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  1. Rallystu2 said:
    I'm sure they'll have a Skoda R5 . The R5 class would look great with the Citroen,fiesta, Skoda and VW in it.

    I very much doubt it will be in the game at launch; Citroen, Ford and VW we know about already, hopefully the Hyundai makes a comeback and maybe the Peugeot too. If a Fabia makes it, I'd guess it will 'headline' one of the DLCs.
    The Skoda isn't new in the R5 class. Unlike the Citroen C3 and the Polo, which were homologated this year and are now making waves. Comparatively the Skoda is an old-timer, around since 2015. Would still love to have it though.

    You know what, if I recall correctly, someone posted a fake screenshot of a Skoda Fabia R5 at the start of a Polish stage. It was a real picture but the car was being filmed at an angle that looked like chase cam. Codies have Poland and if the Skoda is in too, take a legit screenshot in the same position, just for fun :D

    Aye, I just feel that they would have announced this one already if they had it. They've announced the Citroen and VW and I suspect that's because they're new cars to the DiRT series. That's the R5 'modern headline' cars sorted I reckon, so I doubt they'll have the Skoda for launch. Hope I'm wrong, but just a hunch (based on the previous Skoda history with DiRT games too).


  2. Oscar97 said:
    Aren't Volkswagen replacing the Skoda R5 with the new Polo R5?
    Doubt it, look at GT3 (Porsche, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini) and TCR (Audi, Seat, VW) for examples of 3+ VAG brands competing against each other in customer racing. Competition makes the sport more interesting, resulting in higher sales and more coverage.

    Skoda is part of VW group, are they particularly much harder to license?
    They are run as completely separate companies in this regard - see Audi's annoying "only real liveries" rule in several games. I will never understand why Skoda are apparently reluctant - motorsport has arguably been a reason behind their amazing rise under VAG - but it seems they are.

  3. Rallystu2 said:
    I'm sure they'll have a Skoda R5 . The R5 class would look great with the Citroen,fiesta, Skoda and VW in it.

    I very much doubt it will be in the game at launch; Citroen, Ford and VW we know about already, hopefully the Hyundai makes a comeback and maybe the Peugeot too. If a Fabia makes it, I'd guess it will 'headline' one of the DLCs.

  4. bogani said:
    http://www.lalibre.be/sports/omnisports/stephane-prevot-neuville-a-la-pression-je-ne-le-vois-pas-champion-5bdc3399cd70e3d2f679de93

    Anyone speak French and have a subscription here?

    Apparently the below is a Google Translate attempt at an interview with Stephane Prevot:

    Although he has run less than usual this season, his rally program being limited to three Subaru events in the States with Kris Atkinson replacing Travis Pastrana, Stéphane Prévot worked on notes for two months. "Code Master has contacted me to translate and dictate the notes for the new Dirt Rally game that will be released in February, and players in previous editions complained about the French-language notes made with Google Translate, so I was asked to adapt Phil Mills' notes (for the original English version) and to dictate them, with 12 rallies and 28 long specials to adapt, I've been busy for two months, and recently I've been ten days in England to record my voice.

    Very interesting. In my mind this sounds like they worked on and recorded notes for the 6 release locations plus 6 more that I assume will be the 6 Dirt Rally had. I truly doubt they have anything else ready to record than the new locations, so it's not 6 additional new locations on top of that. 
    It was the number 28 that confused me most. Obviously, it doesn't divide into 12 or 6, and even if you remove the 12 stages from DR1 you're left with 16. That's why I think it may need a native translation or it may just be that the numbers are out. It could just be that the '12' are what we would call the 'long stages'. Or 28 is just a typo...?

    Intriguing anyway.

  5. http://www.lalibre.be/sports/omnisports/stephane-prevot-neuville-a-la-pression-je-ne-le-vois-pas-champion-5bdc3399cd70e3d2f679de93

    Anyone speak French and have a subscription here?

