Anyone here own or play Assetto Corsa? I'm thinking of picking this up for $20 and holding off on Project Cars 2 for a while. From what I've heard, the graphics aren't great, but the handling and AI are very good.
Nope. And I'm sticking with P-Cars1 and Driveclub.
I don't blame you. Nothing I've seen or heard about Project Cars 2 makes me want to go out and get it, especially at full price.
I just ordered Assetto Corsa from Walmart.com for $20. I couldn't pass it up for that price and the digital version has been $50 for the past few months with no signs of a price drop.
Project Cars 2 seems to have its share of bugs and I'm already annoyed with GT Sport being mostly online focused and the fact that I was never able to get into the many betas. I also found out today that the open beta for GT Sport, which starts tomorrow, is for PS+ subscribers only, so I'll give them the middle finger right back by never buying their product.
The demo is also a walled off version of the full game, it weighs in at 43GB.
Quote from: Brad Company on October 08, 2017 @ 04:31:48 PM
The demo is also a walled off version of the full game, it weighs in at 43GB.
Sony finally decided to let us lowly non-PS+ peasants download the demo. I tried it out this morning and it crashes every time I try to enter the "Settings".
I'm not bothering with it.
Quote from: Brad Company on October 10, 2017 @ 04:35:47 PM
I'm not bothering with it.
Good choice. I'm not impressed with the demo and the sense of speed sucks in it, even with fast cars.
Here's a general question re: F1 on PS4. Are any of the titles good, and do any have throwback cars/circuits.
I like mucking about with hotlaps and time trials, mostly. Don't need a career mode thing at all.
I deleted GT Sport today.
I have both F1 2015 and 2016 on the PS4 and would highly recommend them based on gameplay. I don't play the career modes either and also speed most of my time running hotlaps, time trials and quick races, and feel like they're still a great investment. Driving F1 cars provides a much different experience than the other racing games and the handling model is great in this series on the PS4.
Unfortunately, 2015 and 2016 don't have any throwback cars/circuits, but 2017 supposedly does. 2017 came out in late August, so I'd probably hold off for an upcoming sale on it. I plan on getting it myself once the price drops.
Good to hear, I'll grab the cheapest one at some point, although holding out for '17 might be the best play.
Quote from: Brad Company on October 12, 2017 @ 05:39:54 PM
Good to hear, I'll grab the cheapest one at some point, although holding out for '17 might be the best play.
A demo for F1 2017 was just released today on PSN. I'm downloading it right now. Pretty cool since they never released demos for the earlier games.
Cool. DL'ing the demo now.
Noticed two things immediately...the controls are less twitchy and there was no screen tearing on the Australian track, which tears badly in 2016.
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I was going to post how I feel F1 2017 is a nice upgrade from 2016 based solely on the car handling, but then I realized just tonight that 2017 also offers HDR, so it's definitely worth the upgrade.
Quote from: Brad Company on October 12, 2017 @ 05:39:54 PM
Good to hear, I'll grab the cheapest one at some point, although holding out for '17 might be the best play.
I can confidently recommend F1 2017 over 2015 & 2016 after some first-hand experience with the game. Thea graphics are much improved with a better frame rate and no screen tearing that I've noticed so far. HDR is just the icing on the cake.
I finally tried out some of the classic cars (12 total) tonight and it's a blast playing with cars from different eras. Not only do they look different, but they all sound and differently too. Hopefully, there will be some deals on the game around the holidays.
Obligatory "Is this game any good, it's on a real good sale right now" post.
Yeah, I'd recommend this one too. I had to mess with the steering settings though as the default settings were a little to loose for my liking. It will take some getting used to if you've played a lot of GT Sport.
Grabbed this...post those controller settings sometime.
Quote from: Brad Company on July 05, 2018 @ 06:57:30 PM
Grabbed this...post those controller settings sometime.
Vibration Intensity: 80
Speed Sensitivity: 85
Steering Speed: 20
Steering Deadzone: 10
Steering Filter: 85
Steering Gamma: 3.0
Increasing the speed sensitivity and steering filter help a lot with the "racing on ice" feeling of the default settings.
