Sadly I don't have a monitor worth using. I've only got wmr working on my sim and this has never worked right. Going to triple monitors soon just because support sucks for VR on so many games.
Same here, good game for the price i paid when it went into early access, not worth the price it is right now and honestly i doubt it will ever be worth that price. Don't get me wrong the driving is good, i like it but north worth that much money.
I wouldn't say I feel ripped off, but I'm definitely disappointed. I only do sim racing in VR these days, I don't have the monitors to do triple screen, and single screen is just not fun for me. I got AC:C as soon as it went available on early access, but I didn't try it out til VR was first added. It was pretty rough, so I shelved the game feeling confident the VR would be improved in time... and the opposite has happened. I'm still happy that I bought in to the game at the start and I'm still confident that it will improve, I just didn't really expect this sort of trajectory.
I bought in part of a pack where I got this, acc, rfactor, rfactor2 I believe, nascar heat 5, I racing, and like five others as well as a huge discount for a few racing wheel setups but didn’t buy those. All for 13.99, very much worth it.
I'm trying to get to the bottom of the 'thic soupy' cornering. However upon further investigation I have to admit defeat as I couldn't find any real life corners named campbells knorr Heinz.
No it isn't. The question is worth the money, if a single series with minimal content is deserving of a $40 price tag then I'm the pope. It's a good game, but there is no way in hell it is worth what they are asking, especially with the god awful VR support. This game is worth $20, just like the original. (which mind you has 45 tracks and hundreds of cars for the deluxe edition price which is ACC's full price)
@@TINYHEAD69 The narrow content scope allows for a much deeper and correct simulation. This was a design decision from the start and they were clear about it. Complaing now about lack of content, while it was clear from the start what cars and tracks would be available? How does that work? It is not supposed to be an AC2 and they never said it would be. Give it some time and polish, this will be a great great sim. No matter the content.
When I first played it I could barely complete a lap without sliding off but the more I play the more I love it. Thanks for the video Jimmy always the go to resource for anything racing SIM related
This is definitely the best sim racing channel by a hell of a long way other people are boring been searching for other channels for a few months now everyone I've found bores me Jimmy always keeps me entertained
Was probably just gonna wait until steam had it reduced anyway and this video confirmed that's probably the right thing, cheers Jimmy and good luck for the weekend
I agree to most of what you said. I didn't expect much of the Career mode, but for me it is the nicest way of experiencing singleplayer racing in ACC- I also don't like those practice sessions, though. What I experienced was, that because I am not extremely fast, I actually couldn't choose the Audi or the Huracan for my team. The kerbs seem to have that friction, but I'm not too sure, if that is okay how it is. But what I experienced was, that you can actually lose the car when getting onto the kerbs with too much power- there is a difference in grip, which should be accurate. I got the game with EA Build 1 and for those 20€ or so it is absolutely awesome. For the 45€ I wouldn't be sure either, but I guess I would have bought it as well. :D
I know this is very unlikely, but I would really like if they made a dlc with WEC cars and tracks, and some classic endurance cars just to spice up the game a bit
They already have Barcelona, Spa & Silverstone. They can add Fuji & Shanghai if they add the Blancpain GT Asia series www.gt-world-challenge-asia.com/calendar . So easily 5 of 8 are very possible. We won't get the rest of the WEC tracks, but there's also Blancpain GT America www.gt-world-challenge-america.com/calendar & Intercontinental GT www.intercontinentalgtchallenge.com/calendar tracks that are also possible additions.
It's really one of the most annoying things about gaming in general to me. There's been plenty of games that I've started up and played 2 or 3 hours and then stopped because I wasn't having fun, or games that I've stopped after less than an hour because they were more than not fun. Then I get friends and such like "oh man you didn't give it enough time! you gotta play at least X hours before you judge!" Umm... no. Games are a hobby and I do it for fun. A game that I've paid money to entertain me should not require me to then invest X hours of boredom/shit before I'm rewarded with fun. Sim racing is a little different though. Like the text said in Jimmers video, he found the career passable. It was the career mode he was saying wasn't "fun" but since the actual racing is done so well, I think one would still be having fun. What turned me off is the unskippable practice/"testing" sessions. That would be not fun for me. On tracks I am familiar with, and in a sim where there are only 10 tracks and only 1 class of car... I don't think I'd need to do constant practices. In a career mode I'd want to be able to progress as quickly as possible, going from one race to the next asap. If the practice/test sessions provided some benefit mechanically like the "development points" he mentions from F1 then that would be a different story, there'd be a reason to do them, and then they'd be fun because there's a goal. Not just burnt time.
@@gitrekt-gudson Reminds me of modern open-world games like RDR2, Yakuza etc. Too much filler/unrelated content that you have to spend too many hours on before you can "have fun" with the games' main focus, and not just in the prologue. I've felt the same way about ACC, except that I had to do all three practice sessions TWICE because I had to change career options to suit me better.
So 8 months in early access and now they release the game as complete but it is not complete. Just another company taking advantage of the consumer in my opinion.
If you are a bad driver trying to get good this game has been a godsend...i have made more progress in 2 weeks with acc than 4 months with rfactor 2, iracing, ac and raceroom..it walks you through getting better...love it. Long term it's not gonna be fun though unless it gets a ton more content,, IMO if your bad and really want to get better this game is for you
I totally agree on this review Jimmy. Been trying to get a solid start in the career mode for the last 2 days but no luck so far. Completed the Lamborghini event pretty fast but the first real race at Zolder is really crap imo. Firstly , there could be more information given to the player: Why are there 2 qualifying sessions and how does this affect the starting grid? I'm pretty sure lots of people don't know. Also the lack of a pause and resume in between session events is a real letdown. Once started, you have to complete the full weekend: FP, Q and 2x Race. I takes 2 hours at least. If you quit in between one of them you have to redo it all. Then there is the AI, the slow corner issue you described is annoying as hell, when on a smaller track like Brands Hatch or Zolder it really ruins the experience for me. With only a handful of overtaking opportunities, one can really be stuck for the whole race because they park on the apex and you have to avoid them like all the time with sometimes safety penalty points as a result because contact is unavoidable at times. Mulitplayer isn't much better atm either. Lots of game crashes, and a quick web search shows I am not the only one experiencing this. I was looking forward to the full release, but after 2 full days of trying single and multiplayer i feel pretty disappointed.