    Apparently the below is a Google Translate attempt at an interview with Stephane Prevot:

    Although he has run less than usual this season, his rally program being limited to three Subaru events in the States with Kris Atkinson replacing Travis Pastrana, Stéphane Prévot worked on notes for two months. "Code Master has contacted me to translate and dictate the notes for the new Dirt Rally game that will be released in February, and players in previous editions complained about the French-language notes made with Google Translate, so I was asked to adapt Phil Mills' notes (for the original English version) and to dictate them, with 12 rallies and 28 long specials to adapt, I've been busy for two months, and recently I've been ten days in England to record my voice.


  6. I thought I was the only one bothered by things like that, but agreed, please make them consistent across the cars; it bothers me more than it should in Project CARS and Raceroom. I'd also favour country by country, but just per series is fine. In my ideal world, numbers would be done on seeding somehow, but I accept that's probably unlikely.

    More bespoke liveries would also be nice; there are plenty of nice Hyundai and Ford R5s out there in national championships.

  7. bogani said:
    Jii7 said:
    Dytut said:
    Yeah... If I was Malcolm Wilson I'd consider grabbing Kalle for 2019.
    Kalle has an contract for Skoda until 2019. Pretty sure he is going to Toyota for 2020 along with japanese WRC2 driver Takamoto Katsuta
    I understand why Toyota wants a Japanese driver there, but Katsuta? It feels like he had the drive of his life in Sweden this year. What has he done since?

    And, whilst he had the drive of his life and I was cheering for him the whole way, it's fair to say that his tyres (TMR only ones on Pirelli?) helped somewhat.

  8. Jii7 said:
    Dytut said:
    There we go, the expected announcements of Meeke to Toyota and Lappi to Citroën.
    As a finn I'm having hard time to understand Lappi's move to Citroen. He is moving from the strongest team to the weakest team at the moment. Also same team as Ogier = always the number 2 driver. Latvala and Evans are the proof of that.
    Me too, if I was playing Devil's Advocate, I'd say that he's going to a team where Ogier will be number one but has inferred that he will step down; it gives him a chance to really build a team around him to take over when Seb retires and become a number one. Neuville and Tanak you'd expect to be around a bit longer.

    If Citroen weren't paying him more, driving as lead driver for Ford may have been beneficial, but you'd imagine that Citroen may take big steps forward next year too.

  9. dgeesi0 said:
    i didnt gel with the team management part of dirt 4 thought it was not needed. 

    And there was no sense of immersion regarding your opponents. I want to know who is good at each surface. Which team has the best budget. Stuff like that. Just like VRally 3 or Richard burns rally. It really helps making you feel part of the actual championship. Hell DR was better than D4 in that regard because you could get a feel for your opponents by racing them.


    So glad to hear you guys say that, I felt very much the same way. A good mode, such as RBR's, would be more than welcome (where opponents had personalities [editable ones too]) but otherwise I'd rather have DR's opponent settings than D4's, which were immersion-breaking rather than making (every rally being either me or Alvarez, regardless of what class or where in the world).

  10. Oscar97 said:

    Jepsertti said:
    Areyouben said:
    I’d rather have the R3 class to be honest. Most of them FWD, but quicker, and opens the door for a BRZ R3 as well. We have the historic FWD class to fill up the entry level FWD’s.
    R2 class is a lot more popular than R3. Also no such thing as BRZ R3 exists because the Toyota GT86 CS-R3 is the only car classified to R3 class from the FR-S/BRZ/GT86 lineup and we all know how the relationship between Toyota and Codemasters is.
    It's not just Codemasters, Toyota doesn't want to see their cars in racing games anymore. They just make an exception for Gran Turismo because Polyphony Digital is Japanese.
    Milestone must have an agreement with them, as the Celica GT4 and GT86 appeared in both Seb Loeb Rally Evo and Gravel.

    And Kunos for Assetto Corsa

    And SMS for Project CARS 1 and 2

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