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IMO the driving is good but better than PC I don't think so. But that's my opinion, the weather effects in PC alone puts it ahead but in terms of drivability, PC is better concidwring it's been out longer, therefor out of date in comparison. I now AC has been out for years but that experience should have put it ahead of PC IMO but it hasn't. I agree with Mike, F1 has been the highlight purchase for me, still having oodles of fun with that.
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Can you turn off penalties in the career? That would open up potential shortcuts I'm sure.Agree, i regret i pre-ordered it, i can't get past intermediate series 2, because it's too hard on easy, so i have to wait for a AI tweek.
How do you cheat? Are you smashing into the cars in the first turn? I tried that, but it didn't feel right, so i have to wait for a AI tweek
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They did great with Dirt Rally, Reg. F1 though, well they get a crack at it every year. Same tracks with little more work needed pretty much. I use to love F1 games but haven't bought one for years as I find it pretty boring, it's all about the driving for me. Having said that I would love a well thought out career mode in AC. At least we have custom championships to look forward to though.
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I guess it depends on what degrees of rotation you use. I don't have a shifter, so I have to use paddles, and because of that I can't use 900dor, I have to use much lower, like 540, because it's easy to lose track of which paddle is which if you're spinning the wheel around too much. I'd prefer a sequential shifter, so I can use whatever dor I like, and not have to fumble around reaching for the paddles with my fingertips while I'm wrestling the wheel around lol. I'm also thinking about wiring a handbrake directly to one of the buttons on my wheel.
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How does the hot lap in special events work? The BMW Z4 GT3 hotlap have 147 something for gold, i got 155 something, but the lap is not saved, do i have to drive a set number of laps?
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Hahaha i have to laugh at myself, 1 min 47 sec is gold, 1 min 55 sec is not even bronze, i thought it was points, but the hotlap was about time...
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Hahaha i have to laugh at myself, 1 min 47 sec is gold, 1 min 55 sec is not even bronze, i thought it was points, but the hotlap was about time...
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It sucks, I can assign the clutch on shifter in the opinion menu, load the stage, count down and I dropped the clutch in first and car just sits there revving out in neutral. Pause and go to options and change to paddles it goes fine. Switch straight over to PC without calibrating anything and shifter and clutch work fine. Dirt said it fully supports the g29 so like wtf? Very disappointed.
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Coming back to AC, upon suggestion to test another cars and tracks, it came up the idea of checking real tracks lap times. So I did some research and got the qualifying lap times for this year’s edition of World Endurance Challenge at Silverstone GP Raceway. I tested there the Corvette C7.R and for my surprise I made 2:18 lap time, same that the C.7R Corvette that made into the grid. After that I checked the lap times racers post on RSR Radiator Champs. Conclusion: God those guys are fast !!!!!
Obviously I’m no world class driver but I’m not that bad either. So what’s a matter with the Intermediate races I can’t win on the humiliating super easy mode ? I checked lap times and find out most of those incredible lap times shown in RSR were made with high count of invalid laps. That means that in a career race this guys would be penalized. So how come that fast Ferrari in the intermediate career Monza race with the Mercedes Benz SLC AMG can clock 2:09 lap after lap when no one is doing that with the SLC AMG without running invalid laps ?
Seems like some top notch F1 driver is racing in a lower category so to help raise money for charity, if that’s the case it’s ok for me but I should be aware of that so I could tell my friends I raced against Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen.
I guess Kuno’s has made their console versions AI that hard to make an statement to console players “We are the real thing and you don’t belong here”.
I suggest Kunos gather some of this F1 drivers to race against their AI in Alien mode so to have a second opinion from the real guys. Otherwise all they’ll got is disappointed customers going back to PCars and, in the future, GT Sports because most of the game we paid for is useless.
Obviously I’m no world class driver but I’m not that bad either. So what’s a matter with the Intermediate races I can’t win on the humiliating super easy mode ? I checked lap times and find out most of those incredible lap times shown in RSR were made with high count of invalid laps. That means that in a career race this guys would be penalized. So how come that fast Ferrari in the intermediate career Monza race with the Mercedes Benz SLC AMG can clock 2:09 lap after lap when no one is doing that with the SLC AMG without running invalid laps ?
Seems like some top notch F1 driver is racing in a lower category so to help raise money for charity, if that’s the case it’s ok for me but I should be aware of that so I could tell my friends I raced against Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen.
I guess Kuno’s has made their console versions AI that hard to make an statement to console players “We are the real thing and you don’t belong here”.
