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damn @JorritVD that was a hell of a race. Didn't expect to see such a shootout on those final few corners
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5 hours ago, RodgerDavies said:especially in its default setup it's known for how it understeers heavily
@WestHam66 the best way to deal with pretty much all understeering cars is to left foot brake heavily through corners. If you don't know what trail braking is, go read up a bit on it. This image is a good example at a glance though:
LFB through the corners while still maintaining some throttle pressure can do wonders for getting that turn in you need
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28 minutes ago, cafe5150 said:Do you think it's correct in what's happening around the world that WRC is still going ahead?
I'm surprised they are still running it if they are. I get these events are not as densely packed as things like F1 but when even the billion dollar events are getting postponed due to C19 you take note. If they are actually keeping it going, It's honestly disgusting. But you don't make it high up in the business world without disregarding all of your morals or being a sociopath
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On 9/25/2019 at 6:48 AM, HoksuHoo said:fundamental problem with these deluxe bonuses:
That has nothing to do with deluxe. That has everything to do with the fact CM wanted to make sure that everyone always at least has one car they can race to earn money in again no matter how bad they mess up their My Team career. If you owned base game, deluxe, super deluxe, or GOTY edition you would have a free to repair Lancia regardless.
You act like this game progression is detrimental to your experience. You could literally just ignore it all and your problem would be solved. Refuse to spend any of the 2.5mil or whatever you had, or use any of the cars you were given for free until you reach Masters. If you do that, you'll have earned 10x what you started with and the 2.5mil will be meaningless. It won't have impacted you at all. Just don't use the unearned content and it is literally like it never happened.
Sure, you don't like the extra free unlocks. Some people do. Some people literally couldn't care and will continue to play the game regardless. Just play the damn game, sell the freebies if you don't want them, and it literally makes no difference on your daily playtimes.
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2 hours ago, Opassac said:We can do mixed class clubs... what we can't is mixed class events inside the clubs, unfortunatly... I meant, for example, drive with R5 in monte carlo, R2 in spain, Nr4 in USA...
I want even more than that though. Let me setup a club with 70 people and set the classes to 2000cc R5 and R2 all in the same event. A lot of the bigger clubs I'm a part of have to run 2-3 clubs every single weekend to accommodate the multiple "tier" structure they use to mimic WRC, WRC2, and WRC3.
Not to mention it is just damn fun to make some really interesting challenges. Mix & match cars from different classes to see how they line up. We used to have the ability to select any set of cars we wanted in DR1 leagues, even limit to a single car without tuning. Give us back these options CM and we can make our own fun!
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8 minutes ago, RodgerDavies said:It’s a fair question but the situation is evolving day by day in the UK so we don’t know how it will affect workplaces tomorrow, let alone a couple of weeks away 🙂
I can say it's looking like I'm about to be working from home indefinitely over here in the US while they try to get this all under control. Now I might be regretting that I have added my co-workers & senior employees as friends on Steam though... kind of hard to explain why I was 5 minutes late to a meeting when 2 of them could see I was in Wales with the 2000cc when it started
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5 minutes ago, ianism said:why does everyone hate Argentina by the way? I love it, but I've played it a bit too much because it was my fav base game location
Because it takes me at least 20 minutes to get my eyes "adjusted" to how bumpy it gets every time I boot up one of those stages. If I'm driving it multiple times in a week for some reason like a club, I normally don't have much adjusting to do after day 1, but if I ever step away from Argentina for a while there is always a warming up process when I come back.
I love how tight and technical it is though, I just wish it didn't feel like my eyes were having a seizure the entire drive.
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23 minutes ago, Rogerbee said:I'm waiting till GTR Technical posts his setup for Scotland and I've got a bit more practice in before going near any scenarios.
Stock tunes for life ✊
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On 3/8/2020 at 11:05 AM, Opassac said:@PJTierney, why not a mix a classes for each club? Easy ones in official, like r4/n4, cars with fwd etc, and rwd, 2000cc, group B etc in expert... That way, we would be driving a more variety of cars during the Championship...
If only we could do mixed class clubs 😭 imagine watching NR4's posting times alongside the Group A's, with some R2s trying to sneak in as well.
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12 hours ago, xomamo said:Nobody expects updates to old games, they just expect large sections of them to remain working. It took about two decades for many, much older games, to lose their master servers... and a single MS address is usually easy enough for the community to replace themselves (e.g. BF1942, RvS). And many of those older games still have their old official master server running. None of this always-online and/or DRM nonsense with the servers being shut down in a couple years when the developers churn out their sloppy sequels with money-grubbing DLC galore.
If you're going to make a game and run your own servers for large sections of the games to work, you should at least keep them working while people still play your games instead of pulling support in hopes that they put up with your bullspit and buy your DLC-riddled console kid game for immature fanboys who always get triggered like a little spoiled brat being denied candy at the checkout counter when someone brings up valid criticism.
And CodeMasters has done literally none of what you say here.
What are you even complaining about? DR1 and D4 servers are still up and working. What is your point? You have zero valid criticisms so far, you're just making a strawman argument about something that hasn't happened, then complain and act like it proves your point. Also, learn to use punctuation. Your entire second paragraph is one incoherent, rambling, run-on sentence.
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25 minutes ago, Rogerbee said:Mmm, still glad I picked and chose the DLC I actually wanted. Had I just waited and got this I would have been stuck with a massive download and a lot of content that I would never have used. At least I get to enjoy all the content I wanted to.
You'll still have the massive downloads... one of the best parts to the MP implementation in DR2.0 is that as long as the party host owns the content everyone in the lobby can use it. Which means everyone has all of the content on their machines...
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1 hour ago, UnderclassGDfan said:Don't wanna be offensive, but are you sure we get a proper "next-gen"-engine with the next entry in the series?
No, I'm not sure at all and I'm guessing based off of the recent CodeMasters landscape changes. They just acquired a new studio that brought on new resources and tons of new knowledge. We've known since DR1 that the current engine has been a giant thorn in their side and is one of the limiting factors for stage lengths.
The next game will have at the least an overhauled EGO engine. Maybe not a full rewrite, but a heavily modified and updated one.
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I mean, what "support" do you expect for DR1 at this point or even D4? You won't be getting updates to those games, the final chapter closed on them a long time ago and the resources will be focused on future content or supporting the current title.
If you wait years before buying the game, don't be surprised when you show up that it has little to no ongoing support.
DR2 is sunsetting "major" support to the title barring any serious issues that get introduced with the McRae Flatout pack in a few weeks. They've supported it with tons of DLC and patches; we are coming up on the 14th patch since launch - that seems like support to me. But what more do you expect from here? We received double the original stage count. DR2 was designed to work on the old, dying consoles of last generation. Those consoles already held back the engine. Why keep supporting them heavily when CM could put resources into the new engines they are building for the next-gen consoles.
And you act like the CM turned off the servers for DR1 and D4. They didn't Dailies and MP events can still be done on them. If you expect them to go clean up leaderboards that are 7 years old though... you're never going to see that. It's a waste of time and resources.
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From what I remember talking about right after launch, the issue with how similar tire degradation feels and the lack of need for Hards is more involved than just adjusting the wear models. If I'm remembering the conversation correctly, and this would have been like 6-8 months ago so it's a bit hazy, some of the team who worked with earlier builds actually said the tire degradation models we want were fully implemented. Softs were defintely limited in their use, and mediums/hards were used a ton during internal testing events. But somewhere near the product going Gold (basically the 1.0 production build) they found a bug that could have some pretty serious side effects related to the tire wear models. Relaxing the models a bit to an earlier version with less dramatic wear fixed those issues, but left us with the current problem of hards being useless.
Sadly, in the current form we are still left with Softs being the only viable choice in My Team events and Mediums being reserved for Clubs that do 35+ miles (7+ sprints) between service stops. I don't think this will ever change as it is a dependency built around something in the current game engine that is pretty much done seeing any major changes. Hopefully they can bring over the tire models from PC2/F1 and include those in the future titles so we can build on this potentiall awesome mechanic.
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9 minutes ago, BlackiusBirdius said:I'm finding the ai savage on the historic 3 rwd championship- specifically Poland. Couldn't keep up whatsoever (racing cleanly, no major mistakes) on normal difficulty... Dropped it to 35.. dropped it to 1... And just lost stage 2 by 8 seconds. Not really sure where I'm going wrong, did the first stage pretty much flat out and won by a few seconds only. Pretty heartbreaking to realise I can't keep up with the ai on very easy... But do consistently well elsewhere?
Any tips?
This is hard to give specific advice without seeing how you drive. What car are you using? I also think the game seems to bottom out with AI difficulty in some scenarios, where changing between 1-35 AI means they still drive the same speed - some might just crash more often.
Poland is a weird location too just because of how high speed it is. My guess is going to be that you're losing time in the flatout sections since most people tend to catch the AI in the tighter more technical corners if they have decent car control. Poland in H3, at least during the fast 5s and 6s should be flatout throttle to the floor while your tachs bounce off the limiter.
The key is to just keep at it though. Keep racing, be it in time trials or dialies or My Team. One weekend you'll struggle to keep pace, the next weekend you'll realize you're 5 seconds ahead of the leader even though you made 4 mistakes on the stage. You'll find the speed with time
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1 hour ago, ewandwhoelse said:Sorry but that's a complete load. Name one other game where in order to win the campaign/story/career you need to literally beat the best records ever set.
It's almost as if My Team isn't actually a career mode. It's almost as if My Team was just a ladder to see how far you could climb. An artificial leaderboard for you to chase.
