Hey, I have driven a GT4 in real life, and discussed with mechanics and track day drivers with real life racing experience about this sim. I have feedback for this sim.

Pros:
- Physics are exceptional, even though there are flaws.
- Car behaves realistic, way more authentic than most sims out there.
- Graphics are natural, not the most outstanding but quite good.
- Car basically feels really good in FFB wise, feels numb but it's basically how real life works as well with power steering, most authentic simulator you can so far with that kind of stuff.
- Weight in the car feels great, especially feeling the weight transfer in the car with the FFB is great.
- Some car's sounds are really nice, especially S2000 and Porsche Cup.
- Having selections to different specs/trims of cars is a huge plus, not every sim have that.
- Launch control features and drive modes are nice, dashes are nice as well, again not every sim has that.
- Race car and road car electronics has a difference, huge plus because most sims don't have that, especially AC1.
- Really good foundation for an early access game.

Cons and must be improved as soon as possible:
- Road cars are too fast, too much grip available, GR86 is 6-7 seconds faster than irl in Laguna Seca with road tires. Road tires feel like brand new fresh semi slicks, Hypercar tires are basically slicks, it's better to balance it out, it's too fast.
- SoP effect isn't enough, it feels more like after the initial snap there is more effects into it, and it's the main reason AC1 is easier to catch snaps and feel when the car is going out, easier to drift in game as well. Overall oversteer effect is simply too weak. It's only the M2 that I can feel it properly. (Note that I run 0 damper)
- Front wheels completely lock up if you entire into the gravel in rain.
- Menu for keybinding is much more complicated than usual, rather properties are always shown and FFB in another page.
- Rain feels a bit too forgiving in my opinion, but a bit makes more sense than ACC.
- ABS needs fixing in terms of how the brake locks you up if you turn, it is supposed to increase braking distance not make the car lock up, except the race cars they are made to beat humans. The only cars that work so far are the BMW M2 CS Racing, and slower road cars.
- AI needs complete rework.
- Needs working on online servers, as well like ACC if the servers go down you basically are done.
- Slicks have too much grip in the wet.
- Too extreme level of kerb usage and not enough punishment into it.

Cons and but nothing really:
- Optimization is better after 0.14, still needs a bit of improvement and it's there. So far playable.
- More drive modes for some cars (I think I'm not sure if drive modes even affect the driving performance), but make different drive modes more noticeable in performance.
- Sounds are quite mediocre but nothing really.
- Not enough understeer effect when you are understeering but you can tell it visually.

Stuff that we all like to have:
- PRNDM/S (realistic automatic transmission for some cars) and being able to switch from auto to manual or something like that
- A different tire model with different tire brands, and being able to buy tire sets with different brands.

Side notes:
- In my experience this is more GPU intensive than CPU intensive.
- In my experience my game runs well without upscaling/frame gen. Can be different to your experience. I'm using 1080p with i5-12400F and RTX3060Ti.
- I'm not sure if there is eSports in this sim, but probably the focus isn't that really good.
- I'm not sure if the mods will be available in this game, but don't cry if there isn't mods in this game, because this game doesn't really need mods in the end of the day if this is how it drives.
- Pricing is aggressive, I know but for what it is it can be one of the best sims in sim racing history.

Here are notes for this early access if you want to buy it.

Here are the reasons TO buy it:
- Demo of drive modes and features
- Driving experience very authentic compared to the real thing, superb handling.
- Discount (Duh) or want to buy cheaper now so you can get all the content now for v1.0
- Graphics are quite natural and not over exaggerated
- Porsche Cup fans who like Porsches

Here are the reasons NOT TO buy it.
- Performance issues in v0.1 (I mean you can still buy it and save it up for a better PC then)
- Issues with triples and VR in v0.1
(I think these will be fixed soon)
- if you want to see how the game is in v1.0. A lot of people that don't do like high level sim racing probably better off this and look at the state of the game, unless you really want to snatch that good deal.
- If you don't like games that has progression and wants straight into the point sim racing.

Driver academy review:

PROS:
- At least the system is there, and can be improved.
- Road cars are actually challenging at the beginning.

CONS:
- Too easy to pass 3 stars on all of them except the electric car one.
- Progression is too little

SUGGESTIONS:
- There should be a system where you pay for the license then there is reward for it, and rewards are too much that it's too easy to grind it and then nothing happens afterwards.


I hope this helps from a person with real life racing experience.
(I'll give updates for new discovery/rephrasing and after v0.2 again)

As well again for early access this is great and all the best for the devs because this is quite a lot of progress and it's best to take time rather than rushing work, as rushing work makes it even worse.

