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  1. JZStudios said:
    Evilsmurf said:
    bogani said:
    Dytut said:
    @urgaffel , we need a Swedish perspective on the snacks. Are they better than kexchoklad?
    As if. Kexchoklad is the shieeet.

    Obviously the words from someone who has never tried a Tunnocks Tea cake, or you would clearly know that the tea cake wins hands down. 
    I was just going to say that's the words from someone who's never spoken before.
    There's no way Kexchoklad is a thing.
    Oh JZ, buy a flight ticket sometime. Get out explore the world beyond your borders. 

    You can do it!

  2. Evilsmurf said:
    bogani said:
    Dytut said:
    @urgaffel , we need a Swedish perspective on the snacks. Are they better than kexchoklad?
    As if. Kexchoklad is the shieeet.

    Obviously the words from someone who has never tried a Tunnocks Tea cake, or you would clearly know that the tea cake wins hands down. 
    Oh come on. You brits only like wobbly jelly stuff with fruits in them. Yuk

     :# 

  3. tbtstt said:
    tbtstt said:
    Hang on, hang on. I might be going crazy here, so bear with me. What if, and bear with me here, what if we’ve been overlooking something? What if, and please bear with me, what if Christina has been leaving clues in the codemasters fruit reviews?

    https://twitter.com/xtinamcf/status/976110299785912320?s=21 

    But it what does it mean?
    Meanwhile, somewhere at Codemasters, @ChristinaMc is sitting at her desk laughing at the fact that the members of a forum are so desperate for news that they have resorted to dissecting an inane tweet about fruit.
    Inane?! HOW DARE YOU. 
    It's fruit @ChristinaMc. You should be tweeting about the big issues. Like tea, cake or burgers. 

    #ItsAllAboutTheCarbs
    Oi! Don't forget about pizza. The kebab kind.

  4.   RallyDriven said:
    If we did get a wrc game from codemasters, I’m torn between whether I’d want replicas of real stages or an improved your stage system. I think the best thing about your stage is you could actually have a proper rally of up to 22 stages like real wrc, rather than just running 1 or 2 stages per event cut up and reversed


    Replicas would be ace, but as you say, they can't create many of them.

    Your Stage would have to improve alot. If I were to do a 22 stage event in Wales as is in Dirt4 I would probably hang myself. 22 "unique" stages that all felt strangely like the exact same stage over and over and over :(




  5. KevM said:
    WRC 7 rubbished the 3 or 4 short stages per location theory.  Some of the longer ‘Epic’ stages for each location were fantastic.   They also had real-life areas stitched into the stages that you could clearly recognise from actual tv footage.

    Someone mentioned older drivable cars instead of the ‘on rails’ WRC cars.  Have you watched a WRC round?  The car movement is phenomenal with 4 wheel mental powerslides everywhere.  I’d like that...

    Yeah, but didn't WRC7 consist of 1 short super special and then 3/4 short stages and those ones stitched together also made up the so called Epic stage? Still not convinced.




  6. KevM said:
    So then, Would people actually prefer WRC 8 or DiRT Rally 2?
    My initial thoughts on Codies having the WRC license has always been that there are too much restrictions, putting out a yearly game etc, but I'm also a bit excited if they would have a shot at it.

    My fear about it though, is that having all 14-16(?) rounds would mean going back to 3-4 short stages per country. And if they want to get Your Stage working with it? 3-4 tiles per country? Wouldn't really work.

    I'd rather see something like the ERC if they go down the license road. Focus on 6-7 locations and make them properly. ERC has a few spectacular ones as well.

  7. KevM said:
    Surely WRC license renewal doesn’t just come up for grabs on the last day of the old contract.  For continuity, it’s likely discussed and tendered months/years before its lapse.  Could work have started on it months/years ago, with DiRT 4 (repeating tiles based stages) thrown out as a gap filler?  They’d effectively have been tied to the WRC 8 release date being late 2018 even from day 1 of the Kylotonn contract starting?

    Hmmm....
    Maybe the contract with WRC was signed even before WRC 7 came out. If Kylotton and BigBen's contract only specified X amount of games and they knew 7 was their last one, makes sense why they already had registered V-Rally. They were already planning something to fill the inevitable gap that would open in the studio's production pipeline. This is, of course, speculation on my part.
    Yep, if V-Rally 4 is coming out later this year Kylotonn obviously have known that they won't be doing WRC 8 for quite some time.

  8. carpa said:
    KevM said:
    They couldn’t not be doing SOMETHING??  Not after D4.  It’s not the game you put your feet up after, is it?

    Do the DiRT guys have any involvement in that OnRush carry-on?  

    Id be ultra-frustrated if that’s what they have all been doing since DiRT 4  :/

    I’ll say it again, this Radio silence is really really worrying.  Someone must know something???!
    Judging from the fact @ChristinaMc said she dropped hints about Dirt 4 in several road books, i'd say the clues are all there and they must have been working on something other than Dirt 4. The clubs patch was largely thanks to the racenet team I'd have thought...

    Wasn't there that brief glimpse of a possible new environment in the Codemasters behind the scenes video? Clutching at straws here.

    Edit: Couldn't find it but did find a post from ChristinaMC stating that OnRush team is different and the DiRT team are their own separate entity. 
    I think there was a printed map of the new Silverstone Rallycross circuit laying on a table innthe Codies office. You could see it in a picture they took. That would still involve the WRX licence though and it could mean nothing.

