There's a saying in Poland: "devil dwells in the details" ;)
Precisely, the immertion
of which you speak will also be apreciable seen from a helicopter and
see how you drove during the race ,. I think it's important to see his race with retreat and the driving that we did. I do not think it's a detail to have a helicopter view.
Helicopter view for full replays is already confirmed. Thought your desire was mainly to see that chopper while driving? Don't know if that's really important though, especially since the car roster of D4 represents more of a national-level for rally driving and not really WRC. And you don't see helos at most national championships
637/5000 It
is really complicated to add them, they put them well in WRC2001 PS2
with the noise of pals and vibration of the helicopter and automatic
zoom of the cameraman on the car, on a console that dates from the year
2000 17 years old, and here I am told that it is a detail, is it going to serve on super powerful console? But when you play, I love seeing these helicopters and I think it is not that I like it gives more reality to the game. If you can add them, you have to add them if it's not complicated. To you developer to add them in the race !!!! :-) before the game comes out in June !!
Just because something is possible on an old console doen't mean it as A easy or B fast to implement into whatever game you think of. Programming isn't like putting groceries in your shopping cart. You don't take Feature A,B,C from far done games and just throw them in some sort of software mixer and the result is those features combined. You have to tell the game specifically what you want every time again (in form of programming), only when the game engine is the same, some stuff can be carried over. You are right, the hardware is no problem, neither is the doability of helicopters technically. The question is if it's worth the effort of the developers, which equals money and time to develop. That is why you set Priorities when developing new products. More is always possible, but not always reasonable to do. So it all comes down to what the market wants, in this case the players. If you are in the majority with wanting to see those choppers all the time for real, it would be wise to do the effort. If most players would see that as a nice gimmik but not really important it might be a wasted effort. I'm all for immerion, especially in a simulation racer, and chances are there are those helos already anyway (since they were visible in DR too), but if they aren't yet, I would like CM focus on developing something more important first for immersion, like VR for example.
I absolutely agree with what you said but we also have to consider that DiRT 4 comes from Codemasters, which is the same company that implemented the biggest aerial traffic in the history of racing games in F1 2015 and 2016. So I wouldn't be very surprised to see a formation of helicopters and drones hiding the sun in DiRT 4
