- AC EVO’s preliminary free-roam map dimension will likely be 70km2, and can improve in future updates
- Preliminary space will embrace Adenau and the Nürburgring Nordschleife’s perimeter roads
The primary stage of Assetto Corsa EVO’s free-roam mode will drop on 9 December 2026, alongside update V0.10.
Nevertheless, at this weekend’s SimRacing Expo, Kunos Simulazioni Co-Founder and Govt Supervisor Marco Massarutto revealed that the preliminary map dimension for this launch can be 70 km2, or ‘larger than Manhattan,’ as he described it in an interview with Traxion.
“The primary space will in fact embrace the Nürburgring Nordschleife, Nürburg, Adenau, Müllenbach and all of the villages which might be near the Nürburgring,” said Massarutto in a stay tackle to the Expo viewers.
“The primary space… will consist kind of the scale of Manhattan,” he defined, citing New York’s most densely populated borough.
This slice of the Eifel area will even embrace all of the perimeter entry roads of the Nordschleife, so motorsport followers can drive to all the most effective spectator, tenting, and parking areas across the monitor they’ve maybe visited in actual life, as demonstrated by YouTube driving star Misha Charoudin.
Procedural technology
The entire free-roam space will ultimately increase to 1,600 km2 (with round 400 km of drivable roads), with off-road routes, AI visitors, changeable climate, and multiplayer (as much as 30 gamers, in accordance with Massarutto) set to launch. Impressively, 90% of the buildings within the sport’s free-roam map have been meant to be procedurally generated, however Massarutto says that determine is now 60%, which implies a number of additional work for Kunos’s artists.
“So the buildings are additionally procedural [like the roads and environment] as a result of we will’t recreate all of the buildings like they’re in the actual world, however they’re positioned by an editor into the map,” he mentioned, highlighting Kunos’s proprietary terrain tools that analyse and interpret LiDAR data and automatically reproduce it into a tangible form in-game.
“If modders wish to create a map [as big as the Eifel region], the thought is that sooner or later we’ll make accessible the identical terrain system additionally to the modders. In order that, for instance, the fellows who made the Transfăgărășan course in Romania [an Assetto Corsa mod by SIM TRAXX], they might use the system to implement the identical space additionally in EVO.
“That is our dream,” he concluded.