    I genuinely kept an eye for potential hints in roadbooks (dear lord what am I doing with my life) but I haven't found any. And there haven't even been that many road books recently...
    I think he means another clip where someone says "our enviromental team is hard at work" and you can see a roadmap of some sort that is clearly a road, not a circuit.

  9. dgeesi0 said:
    wrc 7 is a decent game some things are up there with dirt rally some are not. its a solid 8/10. dirt rally id say 9/10. some things so simple are bad in it though and frustrating. it does bug me when big studios make big titles and miss such basics. bubbles me :#

    most rally racing games dont cater for car set ups. only title that seems to do this well recently is f1 games. why the rally games dont follow suit really destroys my mind thinking about it. for eg la la is top of tables. all you do is click that person name and copy set up done ! this needs to happen in the rally games or make the default set ups good from the start . if you dont understand how to set up the cars you are instantly at a disadvantage. in recent dirt games there hasnt been any real showing of how to do this and working in practice ! make it so people have a fair balance and have the same set ups.then it becomes purely about driving rallying. skill. not having a better set up.

    gui menu system. often a over thought. one of my pet hates in games is a bad menu system to navigate.the process of playing or accessing anything should be the least steps possible. especially with wheel settings. think of how many times you get a new game and sit there infuriated trying to set controls.this is basics and very important.

    im hoping the next few big titles start to nail some of these basics that big studios keep missing.maybe making the perfect game or as close as possible

    I’ve never touched setups before because I don’t understand it at all, but after looking at some tutorials on YouTube for dirt 4, the game is starting to make a lot more sense. The default setups make the handling seem awful
    I think devs often overlooks the importance of having well thought out setups. Only a few percent of the player base understand car dynamics well enough to tinker with the setups, and even if they do they just don't bother.

    There should be an advanced system for those who like to play around with setups, but also simple things like choosing if you prefer a stable understeering car or a lively oversteering car. 

    I really like they way Project Cars 2 utilizes the engineer in this case where you by simple options and statements explain what you want or where you have a problem, and the engineer suggests what changes needs to be made.

  10. I just thinks Wales a bit too twisty and bumpy for my taste. It's also extremely repetitive as you always get the same tile for entering the forest and the same tile for exiting the forest. Add the god awful moore sections with zero flow and very bad notes. It's just very frustrating.

    I think the open field sections in Michigan are my favourite. It's fast, narrow and relatively flat.

  11. versedi said:
    Should we expect Mexico 2018 Tactics on PS where everyone will try to go later than the other? ;) 

    That will be problematic for All Live :P 
    Yeah, that’s why I feel they will have to do something about this. They have tv schedules to stick to, they can’t have everyone using up all their permitted lateness to try and get better road positions. Ogier did get some kind of penalty for it, but I’m not quite sure how international time works. On national time in the UK you wouldn’t get a penalty for doing that unless you were over your permitted lateness (often 15-30 minutes depending on the rally), in which case you would be Over Time Limit (OTL) and be retired from the event
    As I said before, if they add the time penalty to the stage that you were late for, the loophole disapears. 30 seconds or more added to the power stage surely means zero PS-points.

    Update: And he actually got a 4.20 penalty this time.
    Not sure, but you get 10 seconds for each minute you're late to a TC?

  12. tbtstt said:
    Yes it did. After the impact with the snow bank.
    Yep. And then Tanak hit him! 

    Some are saying that Ogier was sneaky, but I'd say it was a smart move. I'm sure that came from the team as well and he wouldn't have been doing it unprompted. Very surprised that Citroen didn't tell Meeke to do the same thing. Four more points that Ogier might have missed and a bit of damage limitation for the lost points in his Championship campaign. 

    EDIT: I may not have given enough credit to Citroen. I just saw a post on another forum that Meeke didn't hand his timecard in at the end of the rally, so apparently he can get a "free" engine for Mexico:

    FIA Sporting Code:

    64.2.3 When a car does not finish a rally, an extra engine per seasonally allocated car number may be allowed without incurring a penalty. No more than 2 extra engines per seasonally allocated car number and per season may be sealed without incurring any penalty.
    When an extra engine is used, the engine which was fitted on a retired car (seasonally allocated car number) may not be used any further during the season (see Art. 64.1.4).

    Sneaky and smart don't have to be different things ;)

    However, it will be a pretty laughable situation next year when there is a que of factory cars deliberately arriving too late to the start of the powerstage if they are out of any points scoring position and want a better road position.

    The only solution I see fit to redeem this type of thing is that you add the penalty time to the actual stage time of the SS that you arrived late to. Boom. Done.

  13. KevM said:
    I dunno.  To me, Sweden in DR are probably the best rounded stages in the game.  They suit the V2 handling to a T.  They are technical & get you into a real rhythm.  If the stage clicks for the driver, you can properly commit.  & the change in surface really mixed things up.

    i played D4 Sweden maybe twice in total....  The handling & the stages just didn’t gel like before
    Yeah Dirt 4's Sweden was pretty poor for some reason.
    The narural flow of the road has gone missing to some extent with Your Stage sadly. It's so many strange off cambers and bumps that make driving more of a hassle than a joy. Wales is equally frustrating.

    I prefer Michigan since it's pretty flat with lots of crests instead of bumps.

  14. Btw, am I alone in thinking D4 uses different scaling? When I switch from D4 to DR everything seems much more narrow in D4. The Swedish roads for example seens much more realistic in width through dash cam in Dirt Rally. I just perceive it as it's easier to see the road ahead in DR.

    I double checked with Codies that 0.6 FOV is the exact same value in both titles btw.
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