I suggest Kunos gather some of this F1 drivers to race against their AI in Alien mode so to have a second opinion from the real guys. Otherwise all they’ll got is disappointed customers going back to PCars and, in the future, GT Sports because most of the game we paid for is useless.
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I have no intention of doing the career. I gave it a go, but it's painfully boring. It feels like they got a couple of weeks away from going gold on console and someone said "Hey guys, do you reckon console players will expect some kind of single player career mode?", and they were all like "****, quickly! let's just chuck something in there!". I've played mid-90's racing games with far better career modes.
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Really? Wow lol. I stand corrected. It just feels so rushed that I assumed they must have thrown it into the console version because they thought they needed something. It honestly feels like an early access game in career mode.
The career menu has extremely low-res images for each "challenge", which contrast massively with the hi-res background and menu. Then, when you finish the race, after crossing the line, you're abruptly teleported to the pits, where you have to wait for the game to tell you you've achieved "tier 3", or whatever, and then you're just sitting there thinking "er... so what now?", until you realise you have to physically quit the session to finish it lol. But, if you quit the session when it teleports you to the pits after you win, it doesn't count your win. You have to sit there like a goon and wait until the game tells you you've achieved tier 3, which I think it does after second place finishes. I won a race by 40 seconds, and had to sit there for that long until I could finish the thing.
Then there's the huge amount of repetition in the career. Admittedly, I haven't gotten very far in the career, but so far for me it's been all time trials and chase the rabbit races. Presumably at some point they have some drift trials too, but with the way it's set out, I can't see there being championships or anything like that.
I would strongly disagree with that statement (the first part that is). I get a lot more enjoyment from doing free practice than I do in the career. I get no sense of achievement at all from the career, and the brain dead AI and the way the game forces you to start last and "chase the rabbit" just makes it an enormous grind for nothing. I hated the grindy nature of GT6, but at least you got something for grinding in that game. AC's career is completely redundant, as it's a horribly boring grind for no reward.
I agree about the F1 2016 career though. That's why I play F1 for the career mode, and play AC for the realistic driving model. Driving around hot lapping alone with a cool car on a realistic track enjoying the realistic driving feel is what makes AC great, and where it really shines. Races against the AI, the career mode, and online are where it fails to match even mediocre console racing games. Thankfully I've got a lot of racing games, so where AC fails, I have different games that deliver.
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I tried doing a hotlap event in the Lotus T125 at Mugello but couldn't get gold with the standard setup, I tried to change it but the numbers are all fudged, the most hilarious 'feature' is the camber on the right rear wheel, unlike all of the others it can only be made a positive number which increases in increments of 1 not 0.1. That means the only setup change you can make is to make the car crab down the straights.
I've also just found out that to complete career mode you need to do the same 7 race GT3 championship 6 times (maybe 8, I didn't look at the GT2 one), and they are not short races. 3 are 7x8 lap races, the other 3 are 7x30 laps races. They haven't even changed the [pixelated] thumbnail pictures for each one.
Back on special events I tried a drifting challenge, however that appears to be driving a BMW at 10mph down a straight weaving wildly from side to side rather than actually drifting.
I've also just found out that to complete career mode you need to do the same 7 race GT3 championship 6 times (maybe 8, I didn't look at the GT2 one), and they are not short races. 3 are 7x8 lap races, the other 3 are 7x30 laps races. They haven't even changed the [pixelated] thumbnail pictures for each one.
Back on special events I tried a drifting challenge, however that appears to be driving a BMW at 10mph down a straight weaving wildly from side to side rather than actually drifting.
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For those of you playing with a controller on PS4, what difficulty do you have it set on in Career mode? I've golded everything in the first novice series. I'm on the second series now. I golded the Z4 time trial. I can't seem to beat the AI in the Z4 race and BMW 1M race. I have it set on medium difficulty. I'm not great, so I was just wondering how other people are playing.
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hey.. I spent part of a recent Saturday trying to get the right settings on first novice series. I really suck at drifting and yet I kill it on driveclub, and GT6. what are the settings that you used to get gold in the first novice series ? and yes I use a controller on a ps4.. any info would be awesome.
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Really? Wow lol. I stand corrected. It just feels so rushed that I assumed they must have thrown it into the console version because they thought they needed something. It honestly feels like an early access game in career mode.