Plugged those in, feels about right. The game will punish your mistakes, but the feel and sound of the cars is tight.
Yes, I'm resurrecting a 3-year old thread about Assetto Corsa. I saw that the season pass and Ultimate Edition were now on sale on the PS Store, so I started my copy to see how I felt about it after all this time. I had remembered hating the way it handled with the default settings and even though I found some settings that had worked better for me, I was never really satisfied with the handling model. I don't usually like adjusting the advanced settings too much since it can lead you down a never-ending rabbit hole.
Last night I decided to revert back to the default settings, and to my surprise...they still sucked, so I turned off the game after messing around with the advanced steering settings for a little while and decided to play Project Cars 2 instead. Unlike Project Cars 1, I was happy with the default steering settings in Project Cars 2 and never touched them, but I did decide to take a look at them last night just to see what was offered.
I noticed that it had a "Steering Speed" setting just like Assetto Corsa, which was set at 95 (default value). The default value for that settings in Assetto Corsa was 20, so I decided to switch back to it and increase it to 95 in there too. It was the only change I made in the settings, and to my surprise again...it was incredible. The game played so much better with that one simple change and changed my outlook completely on the game. I've been playing all day now and I'm contemplating getting either the season pass for 6 or the Ultimate Edition for $11.
It's a shame there's no way to gift games on PSN because it would be great if I could give one you guys my digital copy of Assetto Corsa standard if I decide to buy the Ultimate Edition. On the other hand, the Ultimate Edition is on sale for only $11 right now if anyone is interested.
Assetto Corsa Competizione comes out a week from today. If the digital version is $40 like the physical version is on Amazon, I'll buy it on release.
Quote from: Jason on June 16, 2020 @ 03:28:55 PM
Assetto Corsa Competizione comes out a week from today. If the digital version is $40 like the physical version is on Amazon, I'll buy it on release.
The digital pre-order is showing as $40 for Xbox One, so it should be the same for PS4.
I was debating on whether I should get Assetto Corsa Competizione once it was released, but I couldn't help myself once I saw this version was built using the Unreal 4 engine. I bought it at midnight last night and haven't played it much, but the graphics are much improved and the driving model out of the box is great. I decided to plug in my settings from the original and it drives even better now.
I haven't had a chance to try it out with a wheel since I have an 85-year-old, Italian-only speaking guy in my living room who likes to fart constantly.
Very disappointed that the jump to Unreal 4 caused them to have the game run at 30fps, even on the Pro and Xbox One X.
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Kind of a dealbreaker if you ask me.
Quote from: Brad Company on June 26, 2020 @ 03:43:25 PM
Kind of a dealbreaker if you ask me.
I probably would have held off if I knew ahead of time. I was never a big 30/60 fps person until I started spending a lot of time racing with the first Assetto Corsa, GT Sport and Project Cars 1 and 2. I can "get used to" 30fps if I don't play a 60fps game for a while, but it sucks to have to do that. The graphics in ACC are improved, but it's not like they're even close to Projects Cars or GT, which both run at 60fps.
I realized today that I'm a 60fps snob. I decided to play ACC since a new update came out for it this morning and my younger son, who's been playing a lot of GT Sport with me lately, asked if the game was 30fps. He noticed the reduced frame rate immediately. They really dropped the ball on this.
I'll be playing GT Sport and PCars 2 until GT7 comes out. And some F1 2019.
Digital Foundry explains how the unlocked frame rate causes judder on the screen making it look worse than if they just locked the fps at 30. Hopefully a future patch will fix that.
That game will be 10 bucks by the holidays.
I started playing it a lot this weekend and I'm addicted to the racing, but the frame rate and bugs are still really bad. There's apparently a work-around to get 60 fps on the PS4 Pro after the latest patch, but that does me no good.
Another patch is coming out this week which will hopefully fix a lot more bugs and at least improve the frame rate of the standard PS4 version.
The free next-gen update for Assetto Corsa Competizione comes out Thursday (2/24). I was hoping to pick up the Xbox version on sale before the update was released.
Man, the first game didn't age well.