Smile to the camera, Assetto Corsa Rally!

Supernova Games Studios has put Assetto Corsa Rally past the halfway point with the version 0.6 released this week, following what KUNOS Simulazioni is doing with Assetto Corsa EVO but with more striking features to compensate for the slow down in content introduction. While the cars of the update are iconic, the highlight of the update goes to the new things you can do in the title.
 

Three cars, three different eras and three different classes mark the content release, with no stages included and no plans announced for it at the moment. Coming from the early 1980s, the Audi Sport Quattro Group 4 was the embryonary stage of what would become the Audi S1 Quattro Group B, though it goes far beyond as the rough German machine is the founding block for everything we know as use of four wheel driving in rallying, going from breaking the norm at the time to actually become the norm until today, given how the Quattro system was superior to rear wheel drive.
 

Moving to the late 1990s, the Peugeot 206 WRC might be almost 30 years old, but its concept is what inspired that evolutions in the WRC regulations, with only the simpler aero putting it apart from the rest of the World Rally Cars and the Rally1 spec. While the two World titles prove the speed was there, it was the agility and exceptional handling that set the 206 WRC apart. It’s OK that Marcus Grönholm won the titles, but one of the highlights of the 206 WRC was its tarmac prowess, specially in the hands of a certain Gilles Panizzi.
 

And from the late 2010s, the Volkswagen Polo GTi R5 was the last hurrah from Volkswagen Motorsport before the program was closed for circuit, rally and rallycross, but despite being a customer car first, Volkswagen Motorsport built something so competent after the end of their Polo WRC life cycle that the Polo GTi R5 transcended the change of the second highest tier in modern rally from R5 to Rally2, with eight time World RX champion Johan Kristoffersson and his team mate Ole Christian Veiby using the Polo GTi R5 in selected events.
 

Apart from the content, a comprehensive Photo Mode leads the list of features included in the version 0.6, with the ability to put the camera  anywhere you want within a certain distance from the car, along with camera adjustments, screen settings and a variety of filters to exercise you creativity.
 
For the multiplayer side, private lobbies were included, where you can set a password to limit who can enter in the lobby. While not limited to multiplayer, the addition of support for custom liveries adds another element for both multiplayer and single player, being the door for modding support.
 
Along with the new features, physics and graphics changes came in the bundle, with the full changelog available in Assetto Corsa Rally’s Steam page.
 
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