you just concentrate on learning one car, and which is the best starting point? 

 

I'm so happy there's now a console version that comes closer to matching the PC experience though because it was a horrible juddering mess before, even on the One X. 

[noikeee]

Now I'm playing this on a Series X it's like a new game - the improved frame rate just makes everything so much more fluid and responsive. But I'm pretty daunted by it really, I don't feel like it's a game where I can just pick up a controller and start doing good times straight away, I'll need to learn how to be quick and dedicate some proper time to the gamebefore I'm halfway confident with it. What did you guys do - did you just concentrate on learning one car, and which is the best starting point? 

 

I'm so happy there's now a console version that comes closer to matching the PC experience though because it was a horrible juddering mess before, even on the One X. 

 

If you're on a controller it's gonna be very tough. It's really not meant to be played with one, unlike things like GT Sport which are designed to be used by both wheel players and controller players.

 

Sticking to one car for a while will definitely pay off much much better than jumping from car to car, as they can have pretty dramatically different characteristics. I'd consider myself pretty noobish with the GT3 cars and struggle to get the better out of the most difficult GT3s, so would recommend one of the GT3s I'm most comfortable with - the Ferrari (original one, the DLC Evo Ferrari can be slightly trickier), the Lexus, or the Aston Martin. They're all pretty stable and neutral and slightly more understeery than oversteery.

 

Another thing, you'd want to almost invariably choose the "aggressive setups" provided by the game as a starting point (unless you're struggling to the extent the "safe" setups are preferrable, or are more advanced and want to start tweaking setup choices). However after all the updates, there's some occasional agggresive setups that haven't been updated and don't take into account aero changes that were made to the game physics, so I've occasionally found a car+track combination where you get sudden massive uncontrollable snap oversteer on fast corners. If that's the case you might want to add a touch of rear wing or mess with the ride height to make the rear more stable.

[Nemo1965]

Steam has ready-made setups for F1 2017, which seem to be working fine. Do they have stuff like that for Assetto Corsa too? 

[noikeee]

Steam has ready-made setups for F1 2017, which seem to be working fine. Do they have stuff like that for Assetto Corsa too? 

 

Idk about Steam but for Assetto Corsa there used to be an app called Setup Market from which people could download and share setups in-game. Sadly, it's dead.   Someone hacked it and the guy developing it called it a day.

 

For ACC there's plenty of setups randomly spread around the internet, but some people run setup shops (they sell setups online). Setups are slightly less of a factor in ACC anyway, because there's decent ones provided in-game (though probably not ideal if you want to become the eSports world champion or something  )

Edited by noikeee, 24 May 2021 - 21:04.

[Nemo1965]

Idk about Steam but for Assetto Corsa there used to be an app called Setup Market from which people could download and share setups in-game. Sadly, it's dead.   Someone hacked it and the guy developing it called it a day.

 

For ACC there's plenty of setups randomly spread around the internet, but some people run setup shops (they sell setups online). Setups are slightly less of a factor in ACC anyway, because there's decent ones provided in-game (though probably not ideal if you want to become the eSports world champion or something  )

 

Geez, that is why we can't have nice things. 

 

eSports world-champion was never an option. But I would live to have some set-ups for all the non-Formula cars in Assetto Corsa. I can drive fine with all the F1-cars (new or old) or the Alfa Romeo Stradale (lovely car), but at Imola, at the straight before the pits, for instance, I spin with the Ferrari La Ferrari, the Testa Rossa, The Porsche 944, the Cobra, whatever, if I even look at the braking pedal.

Edited by Nemo1965, 25 May 2021 - 09:17.

[thefinalapex]

Now I'm playing this on a Series X it's like a new game - the improved frame rate just makes everything so much more fluid and responsive. But I'm pretty daunted by it really, I don't feel like it's a game where I can just pick up a controller and start doing good times straight away, I'll need to learn how to be quick and dedicate some proper time to the gamebefore I'm halfway confident with it. What did you guys do - did you just concentrate on learning one car, and which is the best starting point? 

 

I'm so happy there's now a console version that comes closer to matching the PC experience though because it was a horrible juddering mess before, even on the One X. 