I just had a very smooth 24 car race against AI at Silverstone in the rain in VR without any problems. Clearly some people are having issues at the moment but for some it is working great in VR. I only have an i7 6700k and a gtx 1070. I think the release was complicated by the simultaneous release of a Game Ready driver from nvidia. Until I optimized using Geforce Experience I had stuttering issues but as I said it is fine now. I agree about the disappointing career mode but for me the driving feel is second to none and is by far the best FFB I've used.
Should it be better by now? Yes. But I remember Assetto Corsa in 2014, and it was shite compared to what it is today, and I'm not factoring in mods. ACC will improve a lot I'm sure, but releasing unfinished games is par for the course unfortunately.
Regarding online experience it will get better with your SA rating and also you can join competition servers where you gain CP that is the equivalent of irating (competition servers have 1h races and punish you if you leave the server after qualy has started)
To understand ACC, one has to understand the Kunos development stages, and what they actually mean: Early Access = Tech Demo to raise money Version 1.0 = Alpha release Version 1.5 = Beta release Version 1.924 (4 years later) = Version 1.0 (some bugs are left that will never be fixed)
@@Cam_Wight Hmm, giving an absolute answer on this one is quite tricky. It's definitely accessible (PS4/PS5/PC) and more immersive with a wheel-pedal set plus the AI isn't half bad. That being said, the single series nature of the game may be unappealing to some, plus its minimum requirements on PC are no joke. For someone who has been in sim racing for some time, ACC is king. For those who are graduating from Need for Speed and other arcade racers, it may be a tad discouraging
@@anomynousanonymous1694 Forza 4 is full on arcade 'open world' racing, if you like that then by all means go for it. But it's not for sim racing. Get Forza Motorsport 7 if you want some substance.
For the price of 5 to 6 pints its a great sim. Today (18 sept ‘19) its even better. Kunos still has to fix the shadows of the cars in the mirrors. They are still floating ufo’s to watch. Thanks for the vid ✌🏼 The Netherlands 🚦🏁
I think when the multiplayer is working and you have fair people on your level, it is the best "gt3 simulator" and will give us so much fun and great racing❤️
Not defending this kind of culture, but it is pretty much the norm nowadays... see destiny, anthem they release an incomplete game, see if it pays off and then work on it or abandon it.
Thanks for an honest review, plus I agree with almost everything you said. I bought it in early access to support Devs get it done well, and was super disappointed -being a VR enthusiast- that VR feature got canceled :S :S
@@tuna_6548 GTR3 is definitely in development. Rumour is though that`ll be a simcade title, which Raceroom was supposed to be until Sector 3 ripped it apart and made it more of a sim. Raceroom is still hampered by that early code to a degree, but is still my favourite driving game.
Driving experience is a new level. Worth it for just that. Here to race. Drives amazing , ffb is good, visual good, sound good, setup deep, races intense. The rest is all decoration which I don't need.
I know I’m a bit late with this but, on my PS4 and monitor, all the cars look as if they’re just stuck on the track in replay...exactly the same as the main sim. Not a patch on Project Cars 2 in replay. Ok to purchase in a sale.
It’s such a shame because the cars and racing and physics all feel phenomenal, and the game looks and sounds amazing. Unfortunately I have to admit that the rest of the game just isn’t there yet. I think Kunos knew that the game has problems, and that is reflected in the discounted launch price. I believe that they will do their best to fix what issues they can and it will get better, but I worry that the problems with the multiplayer system and Unreal engine integration are so hard wired into the game that there may only be so much that they can do to fix them. I really hope they can turn thing so around though, as a lot of the core elements of the game are very promising and this could be a great sim. Excellent review!
Completely agree. The driving itself is very very enjoyable, but there are so many things that need tweaking. Another point that many users have issues - The crashes! This game all-out crashes to desktop, all the time. The funny part is, just like VR going missing, the crashing has gotten a lot worse after going out of early access. During my first evening of checking out the full release, the game hard-locked or outright crashed 5 times during within about 2 hours. It is simply not in a state yet that is worthy of being called "version 1.0"
I bought the game before rewatching this video and Jimmy was right all through out the video. He really nails it. If you really expect an elevated version of the previous AC, it's not what you expected. Like Jimmy said, you get what you see. You have a set number of cars and it's all GT. You don't have that wide range of slow vs fast cars, vintage, etc...
i think alot of people where expecting AC2 tbh. i was happy to pay the early access price, but i wouldnt pay for full release price, not yet any way, give it a year when its half price on humble bundle, that way the new gen2 gt3's wouldve been added too.
For me it’s a great driving sim but very narrow in scope. Having said that, every car feels different and little touches like the track rubbering in are fantastic. If you play through career, and get your ratings higher you’ll get some great racing...if anyone is still playing online that is. It is going to struggle against the likes of iRacing, which is expensive but superb. One thing I find funny is sim racers who are always going about paying huge sums for kit but are unsure about whether to spend £35 (about the price of the Clubsport 3 performance braking kit)
You are right on about everything, but one thing I can say is that I feel kerbs are fine, if you tune the car to handle it. Stock tunes are hit and miss and can seriously compromise one thing for another, I have been working on the AMG GT3 and now kerbs feel acceptable to use.
Going from Forza 7 and F1 2018 to this game is a huge jump. No rewind is hard to get over when you're not the best driver, but I will have to get over that an git gud. I've played 8 hours of the game since buying it and only just got enough practice to slog my way through Zolder in the career mode in a boatley. Honestly, I've driven the bentley, Lambo, and one of the BMWs and they all feel incredibly different. The sounds, the cockpits, even the camera and mirror views out of the cockpits are all unique. Visually the game is stunning and I've had friends ask if it was even a game. Admittedly the career mode is really lackluster, but it's better than Forza 7 honestly, the driving experience as a whole makes it better. I just wish there were ways to view championship points outside of your races so you can keep track of the teams and the... Not quite politics but the events outside of the track like... You know the championship. If you want to get into Sim Racing from arcade I made the jump in 3 days on controller, so if that helps you decide. Allaround I love the game and will put many hours into it as they update it and make it better.
