Assetto Corsa Rally will get revised throttle mapping and further tyre model work, according to the game’s director, who confirmed the changes after a wave of community feedback and a series of videos from sim physics figure Niels Heusinkveld.

That’s the extent of what’s been said publicly so far. There’s no timeline attached, no patch notes, and no detail on how far the tyre changes will go — just an acknowledgement from the top that the criticism landed and that both areas are being worked on. Heusinkveld’s videos appear to have been a meaningful part of that; he has a long track record of digging into tyre and physics behaviour rather than just reacting to feel, which tends to carry weight with developers in a way that forum threads don’t always manage.

Why it matters: throttle mapping and the tyre model are the two things that decide whether a rally sim feels like it’s simulating anything at all. Rally driving lives on partial throttle, weight transfer and a car that’s almost always sliding a little — if the pedal doesn’t map to torque the way you expect, or the tyres don’t build and shed grip believably, everything downstream of that feels wrong no matter how good the stages look. Getting a public commitment to revisit both, this early, is a better sign than a developer defending the current state.

The honest caveat is that “changes are coming” isn’t the same as changes arriving, and physics revisions are the kind of thing that can slip or land partially. Worth watching rather than celebrating. If you’re on the fence about buying in, there’s no harm in waiting to see what actually ships before deciding whether the driving model is where you want it.

Originally reported by Traxion.