Assetto Corsa Rally Revealed, Heads to Steam Early Access on November 13

[deththrasher]

Can't imagine playing this with a pad, brave people lol

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I tried playing this on my G29 but it's completely broken. There's no force feedback at all until randomly it looks full 100% left force. The directional and face buttons do not work at all in the menus either

I tried it with my controller and it worked flawlessly and drives very well with the controller

 

[Jack_NL]

Testing with my rookie co pilot (2025 Belgian Rally Champion)

Got no complaints atm other then the light FFB most report (T500)
going to test some more with dampening etc seems to work with UEVR

A tip: You can change the FOV, when on track hit escape and select Camera Customisation. just as in Evo

If you already own Evo, get the bundle on Steam saves even more on this already ridiculous low price for ACR

 

[MagpieRacer]

Can't imagine playing this with a pad, brave people lol

Apparently it plays surprisingly good on a pad. The footage I've seen looked pretty stable.

I'm seriously tempted to pull the trigger, really need to see if my laptop can handle this and AC Evo first as I'll get that double pack if it can.

 

[TypeRDC5]

This look great.

Cant wait to crash over and over again when/if it comes to consoles lol

 

[Pearl Jam]

Apparently it plays surprisingly good on a pad. The footage I've seen looked pretty stable.

I'm seriously tempted to pull the trigger, really need to see if my laptop can handle this and AC Evo first as I'll get that double pack if it can.

Any chance you could add this to the Assetto Corsa thread. ?

 

[MagpieRacer]

Any chance you could add this to the Assetto Corsa thread. ?

Which bit?

 

[Jack_NL]

 

[MagpieRacer]

The attention to detail in this thing is insane.

 

[breeminator]

Apparently it plays surprisingly good on a pad. The footage I've seen looked pretty stable.

The controller support is quite poor IMO, in that the car's wheel is painfully slow to centre after centering the stick. It mostly centres quite quickly, but the last little bit of movement takes an eternity, and this means the car carries on turning for a long time after you release the stick, causing a very disconnected and floaty driving feeling. It's nowhere near as good a feel as RaceRoom or AC EVO on controller, for example, never mind The Crew Motorfest, which IMO has the absolute best controller settings of any game (though not the best feedback, RaceRoom has better feedback while having worse adjustability of parameters that affect how controller input is handled). There are no settings you can adjust in AC Rally at the moment to tune this out.

There's also very little feedback through the controller in AC Rally, again, in stark contrast to RaceRoom, for example, which gives a tremendous feeling of getting micro losses of grip as you get to the limit when cornering. There's basically no feel in AC Rally of how much of the available grip is being used.

So to me, the game is not surprisingly good on a pad. It's understandable that it's this bad at this stage, I think it was correct for them to focus on wheel users, as 100% of content creators I've seen playing the game have been using a wheel, so that is clearly the target audience. Right now, the game's pad support is markedly inferior both in settings and haptic feedback to both other sims and simcade/arcade games.

I'm also getting a lot of the classic "sim", i.e. completely fake, unrecoverable slides. But this is equally as realistic as every other "sim", though less realistic than simcade/arcade games.

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[Pearl Jam]

Which bit?

I meant its own sub-forum alongside AC EVO , ACC.

 

[MagpieRacer]

I meant its own sub-forum alongside AC EVO , ACC.

Ohh right I got you, sorry I forget I have the blue mark now.

I shall consult my overlords.

Further to my gaming laptop thing, anyone with AC Rally or AC Evo know if this would run either:

• Intel Core i5 -13420H processor.
• Octa core processor.
• 1.4GHz processor speed with a burst speed of 4.6GHz.
• 8GB RAM LPDDR5.
• 512GB SSD storage.
• Operating System: Windows 11 Home (Pre-Installed).
• Windows 11.
• NVIDIA RTX 30 Series RTX3050 graphics card with 6GB RAM GDDR6.

 

[Pearl Jam]

Sneaked off from work 6 hours early so I could fire this up, just done a quick run in the Mini and suffice to say it’s not EA WRC. The handling is worlds apart and very convincing, ( a lot harder) 🙈😂 it looks absolutely stunning, like really stunning and silky smooth too,not a single stutter or even micro stutter.
Fantastic optimisation for a game in early access and can only begin to wonder what lies in store in the future, superb selection of cars already and I can confidently claim with no authority whatsoever that this will be the greatest rally game ever made😂.
As a few have mentioned the FFB isn’t as strong as I’d like with my Fanatec CSL DD but I’m sure it’ll get patched quick enough or maybe I haven’t scoured the settings enough in my haste to just get out and drive.
TLDR; this is a brilliant recreation of the genre , I’m going to be spending a lot of hours with this ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

 

