Is Online good in this game?

[David::F1::]

hello! I want to purchase this game for online mostly and I was wondering if online is active with lot of sessions and custom rules? thanks for the help!

[Cordoba 6K1 1.9 TDI]

If you are a good driver obviously, but in the lobbies usually there will be car crashing players (I still dont know what is the funny about that), if you play with your friends or some players that you know they drive good its a perfect game, I really recommend the buy

[David::F1::]

Originally posted by DUKO YU NOU ツ:

If you are a good driver obviously, but in the lobbies usually there will be car crashing players (I still dont know what is the funny about that), if you play with your friends or some players that you know they drive good its a perfect game, I really recommend the buy

Thanks for the reply!

[Frank Bullitt]

Very intense

[Frank Bullitt]

….but rating system badly needed

[Sassanid]

Even though AC is an old game, it still has a lot more players than newer games like rFactor2, Automobalista 2, ACC, etc. I should know, I have them all.

AC while older than other sims still have a bigger playerbase and more servers up.

[Lufka]

sadly but 90% of the players should stay offline

[Sassanid]

Originally posted by Lufka:

sadly but 90% of the players should stay offline

Realistically, it's the other way around. I've only been playing sims for around 6 months. Most players are fine, but around 10% of the AC community are just bad bad players and I'm guessing bad drivers in real life too.

For example yesterday I joined a Monza server and there was one player who would just keep intentionally ramming people, driving in reverse on the track, waiting on the grass for people to pass and then accelerate and ram in to them. The saddest part of all was that after multiple votes to kick the guy, people just didn't vote and carried on as normal so he would just keep doing it. I eventually just left the server.

That combined with the fact that 99% all races I've taken part in in the last 6 months all have a massive wreck at T1. Honestly, it's kinda embarrassing. This is supposed to be a sim, not Need for speed.

If AC2 doesn't have a driver rating system/safety license, then it will just be a repeat of AC if not worse when it comes to online play.

[ÜM|Twistedhalo5]

It's honestly a ♥♥♥♥ show, I would only recommend it if you have no other options.

Nords track day servers, and the mx-5 server (when it's up/populated) can be fun, but if you care about actually racing it's always the same few servers on the same 2-3 tracks (Monza, Spa, sometimes Imola), and rarely more than 5-8 laps.

Generally only the top 3-5 guys on any given server have any competence whatsoever. The majority of the rest of players online have severe difficulty existing on track around other drivers, many cant even finish a single quali lap with hitting someone or spinning out, let alone a short race. It's also pathetic how commonplace trolls/griefers are, especially during peak hours you can sometimes be hard pressed to find a single server without at least one person targeting players, sitting in the track, or just being plain toxic in chat to get a rise out of players. Unfortunately there is also no way to report players, and no moderation in sight on any servers, the only tool is a kick button that majority has to vote yes on, to this date I haven't seen a single vote kick succeed.

I love AC but I think it's best for mods and fun in solo lobbies at this point, if real racing ever existed here it left a long time ago.

[Sassanid]

Originally posted by ÜM|Twistedhalo5:

It's honestly a ♥♥♥♥ show, I would only recommend it if you have no other options.

Nords track day servers, and the mx-5 server (when it's up/populated) can be fun, but if you care about actually racing it's always the same few servers on the same 2-3 tracks (Monza, Spa, sometimes Imola), and rarely more than 5-8 laps.

Generally only the top 3-5 guys on any given server have any competence whatsoever. The majority of the rest of players online have severe difficulty existing on track around other drivers, many cant even finish a single quali lap with hitting someone or spinning out, let alone a short race. It's also pathetic how commonplace trolls/griefers are, especially during peak hours you can sometimes be hard pressed to find a single server without at least one person targeting players, sitting in the track, or just being plain toxic in chat to get a rise out of players. Unfortunately there is also no way to report players, and no moderation in sight on any servers, the only tool is a kick button that majority has to vote yes on, to this date I haven't seen a single vote kick succeed.

I love AC but I think it's best for mods and fun in solo lobbies at this point, if real racing ever existed here it left a long time ago.

Sad, but true.

You would think the whole point and thrill of playing a simulation is to emulate realistic driving and succeed by doing that, but every day I see morons out there, people who aren't playing AC for the right reasons at all and just want to win by any cost necessary, which obviously doesn't reflect reality because you can't just win because you want to, you can't just pit maneuver the car in front, crash them out, overtake and gain a position without repercussions, you can't immediately jump back on to the track when you crash out, out of ego, just to hold your position even though there are cars right behind you approaching. Every day I see this on AC servers, ego drivers.

If the sequel doesn't have some iRacing style safety license system for online play, we're screwed because there's going to be a huge influx of new players, and if the current players can't drive properly, after years of AC being around, just imagine AC2 in the first few months without any driving safety system that punishes bad play. It'll be a sh*tshow far worse than what we see now.

[Jonah_Hax]

Public racing is mostly a ♥♥♥♥ show, so join a league or community instead and race real people. Then you might also get to race something else than F1 and GT3 cars..

[Warfix]

Originally posted by DUKO YU NOU ツ:

If you are a good driver obviously, but in the lobbies usually there will be car crashing players (I still dont know what is the funny about that), if you play with your friends or some players that you know they drive good its a perfect game, I really recommend the buy

Like all games...

[Lufka]

the problem is people are using online to learn the track loollllllllll

[Frank Bullitt]

Yes , The problem is, people wanna learn in multiplayer lobbies not wanna play offline ….
So it is sad there is not one AC server called noob/beginner
This would help, like it does in Forza Motorsport, Raceroom, PC2 etc.

Even on ACC I saw a noob server

[Sassanid]

After 6 months of playing AC, I still love it but I now see the attraction and appeal of going to a subscription based sim like iRacing that has a safety driving license system that punished bad play. It's all starting to make sense.

AC2 has to have some kind of similar safety system or it'll just be a repeat of what we experience now.

[Oggmeista]

online is active,. but for some, reason, most of the servers, and i guess people that frequent them, are running practice sessions, or drifting or lately these annoying open world maps, ok some might find it more fun, but to my mind car racing simulations, are supposed to be about just that, car racing.....and there are places where you can go sim racing, but the advice info help tutorials etc, for giving you the knowledge and understand to do this , is poor, ie having finally managed to find out and install content for one such group, i am now struggling to actually know where and how to enter the respective server.....so i'm all dressed up with no place to go....it really shouldn't be this difficult to do what thje game was designed for.

Yes as i am finding out joining clans and groups etc, is how you find some racing, but these are set to specific times where the event takes place and then it's over,,,where are the servers where we can race whenever we want and not tied down to making committments, that's not really what online gaming is supposed to be about..