If I fluff a braking point and spear off into the gravel, I’ll restart. If the AI wallops me off the track, I’ll restart. There’s no incentive for me to battle it out with the trailing pack if I’m not within striking distance of the lead group after a couple of laps I’ll just restart. Assetto Corsa, on the other hand, feels surprisingly old school it’s top three or bust. It makes for far better and far more realistic racing when you know you can spend a whole race dicing for an important mid-pack overtake knowing your team is just after, say, a top 10 finish. The expectations on everyone else are generally more modest. Racing sims like F1 2016 and Project CARS bake in career modes that feel authentic thanks to the fact podium finishes are only a prerequisite for those players who’ve chosen to join the most dominant, in-game race teams. I’m totally befuddled by how such a weird bug could survive a trip to retail and it helps make Assetto Corsa’s already chore-like career mode feel even more untested.Ĭareer mode is just a real disappointment. I’ve raced several events over the past few days where the entire field has entered the pits on the penultimate lap of a four- or six-lap race. But it’s not just their racing etiquette that is wanting it’s also their common sense. It’s telling, perhaps, that in Assetto Corsa all I want to do is stay away from other racers entirely, though in its Pan-European peer Project CARS I relish the aggressive, doorhandle-to-doorhandle pack racing.
Make a little contact via an overzealous overtake and you’ll generally come off second-best, while the AI peels away unaffected. Frustratingly, opponent cars seem curiously immune to any loss of control when the shoe is on the other foot. Even a mild tap on the rear fender can and will spear you right off the asphalt, and there are no consequences for the AI for shunting you off. This is where the top-notch driving dynamics Kunos has massaged into all the available vehicles becomes a double-edged sword, because it takes very little to unsettle your car at speed. “The chief offender, however, is the opponent AI, which regularly pays no mind to your presence on each circuit and is particularly deft at muscling you onto the grass and turning your car around by poking its nose into gaps it really should have thought better of.
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