Assetto Corsa Rally

Excellent graphics. Great sounds. Few tracks, few cars. But But most importantly, on the Moza R12, I couldn't get the feedback to allow me to feel the sliding on dirt. It feels 100% like ice, wheel just empty and I have to drive with my eyes, not my hands. I feel the slide better behind the wheel of the GT3-4 on asphalt in AC-EVO from the same developer than here. And there, slide is something I don't want, but rally racing is all about sliding around without grip. There's also a really weird feeling when braking. The car feels like it's braking on rails in a straight line. Perhaps it's a consequence of the general lack of information about the car's traction. Overall, it's just not fun to play at the moment.

I just don't think it's even as good as Dirt Rally 2.0. The shiny graphics are fine, they aren't fantastic though. Dirt at 144 fps looks better than this at 80. I think it has to do with art direction. Particle effects and the excessive, soft ambient occlusion especially are really bad looking . The track and terrain looks like something man-made, not like how ground looks like in real life. And the cars... just lack visceral character, they sound meh and feel heavy and disconnected. Even the crowd is as uncanny as Dirt's was. There hasn't been any real innovation in this space in that much time. If you want the shiny coat of paint, try Assetto Corsa. If you value anything else, there are better, complete offerings

nice graphics and new rally tracks but currently playing on controller is near impossible, you can not micro control any car at all i tried tune settings and use some settings from internet but they have near zero effect third person camera max height is limited too much and when car turns even on one cm camera also turns which seriously distracts vision, especially on tracks with a lot of u-turns also you can not feel speed between 30 and 120 km/h so you have to always watch on numbers i drive cars many years and hardly believe that modern race cars have so bad handling like in this game rain conditions are fully broken developers of this game should play dirt rally 1 and 2 just understand how to manage with feel of speed, third person camera and controller handling

the physics arent good so it feels like your just gliding on the ground most of the time instead of actually driving on it, FFB is mediocre, and the sense of speed is really bad. only good thing i can say about it is the graphics and settings.

[h1][i][b]Assetto Corsa Rally Supernova Games Studios, 2025[/b][/i][/h1] [i]I have tried and tried and tried to get the gamepad settings in third person view to feel just as comfortable as they feel in Dirt Rally. I had run tests on a mixture of very low steering linearity values, 30 interpolation speed (I timed how long it took for the steering wheel to reach a specific angle while at the same speed between games and 30 was the closest match), and above 100 steering reduction at speed values. The game only started to feel right when I dropped the interpolation speed to 20 and turned everything else up as high as they could go while I was losing my sanity and venting frustration while writing this review. Honestly 20 is a bit too low and of course it being an Unreal Engine game the sliders in the controls menu go up by 10 a tick instead of a reasonable number like 1. I don't even think steering linearity does anything on controller. My car still steers the same at either 0.5 or 2.0. It just goes to show how garbage a game's controls can be if a good base line doesn't exist and demonstrates how it negatively affects your more casual playerbase. I've spent 11 hours trying to nail a nice feeling controller steering setup and I couldn't tell you anything on if the gameplay is good or not. Trying to buy the car I wanted to drive in Dirt Rally 1 ate away at my soul and that only took 5 hours compared to the trough I've had to crawl through for this game. I've seen tons and tons of people play this on a wheel setup, and it looked like such a fun time. I however was on a very thin line between micro zig zagging uncontrollably at under 100kms and not being able to steer over 100kms while trying to get the controls feeling how I wanted them. Maybe I could get the car feeling good for 1s and 2s, but anything faster than that meant I had to go around the corners at 50% - 60% of the speed I wanted to just to get around it. If I turned the steering reduction at speed value up, then the 1s and 2s need the teeniest tiniest amount of movement to get around. I originally thought the game's performance was pretty miserable until I played Bodycam. Now I think it's actually quite nice that I can get an Unreal Engine 5 game to run at 125 frames even if it means taking a significant render resolution drop. Doesn't mean I support using such a performance heavy engine, but it's just the way the future's set to go. If you're brand new to rally games and want to try the genre out, download Colin McRae Rally 3 from MyAbandonware. If you really want to get into a decent rally game that really rewards self improvement and poses much more of a challenge then Colin McRae Rally 3 does, play Dirt Rally 2.0 with all of the DLC. Once Dirt Rally 2.0 starts to click, it gets really really good. Even if I didn't have a miserable time getting the controls set up, I still wouldn't recommend this game to [u]newcomers[/u]. Assetto Corsa Rally is much more punishing than Dirt Rally 2.0 is, and doesn't make for a great beginner game. If I'm in the middle positions of the hardest championship in Dirt Rally 2.0, then I'm in the wood championship in this game. Now that I can actually play the game now my thoughts on the game might be different once I get into it, but the arcadey underlying foundations that Dirt Rally 2.0 has is really hard to argue against for [u]newcomers[/u] wanting to play a rally game. Maybe the game is phenomenal with a steering wheel, but I don't have one.[/i]

Usually get 2 stages in and had enough. Not great for average players. Still way prefer Dirt Rally 2, can be on it for hours.

play dirt 2 thank me later