Hi all,
old school AC player here, I got original AC back when it was in Early Access, green hell hot lapper. Clocked 430 hours in it, as well as a number of races in ACC.

Initial impressions of ACE are great, so I want to give some feedback as I'm super excited for the EVOlution of this title. Despite being the first iteration, it's showing mountains of promise and I like what I see!

PROS:
-Force Feedback:
I wondered, how much can the FFB detail actually improve from AC? Can't be that much, can it? Despite it's age, AC is so good at translating weight transfer, damping and rebound, tyres, limit of grip etc. Well I was wrong. It's *incredible*, at least to me. Revolutionary. The cars feel superb. I can feel tyres nearing the limit of grip like never before. The best part is, the wheel has all-round weight - instead of just getting heavy/light in cases of over/under steer, or pitching into a corner, it actually has overall weight like an actual car (maybe helped by castor simulation?) I LOVE this, and it's something I couldn't get feeling right not only in AC, but many other racing sims in general, inc rally/F1.
Wheel: Thrustmaster T818 (10Nm DD)

-Menu:
Much improved over AC which, let's face it, was and still is a bit of a mess without CSP. I like ACEs simplicity.

-Graphics:
Game looks very nice, more on the subtle, realistic look rather than the colors and feel of say GT7/Forza. Runs pretty well on my 7900XT, no scaling. Have not done extensive testing yet, but will do soon. (5120x1440 49" ultrawide)

CONS:
-AI
The biggest con to note, the AI sucks. Difficulty scaling - on road cars, 100% difficulty is like racing noobs, on race cars, they are all pros. The biggest problem is, the total lack of racecraft and awareness. They just file into a line and follow it, running you off the road or PIT into you for no reason. And no defending whatsoever. They take some weird lines into T1 resulting in frequent carnage.

-Tachometer
The dash tacho and the app rev counter seem to have really jerky frames for some reason, despite the rest of the game running smooth.

-Always online
I can see why they're going for this with the open world thing, maybe cruising with your mates or whatever (a la Forza Horizon), but I just hope there's options to turn it off. If at least you can do single races/career offline with AI, that would be good, but even better if you can cruise in the open world, without all the businesses etc.

SUGGESTIONS:
Now for the most important part!
-Car list: please don't list all the cars liveries as separate cars, it makes it convoluted as hell. Keep the liveries/versions under each car model as a submenu, like choosing colors etc.

-Remember car settings
Why is Traction Control always on by default? I can understand ABS, but having to turn off TC every new race gets old. Just a tiny nitpick, as I have bound keys to it already.
-Key bindings labels: Maybe due to translation, but some key bindings are impossible to find or don't make any sense, like the camera cycle button. It's called 'Drivable'. What does that even mean? Some revision might help!

Nobody will read my review so I will eat 1 tablespoon of Mayonaise for every like this gets.

Feels rough around the edges. If you're a VR user, I’d recommend waiting for a few patches. This ride's gonna be bumpy before it gets great!

Cut the always online crap... all games work the best offline. this trend of locking stuff behind online needs to die

Finished a special event and crashed the car into the barriers which caused the game to crash, 10/10 for realism.

It's early access and people are tweaking out. For me it works and what is included feels amazing

Underdelivered on the EA drop content, but holy.. the content we got is insane, these driving physics are soooo good!
I was so shocked on the Imola downhill, I breaked slightly and all the weight transfered to the front, throwing me off the track.
Running on QHD Ultra preset with a 3070 and a 9800x3D Imola 40-60FPS.

EDIT: The promised 20 cars are now added! <3

The keyword here is potential.

The physics are a huge step up from anything else I've driven. The way weight transfer is conveyed through force feedback is awesome. The tyres heat and cool gradually, like they should. The car moves around over bumps and crests properly. iRacing comes nowhere near this in terms of how you can feel the car.

However, if you buy this now, you are getting version 0.1.2. It's v e r y rough. The UI is slow to load and navigate. It's not particularly well optimised. Triple screens kinda work. The list goes on. There's enough bugs here to make Klaus Schwab blush.

But that's what you sign up for in Early Access. you pay a fraction of what the final product will sell for - and it will sell - and you get the first taste of things to come. It's not to say it's definitely gonna be perfect, there's plenty of ways they could ♥♥♥♥ this up, but the building blocks are there for the best sim title ever.

It's what I expected for an early access release. The most important to me, the physics, is very good. Looking forward to see what they will be going to add next.