No Damage indicator and pit strategies?

[♿ mouse5.gg ♿]

guys, I appreciate your replies in 2025, but this was a post from 2019 when ACC was still in early access like version 1.0.10 or so and there was no chance to properly see how much damage you got or estimate the damage by the time it took to repair via pitstop MFD.

[dave967]

You know it’s affecting your race if afterwards you are slower..there is damage that has no effect and damage that does. When you pit they just fix everything..

[EF_Neo1st]

You go to pit in ACC, you get a brand new car totally fixed with the pit strategy you set at setup.
That as far as I know.

[EF_Neo1st]

You will notice the damage through car reactions . . . or if one of your tires blow up due to overheat or tires locking on a long break.

[Protonv5]

There is no indicator of damage through an on-screen HUD or anything like that. So, you have to guess.

[EF_Neo1st]

Originally posted by Stephen Carry - twitch.tv/87in3:

Jesus who the f*k had that sh*tty idea...

Thank you very much, folks! Really appreciate your help

When you are at a real car you dont have indicators of damage but you notice it through car reactions, steering wheel reaction and even throttle/break.

The other kind of way to notice is if the team warn you about something you can not see.

[Protonv5]

Originally posted by EF_Neo1st:

Originally posted by Stephen Carry - twitch.tv/87in3:

Jesus who the f*k had that sh*tty idea...

Thank you very much, folks! Really appreciate your help

When you are at a real car you dont have indicators of damage but you notice it through car reactions, steering wheel reaction and even throttle/break.

The other kind of way to notice is if the team warn you about something you can not see.

Exactly. If there were a real damage model and we were talking about realism in general here, the team would get on the radio and tell you, either through telemetry or just watching the TV feed as to what is basically broken on your car. But there really is no effective damage model nor does your team know what the heck is going on. LOL.

[dave967]

Yeah, I'm pretty good at not wrecking myself but the other guys I'm racing, unfortunately, are not very good running close to one another. So if I'm hit and the car still performs i will continue if its completely off the pace like 2 seconds slower I bail. No sense of going through pits getting it fixed. especially in 20-minute races.

[EF_Neo1st]

Originally posted by dave967:

Yeah, I'm pretty good at not wrecking myself but the other guys I'm racing, unfortunately, are not very good running close to one another. So if I'm hit and the car still performs i will continue if its completely off the pace like 2 seconds slower I bail. No sense of going through pits getting it fixed. especially in 20-minute races.

I did the mistake of going on random online race twice . . .

Both times the start was a complete mess, on first race I started 4th and was hit behind, by the sides, etc, I would not be surprised if someone could jump over me just to hit me from above.
Monza at first turn of chicane is almost requesting a total mess.
I got to pit the next lap and finished 4th again. while I was at pit guys were still rammering each other.
Someone was zigzagging at low speed at the track trying to see who would hit him.

Second race at the same server I started from pits, forgot to click at DRIVE, even if I was positioned something like 3rd or 5th (dont remember) . . . I exit pit and already find a mess ahead of me and gain positions.
On second race, qualify was . . . . someone bumped on me, full speed, 5th gear, right before Ascari, where I was at 3rg gear already, and then at race, someone just left pit and hit me at 5th gear at the first chicane (del Rettifilo) where I was already at 1st gear . . then my car was so damaged I barely could stay straight on the track.

Random online races is totally not worth the time, much better against AI or just with friends that will not fck you up just for fun or because they could not care less about the race at all or if they are too bad or not.

[EGGI 935]

Is this still up to Date? Because I’ve Seen an esports Driver on YT and he had an additional HUD that showed damage in Seconds so how Long it takes to fix it

[ANOK]

ACC is a sim it doesn't give you unrealistic hints or notifications of damage, it effects how the car handles depending on severity and type of damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qys_JJaGPgM

[grizta30]

If you cycle through the mfd on the pit page, where you can set if you want new tyres/pressures etc there is a time in seconds of how much damage you have.

[CENTRE MASS!]

there are a couple ways to find out:

1) open pit menu on the bottom left of screen and if there is a repair time listed (default would be 0 seconds, or 30 seconds if you've selected tyre change) then you've suffered damage and even if it is cosmetic with a 1 or 2 second repair time... it'll slow you down vs a perfect car.

2) sometimes a 3-segment bar will appear on the top left with one of the segments coloured orange/amber - that indicates more serious damage and is usually corroborated with your race engineer telling you more major damage has been suffered - for which you'll be forced to pit for safety reasons within a few laps.

3) visual indicators as you swivel the camera around the car.

4) related to 2) but the race engineer will inform you if minor damage has been suffered - this is usually cosmetic and you won't get flagged to come in to pit, but it will affect performance.

ultimately you are not given the details of what the mechanical damage is - you're simply told that there is damage and it's upto you to come in to repair vs take the performance hit but stay out. I normally gauge the car's performance for half a lap or a lap and look at the lap times to decide whether pitting is warranted or not.