Assetto Corsa Competizione EA Release Date to Reveal at Spa 24 Hours

[Paul Jeffrey]

AC Competizione will once again be playable at the Total Spa 24H later this month - with an Early Access release date reveal to come too!

I suppose it is fair to say ACC doesn't really need much introduction to our readers here at RaceDepartment, so I'll spare you the few lines of text waxing lyrical about the Blancpain licence, night and day and weather representation, quality mix of cars, physics, features and all that stuff and get straight to the point..

Kunos Simulazioni have taken to social media earlier today to confirm that the upcoming Assetto Corsa Competizione racing simulation will be available for members of the public to play at Spa, the new Blancpain GT Series game having a dedicated space within the paddock at the famous circuit as Kunos look to again show the work in progress title to members of the racing public.

Although you will need a paddock pass to get into the area where Kunos will be showing ACC, confirmation that a playable version of the title is another positive boost for gamers excited to get their hands on some action before the new sim releases to Steam Early Access later this year.. oh and about that, Kunos have also confirmed Spa will be the location where the Italian developers confirm the release date to Early Access for the sim.. so double excitement, even for those who can't make it over to Belgium for the race itself..

On another ACC related topic, Marco Massarutto also took the time to respond to community members concerned that Assetto Corsa Competizione is set to be optimised for Nvidia software, rightly rubbishing the assumption that ACC will work better on Nvidia hardware than other major GPU manufacturers, whist also going on to confirm that the cars not yet seen in ACC gameplay videos that participate in Blancpain are under development, and will be revealed in due course:

"Some few notes for RD users:

I had an interview with NVIDIA because NVIDIA asked for it, not because we are providing any special optimization for NVIDIA (also because we are not EPIC Games, but Kunos Simulazioni, and the game engine is made by Epic, so any particular optimization must come from them, not from us). So I can just say "thank you" to NVIDIA for the kind visibility and support they are giving us. If AMD will contact us for any interview, to support us with specific features, to provide us their hardware for testing and evaluation, I will be glad to answer to their questions, too. BTW, please learn once for all (hopefully...) that there is NO reason WHY a game developer should not support at its best ANY possible hardware, if this means to make one more user happier, and to sell one more copy of its product. So, the option "let me put these two code lines to make the game better on NVIDIA and worse on AMD cards.." doesn't exist in the real world. Of course, if you want badly to blame someone when NVIDIA or AMD provides specific drivers (at their side) that makes a particular game better, probably you should blame the other one because it didn't, not the game developer that, please remember - always wants to sell as many copies as possible of its game, to any possible hardware owner, including Commodore 64 owners, wherever is possible.

About the cars: you didn't see yet the BMW, the Bentley, the Jaguar and so on because are still under development, or because we are waiting for the approvals from the respective Brands and SRO. As soon as possible we'll provide you some WIP screens to make you happy.

EDIT: About options once you are ingame: many of the options (video, sounds, etc) will be accessible so that you don't need to come back to main menu and load the session again (BTW, loading times seem to be very fast)."

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For those who are interested, the article to which Marco refers can be read HERE.


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Going to Spa? Looking forward to ACC? When do you think Early Access will be made available? Let us know in the comments section below!​

 

[mms]

Not necessarily, a load of people will take time off during the summer to enjoy the weather and just take a break from work etc. Also university students will have time off, parents etc there are many people who will.

Exactly, the bold part People I know don't take time off during summer to play a game

 

[Tberg]

Look I'm a PC1+2 driver and I also have AC and I will be getting ACC, can we please leave all this nonsense at the door, what purpose does it serve?

Mocking the fanboys only, not you. And it was a joke, so..

Cheers

 

[delpinsky]

Honda will make its Blancpain GT Series debut at this year's Spa 24 Hours with its NSX GT3 car, taking the manufacturer count to 12.

@kunos will this beauty be part of the grid?

 

[Ole Andreasen]

Well I guess they'll have to dump down the graphics, so basically we'll get this:

The games has changed but the fun is the same!

WOW - Amazing sound - amazing graphics - and even in the mirrors - same graphics quality. And animated pitcrew in pitstops. But I DO remember the game being a lot more fluid back then... perhaps the code has gone stale after so many years...

 

[felippekiss]

Honda will make its Blancpain GT Series debut at this year's Spa 24 Hours with its NSX GT3 car, taking the manufacturer count to 12.

@kunos will this beauty be part of the grid?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wkJCsxRwqP8nAun69

 

[Shad3R]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wkJCsxRwqP8nAun69

lets hope Honda is one of those manufacturer that is open to any dev, there are some manufacturers that are literally a pain in the ass to work with said by some devs.

 

[Damage Inc]

Mocking the fanboys only, not you. And it was a joke, so..

Cheers

Fair enough.

 

[felippekiss]

lets hope Honda is one of those manufacturer that is open to any dev, there are some manufacturers that are literally a pain in the ass to work with said by some devs.

is the question, from the moment the contract was signed with Blancpain (SRO) whether the image rights is everything that is involved in the package or whether Kunos would have to license manufacters individually as it was in the original Assetto. Another point to be clarified is know that the 24 hours Spa also participate IGTC teams will also be licensed? IGTC belongs to the SRO group but ...

 

[Sonoafafayon]

With regards to the inclusion of the Honda NSX GT3, I don't think so. It's not part of the normal grid (I think it's doing Spa this year as a one off) so it probably wasn't available for data analysis when Kunos were putting the game together. Maybe it'll appear at a later date.

I think that the Honda is actually staying on after Spa. Because they join mid season, they're only allowed to race as a Pro-Am team, but apparently next year plan to return again as a full Pro team.

 

[2stains]

a load of people will take time off during the summer to enjoy the weather

Then sit inside away from such summer weather to play a game !
Why not just play at night before bed like most of us ? ( Assumption)

 

[2stains]

night and rain is "reality" to not have it diminishes a sim

Confirmed AC is a diminished Sim and rF2 and pC2 are best lol



This is a joke people , well my poor attempt at a joke anyway

 

[Craig Dunkley]

@Paul Jeffrey ..I want the "text waxing lyrical" ...I am looking forward to "NEW" elements

 

[Damage Inc]

Confirmed AC is a diminished Sim and rF2 and pC2 are best lol



This is a joke people , well my poor attempt at a joke anyway

Indeed, a very poor joke. You "do" understand weather and day night transition are part of reality don't you? That's not subjective opinion but objective fact. The best sims in the past had weather and those that had endurance racing had day night transition. So why did some sims go backwards in recent years? But I guess you're a "fair weather" racer?

 

[2stains]

You "do" understand weather and day night transition are part of reality don't you?

Nah man , i spend all my waking time in virtual reality ! I wouldn't know what colour the sky is anymore , wanna enlightened me on that also

 

[Damage Inc]

Nah man , i spend all my waking time in virtual reality ! I wouldn't know what colour the sky is anymore , wanna enlightened me on that also

Well it's not always blue you know. Sometimes has this wet stuff falling down from things called clouds. It usually affect most forms of real motorsport and really shakes things up and makes thing interesting.

 

[Isaac Chavira]

So basically it will be out in 'Not Summer' (November).

 

[ziogzzz]

I think next week they will announce release date 30th of August or 1st of September as end of August is still summer time!

 

[MarcG]

The release date better not clash with Two Point Hospital....

 

[Krug59]

Is there any information on the implementation or not of the Blancpain asia series?

 

[felippekiss]

Is there any information on the implementation or not of the Blancpain asia series?

until now nothing disclosed. but surely dlc's will be launched