Assetto Corsa Rally 0.5.1 patch update

We’ve logged Assetto Corsa Rally’s 0.5.1 patch from the official Patch 0.5.1 announcement. This update focuses on online flow, physics balance, and a cluster of stage-specific fixes and environment changes.

What changed

Features

• Online lobby browser now ignores failed lobbies instead of failing the whole lobby-list download.
• A lobby search bar was added for lobby owners, track locations, and stages.
• Online single-stage service park timer was reduced to 3 minutes.

Physics

• Tire rolling resistance coefficients were reviewed.
• Surface grip was balanced against the bulldozing effect in favor of bulldozing.
• Surface-dependent rolling resistance was increased.

Cars

• Some car setups were rebalanced.
• Some aerodynamic loads were reduced.
• Detachable component colliders were improved.

Tracks and environments

• Loutraki road rock outcrops now have collisions enabled.
• In Elatia, thresholds for destructible trees were increased.
• Elatia received background terrain quality improvements, fixed low-resolution buildings and cars at the reverse start, added replay camera zoom/tracking properties, added brake marker distance boards, added crowd and rally dressing, added escape crowd members, and more detailed start/end dressing on shorter variants.

Fixes

• Fixed music stopping in the game menu.
• Improved voice starvation on snow.
• Fixed static radio and medic signs at Greece Elatia.
• Fixed floating background treelines in Elatia.
• Fixed brake lights being on in the main menu.
• Fixed empty lobbies taking a long time to be destroyed.
• Fixed the live results UI showing the wrong status for the player on the bottom line.

For league ops, we should update our event briefs to reflect the 3-minute online service park, test lobby search/discovery, and revalidate any Elatia/Loutraki stage procedures.