Assetto Corsa News

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Dear followers,

every year 25th April is celebrated as the Liberation Day in Italy. This day marks the end of fascist regime after the end of the Second World War in 1945, and the day commemorates the people who laid down their lives fighting the fascism.
25th April is a public holiday in Italy. There are robust celebrations around the country to commemorate this day. Large processions are taken out in major parts of the country, and a general sense of celebration and bonhomie is prevalent throughout Italy on this day.

The next update of Assetto Corsa Early Access will include the multiplayer mode and was previously scheduled for tomorrow's release; our work in the last two months has been strongly focused to complete and deliver this feature properly. We have also made investments to set several free public servers for our users and a proper lobby for servers created by, users, leagues, simracing websites and so on. However, due to the 25th April celebration, we might have some issues to get the best possible support from our italian based server provider, right at launch day.

Multiplayer is one of the most awaited features for a lot of simracing enthusiasts, but in order to properly test in public the multiplayer mode, we need to get the best technical support possible; for this reason, and also in order to improve multiplayer functionalities and to develop some additional features, tomorrow's release has been shifted to Friday 2nd, May. This delay will allow us to release the multiplayer in a working day, getting fast and proper support by our provider, if needed. We are pretty sure you understand that we are working at our best to provide the best gaming experience we can. Thank you for your kind support and attention.

Cari followers,

il prossimo update della beta di Assetto Corsa che includerà il supporto multiplayer era inizialmente previsto per il rilascio di domani: negli ultimi mesi abbiamo concentrato le nostre attività per migliorare e completare le funzionalità multigiocatore, e abbiamo investito per provvedere gratuitamente diversi server di gioco ufficiali che saranno affiancati da quelli creati da giocatori, leghe, portali di simracing, e così via.

Tuttavia, domani 25 Aprile si celebra come ogni anno la Festa della Liberazione, e il rilascio di un update che coinvolge non solo le nostre attività, ma anche quelle di fornitori esterni durante una festività nazionale, potrebbe creare difficoltà nel fornire adeguato supporto e risolvere tempestivamente eventuali problemi e bug risultanti da un testing di massa, per di più particolarmente atteso.

Il multiplayer è una delle feature più amate da molti appassionati di guida virtuale: per testarlo e supportarlo adeguatamente, riteniamo indispensabile operare nelle migliori condizioni possibili, e dopo aver valutato le opzioni disponibili, abbiamo deciso di spostare la release attesa per domani, che è totalmente focalizzata sul multiplayer, alla prossima settimana. Questo ci darà l'opportunità di perfezionare diverse funzionalità secondarie e di lanciare il multiplayer in un giorno lavorativo, potendo approfittare del miglior supporto tecnico dei nostri provider. Siamo certi che comprendete che stiamo lavorando al nostro meglio per fornirvi la migliore esperienza di gioco di cui siamo capaci. Grazie per il vostro incredibile supporto.

Assetto Corsa Early Access - Build 0.9 available now!

First of all, thank you for your patience and your kind support about the delay occured with the last release of Assetto Corsa 0.9.
The unexpected issue (a random black screen occured when playing single-player races) that caused the delay of the release on May 2nd, has been finally recognized and fixed.
Meanwhile, the guys involved with the multiplayer mode took advantage of this delay to improve the netcode and the communication with the servers, focusing on the core networking systems and stripping it from most of its advanced features.

Multiplayer mode is such a feature that needs massive tests that can't be brought to completion only by a private betatesting team. Now that the basic functions have been completed and are available for public testing, we are confident that our devteam will be able to monitor the online activities with the aim to fix unforeseen bugs and improve the online experience, as well adding all the big and small features that will make AC multiplayer a great online experience. Starting from the basics and improving step by step is part of the Early Access program.

For your consideration, please note that the multiplayer feature that will be released is still in ALPHA phase: using the support forum to report any issue you might encounter will help our devteam to improve the netcode and its related features.

Here's following the list of features and known issues:

Working Features:
- Booking system
- Pre-booked clients from server admins
- Password protected server for booking
- Password saving for different servers
- Multi class races
- Race weekend (practice,qualifying,race) with configurable duration and number of laps
- Select penalty system or not.
- Track cycling
- Loop mode
- Maximum client limit, determined by circuit pit boxes
- Clients may re-join at any session if booked.
- Dedicated server available.
- 10 public official servers

Known Issues - Please check and report unknown issues at our official support forums www.assettocorsa.net/forum
- Official server are set to 15 clients and we will gradually increase the clients number with testing. Dedicated server is not limited.
- Wheels remain always connected on the ground, even if cars flies, jumps of flips
- Steering wheels angles might be exaggerated, or inverted
- Extended characters in player names, are not supported yet
- Graphical active aero animations do not work on multiplayer clients yet
- Opponents skidmarks are not visible yet
- Opponents windshield are not visible in player’s mirrors yet
- Opponents suspension movements are vertical, wheels might compenetrate cars body on some occasions
- "Multiplayer options” option from the menu does not work yet (containing voting for skip session, restart servers, kick users, chats etc)
- Switching between sessions dirt on the car doesn’t disappear
- race session ends some seconds after the leader finishes the race

Spero riescano a ottimizzare il frame-rate sui sistemi meno performanti ... non sono neanche riuscito a far partire una gara con 12 piloti ...

Update 0.10 now live!
here's the changelog :

0.10
- SERVER UPDATED : using a new protocol, please update your servers
- Chat anti-flood
- Anti-cheating system implemented
- Kick user, Restart session, Skip session voting system implemented
- Chat python functions exposed
- Multiplayer Collisions improvements
- Some CPU performance improvements
- UI improvements
- Race control panel in pits menu
- AI Fixes
- Added "display recently joined servers" filter to server list
- Default launcher theme: extra sanitization for URI-unfriendly characters in content folder paths