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  1. bogani

    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    His exceptionally well-written gossip will be missed, but the crux of it can be obtained by listening to opinions on particularly moderation-light forums some of which PRC's writer may lurk for fun. From what he said on his twitter, he just wants to do industry stuff now and being an angry outsider isn't as fun now that he sees what it's like on the inside. It's hard to claim you're an outsider when you're working in the industry. And writing negative reviews about competing products is a really really great way to get really really negative attention and could cause trouble for SMS. I'm not surprised that he got told to shut it down although it seems a bit drastic to take it offline.  Hed did do a very negative piece on the iRacing Rallycross just prior to the shut down. Coinsidence? Otherwise it might just have been a smart move by Mr Ian Bell. Give your biggest critic a job at the office.
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Behaves pretty much as the PC2 RX when you accidently go out on track with the circuit setup. No bite on the gravel at all.
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Damn, I would love if they could start a project a support it for several years ahead and release new classes and countries along the way.  Oh, and Racenet is down for maintenance!
  4. bogani

    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Wow. That's a lot more specific than "soon." o:) Attempting to be a bit more precise has bitten me in the bum, unfortunately! We've hit a slight bump, so it might be tomorrow - but it's still coming, promise!! Geez. Codies suspension seems to be as fragile as on the Hyundais. ;)
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    2020 FIA World Rally Championship

    Tidemand really deserves a shot. Regularly outpacing Suninen in WRC2. 
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    The word that better describes DiRT 4 is "rushed" I think. With a little more development time it could have really been a good game. It would have also been better if it had decided what it wanted to be: a numbered and funny DiRT game with all sorts of rallycross and landrush and crazy challenges, multiplayer minigames and just a general fun and chilled atmosphere, OR a sequel to DiRT Rally with the ambition and the focus on becoming the best and most complete rally sim ever made. Yep. I can assure you it was rushed in every single possible way. Thing is, for it being a numbered Dirt game it lacks the party atmosphere and fun. For us that loved Dirt Rally it lacks it's soul and "rawness". It's an in between that doesn't really satisfies anybody. I'm pretty sure that many in the dev team are quite gutted about how D4 and it's reception turned out, but the big guys upstairs wanted a numbered Dirt title out, and fast.
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Now that looks nice! Do the paddles rotate with the rim or stay with the base? My biggest gripe with the standard T300 is that the paddles rotate with the wheel which can make it tricky to hit the right paddle at times, especially with high DOR. There's a reason they have the single paddle on the right in the WRC cars. They rotate with the wheel. As I'm on the T500 base I still have the base fixed paddles though if I want to use them instead. I've been using a real 350mm rim for quite some time and I really can't go back to the tiny standard 300mm rim, but not having buttons is problematic in some games. This looks like a nice compromise.
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Did you guys see the Thrustmaster new rally rim? A 1:1 replica of the Sparco R383!
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Source? If they gonna move to a new Engine, it's the right time to make sure that the Engine supports Modding. Eyyyy, we need no sources. This is the gossip thread ;)
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    So, I asked Paul if his visit at Petter Solberg's was gossip worthy and got the short answer "Yes". So, the next game will be aimed at the fans that enjoyed Dirt Rally, but will be named Petter Solberg Rally or Petter Solberg Motorsport. It will be built on a completely new engine and an will much like Assetto Corsa be an ongoing project, adding locations, stages and cars along the way for a substantial period of time. Doesn't this sound sweet?  :D
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    I'm not sure when they stopped using the Virtual Spectator for WRC, but this is how it looked 2009. It pretty impressive how they mapped each stage for this feature with sattelite and GPS. https://youtu.be/kj_U5jmHvlM I guess the payed feature itself never really took off, but you could compare up to 7 cars at once on each stage of the WRC, getting telemetry data, comparing where they lost/gained time etc. Let's just play with the thought CM had the WRC license and had access to all this data. They could create real stages without the need to research the actual stages by being out there.
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Really? Again?
  13. bogani

    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Plowing through the WRC season 2005 and can't help to wonder about the Virtual Spectator feature they use. It looks pretty damn detailed. If there could be some clever ways to develop stages using the data from VS. *drooling*
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Hmm, Fjord is often pronounced as just Ford, which means either we are getting more Fords or a wily haired ginger with a towel. Hey JZ, did you just pull that straight out of your a$$? ;) Why would anyone pronounce Fjord as Ford? It's not like it's a tounge twister. It amazes me how upset this makes people. This from the same people I've had arguments with about saying words correctly such as Jaguar. Or the people that say Jalepeno wrong. It's an enye with the ~ over the n.. it's not pronounced halapeenyo. But sure, I say people say Fjord like Ford and everyone loses their minds! I'm not the crazy one here alright! You are! And for the love of GOD! It is not Jag you are! You seem to be the one that is silently upset about people saying things wrong. Let it out, don't let it build up inside you ;)
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Hmm, Fjord is often pronounced as just Ford, which means either we are getting more Fords or a wily haired ginger with a towel. Hey JZ, did you just pull that straight out of your a$$? ;) Why would anyone pronounce Fjord as Ford? It's not like it's a tounge twister.
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    2020 FIA World Rally Championship

    Hoping that Tidemand gets a shot in a rally or two next year! He deserves it!
  17. bogani

    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    Club patch still weeks away according to an answer on twitter.
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    There is a beta patch out for WRC7 with the added option of turning off the horrible dynamic FOV. Pretty impressed that they listened and made it happen so quickly.
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    I really love how the cars handle on the tarmac bits in DirtFish with gravel spec in D4.
  20. bogani

    2020 FIA World Rally Championship

    Damn, these cars really act like 4WD GT3's on the smooth tarmac! It's awesomely fast, but it still makes me miss the man handling of Grp A and earlier WRC's..
  21. bogani

    2020 FIA World Rally Championship

    Østberg really doing well so far!         
  22. bogani

    Benniz's rally driver debut - The thread

    Fantastic video! Impressive set of sponsors too. Well done :)
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    The low speed turns is quite tricky as I feel the car bogs down at those speeds or just spins freely. You cant really power through those turns like expect.
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    DiRTy Gossip about DIRT Rally Games

    So I've dialed in the steering as best i can when it comes to WRC7. FFB is very mediocre at best, but I must say the 2017 handles very well on gravel. Grip wise they seem to be pretty close to what we see on the onboards from WRC, and you can really feel the aero do it's work when the speed is high. Graphics are hit and miss. Stages look good and car models are well done. Still things can look a bit strange now and then when watching the extremely sub par replay system that is 5% TV cams and 95% gopro cams. Audio is also hit and miss, but I must say they really nailed the gravel spray sound. It increases when you get the car at an angle, something that is missing in D4. The co-driver sounds very robotic but I can live with that as the the calls are very good. If only they could get rid of the horrible dynamic FOV and give us a static adjustable one and let us lock the camera from bouncing around. Recorded a run in the Fiesta WRC in Australia. https://youtu.be/eTfyEfWApAc
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