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Yep. This is very unlikely. There will be a... 'purpose'. Yup Brittany possesses a rich cultural and historic heritage: castles, fortified towns, museums, towns full of art and history, standing stones...so many places and things to discover.... You forgot wine. Not forgotten, it's well known own that the French like to wine.... cough cough Ogier cough cough running order.. :)
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This went down the typical rat hole, sorry for starting it
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Yep. This is very unlikely. There will be a... 'purpose'. Ooooh look, actual gossip in the gossip thread! OMG THE WORLD'S GONNA END!!!QUICKLY, someone derail the thread.erm, umm... Got it! Subaru I hear they are looking over a yellow WRC 22b STI for Rallycross inclusion
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Yup, R&D building, but one gust of wind, and your flat out.
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That sounds very familiar. I'm in the minority among my friends in that I stayed at home longer in order to accumulate enough money to pay for a deposit: most moved out and started renting and, once you're in the rent trap, it's hard to get out of it. Still, you are paying a lot less for fuel than we are, so that should cheer you up! :smiley: I suppose. Tucson is pretty cheap for fuel. Little while ago it was back down to $1.80/gallon Which is still high considering all the gas sources we could tap on American soil. I've also heard that the British economy is better than Americas, so even with those high taxes and all you guys have more spending money, then again that was also a few years ago. You said you had a cheap house. And how do we know your house isn't lowering theirs? ;) Here is a pic of my "cheap house" Like I said, i have no problems, and no teeth
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@JZStudios I live in suburbia in a quirky (everyone knows everyone), quaint old town, main business was a large saw mill in the late 1800's and the town is well preserved and economy is great here. If we are tossing numbers around, over the hill are 1-5million dollar homes (castles?), doesn't do me any good, except raises my property value some. There are plenty of homes around here that average $250-$500k. I spent less because I wanted an older, home I like the way they are built, I have had very little maintenance issues, none like you guys are explaining - eeeek! No offense but, I don't live in some poor area like you are implying, I just live simple.
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Nope so, I have now finished uni, and am currently in the process of saving up a lot of money for next year. Here's my problem though, I'm undecided what to spend it on: Option 1- A two month trip from coast to coast in the USA, going pretty much everywhere, including an attempt on Seb Loeb's Pikes Peak world record in a hire car. Something I've wanted to do for a while Option 2- A rally car and my first season in the BTRDA as a driver decisions decisions.... I'd say save up for two years. I have a friend who made it through college and saved just about every penny, almost 5 years later he's got almost everything 100% paid off, including his house, so pretty soon he'll have all his paycheck to spend on hobbies. Ha, I take it you are in the US @JZStudios? I worked whilst in college and Uni so I didn't have to take any student loans out. I left uni with no debts so I could immediately start saving funds for a deposit on a house. I finally had enough to buy one last year: I'll be 58 when I finish paying for it. Yeah, we only pay for ourselves here. Don't know how old you are now, but if it takes that long whatever you went to college for seems.... well... My friends about 30 and will have everything paid off in about 5 years, and that's with buying other things, like house renovations and a studio. Expensive house renovations. Like, stupid expensive. I'm 34 now, was 33 at purchase. From the little reading I've done, I think there is a considerable difference in property prices between the US and the UK. The house I bought is a pretty compact two bedroom semi detached house: it was £260,000 and that was just before local property prices spiked again. Holy cow, thats a lot for the US. I have a smallish house with some nice acreage and a 2 car detached garage. Paid way way less than that but its a 110 year old house so I have had to do some renovations (cosmetic) finished up inside now working on outside, but I DIY everything so I have saved a lot on labor. Its been fun, but I am tired, hope next year to be done. But I am 43 and I will have have it paid off when I am 65, seems like a long road ahead.
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Are they making a video game themselves? No i think there were committed to another video game. Nope so, I have now finished uni, and am currently in the process of saving up a lot of money for next year. Here's my problem though, I'm undecided what to spend it on: Option 1- A two month trip from coast to coast in the USA, going pretty much everywhere, including an attempt on Seb Loeb's Pikes Peak world record in a hire car. Something I've wanted to do for a while Option 2- A rally car and my first season in the BTRDA as a driver decisions decisions.... Well, if its the US i can give you lots of info from my previous trips, including pikes peak. I would be torn between the two options as well. You could catch a dismal (compared to UK/EU) RallyAmerica event
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off topic, but has anyone heard from @JonTucker ? He hasnt been on twitter for months. We know he has completed his work with DR (he was helping with pace notes thru Sweden).
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@bogani get a mechanic to look it over and if it checks out, I wouldn't hesitate. Unless it had an extremely hard life, that milage is hard to beat.
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Asked the question to @KickUp if there was more money in the budget for DR would there have more cars/manufactures that didn't say no in rally. Response was, "sure." My point is, if money wasnt tight we could have seen more, but i think being frugal money was spent obviously on the 'best bang for the buck'. So... to do the opposite of a wish list, who would NOT have wanted thier cars in DR? Who would be a difficult manufacture?
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I don't typically street race my road car (is a NA 2.5) its just fun to drive, but as my daily, I like the convenience of a hatch. Camping is easy to pack for, I can occasionally grab some lumber, etc. I went from a large SUV to this for gas mileage (10mpg :neutral: to 23mpg) so the hatch made the transition a little easier.
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I think this year is the best looking, second would be the 2008-2013.. Sorry many have hated it but the hatch is just so practical for me.
