Assetto Corsa

There is also a button so only servers accepting bookings show, if you're simply looking for a server to join this will help. Also with at one stage 444 servers running the server search box is useful although a little broken when you do a server refresh
 
From AC page:

Dear followers,
we are monitoring the traffic on Assetto Corsa official servers and the activities on the lobby: we announce that the Lobby has reached the number of 300 servers in just 3 hours! Thank you very much for your incredible support. We are glad to announce that meanwhile, we'll add more than 40 official public servers for free!
Thank you very much, enjoy the weekend!
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had a few hours with the multiplayer, but it seems as though I'm a fair few seconds off the multiplayer pace..

raced a 20race and finished 9th just.... fun times
 
Ruined by noobs ramming you off.

Spend a good amount of time in qualifying to get a decent grid position only to be smashed off at the first corner.

We needs to get a bunch of people together for a decent race. I've been testing my connection with a server, seems I'm able to host a good 16 cars on track.
 
Thesnipergecko said:
Ruined by noobs ramming you off.

Spend a good amount of time in qualifying to get a decent grid position only to be smashed off at the first corner.

We needs to get a bunch of people together for a decent race. I've been testing my connection with a server, seems I'm able to host a good 16 cars on track.
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And that is the reason why right there no matter how good it is its never going to compete with I-racing for online public racing.

They really need to adopt the I-racing SR system or something like it.
 
Don't see why it needs an iracing style feature. If you want clean racing join a racing league and don't play on public servers. Had a quick race in a 500 just now, good fun and was a clean race bar some racing incidents.
 
Borsch said:
AC can not use Iracing system as it would need to introduce subscription fees to cover the costs.
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It's not just that, it's the same old online problem... you can either have serious racing with all the potential stresses, or fun racing with all the fools. Finding the middle ground is very hard, which is why leagues thrive both on or off iRacing. There is never a substitute for racing the same faces and getting to know their flaws and strengths. That's why the best pickup racing on iRacing is in the unpopular series. The lower the number of drivers, the more like a league it has to become in order to find official races.

I gave up active iRacing because I got sick of preparing hard for races and then getting punted by someone who gambled and lost, and for whom that race might be only one of five or six they do that day.

It might have been better than any other kind of racing against randoms on the net, but the stress and annoyance factor is -- for me anyway -- amplified massively, spoiling the fun. So what I gained on the swings I lost on the roundabouts.

This morning I tried AC and it was, as expected, a bit glitchy. I also punted some poor guy in practice, not realising he was even slower than me into T1 at Monza, then another in the race, despite being a risk averse A4.99 on iRacing. But without voice comms to argue in the heat of the moment, in both cases I was able to wait for the guy in question to pass me before getting up to speed again and having a bit of a battle.

It was fun, not work. :-)

I understand exactly why many folk, especailly the seriously competitive, love iRacing, but for me this hobby is all about firing up the PC for an hour or so, having a few short races, then going off to do something else. So I'm hoping that AC's open nature will allow someone to revive GPL's VROC for some arrive and drive chat and relaxation.

It'll be as random and full of idiots as any other online sim apart from iRacing, but I find it way, way, way easier to keep my cool in that kind of environment. Staying calm when some muppet's just parked his Skip Barber in your engine, ruined your race and driven off unharmed, was never good for my blood pressure.

And I'm old. It's one thing to be found dead in the bathroom emulating Elvis, or in front of the PC knocking one out, but I don't want to be found by an ambulance crew slumped at a wheel with an iRacing results page as my epitaph. :-)

The only thing I do miss about iRacing is racing real names (mostly).
 
Done a few more races. Not really come across any bugs yet. Have had some good races too, not seen anyone deliberately ramming yet.

Finding the booking races quite odd, I kinda miss GTR when you could join in any session and just start taking part (bar the race where you'd watch)
I'm also finding the end of the races annoying. In one race it ended as soon as the first guy finished his last lap, didn't get to finish mine despite only being maybe 10 seconds back :/ Is this normal or was it just a server specific thing?
 
ramming fest! This is why this game will fail with a general join system. RF2 is better in this regard as there is a general agreement that ramming is not accepted. I got brake tested massively and deliberately by some tool. he got pole too. Unfortunately my Lotus t125 did not stop into turn 1 in the race ;)

Need an ocuk p/w race please.
 
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