Andrea Lojelo wrote:Don't worry about that. It's just an effect due to how the video is recorded. there is no steering input lag if you will see it live.
we had the same effect when we recorder with the iphone.

Raúl Expósito wrote:
Drift

Aristotelis Vasilakos wrote:
I'm the one drifting guys and I can confirm that nobody has yet managed to actually drift the car in gamescon. Some power drifts have been able, but no actual drifts. Also Marco and Stefano do not manage to drift like that at all. You need to know the technique. If you know what you're doing, it's easy and natural. If you don't know, it just won't work.

The car is also setup for drift like this:
- Normal physics, no "special mode"
- street normal tyre, NO "special" tyres at all.
- Stiffer suspension and a bit oversteery (not too much)
- 200kg less weight from the street car
- drift car steering rack with around 50-55 degrees

That's all.


For Gamescon the grass grip has been raised a bit, so that's why you can see me not totally spin when I touched the grass. That won't be the case on the final release, it's only for the show.

Dennis Schuldt on iRacing forum wrote:here is a far more interesting video from the drift mode...

Nigel Morrison wrote:

Bram Hengeveld wrote:We were amongst the lucky few to give AC a proper test yesterday before the masses came in today at Gamescom. Here is RaceDepartment's Assetto Corsa Hands On: http://www.racedepartment.com/2012/08/gamescom-assetto-corsa-hands-on/

Hi Bram, how did the feeling of AC compare to iRacing and GSC?

I am not Bram but I can compare it a bit to iRacing since I was at Gamescon on Thursday and tried the pre alpha.
To make it short if you like netkarPRO than you won't be dissapointed with this, it feels great (atleast in my opinion ). I did one race with the BMW Z4 M in Monza and one thing which I really loved was how you can "attack" over the curbs (which is pretty unpredictable for me in iRacing *cough*), it was so much fun to "cut" those chicanes especially if the car was unstable on the exit. And you could actually catch those slides which made me grin from ear to ear :mrgreen:, it was so much fun.

I talked to the guys before my race and since I said that I am a sim racer they told me that they made the game a bit "easier" to drive so that everybody has a chance to actually get some laps in without much hassle. The car setup was on the safe "easy" to drive side and the grip level offtrack was increased so that you don't spin so easy. And that's exaclty what you see on the videos, so I expect that to be a lot more "sim like" with the first release.

But the overall feeling is really nice, the FFB feels great. It's hard to say which FFB is better, if I had to choose I'd probably say AC. But to be honest I can't really tell after a couple of laps.

Short impression of the sound, can't say much about it since it was quite loud in the hall but anyway what I really liked was the crackling/rattling sound under braking/downshifting, I can't wait to hear that in all it's glory at home .

I drove the triple monitor rig with the CSW + formula rim. I didn't ask them what pc was running the game but it appeared that it was not a pc with the highest specs. There was some stuttering in corners + a bit tearing, especially going into T1 in Monza.
There were also some glitches with shadows, mirrors weren't working yet (only one virtual). But to be honest since it was pre-alpha (or alpha/beta whatever you want to call it) I wouldn't really worry much about it and for what it is it looks awesome... I am sure they will fix those little things! It was really nice to get a first impression though and that was what it was all about!

Adrian Judge wrote:Can someone ask them if it has motion feed for motion rigs ????

I didn't ask them but the Fanatec Motion Rig was working, I think they use a D-Box... Not sure if that helps but it is something

Kenny Coughlan wrote:I'm still seeing the side monitors being badly stretched. No matter how good AC will be, I won't be able to enjoy it if they don't fix that. I hate it when I'm driving in a game without proper eyefinity compatibility and I keep missing apexes on tight corners because the warping is so disorientating.

I asked Aris about it and as the others already said it won't be included in the first release but it will come with later updates. They actually thought that they get two single screens rigs for the Gamecon but since they got the three monitor rig too they just made it work the best they could, wrong FOV, no bezel compensation etc... They know those issues and find it just as annoying as every other sim racer (said Aris) . But they have a lot of other more important things to work on with the new dx11 graphics engine first.

I just read an article about AC and that states that Kunos has 8 people working full time on it as well as some external guys (whatever that means )... Just to put that into perspective on what they actually do. And they already work on it for 2 years...

I don't remember if it was posted here but there will be a techdemo with one car and one track in September (middle or end of the month). They want to get some data on how their new graphics engine performs on many different systems so we all might get to try it pretty soon. They said that this will actually be pretty important for them. Release is still scheduled for late this year but they won't release it before they are happy with it. The plan is still to have free DLC (cars for example) after the release aswell as some additional content which you can buy.

Roy Visser on Racedepartment forum wrote:I did my best today drifting (and think i succeeded ) in the short amount of time you get in the Demo (only 3 laps) But as a fan of drifting and someone who can spend lots of tires doing it, it immediatly felt natural and all my techniques worked perfectly! The laps and drifts werent perfect but i was able to string together corners on my first try, which resulted in big smiles and enthustiastic remarks by Aris and Marco. Drifting is not easy, especially in a new sim with new physics, but if the physics are like doing it in reallife in which you have some experience, and you use the same tricks in Assetto Corsa and they work, thats telling ALOT about how good the physics are.

I hope my friend who filmed it also has the audio from the guys looking and commenting, and i will try to upload a video today or tomorrow. Awesome meeting you guys and making me even more interested in the sim then i already was!

Also drove the Z4M on Monza, which felt just as natural in behaviour, driving it at a slower pace makes the car super easy to handle (as what you would expect from a racecar with slicks and heavy downforce) but when you are going near or over the edge it makes even more sense, the car starts to move and react more which needs fast steering corrections, and for the first time in a sim when braking hard you can feel the rear getting light and swervy (although this was mostly caused by the ABS kicking in, it felt like i expected). The car was setup very understeered so it was hard to determine the true limit of the car but i enjoyed every minute of it trying to catch the P4/5. Which was an AI car. AI is a big work in progress, and for most of us in online racing communites not interesting, but if they keep tweaking it it might be alot of fun using it as a training tool for online racing. The AI was nice and aggresive (bit to much at times in brakezones) but i like them more aggresive then being extremly cautious making for easy overtaking. Watching the AI race against each other showed more of the potential then racing against a human, so i'm quote optimistic about it.

For an early Alpha this is already an tremendous effort! And once again, awesome meeting and talking to you guys, thanks for your time and effort, this is a sim build by enthusiasts, and it shows in many many ways!

Aris wrote:
Great driving by Roy today. He stepped in the sim and said "I'd like the drifting mode" and he was actually the first one to ask for it... so with a little doubt I asked "you're sure? you know how to drift?" and he said "yeah I do this in real life ecc ecc..."

and he did it just like a boss in his first time on a new sim with totally new wheel and pedals and on a situation as the gamescom, full of noise and distractions.
Well done m8!

Stefano Casillo ‏@KunosStefano wrote:
Buongiorno da Maranello chaps . This is going to be a supercool day.