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Hmm... building up population for Season 3 customers? Or rather trying to amortize the cost of production, meaning not enough copies sold yet...?

Now the New Info is out. Very surprising, location number 3 is no double Release as the Version structure had suggested. Well I got all the Cars correct (and almost the Order) Well with two of the old locations missing, they could actually fill up a season 3 without mexico... If they even continue the season approach, maybe itll be Single dlcs afterwards... Hmm. Surprised but very satisfyed to See Wales in S2. Don't really care about Finland and Greece, but I would about a new Mexico if it is really in the works

I got a like from Christina to my Post on Page 1365 about Mexico and the Season 2 & 3 structure speculation... #ReadingTooMuchIntoThingsIsWhatWeDoHere

This almost confirms the subarus, no? The cables, location, sound guy, all very similar. Makes a coincidence very unlikely. So let's hope it's for DR2 and not for DiRT 5 or something...

That's exactly why I think Wales (or maybe finland) will be s3. It's the First not included in deluxe and Wales would attract more sales then greece. Personally I would like Wales as the very next Release. And that is exactly why I think it will be later

Given it some more thought. Saw the flag in spain now, too. Coincidence? If we assume DR1 Rallies come all as DLC, what would be missing as essential driving experience? Narrow tarmac (Corsica, Sanremo, Ireland), Sandy hot stuff and high altitude. Mexico would have part of sandy hot stuff, although it's similar to Greece I recon. But it definitely has altitude which makes it very unique. Power loss due to thin air and all. Although I do hope, if Mexico is really in the making, that we will finally get a stage with some iconic river fords. None in Australia and especially none in Argentina are a bummer. I am incredibly glad we got iconic El Condor in ARG, but I thought that could've been fit into one long stage and make a second in the lower lands. Anyway, Mexico also has a lot of rivers, so if, i hope they include a stage with those. And the DLC content numbers also leave space for one Rally location, assuming we get 4 RX to fill WRX. Actually with all the information we have right now, I wanna make an educated guess on the content of Season 2 and Season 3. In retrospect let's see how close this will get: SEASON 2 RX Group B: Pug & Lancia Rally Finland Group B RWD: Lancia 037 & Porsche 911 SC RS Rally Greece RX Group B: RS200 & Metro RX Abu Dhabi & RX Latvia SEASON 3 New Millenial Class: Focus 2001 & Impreza 97-99 (Also put the existing Evo VI in here as a double class vehicle) Rally Wales F2 Kit Cars: Nissan Almera & Pug 106 Rally Mexico New Millenial Class: Impreza 2001 & some other early WRCar(Octavia, 206 or Accent?) RX Germany & RX South Africa Assuming the structure from Season 1. Maybe they also surprise us with more cars per release, but so far it's been two. The Subaru Legacy Group A hasn't fit in here. Although it might have been recorded for DR2, but there is no fitting car from same class to release it along with... Why Wales in S3? Because this is not what I want, but what seems most likely to me. And from the old locations I assume Wales would be best to sell a new DLC, since it is a fan favorite.

fatal accident? I'm not a native speaker, but doesn't mean fatal that someone died? And if no-one died it is automatically not fatal?

Damn... counted 7.5 spins... Probably spinning trauma, but all praise roll-cages.

Okay, hmm strange there should be a difference. But maybe H1 is to slow to feel it? It will be very difficult though to drive two times exactly the same to get a comparable time. I highly doubt your driven time has a lot of value with almost a minute of time difference. Much more suspect your car in career wasn't fully upgraded or you just drove very different.

As I understand it, the degradation setting just sets how the system works and not the actual degradation of a stage. As in: No degradation = every stage will remain fresh during a rally Full degradation = degradation of stage is fully dependent on your running order. So, to add any significant value to ur research, you should make sure what the degradation in the Service Parks says, right before the stage. And not on the Menu setting u chose. As far as I assume, there is no way to set a stage to very degraded in settings. Choose Full degradation with a rally with two stages. Get last position in first stage. And now you should be far back in running order to see a very degraded in the second stage. Please correct me anyone, but this is how I understood the settings ?