@@xuimod I wouldn't say it's trash. If you're talking about the graphics, you're not supposed to look at textures, trees and shit while you're driving pretty fast. It's a racing simulator, so it's focused on physics and those are pretty good imo. It's also got a pretty good variety of cars. Still considered one of the best racing simulators ever.
Interesting to hear that people are having trouble with VR?? For me it’s working fine. Although it’s still very GPU intensive. What I find frustrating and I have pointed this out in one of my ACC videos is that you have to set the scaling to 101% so that you can adjust the super sampling scale to stop it being blurry. The caveat though it screws the menus up in VR and they blend into the car and can not be seen clearly. Should have been fixed by now!
@Jimmy Broadbent ACC with last update 1.0.10 really is a big improve from 1.0 from now it´s very playable with new physics The list of new features is huge, there are some interesting changes like new aerodynmic simulations
@8:40 ACC is not moddable BUT GTR2 was highly moddable. Ive been racing in GTR2 from 2010 to 2015 online and thanks to the racing community Ive joined I had every car and track known to sim racers. disappointed that jimmy didnt do his research right on this one.
Good review, and i am one of those people who really enjoyed GTR2 so i really might pick this up. But yes it might still need some tweaks. And as a GT racing fanboy, this does tickle my jibblits.
I would recommed it if you are doing league racing. The ranking online is the "CP" ranking where you enter Competition servers but that still needs a lot of work to improve
I think its brilliant and worth it. The immersion and the sounds are epic! Racing is great. The intro is a bit boring but eh can get over that. They just need to sort the Anti Aliasing out. I have an RTX 2080 and at 4K ultra (Temopral AA set to epic)you can see the jaggies quite badly which really shouldn't happen at 4K Ultra.
The game has potential, but my journey so far: okay let's check it out in VR .. oh ... what .... that's terrible! Okay okay, maybe they just need some time to adjust it, let's make use of the tripple screen instead - oh no wait, it's not supported ... Despite the VR problems, I enjoyed it because of the good physics, awesome sounding GT3 cars and I have to say, I've never seen so much details on a GT3 in any other game/sim before. I hope they'll fix all the problems in a not too distant future.
I bought ACC the first day of early access and I have really enjoyed it all the way to the full release. I do only race in VR as I find it more exiting and now that we have the full release I was really looking forward to a optimized VR experience. Also when navigating in the menu. But we all now how that turned out. A little disappointed regarding the hole VR experience and I’m crossing my fingers Kunos will come with an update in the very nearest future.
Everything you said in this video is fair and accurate in my opinion. Seems we have picked up the same 'issues' and 'loves,' especially with the online stuff. I love GT3's so I'm biased but I too feel it's still in early access in places and it really shouldn't be. You should do more reviews, very fair in my opinion.
Love the review. Everything you said is absolutely true. It's an apple not an orange, buy it for being an apple. I have it and have had zero issues, so we can attribute alot of issues to hardware and even system maintenance. I turn off the lights and put my gasoline socked rag under my nose and go to town. :)
You should review it now after the last ypdate even the physics were slightly done and to me its the best simr acing game out if your talking purely realistic and completely amazing with its physics im not kidding they put so much work into the way it feels and boy oh boy was it worth it
Actually they promised a rating system where you would have a ranking, and depending on who you race againts will affect your rating. defending a higher ranking players will boots your own ranking and vice versa, and race perfomance overall. they can say know they did not promised. I remember reading an official webpace with all those informative hexagons with al ranking system features
BUYER BEWARE! I've read a couple of reviews on Steam and the biggest complaint is that you can't save your progress of a race weekend halfway through. So if you start a weekend, you have to do all the practice sessions, qualifying and the race itself in one sitting.
Man... The thing i was most looking forward was the SimRacingSystem-like safety rating, because i really like SRS but its a pain to use a third party site to go racing, i want to be able to do all i do in SRS in the game itself, i really hope they'll add that, they could've won people over with that honestly, because iracing is expensive.
VR works perfect for me, no stutters and full 'epic' graphics as for the online, i won't really use it, i think it has one of the better A.I's i have raced against
@@Mansell5Senna8 yeah i think so, it has ray tracing and as far as i can tell it only turns off on low graphics, ray tracing has a huge impact on frame rate, you can tweek settings on vr, the slider in my steam vr is on 100% i cant remember the name of the setting but when i load a game it boost up, i dont run with the smooth running option as that makes vr stutter, ill have to have a look at my settings, i cant remember the names of the tabs but i know vr pixle density i managed to get up to 200% to over write the 100 % in steam vr settings
Birki gts I remember when games weren't expected to have vr support. It's crazy how much things have progressed. Still, I find it annoying how people behave about it, saying they won't buy a game just because no vr. It is strange that it was working before though, and now in the full release it's having issues.
@@jamesshives5679 How is it annoying? I only do sim racing (and drifting) in VR these days. 100% exclusively VR. My other option would be a 35" single screen.... there's absolutely no contest between sim racing in a HTC Vive Pro and sim racing on a single monitor. VR is better. I will not support racing titles that do not support VR. At this point, in my opinion, VR is such a benefit in sim racing that a racing title without VR is just as bad as a racing title that doesn't support FFB wheels. I don't think anyone would be annoyed by people avoiding a title that didn't allow them to use their wheels.
Though I will say I have not actually reinstalled the game to check it out, so the VR in AC:C may work fine in my case. Other people report VR works fine for them, so it seems to be a hit or miss kind of thing. It's been at least 3 months since I've touched AC:C, I bought into early access fully planning on just waiting for final release before really playing. I knew there was no VR when I bought into EA, but Kunos said it would be added, and I knew it worked fine in AC so there was no reason for me to distrust them. I am still confident the kinks will be ironed out, too. The F1 20xx series games though for example, I won't touch them. I'd LOVE to, but I won't... they don't support VR and Codemasters have said they do not plan on supporting it. Until that changes I won't buy their stuff.
