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Post by Dale Rossi on Jul 5, 2020 14:38:13 GMT
Owning AC since it was barely even a beta, I had been really looking forward to this.
The sound is very very good and the physics are OK, maybe on par with the 6 year old AC. That's not a bad thing.
Everything else is as if they didn't even test it. Wheels not working unless you unplug everything every time. No FOV is a deal breaker for me for anything that's supposed to be a sim.
But, I can confirm the keyboard F2 F2 trick works, at least for seat movement. That helps, but the FOV adjustment it says is there doesn't work. Really disappointing.
And unless SMS/Codies are executing a master class in marketing, then PCars3 is going to be a disaster for console sim racers. That leaves nothing left but PC2 for the next however many years, or possibly an entire console generation. Maybe Forza will go back to its roots, but I seriously doubt it.
Really really don't want to go back to PC. The Xbox X and next gen have all the power needed to run a legitimate sim. If only iRacing or rFactor would come to console.lol
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 5, 2020 16:16:08 GMT
This had been my concern for a while but I hoped pCars3 and ACC would fill the sim gap for console for a while longer but unfortunately that's definitely not the case with pCars3 and ACC is just too limited in content to have any great impact on people's decisions to remain on console or migrate to PC. I really enjoy ACC despite the launch game issues and we are all waiting in eager anticipation to see if they come up with the things that have been promised. Their history with console updates is not good though so it's not something I'll be holding my breath for.
There's been a lot of good chat going on in the pCars Discord but bottom line is there is nothing hidden with the new game that is going to change our minds. Nathan Bell has been active in there over the weekend and his enthusiasm for what they have produced is admirable but it's just wide of the mark for those of us that crave realism. The question of damage is still very much unanswered, he claims the video clip showing the wing bouncing off one of the GT3 cars was due to it being an early release clip and things are changed since then but would not elaborate. I suspect something about that will come in the 3rd blog hence his reluctance to reveal anything about it. He does get very defensive, very reminiscent of his Dad lol but I applaud him for at least being in there and answering some questions we have been posing.
It's definitely sparked a general feel that the only way to get sim racing now is by going to the PC side of the room and our little community is already showing that with several guys making the jump already..
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Post by stormtrooper on Jul 7, 2020 7:03:13 GMT
I'm going PC, no question. Not just because of this ACC & PC3 debacle, but after finally setting VR up and experiencing it (even on low graphics) you can't beat the immersion and feeling you get. Having played both PC2 and ACC on PC in VR, I still think PC2 has the edge on handling, absolutely on immersion, but not so much on sound. I'm going to try iRacing too once I've got the PC built as it's nowhere near as good as PC2 or ACC with my current setup.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 7, 2020 18:37:41 GMT
I'm going PC, no question. Not just because of this ACC & PC3 debacle, but after finally setting VR up and experiencing it (even on low graphics) you can't beat the immersion and feeling you get. Having played both PC2 and ACC on PC in VR, I still think PC2 has the edge on handling, absolutely on immersion, but not so much on sound. I'm going to try iRacing too once I've got the PC built as it's nowhere near as good as PC2 or ACC with my current setup. What's your build going to be like? Interested to know what you're putting together for all this for my own future reference.
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Post by stormtrooper on Jul 8, 2020 11:52:17 GMT
Ok, so I've already got the Graphics Card that I run in an external Amplifier to my laptop so I don't need to buy another as it's still an excellent card and the standard Occulus Rift VR Headset. The PC itself is going to have the following and is about £1k: CPU: 10th Gen i7 10700K 3.8GHz Unlocked RAM: 32GB DDR4 Graphics: 1080ti GTX HD: 1TB SSD Far better to spec and build your own, rather than a pre-built unit
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jul 11, 2020 23:21:31 GMT
Tons more options on PC, obviously. My VR friends tend to stick with original AC over ACC, iR, PCars etc just for the number of cars/tracks and options/mods.
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Post by Laird Cake on Jul 15, 2020 12:18:33 GMT
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 15, 2020 14:39:30 GMT
I wonder what they mean by this.. it's a bit ambiguous...
"Stopped certain views being accessible with a keyboard"
Does that mean the adjustments we found out about will no be disabled? Or were there different camera views that the keyboard allowed access to?
I also hope the private lobbies are available quicker than they have been for PC. I had no idea that they are still waiting for them!! How long has the game been out on that platform!!!
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Post by Laird Cake on Jul 15, 2020 15:20:08 GMT
It's good to see progress but you're right - it's ambigious. They're not hanging their hat on a date so that their not held to account for missing it. It's odd that they've pushed ahead with their latest DLC pack (GT4 cars I think) yet havent addressed any of the console issues.
The performance one will be interesting, They've not stated what improvements are coming, only that there will be improvements!
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 15, 2020 19:11:54 GMT
Yes it would certainly be good if we get a decent performance boost on the X. We are already almost a month into the games life cycle and I had hoped we would see an update already. Let's hope that is not too much longer.
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Post by stormtrooper on Jul 23, 2020 6:20:02 GMT
It's been updated...
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Post by Laird Cake on Jul 23, 2020 7:16:54 GMT
What updates have you seen? I had a look earlier and couldn't see anything come through yet. Cheers
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Post by SirRibShack on Jul 23, 2020 11:26:46 GMT
Apparently the update was the hotfix that PS4 got a couple weeks ago. I played last night and I didn't notice anything different.