So I might have some Gossip, maybe, I mentioned before, that I think the Country flags in the game are not randomly picked. At least on the Rally locations I have never seen any flag, that doesn't have a location ingame OR is a location from DiRT Rally 1. Now I'm doing the Fia WRX and have noticed something. But first, also something that might compromise the find, these two flagrows in Hell and Höljes: They both have pretty much the same flags, but some of them violate my assumption that all Flags will eventually be locations ingame. Finland and germany are probably coming, but there are also these on the Pole-Rows: Lithuania, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Czechia, Netherlands, Denmark, Slovakia... But also, those Flag-Rows are real life recreations, these are there on the real track. So MAYBE they are out of the equation, since every "wild" flag follows my assumption (In fans, on wall, lone flag in crowd, etc.) All of those wild flags are representing locations in the game, plus also Germany, Wales, Greece and Finland, which are very likely DLC candidates already. But in Silverstone RX I just now found a wild flag that doesn't align: From the right you see Belgium (Mettet RX, ingame) and left of it there is a Flag of Mexico. If you realize which major other places are completely absent (Italy, Japan, China), seeing something like Mexico (which is a WRC location) caught my attention. Maybe a hint for Rally location Nr. 13 or 14 ? Or maybe it's really just a random Mexico flag.

Anyone got to masters in Career yet? Am quite struggling with Elite Level, now finishing first season probably at least in the Top 10, but nowhere near the Top 3. Not won a single Rally and only a handful of stages (which were in the Top 200 World Times to do so.) So I am curious how fast Masters is? Elite is already far beyond DR1's Masters. Although I like it, Times are all realistic and very close together, fells like driving in WRC. Although I expected this Level at Masters and not at Elite already, getting scared for Masters now XD Also, anyone figured out the optimal Engine Upgrade to go with for long Events? The highest seems to degrade quite quickly and you don't really have an option to repair it during a Rally. So maybe Something like Level 4 instead of 6 would be a better Sweet Spot for 10 or 12 Stage Rallies ?

Didn't try the Focus yet, but always found it#s rear a little ugly... But the Impreza is quite nice and will be my go-to choice for that class now (Until a S12 comes around...) Some impressions can be seen here:

Have to revoke part of my statement. It seems it actually is more realistic than I thought with the water splashes. If your hood has those water-holes in it (R5), you get consistently more splash effect at the USA Water splash than if your hood is closed off. And IF there is splash effect it also looks good. Actually all the drops ON the windscreen look good in terms of visuals. Still though Rain stripes in the sky (at night) look still very weird.

So if the 99 WRC Impreza is really on the Horizon, Where would it be? It is Not a Group A car but has competed against the Group A Lancer as well as the 2000 Focus WRC. And putting it in Group A would be a Major disadvantage for the rest (Escort, Legacy, Delta, 95 impreza...) What I would like to see is the introduction of multi-class Cars: Create a new "Millenial" class, where the "22B" is. Make the Lancer eligible to enter "Group A" as well as "Millenial". If the '00 Focus comes as dlc make it eligible to enter "2000ccm" as well as "Millenial" If we assume the Subaru is coming, where Do you think it would fit class-wise? Putting it into either one of the existing ones just feels wrong imho

Really like Sweden, Awesome feeling. But I also have to voice something and ask: Is there any change in Water-effects coming down the road? Currently it looks, well, quite s*** compared to the previous titles. Whenever driving through the puddles in USA I expect some awesome water-splash like since DiRT 2 was a staple of the series, just to be disappointed by some drops on the screen. And heavy rain looks like it is raining Laser-blaster-fire. Can someone find a video of real life heavy rain onboard? Cause as far as I can tell from real life experience and some searching the main difficulty for the eyes in rain are the drops ON the screen and the moving wipers. You can't really see any lines in the sky of falling water, no? Or is there some hidden ingame setting to adjust how the water splashes and rain looks?

agreeeeeeeed

These are the most realistic snow banks I've ever seen in a virtual environment. I don't know what ya people expect, they are not guard-rails you can HotWheels your way around the stage. Also in real life those banks are often hiding real rocks or guards below them, so you gonna hit something hard anyway if you poke deep. Look real life snow bank spins: Look how to drive DR2 Sweden:

Some exposure for your work: