mimimomo

Another 5GB update from Steam (already had 1.4.1) - whatever that was? Started the game, lost my career 5 locations completed to a 'discrepency' reset. Thanks Codemasters, sometimes you do actually suck at what you do quite a lot 😞

No change for me from around 25-30 seconds on G4560 + SSD + 1060 6GB - i'm used that load time, gives me time to psyche into the drive. The loading is more CPU heavy that actual driving so the G4560 is fine for play - solid 60fps @ 2560x1440 on medium/high (+ low ground cover for optimum cutting 🙂

Sounds like accelerator pedal calibration is off? Otherwise I guess you are leading all Daily Challenges and Time Trials?

My reading (and hope) is that the 1.7 and 1.10 releases are location pairs for RX (2 RX in each release), which leaves 5 x single Rally locations in the other releases.

the super short distance to the marshals in DR1 always gave me anguish, always felt like I should back off at the end (even though obviously it didn't matter)

Yes cameras.xml files are unlocked now (the same update when the liveries were) so presumably camera mod tools will work. A full set of edited camera files was posted here with adjusted dash cam to replicate DR1 as a good place to start: https://forums.codemasters.com/topic/35844-‘camera-shake’-solved/?do=findComment&comment=412008

Too easy? Try driving faster, it will be less easy...

It will randomly be chosen as 1 of the 6 locations when you start a new championship - just started one and Monte was the last, abandoned it, made a new one and it wasn't chosen...going to keep going until Monte is the 1st or second!

Ironically, in some cars you can move the seat so far forward it is past the new 'dashcam' view (how you put a camera on the dash and still see the gauges is pretty magical) and much closer to the old actual dashcam view in DR1. I use that quite a lot - but the range of seat positions is different in every car and totally inconsistent.

Yes, can be used in My Team like any other car you own. Source: just started a clubman Career Rally with the Skoda Fabia Rally 2005.

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I actually have 2 small bass shakers mounted on my wheel platform, fed via UDP from DR 2.0 through the SimHub app. That gives my totally configurable fine detail that FFB doesn't really handle well. Things like vibration when wheels lock up and chassis vibration from engine RPM. This works the same in DR 1 and DR 2.0. There is still some missing FFB detail in DR 2.0 that should at least be configurable for those that want it.

There are limited stocks of cars, and the stock reset daily - the shop will tell you how long until the next reset is. Presumably the stock level is also impacted by people selling cars back to the shop (guess).

The difficulty jump on Clubman seems way too high - not sure I could ever get past that. On Dirt1 I got to Masters (but never won it). On the DR2.0 Daily online stuff I usually get middle of the pack (top of group 2) so my capabilities must be reasonable representation of 'average'? Edit 10 April - actually did make it to Pro, back to finishing late 20s again...forced myself back to Clubman which is more my level and will try to beat with a different class

Actually I meant the Dirt 2.0 version of Argentina is so much better - the WRC7 stages are like the 'greatest hits' of each location all jammed together. Much prefer the Dirt 2 approach of doing a selection of fully realised complete stages.