Assetto Corsa Rally Adds Snow, Ice and Alpine A110 in First Early Access Update

The first Early Access update for Assetto Corsa Rally is now live, bringing winter themed content along with plenty of fixes and performance improvements.

The update introduces snowy and icy surfaces through a new scenario set in Livigno in the Italian Alps. Players can take on the laser scanned Ghiacciodromo Livigno Ice Circuit, a real world ice driving facility located just outside the alpine resort town. Known for its frozen conditions and high altitude setting, the circuit is used for ice driving courses, events and vehicle testing by major manufacturers including Ferrari, Porsche and BMW.

For the first time in the series, players can experience ultra low grip driving on glazed ice with both main and reverse layouts available. These conditions place a heavy focus on car control and vehicle dynamics, pushing players to adapt their driving style and fully engage with the physics engine.

The update also adds a new rally car to the initial lineup with the 1973 Alpine A110. Widely regarded as one of the most iconic rally cars ever built, the A110 became famous for its lightweight design, rear engine layout and sharp handling on tight stages. Its place in history was sealed in 1973 when it claimed the first World Rally Championship for manufacturers.

There’s plenty more included in patch 0.2, with a wide range of additional updates detailed in the patch notes below. Assetto Corsa Rally is available now on Steam in Early Access and is currently on sale for $23.99.

NEW CONTENT

• Added Alpine A110 Group 4 1973
• Added “Ghiacciodromo Livigno” Ice Circuit
• Added 2 new ACR Events groups, and a total of 25 new ACR Events
• Added snow physics and snow studded tyres

STAGES AND CIRCUITS

• Added Ghiacciodromo Livigno Ice Circuit
• Added missing trees to backdrop areas throughout Saverne
• Improved collisions on some log piles in Saverne and Wales
• Fixed “that” traffic sign pole in the town of Saverne

CARS

• Added Alpine A110 Group 4 1973
• Added studded tires
• Fixed issues related to wheel offsets
• Fixed missing textures on some rims
• Mitigated pixelated glows on car lights
• Added support for all country flags on air intakes
• Fixed suspension issues
• Fixed tire flex direction

INPUT

• Improved overall steering wheels support. We will keep improving the codebase until all steering wheel and sim-racing peripherals are fully supported and working
• Added Hat Switch (e.g. directional buttons) support for steering wheels
• Added double gear up/down inputs
• Added possibility to bind Neutral gear on steering wheels
• Added wipers input

PHYSICS

• Fixed FFB inconsistency with some cars
• Improved FFB under braking
• Fixed some FFB effects that were pushing the steering wheel on the wrong side
• Improved throttle to make it more linear with gas pedal
• Improved brake power for some discs and calipers
• Improved Gravel and Tarmac physics and tyre models based on new data that we acquired. Rally drivers validated the new handling. The tyre model will keep evolving during the Early Access based on new field research, data and feedback from players and rally drivers.
• Introduced Snow physics and Snow studded tires
• Improved the behavior of tyre model at extreme drift angles
• Retuned some differentials and some setup presets

AUDIO

• Added engine/exhaust sounds for Alpine A110 Group 4 1973
• Added first implementation of Snow tyres surface audio
• Livigno Ice Circuit environmental audio setup
• Improved responsiveness of asphalt skid audio
• Improved vehicle scraping responsiveness
• Removed slowdown UI sounds in replay.
• Fixed issue with wall reverb being louder in cabin than external views.
• Moved rear engine emitters further forwards in surround mix.
• Many small audio mix tweaks across the game.

GAMEPLAY AND UI

• Added 2 new ACR Events groups and a total of 25 new ACR Events
• Fixed frequent crash after exiting the leaderboards page
• Fixes for Chinese language
• Increased ranges for camera customization settings
• Reduced allocated memory in race
• Added AI tires management to make AI times more accurate depending on race conditions
• Fixed start sequence cheat found by users
• Improved helmet camera movements
• Fix French Codriver issue with some calls having Left and Right inverted
• Fix Multiple text errors and typo
• Improved description for Differentials setup and Gear sets
• Fix UI not hidden correctly during replay and main menu
• Fixed Lithuanian Flag
• Improved time of day for each location to better reflect the period of the year
• New opening splash screen
• Fixed some road signs on Wales Hafren North and Saverne not reacting to physics
• Pace notes revision to Wales Hafren North and Saverne Reverse stages.
• Added missing dressing to some junctions of Wales Hafren North
• Fixed race start marshals not working properly on Hafren North Reverse Cut 1
• Fixed intersecting barriers at Munster
• Fixed some missing characters for player profile name
• Fixed “Service Park” time not resetting after the first service park in a rally weekend
• Added Hide/Show HUD option

ONLINE

• Time attack, “Recommended Time” feature: now players can choose reference times from the leaderboards and compete against them
• Faster leaderboards download
• Faster download of “best player time”
• Faster time upload
• Improved login recovery mechanism
• Fixed an authentication error that prevented the game from coming back online
• Fixed an issue with Profiles API that prevented some requests from completing in a certain scenario
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Leaderboard upload/download from completing in a certain scenario
• Migrated to a different hosting service
• Improved clustering settings
• Reduced the amount of technical telemetry recorded
• Display name is now synchronized with the Steam’s one

VFX, LIGHTING AND ART DIRECTION

• New vehicle particles for snow surfaces
• New, more persistent particle emitters for dusty materials
• New particle systems for collisions against snow
• Support for subsurface scattering on environment and props shaders
• Base track shader improvements to better support snow materials, different road conditions and track flows
• Overall shaders optimization to slightly reduce GPU and memory load
• Fixed a bug where track materials could sometimes use dynamic parameters (dynamic track) for tarmac on all other surface types
• Improved particle lighting coming from headlights and backlights
• Added support to blend some of the ground scatter meshes with the ground materials
• Added new Sky setup with Livigno Ice Circuit geographic coordinates
• Added weather presets for snowy conditions
• Updated sky system to improve the visual rendering of the atmosphere
• Added custom lighting setup for Livigno Ice Circuit