 

Like noikee said the Lexus and especially the Aston are great cars to get grips with the game. I am driving the Lambo now in the league and endurance races, its a fine car aswell. The Mercedes for instance is everything i hate about a car hehe.

[balage06]

Like noikee said the Lexus and especially the Aston are great cars to get grips with the game. I am driving the Lambo now in the league and endurance races, its a fine car aswell. The Mercedes for instance is everything i hate about a car hehe.

 

It depends on what you like, I've been driving the Merc lately (my teammates wanted it badly  ) and it is a very strong, neutral car. The Lambo is the only machine in the game which is heavily oversteery by default, which I like a lot, but that makes it relatively hard to master I think, especially when the tyres are getting a bit worn. But yeah, every second team drives an Aston or a Lexus nowadays.

[thefinalapex]

It depends on what you like, I've been driving the Merc lately (my teammates wanted it badly  ) and it is a very strong, neutral car. The Lambo is the only machine in the game which is heavily oversteery by default, which I like a lot, but that makes it relatively hard to master I think, especially when the tyres are getting a bit worn. But yeah, every second team drives an Aston or a Lexus nowadays.

 

Tell me about it, we did the 6 hours of monza in the lambo last saturday with 30 kg bop, after 20 minutes in the stint the car just oversteers like crazy.

[messy]

Thanks for the recommendations. I actually like the McLaren at the moment, it seems quite stable and kind of seems to suit my style but then I’ve only tried a few of them. I really wanted to like the Lambo and the Bentley, but I can’t really get on with them at all. The Aston is good and the Lexus was my initial choice but I’ve moved away from it because looking at all the different series’/seasons available, I don’t think it’s in too many of them?

[Myrvold]

If all goes well I'll finally have my first team endurance race this Sunday after Monaco.

 

How did it go?

 

I bought ACC very early in early access (or whatever they called it), have some DLC's, all I've done is one single club-race at RaceDepartment, RCi's 12 hours of Bathurst and a 10 hours at Paul Ricard at a site/league I cannot remember (I was just hired in by someone). That Paul Ricard event was in rain, it was awesome.

 

I just cannot get the driving to "click" for me, so I can't find the motivation to practice or anything... but this is OT.

 

I really only mean to ask how the endurance race was?

[noikeee]

How did it go?
 
I bought ACC very early in early access (or whatever they called it), have some DLC's, all I've done is one single club-race at RaceDepartment, RCi's 12 hours of Bathurst and a 10 hours at Paul Ricard at a site/league I cannot remember (I was just hired in by someone). That Paul Ricard event was in rain, it was awesome.
 
I just cannot get the driving to "click" for me, so I can't find the motivation to practice or anything... but this is OT.
 
I really only mean to ask how the endurance race was?

It was a disaster.

- very low turnout with just 14 cars at the start which was already discouraging, we started 7th

 

- someone made a crazy divebomb on me and made contact with us on lap 3 of 4 hours (!), thankfully i proceeded and we had a pretty nice close stint to another 2 cars the whole 1st hour

 

- on the 2nd hour our sister team who we're friends with, decided to literally just punt out my team-mate for no reason accelerating out of T1 after we'd just overtaken them (we were pretty pissed off after this - a couple weeks of effort practicing and trading laptimes all for "friends" to do this), and then we tried to nurse the damaged car to the next pitstop

 

- whilst trying to limp to the next pitstop, we made contact with another car (our fault) and that really ruined the car who needed urgent repairs

 

- rushing to the pits we decided to do our next driver swap, so i took charge of the car. Except in the rush we forgot to tick "repair damage" on our stop. So i had to limp for a whole another lap with the completely ruined car, back to another pitstop

 

- out of the pits i had the ACC virtual mirror bug which means i had no mirrors. Scrambling to turn it back on, i started hitting everything on the keyboard and instead of turning the mirrors back on, i locked myself out of the car on trackside cameras instead, with traffic approaching, and no idea which key to hit to get back into the car again.

 

- at that point we were both more than frustrated and decided to park it with over 2 hours to go.

Edited by noikeee, 01 June 2021 - 17:05.

[Hati]

I don't play Competizione but coworker does. He told that he followed some 24h race and the team that was in clear lead dropped out because they had a 4g connection and they ran out of data. Weirdest reason for DNF that I've heard of.