You "beat" the career mode the second you finished the Open Championship. Congratulations! There is literally nothing more to do after finishing Open from a "career" perspective. Seriously, the "campaign" is over. Think about it, What is the difference between Open and Clubman? A couple more stages per event and locations per championship, with faster AI. That is all any of the increases in difficulty are. They don't add new content or new missions/locations/etc. It's the same thing just harder. So why are you mad they just keep making the game harder for those who want to challenge themselves?
In the perfect world there would be no end after Masters and they'd have been able to craft AI that continuously lowers the times so we can keep challenging ourselves, maybe using WRs from the leaderboards to design the lines.
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3 hours ago, Jack4688 said:You’ve completely lost me. What does WRC have to do with Scotland? And what ‘new NZ stages’ are you on about?
It all comes back to WRC having some form of licensing rights over the exact routes in specific locations. Some may be public roads, but due to copyright/trademark/etc law the WRC organization has been able to secure partials rights to certain stages and locals when run in a specific format resembling WRC. I won't even pretend to know the full scope of it, but suffice it to say licensing is a headache.
While Codies could probably use the real names and exact 1:1 replicas of some stages without overstepping their legal rights, it doesn't mean it is worth doing it. WRC could easily contest certain things in court, and regardless of if Codies would win or lose, it isn't worth gambling the entire game over and potentially upsetting other licensing partners.
So instead Codies takes the easy way out - put the stage in a "different" part of the country and give it a fake name. Make the stage extremely similar, but leave out certain features if needed to avoid overstepping licensing. Players get 95% of the same experience they would get if it was perfectly 1:1 like real life, so it's the best compromise.
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Hopefully we get a few extra liveries as well with these cars. Would love to see the Gold No Fear from the old XGames event from 06
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On 3/1/2020 at 8:17 AM, HoksuHoo said:Are these cars fast enough to compete in their classes?
I mean, I can't think of any car in the game that isn't competitive within its own class against the 99% of drivers out there. You can take a 240z or a Manta 400 into an online MP lobby or club and still win it outright against the "faster" cars if you can keep your momentum up. Sure, you won't see them used in big league events with the top 10 drivers who duke it out for WRs, but against the rest of us? Totally viable.
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Ok very important questions need to be answered: @PJTierney what time will the Flatout pack go live on the 24th? I need to know what days to take off of work and going live at 00:00 UTC on the 24th is very different than 12:00 UTC on the 24th for someone who lives on the other side of the pond
And another important question... should I do a stream giveaway to help build up some DR2 hype that day 🤔
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hmmm maybe it's time I put in my request off for launch day 🤔
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On 2/11/2020 at 7:33 PM, groverbaku said:This is a brilliant idea!!! I'd join you guys if I was on PC.
There is no reason you can't still chase these same times from console - the only difference is you can't send a friend request.
Also @XenialJ idk how fast everyone is here but I'm always open for invites from people racing time trials and/or MP sessions. I'll concede I'm kind of fast so I might not be the right one to chase ghosts with, but if you all are still looking for a fun challenge or even just to queue up some MP custom champs together definitely hit me up! https://steamcommunity.com/id/catbadders
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22 hours ago, KolysioN said:Many may prefer the 5120x1440 version, but even with rtx 2080ti, you won't have a high framerate....
This is the only reason I've held off on the 32:9 ultrawides. I've only got a 1080ti myself, but it has no issues pushing out 3440x1440p @ 100hz+ for me in DR2. I have both versions of the x34 panel:
The Acer Predator version (older) - https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-UltraWide-Widescreen-X34/dp/B016GNX4SE
The Dell Alienware version (new) - https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Alienware-Monitor-Resolution-Overclocked/dp/B0777RY75VBoth are absolutely gorgeous and I love them. Can't go wrong with these options and if you have a Microcenter near you and an old .edu email address you can typically grab either for ~$650 in the summer with all rebates applied.
Once the 3xxx series drop for Nvidia I might consider upgrading one of the monitors to the super ultrawides but I'm still hesitant cuz I don't think we'll have the real raw performance power for it until the 4xxx series, or at least the 3xxx refresh.
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I run everything at high/ultra except for crowd which I still keep on low. While it is definitely a lot easier to cut corners and cheese the stages with lower settings, you can still chase WRs and be highly competitive without taking those cuts or cheesing it like some players do.
Not to mention watching clips from drivers who normally aren't taking those cheap cuts will show you a lot more driving technique than those who do cut deep through stuff. Good videos are out there, look for videos from names you recognize more than WR chasing clips becuase a lot of the WR clips will involve people abusing the game to shave every last tenth of a second.
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Tips for driving 4WD cars quicker
in DiRT Rally 2.0
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I'm pretty bad with tuning, so I'll wait for others to comment and hopefully help you here with tuning, but I can say you don't need to tune that car to get it going fast on stages.
If at all possible I'd suggest doing what @Ialyrn said and try to get us a bit of gameplay from either cockpit cam or chase cam (don't use trackside or heli). We can pick out specific things you might be unaware you're doing mid-race way faster with a video than without it.