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I was a long time GT5/6 player, disappointed with GTS (Sport Mode seems to have scavenged much of the casual clean player base that had open lobbies in GT6), disappointed with PC2 (you either join an organized time specific club or league, or you face the kiddie hell of the public online lobbies that are little better than Forza's anarchy), and am considering getting the Ultimate Edition for PS4.
My job and lifestyle seldom allows a consistent time to race online, but GT6 offered a pretty large casual non-League selection of 'Clean or Kick' type rooms at almost any time of day or night. GT6 didn't 'hide' League rooms from the public lobby forum, PC2 does. So, when in PC2's open online lobby selection room, there are barely 60-100 PS4 players showing up visibly online at any one time, in a bare handful of rooms with more than 4-5 players in them. Obviously, this is hugely disappointing. And the level of skill and cleanliness in them is abysmal at best. I've seen cleaner driving in Forza!
I'd like to know, does AC have a more robust casual clean racer community? Can lobby hosts in AC name their rooms? The PS4 version of PC2 doesn't allow this, which makes finding the few rooms that DO want to run 'clean or kick' basically impossible (the PC version of PC2 does allow lobby names ).
I used to enjoy GT6 enormously despite the arcade nature, mostly because the 'clean or kick' community took the rules seriously, and recognized (unlike the GTS Sport Mode players) that no game will EVER be able to automatically penalize dirty driving correctly, so we did it ourselves, stewarded ourselves, penalized ourselves, acted as witnesses for racing incidents, etc., and ended up with some of the cleanest racing I have yet to be involved with that didn't involve an organized League.
Is there anything like this in AC?
My job and lifestyle seldom allows a consistent time to race online, but GT6 offered a pretty large casual non-League selection of 'Clean or Kick' type rooms at almost any time of day or night. GT6 didn't 'hide' League rooms from the public lobby forum, PC2 does. So, when in PC2's open online lobby selection room, there are barely 60-100 PS4 players showing up visibly online at any one time, in a bare handful of rooms with more than 4-5 players in them. Obviously, this is hugely disappointing. And the level of skill and cleanliness in them is abysmal at best. I've seen cleaner driving in Forza!
I'd like to know, does AC have a more robust casual clean racer community? Can lobby hosts in AC name their rooms? The PS4 version of PC2 doesn't allow this, which makes finding the few rooms that DO want to run 'clean or kick' basically impossible (the PC version of PC2 does allow lobby names ).
I used to enjoy GT6 enormously despite the arcade nature, mostly because the 'clean or kick' community took the rules seriously, and recognized (unlike the GTS Sport Mode players) that no game will EVER be able to automatically penalize dirty driving correctly, so we did it ourselves, stewarded ourselves, penalized ourselves, acted as witnesses for racing incidents, etc., and ended up with some of the cleanest racing I have yet to be involved with that didn't involve an organized League.
Is there anything like this in AC?