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Post by stormtrooper on Jul 23, 2020 12:21:40 GMT
Yeah I've not been on I just saw that it had been. The Assetto Corsa Competizione forum has some details, but it was something of nothing although the proper patch has apparently been submitted to PlayStation and Microsoft though. When we were waiting for PC2 patches, this took about 10days for PS4 and another week on top of that for X-Box, so potentially 3 weeks ish and we might get a patch 👍
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Post by SirRibShack on Jul 23, 2020 23:45:06 GMT
PS4 got the patch today and they said the Xbox 1 patch should be next week. From a separate tweet they said the private lobby code is in the patch but they will not be available to use yet. From the comments I've seen on Reddit it seems to be a good improvement for the PS4 Pro so the 1 X should hopefully see similar improvements. acc.505games.com/console-update-july-2020-news/
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 24, 2020 23:15:53 GMT
PS4 got the patch today and they said the Xbox 1 patch should be next week. From a separate tweet they said the private lobby code is in the patch but they will not be available to use yet. From the comments I've seen on Reddit it seems to be a good improvement for the PS4 Pro so the 1 X should hopefully see similar improvements. acc.505games.com/console-update-july-2020-news/I bloody hope so because I'm not sure what this week's big patch did but it's hosed my game so it's almost unplayable now. I'll have to leave it alone until that patch drops.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 27, 2020 23:41:43 GMT
I've been spending the last few days in the game racing at Zandvort against 15 AI. The performance framerate wise has been much better than at Brands and Laguna last week so not sure whether the problem I had was track dependent or just something glitchy with the game at that time. I'll revisit both tracks over the next few days. Only problem is it caused such problems that I had multiple spins, etc. which damaged several of my ratings which puts me off going back again lol. I do really like the ratings system, it really focuses the mind when racing and makes you think about your driving much more than I ever thought it would.
Currently improving my CN CC and TR nicely but the SA is much slower progress and have yet to hit the 50 mark that unlocks the RC rating which I'm looking forward to getting into.
I'm finding the AI at 92/75 pretty decent and give a good fight. If I drive a clean race I can win at that level but will probably up them to 95/85 over the next few days to see how they behave at that level. I won tonight by 6/tenths over second place and any slight mistake would have seen me lose which is how it should be. Very impressed with them so far.
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Post by Laird Cake on Jul 28, 2020 12:39:32 GMT
I've been spending the last few days in the game racing at Zandvort against 15 AI. The performance framerate wise has been much better than at Brands and Laguna last week so not sure whether the problem I had was track dependent or just something glitchy with the game at that time. I'll revisit both tracks over the next few days. Only problem is it caused such problems that I had multiple spins, etc. which damaged several of my ratings which puts me off going back again lol. I do really like the ratings system, it really focuses the mind when racing and makes you think about your driving much more than I ever thought it would. Currently improving my CN CC and TR nicely but the SA is much slower progress and have yet to hit the 50 mark that unlocks the RC rating which I'm looking forward to getting into. I'm finding the AI at 92/75 pretty decent and give a good fight. If I drive a clean race I can win at that level but will probably up them to 95/85 over the next few days to see how they behave at that level. I won tonight by 6/tenths over second place and any slight mistake would have seen me lose which is how it should be. Very impressed with them so far. Likewise I'm still to get through the SA rating of 50. I've been around 30 - 35 for a while as I can't seem to get a good clean session when online. Last night I made progress but it's shirt lived! On the others I'm about mid seventies. I'm slowly getting back into ACC but still want it fixed. Quickly.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 28, 2020 15:27:47 GMT
I've been spending the last few days in the game racing at Zandvort against 15 AI. The performance framerate wise has been much better than at Brands and Laguna last week so not sure whether the problem I had was track dependent or just something glitchy with the game at that time. I'll revisit both tracks over the next few days. Only problem is it caused such problems that I had multiple spins, etc. which damaged several of my ratings which puts me off going back again lol. I do really like the ratings system, it really focuses the mind when racing and makes you think about your driving much more than I ever thought it would. Currently improving my CN CC and TR nicely but the SA is much slower progress and have yet to hit the 50 mark that unlocks the RC rating which I'm looking forward to getting into. I'm finding the AI at 92/75 pretty decent and give a good fight. If I drive a clean race I can win at that level but will probably up them to 95/85 over the next few days to see how they behave at that level. I won tonight by 6/tenths over second place and any slight mistake would have seen me lose which is how it should be. Very impressed with them so far. Likewise I'm still to get through the SA rating of 50. I've been around 30 - 35 for a while as I can't seem to get a good clean session when online. Last night I made progress but it's shirt lived! On the others I'm about mid seventies. I'm slowly getting back into ACC but still want it fixed. Quickly. I have been concentrating offline for now as my initial experience was that it's too easy to find carelessness online and that makes improving the ratings even harder. My SA is on 35, CN 92, CC 84, PC 68 and TC 75 at the moment. My next time on the game my aim is to spend it racing as close as possible to the AI to try to get that SA up. It's nice to race away for the win but you need to be having close racing to get that particular rating on the up quicker. Also need to get back to the special events to improve that pace rating. I really like the hot stint idea so will concentrate on those for a bit next as well.
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Post by SirRibShack on Jul 28, 2020 18:05:53 GMT
The patch is out and I'm downloading it right now. I wasn't planning on playing ACC tonight but I guess I am now.
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