Early Access Details For Assetto Corsa Sequel Revealed
Assetto Corsa was a huge hit when it launched on to PC back in 2013 with the realism, accuracy and ‘moddability’ instantly making it a serious player in the world of sim racing.
The upcoming sequel, Assetto Corsa Competizione, is the official game of the Blancpain GT series (that’s the championship with all the tasty GT3 machinery) and from the early screenshots, you have to see it looks about as visually impressive as a racing game has ever been.
An early access version of the game will launch on Steam on 12 September.
Early access can be a bit of a risk as you never know how long it’s going to be until the game is actually finished, but Kunos has attempted to put an end to that uncertainty by revealing when the planned updates are coming ahead of the launch of the finished product next year.
To start with you won’t be getting much for your €24.99 - a single car, a single circuit, and a couple of game modes - but with new content being added on a monthly basis, it really will be a case of the earlier you buy, the more money you save. Here’s how the early access roadmap and pricing looks:
Release 1, 12 September: €24.99
Released Cars: Lamborghini Huracàn GT3
Released Tracks: Nurburgring GP
Features: Special Events, Hotlap, Quick Race (AI)
Rating System: Track Competence, Consistency, Car ControlRelease 2, 10 October: €24.99
Released Cars: Bentley Continental GT3
Released Tracks: Misano World Circuit
Features: Super Pole, VR Support, Basic Pit-Stop
Rating System: Performance Rating, Safety RatingRelease 3, 14 November: €34.99
Released Cars: BMW M6 GT3
Released Tracks: Circuit de Paul Ricard
Features: Endurance 3/6h, Multiplayer (Basic), Pit-Stop
Rating System: Behavioural data analysisRelease 4, 12 December: €34.99
Released Cars: Ferrari 488 GT3
Released Tracks: Hungaroring
Features: Spectator Mode
Rating System: Driver Category, Overall RatingRelease 5, 16 January 2019: €44.99
Released Cars: Emil Frey Jaguar G3
Released Tracks: Zolder
Features: Multiplayer (Enhanced)
Rating System: System fine tuningRelease 6, 13 February 2019: €44,99
Available from: Feb. 13th 2019
Released Cars: Honda Acura NSX GT3
Released Tracks: Monza Eni Circuit
Features: Live Special Events
Rating System: System Fine Tuning
In other words, the longer you wait, the more you pay - jump in at the first release, and you’ll save 45 per cent on someone who waits until the fifth or sixth release.
The full game, including all the circuits, cars, drivers and teams from the 2018 Blancpain season as well the fully fleshed-out game modes will be released in the first quarter of next year, with the 2019 season content being added as a free update during the summer.
Like the first game, Competizione will be a PC-only launch to begin with, with a console release (likely on next-gen hardware) a possibility some time in the future.
Will you be jumping in straight away, or will you be prepared to wait and pay a bit more later down the line? Let us know in the comments.
Comments
Came back from the dead to say that it’s not a sequel but a variant. It’s like forza motorsport to forza horizon.
Just to point out. AC Competizione will use Nvidia RTX to do real time ray tracing.
For those who don’t speak the language of virgin, the lightning, reflections and shadows will look at par with real life.
Just imagine the rain😍
As a best friend of a person who builds computers
I understood that.
And thus also proves I as a virgin
Didnt some benchmarks come out showing that the nvidia ray tracing is causing a shit load of frame rate drops? I mean its still new so im not surprised bt still
Yea, im just gonna sit in my corner my amd card
Just wait to see real benchmarks and screenshots and then think about it. (I go to gamersnexus for this kind of info personnaly)
Ohhhh god, imagine the mods on here!
Ebishu touge intensifies
Kunos will not provide any support about mods on this one, probably because of the SRO not wanting any mods on the game. People will have to find a way to mod the UE4
To be honest, i’m quite scared about mods on this game. About the thing that, if the game becomes moddable, Blancpain GT series races (which is the purpose of the game and nothing else BTW) will die and we will only find drifting servers or things that are not serious racing.
There is one thing im looking forward to on Sep 12th
That being Paul Walker’s 45th birthday
awesome
assetto corsa 2 electric boogaloo
So I’m gonna pay around $30 for a game that features only gt3 cars? As much as I love them, that is way too little content for a $30 game. I would rather play a game like PC2 that may have not have as good graphics, but WAY more content. I’m not trying to trash the game, I want to get into AC, but they need to add more content or allow mods to make it worth my money.
This game is no for casual fun racing, it’s about real esport racing game. A bit like on IRacing to get results you have to dedicate to only one car for one category to arrive at results.
People buy F1 2018 and you only have F1s in these, nothing different here.
YES!!