PandemonicTV I'm sorry but I don't think there is any comparison between a bonus peripheral and a necessary part of simulation. To me, if you're going to do actual sim racing, a wheel is basically a necessity. VR is not, and there are more people with wheels without vr than there are with vr. Even if you took that stand that ffb wheels aren't necessary either, I argue that vr is even less so. The problem I have with this is that people feel like you feel so strongly that if a game doesn't cater to your exact wants, it is not worth supporting. Plenty of good games are ruined or die off either by lack of support, or, by the developers trying so hard to please everyone that they don't nail any part of it. It really is all about your viewpoint, but to me, vr is not a necessity, and for you it is, so obviously this is where we fundamentally disagree. I think if a game is good enough, not having a (in my mind) superfluous feature, is not a reason to not buy it and enjoy it for what it is, which in this case, is a good racing sim. That being said I do understand the frustration, I understand that vr is a transformative experience and it is hard for people to go back to a monitor if they are exclusively vr (which I dare say is still a minority), I just question whether it is at a reasonable level or not, because I don't think one can say vr is as necessary as a wheel and pedals.
PandemonicTV And it is annoying because certain games, whenever any gameplay is uploaded of them, you always have those people in the comments saying "shame it has no vr" and "no vr no buy." So it's not just that I have a problem with the mentality, it's also just really annoying to see all the time. And listen, I'm not trying to criticize you as a person, I'm sure vr is great and you can be upset about the game not having it if you want to; you are of course not alone in that, and may have a valid point. I just don't think it is at the point yet where it should be expected in the way that it is.
I already spent my Taiwanese dollars on it. But I have to say I love it although I am a gamepad plebs. I love the variety of the cars and all of them are fun to drive. But something I would like to change are the career mode and I can not change the gamepad button settings but it is a decent game and I like it.
Fair review and I agree 100%. I'm pretty disappointed, especially when it comes to multiplayer. 😒 Expected a somewhat finished product, but again - only in your dreams mate!
I bought the early access as soon as it was released back in august for 22eur or so. It was not so good back then, but the newly released 1.0 improves a lot especially the force feedback and the feeling of the cars, game also runs much better than previously. I think the biggest update was this 1.0. Its still not perfect but at least its enjoyable now.
Glad you didn't hold back, good review IMO
Sadly I don't have a monitor worth using. I've only got wmr working on my sim and this has never worked right. Going to triple monitors soon just because support sucks for VR on so many games.
"Game is still in early access" ... spot on!
I don't feel ripped off because I bought during Early Access with reduced price, but there's no way it's worth the full price in its current state.
Same here, good game for the price i paid when it went into early access, not worth the price it is right now and honestly i doubt it will ever be worth that price.
Don't get me wrong the driving is good, i like it but north worth that much money.
agreed
I wouldn't say I feel ripped off, but I'm definitely disappointed. I only do sim racing in VR these days, I don't have the monitors to do triple screen, and single screen is just not fun for me. I got AC:C as soon as it went available on early access, but I didn't try it out til VR was first added. It was pretty rough, so I shelved the game feeling confident the VR would be improved in time... and the opposite has happened. I'm still happy that I bought in to the game at the start and I'm still confident that it will improve, I just didn't really expect this sort of trajectory.
Me too, but when I saw at the release that there are only gt3 cars, I was dissapointed..
Agreed
A solid multiplayer system would have been a major selling point of this title. I'll hold back on the purchase until the issues are addressed.
Driving as Nicky Thiim
He would've gotten a Top 5 at least if he'd driven as Thicky Nhiim.
yeah noticed the same thing haha
@@speedydb55 Thicki*
Adds Nicky Thiic boi joke here
Wonder if Nicky Thiim drives AS Nicky Thiim..
Couldn't agree more with the car feel, going from the boatley to the porsche and using the same driving technique is suicide
I sure love ''boatley''
@@jaguar123987x Well, Bentley really does handle like a boat
thats my new favorite term for the bentley gt car
223frankthetank I would love me some Boatley.
A brilliant, thorough and uncensored review Jimmy.
Crazy to see how far this sim has come. from not being worth the money to one of the best sims available. LFM definitely plays a big part in this.
I bought in part of a pack where I got this, acc, rfactor, rfactor2 I believe, nascar heat 5, I racing, and like five others as well as a huge discount for a few racing wheel setups but didn’t buy those. All for 13.99, very much worth it.
Great video, I was thinking about getting the game but I'd wait a bit. I'm confident the devs will unleash the potential of this game later on.
I'm trying to get to the bottom of the 'thic soupy' cornering. However upon further investigation I have to admit defeat as I couldn't find any real life corners named campbells knorr Heinz.
yes it is, AC was a mess on release too, but Kunos will keep working. The base game/driving model is already awesome
No it isn't. The question is worth the money, if a single series with minimal content is deserving of a $40 price tag then I'm the pope. It's a good game, but there is no way in hell it is worth what they are asking, especially with the god awful VR support. This game is worth $20, just like the original. (which mind you has 45 tracks and hundreds of cars for the deluxe edition price which is ACC's full price)
This shouldn’t be a base game, it should be sorted.
They should have learnt from the first time around.
@@TINYHEAD69 The narrow content scope allows for a much deeper and correct simulation. This was a design decision from the start and they were clear about it. Complaing now about lack of content, while it was clear from the start what cars and tracks would be available? How does that work? It is not supposed to be an AC2 and they never said it would be. Give it some time and polish, this will be a great great sim. No matter the content.
do me a favor jimmy: say "competizione" one more time :3
kompitetsiyoni
stop bullying
@@elwhyify i am not bullying i just like the way he is saying that
As Italian his pronunciation is sexy
@@lyon666 actually "kompitetsiyoni" is almost the right pronunciation
When I first played it I could barely complete a lap without sliding off but the more I play the more I love it. Thanks for the video Jimmy always the go to resource for anything racing SIM related
Early access release 1 or 2 was the time to buy in. £20, a bargin.