[balage06]

I don't play Competizione but coworker does. He told that he followed some 24h race and the team that was in clear lead dropped out because they had a 4g connection and they ran out of data. Weirdest reason for DNF that I've heard of.

 

Funny how the fastest guys always use the weirdest solutions. I've also heard about a Russian/Slavic guy who qualified for the division 1 of a WTCR eSport league with mouse(!) controls. I think the term 'alien' applies to him literally.

[glenncondor]

Like noikee said the Lexus and especially the Aston are great cars to get grips with the game. I am driving the Lambo now in the league and endurance races, its a fine car aswell. The Mercedes for instance is everything i hate about a car hehe.

I'd agree with that, the Lexus is quite a friendly car to drive.

[noikeee]

If you guys want to try the game it's free to play for a couple of days on Steam, and there's also a big sale on all the content if you want to keep it afterwards.

[Rumblestrip]

I've tried using Motec for years and always struggled to make the most of it. I started using Track Titan this week, which you have to subscribe for, but it makes it easier to focus on your driving as opposed to the car set-up. I'm still using it in the trial period so I'll see how much use I get out of it, but early indications are promising. I improved my best at Monza by just 2 tenths to a 1.49 flat, but improved my average race pace by a second to mid 49's. It's definitely helped me be more consistent and understand where I'm losing time.

[Dolph]

On 19 April a new update will be released that is supposed to kill off crazy setups, equalize cars and fix the physics issue that launches cars running over kerbs. 

 

Also, Valencia track will be released, and 3 new GT3 cars: Ferrari 296, Lamborghini EVO2 and Porsche 992.

 

 

This year also GT2 cars are expected:

 

Audi R8 LMS GT2

Brabham BT63 GT2

KTM X-BOW GT2

Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO GT2

Maserati MC20 GT2

Mercedes-AMG GT Track Series

Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport

Porsche 935

 

 

 

No word on Magny-Cours, Hockenheim or McLaren 720S EVO

Edited by Dolph, 18 April 2023 - 21:39.

[noikeee]

I was indifferent towards a new class of cars until I learnt GT2s are GT4s with a ton more power... That seems lots of fun.

[Roughy]

On 19 April a new update will be released that is supposed to kill off crazy setups, equalize cars and fix the physics issue that launches cars running over kerbs.

Also, Valencia track will be released, and 3 new GT3 cars: Ferrari 296, Lamborghini EVO2 and Porsche 992.


This year also GT2 cars are expected:

Audi R8 LMS GT2
Brabham BT63 GT2
KTM X-BOW GT2
Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO GT2
Maserati MC20 GT2
Mercedes-AMG GT Track Series
Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport
Porsche 935





No word on Magny-Cours, Hockenheim or McLaren 720S EVO

Is this for console as well or just PC?

[Dolph]

With ACC console updates usually lag signficantly behind.

[flatlandsman]

Seems to me like the aliens found a way to get their silly setups back.  Also this recent update has not included and real updates to the older cars setups. I

Meaning a lot of them are borderline useless unless you are happy being miles off the pace.

 

This is massively frustrating as I know a bit about setup, but not the finer details to know exactly what makes a Jag or a V12 aston, or an older Lambo, Audi quick.  So at times even running fats default leaves you miles off the pace simply because there have been so many updates and the older cars have not had any setups modified to suit so in many cases they are next to useless. 

 

I love using ALL the cars not just what is meta, this game seems to sort of ignore that. 

[ARTGP]

Seems to me like the aliens found a way to get their silly setups back.  Also this recent update has not included and real updates to the older cars setups. I

Meaning a lot of them are borderline useless unless you are happy being miles off the pace.

 

This is massively frustrating as I know a bit about setup, but not the finer details to know exactly what makes a Jag or a V12 aston, or an older Lambo, Audi quick.  So at times even running fats default leaves you miles off the pace simply because there have been so many updates and the older cars have not had any setups modified to suit so in many cases they are next to useless. 

 

I love using ALL the cars not just what is meta, this game seems to sort of ignore that. 

