Night racing

[rudski]

Does anyone have any information about night time racing? I encourage the strict implementation on the rules off racing and undersand why it's being implemented into the game but I'd still love to hoon around at night for fun.

[P-eLko]

“everyone wants to race a 24 hour race, driving at night, under heavy rain, with broken suspension and a puncture. But just one time for a try“.

What we have learned, over the years, is that feedback on forums and simracing blogs represents just a minor percentage of the total amount of users and it doesn’t always tell you the truth about what people want to see in a game. We pay great attention and listen to our customers, but when we see how people are using our software, we see various patterns -often vastly different- from what blogs and forums would suggest as normal usage.

Source[www.simnewsdaily.com] (a bit older article though)

So probably not. There are much more important /competitive/ things and aspects which must be done first

[rudski]

MMM intersting read. Though the article is over a year old from the looks of it, this might have changed but did you notice this question? I guess I would prefer a perfect release with features turned off then a mess on release but still very intersting response.

The addition of laser-scanned tracks to the title brings a huge emphasis on realism to the title. What features do you have planned for circuits such as dynamic surfaces/drying lines localized weather etc?

We do have the code in place and we have created the graphic engine and physics engine in a way that dynamic weather and drying track can be implemented. I’m afraid though that we won’t be able to include it at v1.0 of Assetto Corsa, simply of time constraints. We learned the hard way some lessons in the past with netKar Pro. We tried back in the days to include as much features in the game as possible. The end result was that the sim was buggy at release and people couldn’t enjoy it.

This time around we want to create a software that has a very strong and stable core that people can enjoy and then start building and adding extra features on it. If you don’t make an enjoyable software for the community, then the community will abandon you and no matter what you do later, you won’t be able to win them back.

So yes we are working on it, we already going to have better grip on the ideal line and different grip on various asphalt patches for version 1, and we definitely want to include dynamic drying line and weather for future versions.

[Audax]

I read that they will implement night racing and dynamic weather... but just after the full release of the game. The cars already have non functional headlights.

[76561198114984637]

X-Motor Racing has nice night racing and 24h racing even in the demo.

[SLiiDE]

Why does it seem like everyone is trying to promote X-Motor, I've tried it and its horrible.

Back on topic, I would love the option for night and weather options. Gives more of a challenge and leads to some interesting races.

[P-eLko]

There will be dynamic weather later. But if there will be also night, I am not sure about it

[Truther]

+1

[Pringu]

http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/day-night.1194/#post-27084

[rudski]

Thanks well there we go, gonna be waiting I guess for the first major patch, either way I'm not phased just good to know I guess.

[hardwired]

I would be happy for some overcast-option. It can have a high impact on the atmosphere, even you still see good and the tracksurface doesnt change (besides the temp maybe).
Night probably is only worth it with a fast forward option.

[outdrive]

You should try (1) Shift 2 Unleashed (2) Need for Speed Rivals (3) Test Drive Unlimited

[P-eLko]

what a necro bump

[SeriousSpy]

Originally posted by outdrive:

You should try (1) Shift 2 Unleashed (2) Need for Speed Rivals (3) Test Drive Unlimited

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DECEMBER 2013!

Also, nice job saying literally 3 arcade games...

[MichaelF]

congrats on bringing up 2 need for speed games on a racing sim forum, and also this is a VERY old topic

[MatthewKai]

would be cool but I actually prefer nice sunny days