I'm quite the opposite, I'll pay whenever it's in a good state and no earlier.
spot on u want a game bit dont have the money for the end release buy it early .and wait hahahahaha
This is definitely the best sim racing channel by a hell of a long way other people are boring been searching for other channels for a few months now everyone I've found bores me Jimmy always keeps me entertained
Was probably just gonna wait until steam had it reduced anyway and this video confirmed that's probably the right thing, cheers Jimmy and good luck for the weekend
Nice double overtake at the end!
incredibly helpful review! get well soon Jimmer!
Honest and well thought out personal summary
good pronunciation of the Italian name "competizione" (I am Italian)
I fkn love the positivity
Why?
This could have been the ranked multiplayer sim for PC that everyone wanted.
I agree to most of what you said. I didn't expect much of the Career mode, but for me it is the nicest way of experiencing singleplayer racing in ACC- I also don't like those practice sessions, though. What I experienced was, that because I am not extremely fast, I actually couldn't choose the Audi or the Huracan for my team. The kerbs seem to have that friction, but I'm not too sure, if that is okay how it is. But what I experienced was, that you can actually lose the car when getting onto the kerbs with too much power- there is a difference in grip, which should be accurate. I got the game with EA Build 1 and for those 20€ or so it is absolutely awesome. For the 45€ I wouldn't be sure either, but I guess I would have bought it as well. :D
We need better career mode
I know this is very unlikely, but I would really like if they made a dlc with WEC cars and tracks, and some classic endurance cars just to spice up the game a bit
They already have Barcelona, Spa & Silverstone. They can add Fuji & Shanghai if they add the Blancpain GT Asia series www.gt-world-challenge-asia.com/calendar . So easily 5 of 8 are very possible. We won't get the rest of the WEC tracks, but there's also Blancpain GT America www.gt-world-challenge-america.com/calendar & Intercontinental GT www.intercontinentalgtchallenge.com/calendar tracks that are also possible additions.
GREAT review Jimmy. Really enjoy your videos brother. Keep kicking ass!!!
Good job Jimmy
"3 hours is a long time to not have fun"
It's really one of the most annoying things about gaming in general to me. There's been plenty of games that I've started up and played 2 or 3 hours and then stopped because I wasn't having fun, or games that I've stopped after less than an hour because they were more than not fun. Then I get friends and such like "oh man you didn't give it enough time! you gotta play at least X hours before you judge!"
Umm... no. Games are a hobby and I do it for fun. A game that I've paid money to entertain me should not require me to then invest X hours of boredom/shit before I'm rewarded with fun. Sim racing is a little different though. Like the text said in Jimmers video, he found the career passable. It was the career mode he was saying wasn't "fun" but since the actual racing is done so well, I think one would still be having fun. What turned me off is the unskippable practice/"testing" sessions. That would be not fun for me. On tracks I am familiar with, and in a sim where there are only 10 tracks and only 1 class of car... I don't think I'd need to do constant practices. In a career mode I'd want to be able to progress as quickly as possible, going from one race to the next asap. If the practice/test sessions provided some benefit mechanically like the "development points" he mentions from F1 then that would be a different story, there'd be a reason to do them, and then they'd be fun because there's a goal. Not just burnt time.
@@gitrekt-gudson Reminds me of modern open-world games like RDR2, Yakuza etc. Too much filler/unrelated content that you have to spend too many hours on before you can "have fun" with the games' main focus, and not just in the prologue.
I've felt the same way about ACC, except that I had to do all three practice sessions TWICE because I had to change career options to suit me better.
Love your videos Jimmy! Keep up the good work!
Down here in Australia, mate, this, bloody drongo, game is almost full price! Maccas!
you might have to eat less vegemite mate!
@@socratese5 strewth
I’m gonna love it. Could use a vid deep dive into how to set up a car.
The drivetrain sounds in AC are really good IMO. The straight cut gears, whiplash, engine noise, etc.
So 8 months in early access and now they release the game as complete but it is not complete. Just another company taking advantage of the consumer in my opinion.
WHAT ABOUT 8 YEARS WAITING FOR CYBERPUNK AND GETTING A AWFUL GAME??????
@@MatPlayer0291 if a company promise big things it’s your own fault for believing them
@@TinyBearTim that is the dumbest thing I've heard this week. Congrats.
@@van5395 m8 when company’s promises big things it usually goes horribe
If you are a bad driver trying to get good this game has been a godsend...i have made more progress in 2 weeks with acc than 4 months with rfactor 2, iracing, ac and raceroom..it walks you through getting better...love it. Long term it's not gonna be fun though unless it gets a ton more content,, IMO if your bad and really want to get better this game is for you
I totally agree on this review Jimmy. Been trying to get a solid start in the career mode for the last 2 days but no luck so far. Completed the Lamborghini event pretty fast but the first real race at Zolder is really crap imo. Firstly , there could be more information given to the player: Why are there 2 qualifying sessions and how does this affect the starting grid? I'm pretty sure lots of people don't know. Also the lack of a pause and resume in between session events is a real letdown. Once started, you have to complete the full weekend: FP, Q and 2x Race. I takes 2 hours at least. If you quit in between one of them you have to redo it all.
Then there is the AI, the slow corner issue you described is annoying as hell, when on a smaller track like Brands Hatch or Zolder it really ruins the experience for me. With only a handful of overtaking opportunities, one can really be stuck for the whole race because they park on the apex and you have to avoid them like all the time with sometimes safety penalty points as a result because contact is unavoidable at times.
Mulitplayer isn't much better atm either. Lots of game crashes, and a quick web search shows I am not the only one experiencing this.
I was looking forward to the full release, but after 2 full days of trying single and multiplayer i feel pretty disappointed.
I am still playing the original AC. It's still such a good open source racing sim.
