#Assetto corsa competizione career mode manual#

If, however, tuning is not your thing then there are three base setups, two for dry conditions and the other for a wet race. This then allows you to fine-tune things in your car’s setup which has a plethora of options to fiddle with, hopefully translating to improved lap times. From here you can sense the areas in which they excel and where they can be weak. The beauty of ACC’s model is that each car feels different in how they translate what’s happening on the track to your wheel.

Other more simcade-style racers can often make all cars feel the same with only your lap times telling you that they are different. How quick you go round a circuit will almost entirely depend on how well you manage to skirt the fine line of adhesion. Zolder, among my favourites to race in ACCĮvery race car has four contact points on which it interacts with the tarmac you're running on, with Tyrell’s P34 six-wheel F1 car being the only exception I can think of. As you work your way through all the different cars on offer - twenty-four at launch from fourteen different manufacturers with more to come - you can feel the difference, not just by how they handle but how they react, too. The Huracán was nimble and pointy whereas the Jaguar was brutish but when handled properly, monstrously quick. I could feel the weight difference in how it handled when compared to the Lamborghini Huracán I was just running in as part of the intro to the career mode. Taking out an Emil Frey Jaguar G3 on a lap around Zolder was an absolute treat. If I was to score ACC solely on these two points it would almost be flawless. When you are playing a racing simulation there are two things it must do well: the physics and handling models. How does this compare to a computer game? Well, after spending some quality time with Kunos Simulazioni’s Assetto Corsa Competizione (ACC) I think I can finally understand what they were talking about.

#Assetto corsa competizione career mode manual#

One day I asked him why and he simply replied, “When everything comes together there’s no other car out there quite like it.” I get the feeling this is the first sentence in every Alfa Romeo’s owners manual as I’ve heard it several times since from different people who’ve owned an Alfa from the mid-nineties to about 2010 onwards when the electrics were much improved. I couldn’t fathom why one would own a vehicle that you would spend more time taking it to and from a garage than actually just driving it. It was a glorious car to look at but my overriding memory is of it spending what felt like every other week in the garage. On each race duration change I had to start a race twice, the first time just to find out the stint time regulation in order to set the pit stop strategy to my liking and then restart properly.In my mid-twenties I had a work colleague who owned a 2000’s era Alfa Romeo Spider. Maybe it just me but something I missed is a clear race time / stint time indication on race preparation.

Talking about the AI, be aware they can be a pain on mid-levels and you will probably need to adjust your driving around them as they manage to brake-test you hard in the middle of the corner. I think there are some bugs with that peculiar medal system as some of them seem to be unobtainable, but in the end this is something I don't care about at all.Īpparently not all the cars are available for whatever reason (Ferrari ?) and I agree with Hoksu about the AI difficulty selection - imo a slider configuration should be present in a menu to be able to readjust also later on during the career - although there is a 'manual' way to do so. Game saving seems to work fine although I ran once into an issue with a missing FFB after reload, but a game restart fixed that for me. at Zolder where I was completely unable to finish without being DSQed), but I have finished my second career last week, including an 8 hour race (24h) at Spa, and I haven't encountered one single game breaking bug in the whole career - so I think they did make some fixes there. On my first play-through (about 3 months ago) there were still a lot of issues (e.g. Also I think it is a nice way to get started with the rating system, if one so wishes. I think it is actually quite acceptable for starters to get the grips with the cars and to practice race competition without having to worry about making mistakes and other players whining about a ruined race (for good reason !?). Even though the career mode is far from really good, I have managed to finish it twice in different cars because I had a quite some fun with it.