I've recently bought ACC and just started playing. Now I'm considering purchase of some DLCs, but honestly I've got huge and growing doubts about ACC single player playability for such player like me and also about sim-racing games as a product for someone who just likes to drive.
Let's start with clarifying one thing - I'm not a good driver. The best I can achieve is a pace that let me compete with AI on level 6 out of 8 in F1 2016 or with computer opponents set to 65-70% in in first Project CARS. In a game as unpopular as the last one mentioned, on some specific tracks in combination with specific cars, I'm able to rank 30-50 in online hotlap, but on another tracks and using different cars I'm much, MUCH slower.
Of course I'm aware that sim-racing means training and even in F1 games I've been starting from lower level, I also remember many tracks that seemed impossible to learn for me and eventually I understood them better, but I clearly can see where the max of my capabilities lays. And the problem is that my "achievements" mean nothing compared to the lap times of the best online players... and I've got an impression that ACC - as many other "true simulators" - focuses mainly on such results and such people.
I've run only one race against PC players with 5 min. quali on Catalunya circuit, and even though in quali I was able to achieve first place and lead the race with AI set to 85, when I started from 10 place I was hardly able to get 2-3 positions.
In Project CARS I was able to make 1:49:5xx in GT3 car (hotlap), but here I'm only able to achieve 1:52:xxx, sometimes high 1:51:xxx As you can se, it's a disaster considering sim-racing standards.
In currently active monthly hotlap event I'm ranked somewhere around 20000 out of 31000.
Now I wonder if this is a game for me. How can I compare ACC AI set to 85-87(?) with percentage values between 0 nad 100 from other games? Will I be able to find some sweet spot adequate to my "skill" )regardless how funny that word sounds)?
I'm not interested in online racing an in online competition.
I've noticed that, at least considering Catalunya GP, best hotlap times are similar in CARS and ACC. And that first game still remains entertaining for me. Perhaps it's even a bit more entertaining... due to the less perfect AI or better tweaked FF (didn't have much time to set in exclusively for ACC)? It could suggest that as long as I can drive a car in one or another game it can be good game for me. But I still have impression that ACC is "sim-centric" - not only because how (un)convincing the AI is, but first of all because the whole game is focused on the fastest players on the Earth.
Am I right?
How to play and how to enjoy such sims with less skill?
I love the graphics, the sounds, car feeling is generally entertaining too, but... should I rather focus on CARS 2 or AMS2 (I've already have both, I just have huge pile of shame)?
Let's start with clarifying one thing - I'm not a good driver. The best I can achieve is a pace that let me compete with AI on level 6 out of 8 in F1 2016 or with computer opponents set to 65-70% in in first Project CARS. In a game as unpopular as the last one mentioned, on some specific tracks in combination with specific cars, I'm able to rank 30-50 in online hotlap, but on another tracks and using different cars I'm much, MUCH slower.
Of course I'm aware that sim-racing means training and even in F1 games I've been starting from lower level, I also remember many tracks that seemed impossible to learn for me and eventually I understood them better, but I clearly can see where the max of my capabilities lays. And the problem is that my "achievements" mean nothing compared to the lap times of the best online players... and I've got an impression that ACC - as many other "true simulators" - focuses mainly on such results and such people.
I've run only one race against PC players with 5 min. quali on Catalunya circuit, and even though in quali I was able to achieve first place and lead the race with AI set to 85, when I started from 10 place I was hardly able to get 2-3 positions.
In Project CARS I was able to make 1:49:5xx in GT3 car (hotlap), but here I'm only able to achieve 1:52:xxx, sometimes high 1:51:xxx As you can se, it's a disaster considering sim-racing standards.
In currently active monthly hotlap event I'm ranked somewhere around 20000 out of 31000.
Now I wonder if this is a game for me. How can I compare ACC AI set to 85-87(?) with percentage values between 0 nad 100 from other games? Will I be able to find some sweet spot adequate to my "skill" )regardless how funny that word sounds)?
I'm not interested in online racing an in online competition.
I've noticed that, at least considering Catalunya GP, best hotlap times are similar in CARS and ACC. And that first game still remains entertaining for me. Perhaps it's even a bit more entertaining... due to the less perfect AI or better tweaked FF (didn't have much time to set in exclusively for ACC)? It could suggest that as long as I can drive a car in one or another game it can be good game for me. But I still have impression that ACC is "sim-centric" - not only because how (un)convincing the AI is, but first of all because the whole game is focused on the fastest players on the Earth.
Am I right?
How to play and how to enjoy such sims with less skill?
I love the graphics, the sounds, car feeling is generally entertaining too, but... should I rather focus on CARS 2 or AMS2 (I've already have both, I just have huge pile of shame)?
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