Assetto Corsa EVO To Feature Huge 1600km2 Of Lidar Scanned German Open World Paradise

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Eifel will officially be the location for Assetto Corsa EVO's free-roaming experience. Image: Kunos Simulazioni
The first big Assetto Corsa EVO open world news has dropped like a bomb on the sim racing world. Upon release, the upcoming title will include over 1600km2 of Lidar-scanned terrain from the Eifel region in Germany.

Available for players to experience as early as the Summer of 2025, Assetto Corsa EVO is expanding sim racers' horizons with a mighty free-roaming experience that faithfully recreates one of the world's most legendary and infamous sections of roads surrounding the Nürburgring. The vast expanse will be added In stages, so do not expect everything all at once.

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A sneaky Chevrolet Camaro is hiding in the background! Image: Misha Charoudin

Complete challenges and races around the roads of the Green Hell to unlock modifications, upgrades and new parts for your cars. Not only will you be able to drive and complete challenges on the roads in Eifel, but you will also be able to interact with local businesses that are actively trading in real life in this section of Germany.

From renting accurately liveried track cars like the Hyundai i30N to kitting out your daily driver with all the best track-focused equipment, this could undoubtedly be one of the most revolutionary free-roaming experiences ever debuted in sim racing.

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RSRNürburg will be accurately depicted. Image: Misha Charoudin

With famous companies Rent4Ring and RSRNürburg in the game, the player will be brought into an ultra-realistic setting that perfectly replicates the roads surrounding the Nürburgring's surrounding roads. Kunos offers local brands and companies the option to include their store in the title. This level of commitment to recreation is fantastic, especially at such a crucial pre-release stage.

Assetto Corsa EVO is scheduled to be released in 2025. However, the early access period on January 16th will come first. This date has been reaffirmed within this first big release and is still progressing as planned.

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The second and third cars in the queue are new to the Assetto Corsa franchise, the Audi RS3 and the BMW M2 Competition! Image: Misha Charoudin

What do you think about this massive free-roaming promise? Will it be as great as Kunos promises? Let us know in the comments below!
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Pretty neat of them to have called Misha to do that promotion :)
I believe hes working with them in one way or another with ACE.

EDIT: Not that I have any info that anyone else couldnt get.....
 
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Both pointless in what is supposed to be a racing sim
Not sure there's a concern with adding extra features to what for sure will be a simulator. Just ignore that section of the menu when you see it?

I dont own any of the Forza Horizons, nor care about them. But its more about the whole arcade driving, side missions, over the top presentation package.

If this game maintains the realistic driving feel with decent AI traffic... yeah I could see myself trying it out.
 
Absolutely love the sound of Evo and all the things I believe we are going to be able to do in a sim experience. I am proper exited about this release and massive congrats to kunos for breaking the mould of a standard track racer. I love playing AC in free roam with some music on and just cruising around so can’t wait for it to be properly developed by the masters at kunos, they will absolutely nail this and it means I never have to play forza horizon again thankfully.
 
Thats a lot of area. Would be almost like whole Mille Miglia, assuming there would be 1600km of road modeled and 50 meters each side modeled. Although, obviously In ACE there will not be true 40x40km drivable, there will be loads of areas blocked off and just backgrounds. It is still insane feat to do this many roads. Imagine all the historic racetracks that could have been made.

I guess this will allow tons of gamification options. With AC1 physics. It might be cool stuff. Hardcore cruising servers. Leveling up to faster cars. Admins playing as cops or AI, catching you charging fines for speeding up and incidents.

Buying damn pizza, just to say you did it.
 
If this game maintains the realistic driving feel with decent AI traffic... yeah I could see myself trying it out.

There is no way it is not going to. It would be such a failure not to maintain it. However the problem is that it also isn't going to get improved. Or not by much. If they would up the physics, so many AC fans will be weirded out about it. Driving on true tires, with chassis flex, changed paradigms about aero and setups and various details - ffb is not the same anymore = problem.

I am sure it is going to be maintained pretty well. For a long time.
 