 

Don't use the older cars unless you are in some kind of league which is only using them. They don't get BOP'd anymore. The late model Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Ferrari, Aston, Mclaren, Porsche are the only cars that are competitive. The Mclaren and the Porsche are current the flavor of the month but I like the Audi a lot. Not the fastest but fun to drive and you'll still beat plenty of people. 

Edited by ARTGP, 29 July 2023 - 03:45.

[flatlandsman]

I get what you are saying but what is the point in that, if they are useless the people who make the game might aswell delete them! Both older Audi's are now miles off the pace with default setups, that is not great and borderline unacceptable. 

 

All it would take is for some dev to take a few hours doing some basic setup work, throw it back into the setups folder and it is done.  Not everyone understands all the tweaks and cheats in this game, and let's face it some of them are ridiculous when you read them.

 

I just find it a bit silly that the game only wants to push certain cars and not all of them, this could be amazing with every car at least sort of competitive in the end it has become like most games, meta based. 

 

I know that set up knowledge is key, but not everyone has the time for that. These defaults used to be a God send for average, amateurs like me and I feel they have been largely ignored in favour of only chasing recent cars that people have paid for. 

[Rumblestrip]

Well, after not having sim'd since the start of the year I've started again 

 

Coming to terms with the 1.9 change, and after driving for the day I've only just found out that the tyre pressures should be 26-27 and not 27-28....

 

The McLaren Evo feels much nicer than the earlier models. Much more stable and predictable when it starts to break away. I've just been using the default aggressive setup so far with a few minor tweaks.

[ARTGP]

Well, after not having sim'd since the start of the year I've started again 

 

Coming to terms with the 1.9 change, and after driving for the day I've only just found out that the tyre pressures should be 26-27 and not 27-28....

 

The McLaren Evo feels much nicer than the earlier models. Much more stable and predictable when it starts to break away. I've just been using the default aggressive setup so far with a few minor tweaks.

 

That Mclaren is god-like at Spa. 

Edited by ARTGP, 16 October 2023 - 16:36.

[flatlandsman]

there are some cars that EVERYONE who thinks they are quick use.  The new Macca, the 296 ferrari, the new 911 and the new Lambo and now and then the last Audi.

 

Everything else is pretty much off the pace unless you really know your setups. Or you don't care about being a saddo online. I prefer to vary te cars I use, I can still win now and then in a Reiter at Monza with an old demon setup, or the Jag, or even the old Bentley, but you will be nowhere in half decent level servers. 

Some cars can still work, like the Bentley, all the older Lambos, the M4 is still good.  But some stuff like the old Bentley, all old Audis, Nissan, Honda, old 911's  have all been rendered pretty much obsolete.  UNLESS you know how to make setups and what needs changing on each car to make it work with 1.9 physics.

 

It would not take much to do this but Kunos can't be bothered, preferring, as most devs do, to tailor most of their game to elites, aliens and streamers the people who do all their work for them and receive nothing from Kunos. Other than free DLC. 

[Dolph]

 

GT2 cars are expected:

 

Audi R8 LMS GT2

Brabham BT63 GT2

KTM X-BOW GT2

Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO GT2

Maserati MC20 GT2

Mercedes-AMG GT Track Series

Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport

Porsche 935

 

 

 

 

Looks like the GT2 cars will be released in January 2024

[Dolph]

NB! On Steam all of the DLC's together are discounted at a crazy rate at the moment. Its like a 79% discount. If you still don't own some of them or any of them, now is THE time to buy em:

 

https://store.steamp...zione_DLC_Pack/

[messy]

The GT2 Porsche is interesting, a couple of interesting cars in that set tbh with the Brabham and Maserati too.

I’m really confused about what GT2 is, though. I’d have always thought, if GT4 was slower, GT3 faster and GT1 the fastest, then GT2 should be somewhere between those two, but it looks like it’s a slower, lower profile series more at GT4 level?

[Dolph]

GT2 is fast cars with lower sophistication than GT3.

[thefinalapex]

Can't wait for this and the nordschleiffe:)

[balage06]

GT2 is fast cars with lower sophistication than GT3.

 

And based on my experience in other sims, they drive quite horribly to be honest. Hopefully, their ACC rendition will be more fun.

[Dara]

Should have been the 911 RSR