[Pearl Jam]

utterly absorbed, my driving skills do not match the amazing graphics

Couple of things though, it’s not uploading any of my times online even though it says I’m online, and I loved the fact in EA WRC you could choose male or female to voice the pace notes, with this it’s male only and for some reason I seem to react more quickly when it’s a woman telling me what to do ( l love my wife really and she never reads these forums anyway) 👌

 

[Jtheripper]

I tried playing this on my G29 but it's completely broken. There's no force feedback at all until randomly it looks full 100% left force. The directional and face buttons do not work at all in the menus either

I tried it with my controller and it worked flawlessly and drives very well with the controller

Just noticed there's a hotfix patch for g29 ffb fix.
Says to restart steam if not see it, client etc.
Im not on pc so i can't say much.

 

[Alfa Romeo GT]

The game is sublime.
Whether it's the vehicle modeling, the lighting, or the vegetation, it's all very pleasant.
A far cry from EA WRC under Unreal.

There are lots of details on the special stage with many interactive elements such as physical barrier tape, NPCs that sometimes react to crashes, and bushes that get torn up.
As in RBR, there are sometimes NPCs waiting in the middle of the road for a bit of adrenaline.
And in the cockpit you can clearly see that the co-pilot is actually turning the pages.


Another important detail: the game features a day/night cycle, and I can't think of any other rally simulation that offers this kind of feature.
It will allow for beautiful sunrises and sunsets.


The sounds on the Delta Integrale are incredible, the weight of the vehicle is enormous with a lot of inertia.
It's not easy to make it slide, and if it does, it's hard to catch it.

You can really feel the bumps and the work of the suspension. It's hard to explain, but it's super clear, like RBR.

I tested the Alfa Romeo Junior on asphalt, and when braking hard, you can really feel the wheels locking up and the front wheels crushing, and it even becomes unstable, so it's hard to hold if you've misjudged the braking.

Like Assetto Corsa Evo, each vehicle has its own character.


On the other hand, the H-pattern gearbox is very basic since the car can't stall (for now).

So the game has great potential, even if it's frustrating to have so little content.

 

[FrankieStail]

I’m wondering did EA/Codemasters get early word of this title and realise that they’d have to go back to the drawing board with their own rally efforts due to totally out gunned by AC Rally?

 

[MagpieRacer]

I’m wondering did EA/Codemasters get early word of this title and realise that they’d have to go back to the drawing board with their own rally efforts due to totally out gunned by AC Rally?

Unlikely. Targeting different markets anyway and with AC Rally over a year off from full launch and even further for console, it wouldn't have been a threat.

A good portion of the new team working on AC Rally are ex Codemasters.

Shows what the next WRC could have looked like with UE5 underpinning it.

 

[FrankieStail]

Unlikely. Targeting different markets anyway and with AC Rally over a year off from full launch and even further for console, it wouldn't have been a threat.

A good portion of the new team working on AC Rally are ex Codemasters.

Shows what the next WRC could have looked like with UE5 underpinning it.

Wouldn’t be so sure about targeting a different market.
The sim racing scene is a lot more mature than it was back when Richard Burns launched to a poor reception.

Motorsport fans, especially rally fans, are usually very well informed and appreciate a more realistic experience which should have been obvious to codies with the surprise hit that was the more sim leaning Dirt Rally title and of course the large cult following that RBR benefits from so many years down the line.

 

[warp9engage]

I'm pleasantly surprised by how well this runs, to be honest. While my GPU meets the recommended requirements, my CPU is under the minimum system requirements. Despite this, I'm getting pretty smooth 60fps 1080p gameplay, on High settings. Makes me wonder if the game is only running so smoothly because the physics simulations isn't final, and when they increase the detail on them, my PC will start to chug.

It's not bad, per se, on controller, but it's not good either. ACE has noticeably better controller support, so that's something the developers need to work on.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this game being built upon, further and further, because potential is something it absolutely has.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Wouldn’t be so sure about targeting a different market.
The sim racing scene is a lot more mature than it was back when Richard Burns launched to a poor reception.

Motorsport fans, especially rally fans, are usually very well informed and appreciate a more realistic experience which should have been obvious to codies with the surprise hit that was the more sim leaning Dirt Rally title and of course the large cult following that RBR benefits from so many years down the line.

The typical target audience for WRC recently has been on the casual side of things though. AC Rally is taking square aim at the RBR/RSRBR crowd, EA could never. Being a PC only early access with the focus on it doing what Assetto Corsa does best is, in my opinion at least, not aiming at the same crowd who bought the Dirt and Colin Mcrae Rally games or the KT WRC games. Of course there will be crossover people as rally fans aren't the biggest community. But word of AC Rally wouldn't have affected what Codemasters/EA did with their own title.

@Pearl Jam welcome to the new sub forum 😁.

