Assetto Corsa's SECRET Hillclimb...
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Published 2023-05-23
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Assetto Corsa has a secret touge road, and it’s probably the most underrated in the game.
Most of you have probably have it downloaded, but only a fraction have driven it.
It's a tight, narrow road, that snakes it’s way up a gargantuan mountain . It features towns, Hairpins, camber, forests and elevation changes, the lot.. So, why does nobody talk about it?
Steeped in rich history, it's host to one of the longest ongoing motoring events in the world. Founded in 1925, it has bared witness to the vast evolution of hillclimb as a sport, and the exponentially increasing capabilities of the monstors that drive it.
Clocking in at almost 11 miles long, this hillclimb has been described as "absurdly dramatic", and It's easy to see why.
Have you driven this road before? If not, don't worry, most people haven't. But I can almost guarantee you've seen the name "Trento Bondone" in your Assetto Corsa modlist at some point. Perhaps you even remarked that you dont remember downloading it, like me, before making this video. Well there's a good reason for that.
Kunos actually put this into the game themselves, all the way back in 2014. You can forgive yourself for not knowing, because unmodded Assetto Corsa is just a circuit racing sim right? Well, it was clearly intended to be a hillclimb simulator too… or was it?
By today's standards, 9 years on, its pretty ugly - and looks like something an amateur modder would create. And that’s because it essentially is a mod that kunos themselves made. There are no high quality textures or furniture that we’re used to seeing on their circuits. And in fact, it looks worse than every single modern hillclimb, made by singular modders, for free.. With sparse details, and a lack of care and attention to the small details, it’s a far cry from the circuits and touges we drive that feel like the real location. As a whole, Trento Bondone feels wholly unfinished, sure it’s still driveable, but it doesn’t strike me as a track that would ship with the game, more like an amateur third party addon. And From an Italian developer that has a keen attention to detail, you might be asking yourself, why this is the case.
NETKAR PRO. If you’re an avid Kunos enjoyer, you’ll this name. Released in 2006, this sim was predecessor to Assetto. It’s clear that it was a test bed. It has a barebones, and quite frankly poor UI, even for Kunos, and yes, it’s even worse than the Assetto Corsa’s default menus somehow. The physics weren’t bad for the time, and you can definitely see how Assetto’s an evolution, not just a Lancer. But, by today’s standards they feel almost arcade like. The car seemingly drives on rails, until it decides you need to start oversteering, in a similar way that iracing does. Which is interesting, as they were released around the same time. Yet strangely, NetKar feels dated, but iRacing is revered as one of the most realistic simulations on the market. Strange. Anyway, we’re getting sidetracked.
Despite all of this, the forcefeedback is surprisingly detailed too for such an old game. In fact, I get better tyre feel out of nKpro than Assetto.
All in all, it isn’t bad a bad simulator, even by todays standards. I mean, hell, people are still playing Grand Prix Legends which was released in 1998. It’s a surprise NetKar wasn’t more popular at the time. However, it did only ship with a handful of cars and tracks, and the modding scene didn’t add much more.
So perhaps NetKar wasn’t the best simulator. But what it was, was a perfect lesson for Kunos. They needed more content in their games, whether that be through their own creation, or their community. And they definitely heeded their own advice. Assetto Corsa shipped with more than enough content. With a wealth of original, laser scanned circuits. A heap of high quality cars. The ability for modding, which revolutionised the game was played. And of course, a single hillclimb. Trento Bondone.
But, truth be told, Assetto Corsa’s Trento was neither high quality, nor was
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All Comments (21)
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How do people not know this map? This is one of my regular maps. Very fun to drive.
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I've been driving on this Italian road ever since I got Assetto back in 2017. Still one of my favourites.
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I spent my first 10 hours of AC driving a stock AE86 at Trento Bondone with mouse steering. So difficult to learn but it's very fun nonetheless. Definitely one of my favorite tracks of all time.🔥👍
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I never knew anyone else drove this track, it has the most hours out of any. For a sheer driving experience it is really good honestly, the graphics aren’t good but the feel is great.
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A nicely done track skin would do this one wonders. Especially if it implemented the 3D trees from Shaders Patch.
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definitely one of my favorite maps, pretty challenging to get a clean run, but its a lot of fun
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Damn I am so lucky to live like 25km away from that road in real life, truly a fun road to tackle. To this day I managed to make it to the top a couple of times with my mom's renault twingo but It would be a lot more fun with a proper sports car, maybe in the future if I'll have the chance to buy one... Until then, I have to stick with the sim version. Thanks for covering this track it surely needs the attention of more people, maybe one day someone will make a remastered version to fix the issues you talked about in the video.
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One of my favorite map ! It’s not the most beautiful but when you are driving you don’t really see the details on the side of the road, the only downside for me is the few invisible walls on some corner when you want to cut them, Nice vid ! Keep it up man !
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Super attractive cuts and edits especially in the intro section! liked it a lot.
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"it's hairpins connected by straights similar to akina" irohazaka : allow me to introduce myself
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Thx for introducing me to this track. I had no idea it existed! Im using drift cars for it and am yet to try it out!
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Totally not me logging ludicrous amounts of hours into vanilla assetto corsa with a gamepad. NA Miata plus this track is a dream
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finally i see this covered somewhere, such an underrated track with amazing bends and great flow, great video mr. bloke
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If it had a downhill version I would drive it way more, getting up takes 15 minutes in a slow car lol
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My very first experience with this track was Ferrari 512 at night, very few time with CSP and SOL at the time... Wanted a road driving experience, and I suffered all the way to the top hahaha
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anyone who plays AC its definitely not for they beauty or his all well finished game feel like. I think we all play it because its a great system, particularly on the well done laser scan tracks, properly done physics of cars, edjustament of the setup on a high detail, wheel and rubber grip, wear etc,.. like thats way more important to me than realistic looking games such as GT7 or F1 22 it would be nice to feel that if you have a real car on similar setup and conditions it helps you to cover the basics weather you drift, u do an U turn, go on a free track day and have some idea on how to take the curves. its great fun and you can also have a lot of assistance in game options altho the arcade feeling its definetly not there, there is no car collection, no license collection, no career etc
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This is an old track i used to drive in before i discovered csp and lots of shiny mods. Probably one of the reason this is forgotten about, is because of the mass being more interested towards tracks like SRP and japanese touges with JDM cars, or even real life circuits with race cars. This is a fun track to do hillclimb runs, that's for sure.
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In 2022 the Italian Drifting Championship oneorganized a special drift event there (a real one, not on the sim)
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Very surprised what you said about Netkar Pro's physics, at least with regards to oversteer. Not sure about NKP's hillclimb prototype-style car but vehicle behaviour/action/reaction during oversteer with open-wheel NKP cars like the F2000 and F3 are, along with Live For Speed's, by far the most realistic, controllable, and natural in the industry. AC's oversteer is great when it comes to road cars and drift cars but it's in the middle of the pack when it comes to racecars (with iRacing and rFactor-engined-based games being the worst).
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Its a great course. I had a couple records at this course in the 911s. Trento needs a serious texture update although even without that its one of the best courses in AC