I just had a very smooth 24 car race against AI at Silverstone in the rain in VR without any problems. Clearly some people are having issues at the moment but for some it is working great in VR. I only have an i7 6700k and a gtx 1070. I think the release was complicated by the simultaneous release of a Game Ready driver from nvidia. Until I optimized using Geforce Experience I had stuttering issues but as I said it is fine now. I agree about the disappointing career mode but for me the driving feel is second to none and is by far the best FFB I've used.
Should it be better by now? Yes. But I remember Assetto Corsa in 2014, and it was shite compared to what it is today, and I'm not factoring in mods. ACC will improve a lot I'm sure, but releasing unfinished games is par for the course unfortunately.
@TheGschultz to be fair he didn't say being shite is justified. Just that it's on par with the last and can(and should) be expected to improve.
Don't buy games that are pre maturely released
this is why people need to stop buying pre-orders and make developers work to deliver a full game.
Love the brutal honesty
Regarding online experience it will get better with your SA rating and also you can join competition servers where you gain CP that is the equivalent of irating (competition servers have 1h races and punish you if you leave the server after qualy has started)
Abruzzi is really nice ! Did not expect that
the not-at-all-RARE brutally honest boi. love a straight-forward review!
Your videos are awesome!!
Spot on Jimmy! Anyone else suffer with multiplayer Fatal Errors?
yup
To understand ACC, one has to understand the Kunos development stages, and what they actually mean:
Early Access = Tech Demo to raise money
Version 1.0 = Alpha release
Version 1.5 = Beta release
Version 1.924 (4 years later) = Version 1.0 (some bugs are left that will never be fixed)
And unmoddable.. (For now)
@@ArnoldTriyudho That's more because of the Blancpain licence, I would say.
2 years later, this is the best racing simulator on the planet😊😊😊
Would you recommend this over other sims?
@@Cam_Wight Hmm, giving an absolute answer on this one is quite tricky. It's definitely accessible (PS4/PS5/PC) and more immersive with a wheel-pedal set plus the AI isn't half bad. That being said, the single series nature of the game may be unappealing to some, plus its minimum requirements on PC are no joke. For someone who has been in sim racing for some time, ACC is king. For those who are graduating from Need for Speed and other arcade racers, it may be a tad discouraging
@@alsheatonism so in your opinion which ones better forza 4 or assetto corsa comp?
@@anomynousanonymous1694 Forza 4 is full on arcade 'open world' racing, if you like that then by all means go for it. But it's not for sim racing. Get Forza Motorsport 7 if you want some substance.
@@makaveli316 ohh ok 👌
I have a feeling 505 Games forced them to release this "full version".
Wouldn't be the first time a publisher forced a studio to put a game out before it was ready
@@K4R3N bruh
For the price of 5 to 6 pints its a great sim. Today (18 sept ‘19) its even better. Kunos still has to fix the shadows of the cars in the mirrors. They are still floating ufo’s to watch.
Thanks for the vid ✌🏼 The Netherlands 🚦🏁
I think when the multiplayer is working and you have fair people on your level, it is the best "gt3 simulator" and will give us so much fun and great racing❤️
Fully with you. Early access is the place to develop the game, not after it's release.
Not defending this kind of culture, but it is pretty much the norm nowadays... see destiny, anthem they release an incomplete game, see if it pays off and then work on it or abandon it.
That texture really does look great.
Thanks for an honest review, plus I agree with almost everything you said.
I bought it in early access to support Devs get it done well, and was super disappointed -being a VR enthusiast- that VR feature got canceled :S :S
Automobilista 2 was just announced, save up for now.
vr support...YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GTR 3 incoming ... :D
@@Baris1892 isn't that vapourware?
@@tuna_6548 GTR3 is definitely in development. Rumour is though that`ll be a simcade title, which Raceroom was supposed to be until Sector 3 ripped it apart and made it more of a sim. Raceroom is still hampered by that early code to a degree, but is still my favourite driving game.
Rofl driving as Nicky. Nicky was talking about you on his stream today Jim :P
Buying ACC made me truly appreciate how great of a game rFactor 2 is, and that I shouldn't take it for granted.
Driving experience is a new level. Worth it for just that. Here to race. Drives amazing , ffb is good, visual good, sound good, setup deep, races intense. The rest is all decoration which I don't need.
I know I’m a bit late with this but, on my PS4 and monitor, all the cars look as if they’re just stuck on the track in replay...exactly the same as the main sim. Not a patch on Project Cars 2 in replay. Ok to purchase in a sale.
It’s such a shame because the cars and racing and physics all feel phenomenal, and the game looks and sounds amazing. Unfortunately I have to admit that the rest of the game just isn’t there yet.
I think Kunos knew that the game has problems, and that is reflected in the discounted launch price. I believe that they will do their best to fix what issues they can and it will get better, but I worry that the problems with the multiplayer system and Unreal engine integration are so hard wired into the game that there may only be so much that they can do to fix them.
I really hope they can turn thing so around though, as a lot of the core elements of the game are very promising and this could be a great sim.
Excellent review!
Better career mode
its the only racing sim that feels realistic to me, so yes it is imo. Its already pretty good and can only get better from now on.
We need better career mode
Completely agree. The driving itself is very very enjoyable, but there are so many things that need tweaking.
Another point that many users have issues - The crashes! This game all-out crashes to desktop, all the time. The funny part is, just like VR going missing, the crashing has gotten a lot worse after going out of early access. During my first evening of checking out the full release, the game hard-locked or outright crashed 5 times during within about 2 hours. It is simply not in a state yet that is worthy of being called "version 1.0"
I bought the game before rewatching this video and Jimmy was right all through out the video. He really nails it. If you really expect an elevated version of the previous AC, it's not what you expected. Like Jimmy said, you get what you see. You have a set number of cars and it's all GT. You don't have that wide range of slow vs fast cars, vintage, etc...
i think alot of people where expecting AC2 tbh.
i was happy to pay the early access price, but i wouldnt pay for full release price, not yet any way, give it a year when its half price on humble bundle, that way the new gen2 gt3's wouldve been added too.