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The question that popped into my head is are they counting the Nordschleife itself in this area figure? If they are, then we might end up with a smaller than expected “slice” of the real world around the track being available. The Nordschleife has to be a pretty huge number of square kilometers on its own, right?
 
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Asseto Corsa Horizon.

Couldn't of said it better myself. So disappointing

You want an upgrade for your car? Better deliver this pizza to the other side of town in this time limit.. Jesus Christ that is really happening to.

I do not play Forza or Gran Turismo for a reason. I don't care about "blinging" out my "whip".

I just want to do hotlaps, practice and races.

I don't want to pick what seats I have for a car.. or Rimz, or a big ol'e wang for my FWD car. None of this sounds appealing. Its glitz and glam for the sake of it.

Filler content

"X gonna give it to ya"

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This is really looking more and more like a casual game for car fans than a racing game for simulation fans...

Hope I'm proven wrong... My only real gripe is that there's enough casual motorsports and car collection titles out there already...
 
Article contradicts itself

Upon release, the upcoming title will include over 1600km2 of Lidar-scanned terrain from the Eifel region in Germany.

The vast expanse will be added In stages, so do not expect everything all at once.

So when should you expect it.
I knew what I got in LMU and how much it cost a year beforehand.
How long till this sim is released ?
 
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This is looking like mix and match of ideas of Forza Horizon, Euro Truck Simulator, and BeamNG, placed into the most succesful environment of Assetto Corsa.

The sarcastic inside me cannot help thinking that they are just going after the most popular driving games on the market, and concocting a recipe out of this, and may or may not work. Who knows? I'm still more interested in the racing side though.
 
Would be fun to have a police chase mode like in the old NFS hot pursuit.

But I rather had more race tracks than this to be honest. Only 5 tracks at launch and no real track only cars at launch gets boring fast and I prefer track racing over road roaming.

It's still fun to have but I hope that they will release new dlcs quickly with race tracks and track only cars and historical cars and formula cars, stock cars etc
 
I think people don`t see the potential of this laser scan technology. Just think about of real rally stages which can perhaps easily done with this. Man this is next level sh***t. Imagine Truck Simulator with this tech. Kunos can sell the software to other developers to create fantastic worlds. For those who only want to race on track, there will be modes to play and on the other side we have lots of great sims already out there. Idk why are complaning about features which nobody have to use. But for me, the more of these new ideas the better. Have not heard somebody who complains about Flight Simulator 2020/24 that it is providing the hole world to fly on. If Kunos were on stock exchange, i would buy them! It`s not about AC Evo, it is about the new laser scan tech. Maybe I am wrong. Time will tell...
 
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I think people don`t see the potential of this laser scan technology. Just think about of real rally stages which can perhaps easily done with this.

BeamNG also offers a similar path to doing that... It looks nice on the surface, but what if this tech is as hard to work on as the rF2 tyre model is?

Man this is next level sh***t. Imagine Truck Simulator with this tech. Kunos can sell the software to other developers to create fantastic worlds. For those who only want to race on track, there will be modes to play and on the other side we have lots of great sims already out there.

This is far more of a better use for the tech, developers getting their hands on this could make some great worlds for us... Especially if they can get the finer details of the tracks that currend Lidar data doesn't represent...

Idk why are complaning about features which nobody have to use. But for me, the more of these new ideas the better. Have not heard somebody who complains about Flight Simulator 2020/24 that it is providing the hole world to fly on. If Kunos were on stock exchange, i would buy them! It`s not about AC Evo, it is about the new laser scan tech. Maybe I am wrong. Time will tell...

It's a smart decision to make money for sure, this particular mode has sold like hotcakes for Turn 10 and others over the years...

But the focus on it specifically and the reactions and words of longtime Kunos fanboys who have sampled the driving is why people are complaining... It sounds like the worlds might be grand, but the racing will leave a lot of people who care about physics feeling flat and those who care about the racing elements are left wondering what parts of the AC engine are actually going to be upgraded for ACE...
 
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