The career menu has extremely low-res images for each "challenge", which contrast massively with the hi-res background and menu. Then, when you finish the race, after crossing the line, you're abruptly teleported to the pits, where you have to wait for the game to tell you you've achieved "tier 3", or whatever, and then you're just sitting there thinking "er... so what now?", until you realise you have to physically quit the session to finish it lol. But, if you quit the session when it teleports you to the pits after you win, it doesn't count your win. You have to sit there like a goon and wait until the game tells you you've achieved tier 3, which I think it does after second place finishes. I won a race by 40 seconds, and had to sit there for that long until I could finish the thing.
Then there's the huge amount of repetition in the career. Admittedly, I haven't gotten very far in the career, but so far for me it's been all time trials and chase the rabbit races. Presumably at some point they have some drift trials too, but with the way it's set out, I can't see there being championships or anything like that.
I would strongly disagree with that statement (the first part that is). I get a lot more enjoyment from doing free practice than I do in the career. I get no sense of achievement at all from the career, and the brain dead AI and the way the game forces you to start last and "chase the rabbit" just makes it an enormous grind for nothing. I hated the grindy nature of GT6, but at least you got something for grinding in that game. AC's career is completely redundant, as it's a horribly boring grind for no reward.
I agree about the F1 2016 career though. That's why I play F1 for the career mode, and play AC for the realistic driving model. Driving around hot lapping alone with a cool car on a realistic track enjoying the realistic driving feel is what makes AC great, and where it really shines. Races against the AI, the career mode, and online are where it fails to match even mediocre console racing games. Thankfully I've got a lot of racing games, so where AC fails, I have different games that deliver.
Yeah I see what you mean and I do get enjoyment of AC but I feel like they were on the edge of greatness and they just feel short. Also I know it's only a small team who produced AC but I can't just do random laps, if I do that, I'd rather do it in f1 to tweak setups that would benifit me. I feel with AC you can be quick even with the stock setup but on f1 when you get to the hardest difficulty settings, setups are a must. I so wished they made an f1 game with like a twenty year career or championships from 20+ years ago. Be awesom to race as senna or Prost back in the day with proper licences cars and tracks. One that comes to mind that I feel would be wicked for a remake and that's f1 1997.
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There appears to be some confusion here about career mode. I have now completed all the events and got the trophies for them.
I will start off by saying that this career is the most boring, most repetitious and most unsatisfying of any game I have ever played!
You are sort of right here. They are GT2/3 races but in different cars. There are both sprint and endurance races some up to 45 laps depending on circuit. If you win each event you only need to do 6 out of 7 races to score you 60 points for the championship win.
Just wait until you lap the field, you then have to wait for nearly an entire lap (at the AI's lap time) to complete. I think the max time I waited was about 2min 45 secs :-(
Yes I do agree with your sentiments here. Just two things, there is no drifting in career mode and there are championships later on and yes you can practice, qualify and race so you get the opportunity to start on pole. BTW that is a PS4 trophy to win as well.
Tip: Because I used the same car from the sprint races I already had the set-up so I skipped practice and qualifying and elected to start rear of field anyway. You do have over an hour for the event and with fuel and tyre wear off the AI had to pit and I didn't ;-)
Have a look here https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/ps4-setups-for-gold-achievements-special-events.349699/
Onepueblo has some very good tips on how to drift in this game. They helped me and I have Gold in all drift events. The hardest is the Audi Quatro event but I solved that with wheel settings as you will see.
My favourite one was the Ferrari 458 at Silverstone, what a blast with those big fast sweepers :-)
If anyone has any specific questions about career I am more than happy to help.
I will start off by saying that this career is the most boring, most repetitious and most unsatisfying of any game I have ever played!
You are sort of right here. They are GT2/3 races but in different cars. There are both sprint and endurance races some up to 45 laps depending on circuit. If you win each event you only need to do 6 out of 7 races to score you 60 points for the championship win.
Just wait until you lap the field, you then have to wait for nearly an entire lap (at the AI's lap time) to complete. I think the max time I waited was about 2min 45 secs :-(
Yes I do agree with your sentiments here. Just two things, there is no drifting in career mode and there are championships later on and yes you can practice, qualify and race so you get the opportunity to start on pole. BTW that is a PS4 trophy to win as well.
Tip: Because I used the same car from the sprint races I already had the set-up so I skipped practice and qualifying and elected to start rear of field anyway. You do have over an hour for the event and with fuel and tyre wear off the AI had to pit and I didn't ;-)
Have a look here https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/ps4-setups-for-gold-achievements-special-events.349699/
Onepueblo has some very good tips on how to drift in this game. They helped me and I have Gold in all drift events. The hardest is the Audi Quatro event but I solved that with wheel settings as you will see.