For me it’s a great driving sim but very narrow in scope. Having said that, every car feels different and little touches like the track rubbering in are fantastic. If you play through career, and get your ratings higher you’ll get some great racing...if anyone is still playing online that is. It is going to struggle against the likes of iRacing, which is expensive but superb.
One thing I find funny is sim racers who are always going about paying huge sums for kit but are unsure about whether to spend £35 (about the price of the Clubsport 3 performance braking kit)
You are right on about everything, but one thing I can say is that I feel kerbs are fine, if you tune the car to handle it. Stock tunes are hit and miss and can seriously compromise one thing for another, I have been working on the AMG GT3 and now kerbs feel acceptable to use.
Going from Forza 7 and F1 2018 to this game is a huge jump. No rewind is hard to get over when you're not the best driver, but I will have to get over that an git gud. I've played 8 hours of the game since buying it and only just got enough practice to slog my way through Zolder in the career mode in a boatley. Honestly, I've driven the bentley, Lambo, and one of the BMWs and they all feel incredibly different. The sounds, the cockpits, even the camera and mirror views out of the cockpits are all unique. Visually the game is stunning and I've had friends ask if it was even a game. Admittedly the career mode is really lackluster, but it's better than Forza 7 honestly, the driving experience as a whole makes it better. I just wish there were ways to view championship points outside of your races so you can keep track of the teams and the... Not quite politics but the events outside of the track like... You know the championship. If you want to get into Sim Racing from arcade I made the jump in 3 days on controller, so if that helps you decide. Allaround I love the game and will put many hours into it as they update it and make it better.
We need a legitimate sequel to ac 1.
AC1 was only good because of modders. Without modding AC1 is trash.
@@xuimod I wouldn't say it's trash. If you're talking about the graphics, you're not supposed to look at textures, trees and shit while you're driving pretty fast. It's a racing simulator, so it's focused on physics and those are pretty good imo. It's also got a pretty good variety of cars. Still considered one of the best racing simulators ever.
Interesting to hear that people are having trouble with VR?? For me it’s working fine. Although it’s still very GPU intensive. What I find frustrating and I have pointed this out in one of my ACC videos is that you have to set the scaling to 101% so that you can adjust the super sampling scale to stop it being blurry. The caveat though it screws the menus up in VR and they blend into the car and can not be seen clearly. Should have been fixed by now!
Thanks Jimmy. As a casual sim racer my only decent game is AC and you are the only youtuber i follow. Think I'll give this a miss. Subscribed.
@Jimmy Broadbent ACC with last update 1.0.10 really is a big improve from 1.0 from now it´s very playable with new physics
The list of new features is huge, there are some interesting changes like new aerodynmic simulations
You hit every apex. I'd love to have your car setup :) All of them ha ha
@8:40 ACC is not moddable BUT GTR2 was highly moddable. Ive been racing in GTR2 from 2010 to 2015 online and thanks to the racing community Ive joined I had every car and track known to sim racers. disappointed that jimmy didnt do his research right on this one.
Good review, and i am one of those people who really enjoyed GTR2 so i really might pick this up.
But yes it might still need some tweaks.
And as a GT racing fanboy, this does tickle my jibblits.
Yes! I’m loving this game so far! Though I don’t think they should call the game “full release”. It’s close, but not there yet.
Grid autosport is on sale! As well as most codemasters racing titles !
I know you said you don't do reviews, Jimmy, but you really should consider doing more. You're better at them than the so called mainstream.
I would recommed it if you are doing league racing.
The ranking online is the "CP" ranking where you enter Competition servers but that still needs a lot of work to improve
Yes, just bought it today for 14 bucks. Will get the x box series x upgrade release in February with the purchase. Great deal.
I think its brilliant and worth it. The immersion and the sounds are epic! Racing is great. The intro is a bit boring but eh can get over that. They just need to sort the Anti Aliasing out. I have an RTX 2080 and at 4K ultra (Temopral AA set to epic)you can see the jaggies quite badly which really shouldn't happen at 4K Ultra.
The game has potential, but my journey so far: okay let's check it out in VR .. oh ... what .... that's terrible! Okay okay, maybe they just need some time to adjust it, let's make use of the tripple screen instead - oh no wait, it's not supported ... Despite the VR problems, I enjoyed it because of the good physics, awesome sounding GT3 cars and I have to say, I've never seen so much details on a GT3 in any other game/sim before. I hope they'll fix all the problems in a not too distant future.
I think there will coming DLC‘ there is a Blancpain Asia and NA Series and the GT4 Series, so there is more content to come
That means more tracks right? that would be awsome!
heretic_sic that would be cool
Here in 2021, I reckon it’s defo worth the money now :)
I bought ACC the first day of early access and I have really enjoyed it all the way to the full release. I do only race in VR as I find it more exiting and now that we have the full release I was really looking forward to a optimized VR experience. Also when navigating in the menu. But we all now how that turned out. A little disappointed regarding the hole VR experience and I’m crossing my fingers Kunos will come with an update in the very nearest future.
Everything you said in this video is fair and accurate in my opinion. Seems we have picked up the same 'issues' and 'loves,' especially with the online stuff. I love GT3's so I'm biased but I too feel it's still in early access in places and it really shouldn't be. You should do more reviews, very fair in my opinion.
Love the review. Everything you said is absolutely true. It's an apple not an orange, buy it for being an apple. I have it and have had zero issues, so we can attribute alot of issues to hardware and even system maintenance. I turn off the lights and put my gasoline socked rag under my nose and go to town. :)
100% agree with what you said. Mostly the multiplayer aspect. If we had a proper competitive multiplayer the career mode wouldn't be that important
You should review it now after the last ypdate even the physics were slightly done and to me its the best simr acing game out if your talking purely realistic and completely amazing with its physics im not kidding they put so much work into the way it feels and boy oh boy was it worth it
Actually they promised a rating system where you would have a ranking, and depending on who you race againts will affect your rating. defending a higher ranking players will boots your own ranking and vice versa, and race perfomance overall. they can say know they did not promised. I remember reading an official webpace with all those informative hexagons with al ranking system features
BUYER BEWARE! I've read a couple of reviews on Steam and the biggest complaint is that you can't save your progress of a race weekend halfway through. So if you start a weekend, you have to do all the practice sessions, qualifying and the race itself in one sitting.