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Yeah, it was all in good fun. :) We're pals as well as sworn enemies! Some call those Frenemys
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I think I may have started something here, that quickly escalated, I hope that both party's took this all in good humor. You never know, it's Twitter.
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If @justbiglee was still around, he'd be throwing some stuff. I think he started this "Mondays be like.." Rally stuff, at least it sounds like hime
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Nothing wrong with friendly competition, but don't copy marketing exactly. Thats just lame. https://twitter.com/wrcthegame/status/765166302638051328
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Given that the shaders option seems like a bunch of post-processing effects rather than one, I would prefer if I could adjust every single one of them separately rather than having most of them bunched together with only motion blur being separated out. Well, that escalated quickly :) Obviously, more separation the better. You give an inch, they take an arm... ;) But yeah, more options are always better. No promises though :P I am sure there are some areas that the artist doesn't want completely optional, I imagine it starts to take away from the intended look.
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I was mostly talking about replays where Depth of Feild is way way over exaggerated for my tastes. it looks like vaseline there for sure. For cockpit views its ok for me, but true triple screen support would elimate some of this, i think. Check these last few posts off for wishlist items for D4 or DR2, they all just need to be updated now (replay) after 10 years of the same, i think CM has got thier money out of it :) by now.
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Speaking as a game dev I can answer that to some extent. This has nothing to do with Codies, it's just a general observation about development; The problem is that making things pretty takes time and costs money and most of the sim teams seem to be quite small compared to "normal" AAA game dev teams. If you have a limited budget, a small team and you're aiming for a top quality sim racing then the physics and handling are always going to be higher priority than the graphical whizbangs of the day. It is actually quite hard to make something look good and also run well. Even if you do laser scans you still have a lot of work to do to clean up the data and get something usable out of it. And if you do spend a lot of money to make it pretty, you need to make sure you can recoup the investment by selling a lot of copies. The consequence: the game maker is in the tricky position of having a niche product that cost a lot to make and have to sell a lot in order to keep the studio from going under and one way to reach a broader market is to be less niche but then you end up moving away from the sim idea you had in the first place. Congratulations, you're now trapped between a rock and a hard place :) Easier to just keep the graphics functional and focus on the handling and driving experience and not spend all your money on the art side of things! I get that, but there's been smaller teams who've done more impressive things. iRacing at the very least is continuously bringing in a good chunk of pocket change. And they haven't changed graphically in a while. I think recently they claimed to go PBR or something, but I'm not sure I believe that. It doesn't look any different. It's just kind of goofy because eventually the engine limitations are widely known but they don't bother to fix them. Not that you CM guys are lazy, but the Ego engine is definitely aging and the limitations cut a lot of wanted features, though I'm also assuming you guys have people working on it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just don't understand why some devs continually release essentially the same game time and time again with the same engine and faults. I am pretty happy with the graphics, except the DOF stuff, I wish there was a way to turn it off, it looks TOO blurry and no real boke. However, I wish they would overhaul the replay system, there are a lot of beautiful details in DR that you cannot capture with the canned replay, and not being able to save them via the sim.. ugh. Anyhow, just throwing that out there.
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I still predict a December timeframe announcement, or after the first of the year. EDIT: I mean next game, not DLC Unless this is ran like Assetto Corsa with on going development and DLC released over a long period of time, none of this is going to happen this late (but i keep thinking like a PC iwner, you console guys just got it recently) BTW: i am all for an Assetto Corsa game model, with a ling and ongoing development. With the amount of car licenses they have now, it seems they are making a good bit off the game to afford these. So the business model seems to work. Unless they are 'connected' Italians :) and know how to motivate people :)
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The big Lebo died today..
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@tbtstt oops! sorry, bud
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Ditto! I found the stupid driver comments during the races in DiRT 2 incredibly irritating, far more than any content in DiRT 3 (apart from Christian Stephenson). The origins of the gymkhana videos are mentioned in the interview that I posted earlier. Given that the first video was almost completely happenstance, it's pretty incredible to see how viewed the series is now. At this point they are perhaps a little repetitive but, much like his career, I admire Block for getting paid to thrash highly modified AWD cars around in public! I think it was a latter Drive interview (or possibly elsewhere) where Block mentions that he isn't fan of the public exposure, but it's a necessary evil to get the backing that he does. He has also mentioned that, as stage rally doesn't draw as much exposure, he has to do other things in order to get the backing for the limited stage rallies that he participates in. I think this is what you are looking for. https://youtu.be/Vg2c7Pp7H0Q Not fond of the host, but decent questions. I did have a short conversation with him at a rally a couple of years back, nice guy answered my questions respectfully. I Also watched him at a service stop, he waved at the fans, talked to trch, and grabbed his kids and hugged them, his wife was waiting at the door of the travel trailer with food. This didnt appear as an act, it was just nice a quick glimps at family life. The guy puts a lot on his plate to do what he loves, but to do that there are a lot marketing relationships he has to satisfy, Dubai was just a place he wanted to make a cool video, there is a sponcer relationship there. Since he isnt a WRC legend he actually has to work pretty hard behind the scenes to keep the business running. No discredit to any WRC driver, but in the US there isnt a club rally organization to rise through and train for the WRC as there is in EU. Its amazing that he has been able to compete at all coming from here.
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I dunno... can I Flag for this :D nah, this will suffice