My favourite one was the Ferrari 458 at Silverstone, what a blast with those big fast sweepers :-)
If anyone has any specific questions about career I am more than happy to help.
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Bloody hell, that's ridiculous lol.
Fair enough mate I stand corrected on the championships, though I'm surprised drifting isn't in there. I would've thought that would be an easy thing to add for more variety. I doubt I'll be doing the career, it just seems like I'd be wasting time I could be spending actually enjoying the good parts of the game, or other games for that matter lol.
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Really? Wow lol. I stand corrected. It just feels so rushed that I assumed they must have thrown it into the console version because they thought they needed something. It honestly feels like an early access game in career mode.
The career menu has extremely low-res images for each "challenge", which contrast massively with the hi-res background and menu. Then, when you finish the race, after crossing the line, you're abruptly teleported to the pits, where you have to wait for the game to tell you you've achieved "tier 3", or whatever, and then you're just sitting there thinking "er... so what now?", until you realise you have to physically quit the session to finish it lol. But, if you quit the session when it teleports you to the pits after you win, it doesn't count your win. You have to sit there like a goon and wait until the game tells you you've achieved tier 3, which I think it does after second place finishes. I won a race by 40 seconds, and had to sit there for that long until I could finish the thing.
Then there's the huge amount of repetition in the career. Admittedly, I haven't gotten very far in the career, but so far for me it's been all time trials and chase the rabbit races. Presumably at some point they have some drift trials too, but with the way it's set out, I can't see there being championships or anything like that.
I would strongly disagree with that statement (the first part that is). I get a lot more enjoyment from doing free practice than I do in the career. I get no sense of achievement at all from the career, and the brain dead AI and the way the game forces you to start last and "chase the rabbit" just makes it an enormous grind for nothing. I hated the grindy nature of GT6, but at least you got something for grinding in that game. AC's career is completely redundant, as it's a horribly boring grind for no reward.
I agree about the F1 2016 career though. That's why I play F1 for the career mode, and play AC for the realistic driving model. Driving around hot lapping alone with a cool car on a realistic track enjoying the realistic driving feel is what makes AC great, and where it really shines. Races against the AI, the career mode, and online are where it fails to match even mediocre console racing games. Thankfully I've got a lot of racing games, so where AC fails, I have different games that deliver.
Yes, there are championships with free practice, classification session and race, like with the Tatuus formula Abarth in the advanced series of career mode.
So I've you keep playing the career mode is getting better (yup, it's quite boring at beginning)
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TBH if I want to play a good racing career I can chuck on F1 2016. It's got brilliant AI, and everything you would want in an F1 career mode, and if I wanted to play a racing career mode in something other than F1 cars I'd put on Pcars. AC is now my go to sim for the raw feel of a cool car around the handful of tracks it has. I can't see Kunos making the career mode a tenth of what F1 2016 or Pcars has to offer. They should just focus on improving the core game and adding content IMO. The nickname "Chris Harris Hotlap Simulator" is perfect for AC, because it's an amazing hotlap simulator, and nothing else.
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I'm with you at 100% ,i like more the special events (those that don't crashes the game) than the career mode, but when you're playing it's getting better.
Sure that the career mode from F1 2016 is good (but after season 3 it's getting bored also) , The AI from F1 2016 is for me on the same level of Assetto Corsa honestly (good but don't brilliant)
For me,sincerely on PS4 the one of the best career mode is the one of project C.A.R.S.. with a real good AI,a bit to agresive and faulty, but AI is AI.. in none game it's perfect and behaves like real people.
The best for me is the one of Dirt Rally, you ern money, and have to invest it in engineers and buy cars while in the rest of the game You can use the all the cars cause they are unlocked..
But for me,still today, one of the best career modes I've played was back in PS2 with GT4..loved that career mode.
And the career mode from toca race driver 2 was also great fun!
And yes,for the rest Assetto is the perfect hotlaping simulator, but even that isn't on par with the PC version, cause you don't have your own leadeboard or you can't even select tarmac type and initial grip levels...
See how it works on PC:
(sorry, the video from the guy is in Spanish, but i realy want to have the missing features, and even the IU,cause i like it more than the new one that came with the console versions)
They sure have lot to work to do on the console versions