ACC is an advert for Blancpain. Expect a larger multi cars and tracks release in the future from Kunos Simulazioni.
Man... The thing i was most looking forward was the SimRacingSystem-like safety rating, because i really like SRS but its a pain to use a third party site to go racing, i want to be able to do all i do in SRS in the game itself, i really hope they'll add that, they could've won people over with that honestly, because iracing is expensive.
I only use mouse and keyboard atm, but i cant change my keybinds. And thats a rip since i dont have the numbpad
The Lexus is my favourite too. What a great V8 Sound!
In Indonesia, the game price is only around Rp 180,000 (which is about 10 british pound)
just out of curiosity, whats the price on bread over there?
VR works perfect for me, no stutters and full 'epic' graphics as for the online, i won't really use it, i think it has one of the better A.I's i have raced against
@@Mansell5Senna8 i am on over 200%
I have 16gb ram and i have a rtx2070 and i7 9900k
@@Mansell5Senna8 im not sure, i know people have problems, i built mine for vr as i didnt want to turn graphics down on games for vr
@@Mansell5Senna8 as it stand i only have 4 games on my ssd and everything else is on my d drive
@@Mansell5Senna8 yeah i think so, it has ray tracing and as far as i can tell it only turns off on low graphics, ray tracing has a huge impact on frame rate, you can tweek settings on vr, the slider in my steam vr is on 100% i cant remember the name of the setting but when i load a game it boost up, i dont run with the smooth running option as that makes vr stutter, ill have to have a look at my settings, i cant remember the names of the tabs but i know vr pixle density i managed to get up to 200% to over write the 100 % in steam vr settings
Fix the multiplayer, and fix VR. Then i will buy it. Its an unpolished gem at the moment.
Birki gts I remember when games weren't expected to have vr support. It's crazy how much things have progressed. Still, I find it annoying how people behave about it, saying they won't buy a game just because no vr. It is strange that it was working before though, and now in the full release it's having issues.
@@jamesshives5679 How is it annoying? I only do sim racing (and drifting) in VR these days. 100% exclusively VR. My other option would be a 35" single screen.... there's absolutely no contest between sim racing in a HTC Vive Pro and sim racing on a single monitor. VR is better. I will not support racing titles that do not support VR. At this point, in my opinion, VR is such a benefit in sim racing that a racing title without VR is just as bad as a racing title that doesn't support FFB wheels. I don't think anyone would be annoyed by people avoiding a title that didn't allow them to use their wheels.
Though I will say I have not actually reinstalled the game to check it out, so the VR in AC:C may work fine in my case. Other people report VR works fine for them, so it seems to be a hit or miss kind of thing. It's been at least 3 months since I've touched AC:C, I bought into early access fully planning on just waiting for final release before really playing. I knew there was no VR when I bought into EA, but Kunos said it would be added, and I knew it worked fine in AC so there was no reason for me to distrust them. I am still confident the kinks will be ironed out, too.
The F1 20xx series games though for example, I won't touch them. I'd LOVE to, but I won't... they don't support VR and Codemasters have said they do not plan on supporting it. Until that changes I won't buy their stuff.
PandemonicTV I'm sorry but I don't think there is any comparison between a bonus peripheral and a necessary part of simulation. To me, if you're going to do actual sim racing, a wheel is basically a necessity. VR is not, and there are more people with wheels without vr than there are with vr. Even if you took that stand that ffb wheels aren't necessary either, I argue that vr is even less so. The problem I have with this is that people feel like you feel so strongly that if a game doesn't cater to your exact wants, it is not worth supporting. Plenty of good games are ruined or die off either by lack of support, or, by the developers trying so hard to please everyone that they don't nail any part of it. It really is all about your viewpoint, but to me, vr is not a necessity, and for you it is, so obviously this is where we fundamentally disagree. I think if a game is good enough, not having a (in my mind) superfluous feature, is not a reason to not buy it and enjoy it for what it is, which in this case, is a good racing sim. That being said I do understand the frustration, I understand that vr is a transformative experience and it is hard for people to go back to a monitor if they are exclusively vr (which I dare say is still a minority), I just question whether it is at a reasonable level or not, because I don't think one can say vr is as necessary as a wheel and pedals.
PandemonicTV And it is annoying because certain games, whenever any gameplay is uploaded of them, you always have those people in the comments saying "shame it has no vr" and "no vr no buy." So it's not just that I have a problem with the mentality, it's also just really annoying to see all the time. And listen, I'm not trying to criticize you as a person, I'm sure vr is great and you can be upset about the game not having it if you want to; you are of course not alone in that, and may have a valid point. I just don't think it is at the point yet where it should be expected in the way that it is.
Hey jimmer good luck in the 24hr lemans race
I already spent my Taiwanese dollars on it. But I have to say I love it although I am a gamepad plebs. I love the variety of the cars and all of them are fun to drive. But something I would like to change are the career mode and I can not change the gamepad button settings but it is a decent game and I like it.
Fair review and I agree 100%. I'm pretty disappointed, especially when it comes to multiplayer. 😒 Expected a somewhat finished product, but again - only in your dreams mate!
Great video! Will definitely take your thoughts and experiences with the game into consideration, as i'm looking to buy the game.
I bought the early access as soon as it was released back in august for 22eur or so. It was not so good back then, but the newly released 1.0 improves a lot especially the force feedback and the feeling of the cars, game also runs much better than previously. I think the biggest update was this 1.0. Its still not perfect but at least its enjoyable now.
*"I'm a nerd, I love that kind of shit."* 😂😂
Alot of full release games have a shed load of patches after release so i woukdnt get hung up about it .
not a good reason to go easy on them for it, they just had 8 months to release said shed load of patches and didn't so...