 

[Pearl Jam]

@MagpieRacer 🙌🏻 about time you started pulling your weight, been slacking off since your promotion 😂😂

 

[graveltrap]

As expectred I am not much of a rally driver!! I have enjoyed my first hour or so in the game though.

I am getting some pretty big hitches which on my AMD system (5800X3D coupled with a 7900XT GPU), which isnt so good, maybe I should try without FSR3...

[edit]Got rid of the hitching, by increasing graphics settings, in game ultra setting is running at 100+fps at 4K right now, could of been the fps limiter (120 for me) on medium I guess
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[Pearl Jam]

This is how it’s done , no it’s not me 😂😂 been playing with the settings and having my rotation at 720 has made a huge difference. Before it felt a bit numb at certain points but I have gain on 140, minimum force on 3, damper at 65 at the car has suddenly come alive, what an amazing experience this is plus my times are finally being uploaded onto the world leaderboard but not sure that’s a good thing 😂 currently 30 seconds off the leader in one of the Welsh stages but I will get better ( hopefully 🙈) now that my wheel is dialled in a lot more

 

[PJTierney]

I’m wondering did EA/Codemasters get early word of this title and realise that they’d have to go back to the drawing board with their own rally efforts due to totally out gunned by AC Rally?

No, the end of WRC had nothing to do with what other titles in the industry were doing. There were reasons for WRC ending the way it did (just like there are for any game that no longer gets updates); sad the way it ended but at least we could keep people entertained for a few years.

Short of “I know a guy that knows a guy” rumours, a developer/publisher at one studio wouldn’t be aware of unannounced projects from other studios anyway.

I don’t recall this game ever coming up in conversation while I was working on WRC, though some players in the Discord did some LinkedIn sleuthing aero on SuperNova a few months ago as they were hiring developers for an un-named rally game.

 

[timetoo22]

I'm upgrading to a new PC after christmas, ryzen 7 5700x with RTX 5070, currently have RTX 2070 with ryzen 5 3600 which has served me very well and still does with much i throw at it..... but looking at specs for these new Assetto games and PMR, i felt it time to treat myself.
Taking advantage of the dicount for buying both and my curiosity, i purchased anyway. And i can report that my current PC AC Rally runs supprisingly well and looks suprisingly good using DLSS, enough to get an idea that i want this game and it feels good out of the box and that my new PC will smash it and it will lok even better etc.
But yes they did a great job as it still looks like nothing else rally wise even on RTX 2070, below apparent minimum specs.

Having said all of that i still play AC all the time so my new PC will be massive overkill for that, and i'll get killed for this, i am still a 1080p 60fps kind of guy, al be it i upscale to higher res as it works well for me.... so yeah excited about my new PC but amazed that both new ACs run well on my system already.

 

[Speedster502]

Having to run this on my SteamDeck as I'm lacking a gaming PC of any sort. Runs kinda of OK surprisingly, but I'm having major issues getting my G29 to work.

Bizarrely the face buttons (d-pad etc) work fine, but it won't recognise the wheel inputs or pedals. Very confused as the likes of AMS2 and others work fine

Obviously it's early access, so not expecting perfection!

 

[timetoo22]

Having spent more time with it, the hype all over YT is crazy, came in a blast, but now some sense is prevailing from some quarters. Its very early access and some comments on YT are acting like its all perfect.
Also is this a the begining of a new model in games where you buy each part of a total game?
I say this as marketing wise it has both EVO and Rally sold together with 'what driver are you today' as a tag line.
What next they out source a drift game and co join?
Not even saying its a bad model, just that normally you just buy a game with it all in it already.

 

[Rocket Racer]

Having spent more time with it, the hype all over YT is crazy, came in a blast, but now some sense is prevailing from some quarters. Its very early access and some comments on YT are acting like its all perfect.
Also is this a the begining of a new model in games where you buy each part of a total game?
I say this as marketing wise it has both EVO and Rally sold together with 'what driver are you today' as a tag line.
What next they out source a drift game and co join?
Not even saying its a bad model, just that normally you just buy a game with it all in it already.

I disagree, just because they are now marketed together doesn't make this any different than, let's say, DIRT and GRID coexisting back in the day.

Rally and circuit racing are that different in terms of game features that I'd call it totally normal to have separate games. And I can't really think of any game that does both well.

 

[TypeRDC5]

Having to run this on my SteamDeck as I'm lacking a gaming PC of any sort. Runs kinda of OK surprisingly, but I'm having major issues getting my G29 to work.

Bizarrely the face buttons (d-pad etc) work fine, but it won't recognise the wheel inputs or pedals. Very confused as the likes of AMS2 and others work fine

Obviously it's early access, so not expecting perfection!

This runs on Steam Deck?!! Thats insane.