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What I think is funny is that they have decent audio recording equipment, they just don't know what to do with it, much less the audio engine. Then they tried to ban the guy that made sound mods. :neutral:
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I'd have to agree. It might be fun for Luke, Porky, and Dgeesi0, but other than that.... i will be honest it for dirt 4 so doubt i will do it. also most likelt wont be able to make event anyways. no point in entering if cant make it . that happened last time we had this for dirt rally on sweet lamb.i won it but couldnt go. If you - or anyone else - wants to win in by playing the whole thing online, then I am willing to go to Silverstone to drive the RX2 for you. ;) There you go @dgeesi0 , do it for tbstesttestbest. Maybe they'll let him have a spin if we all vote for him like we did with the PS4 copy. :P
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I'd have to agree. It might be fun for Luke, Porky, and Dgeesi0, but other than that....
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I wonder how long before he actually IS just on the DiRTy gossip, and not actual insider information.
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Awww, don't give up yet. I think Christina still owes us a roadbook or something...
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Oh joy, what's next? Paul's retiring with no further co-driving work?
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What I find odd is it doesn't look like a Big Brand commercial product. I mean quality and functionality looks good. But it looks like something I would build on my spare time. The branding looks like an afterthought, that Sparco plate is like, "hey, I found a box of these plates, where can we put these". Its not the fit and finish of a Fanatec product or even other TM products. Yes the price is a little off too. Note: when it comes to Simpit items, outside of a wheel and gearbox I am all diy, I have access to CNC/Laser cutters, etc and have made many pieces for mine. Its my hobby making and designing stuff and have pulled off some pretty realistic pieces. So my eye always looks at an item and I think, could I make that? For the most part I could with a lot of off the shelf parts. I look at my Fanatec shifter, I cannot say that, same with my wheel, can't make that either. I do appreciate TM making the effort to expose more people to rally, and providing realistic functioning components to enhance that experience. Man, the Fanatec shifter is a freaking tank, and incredibly simply well designed. $260 for a TM handbrake makes me laugh though, I bet it's hideous on the inside.
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...the $600 wheel hub is much nicer than... well any of Thrustmasters lineup. The wheels themselves are also immensely nicer. Mainly in the fact that they're metal, with real leather/alcantara, and all the buttons/switches work rather than being molded plastic and stickers. But I don't know why they completely killed their cheaper wheel line, especially for so long.
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Lol, 90% metal. Maybe it's because I'm in the States, but the Fanatec shifter and handbrake weren't THAT expensive. If cost bothers you you could make your own hydraulic one for around $60 (Or whatever currency you may use) I found my Fanatec parts to be about the same cost as TM, but they didn't light themselves on fire. And the shifter is 100% metal and weighs half a ton.
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Good call: Unless you're very, very good at reading in-between the lines of my subconscious, I've not said anything meaty just yet. :)103 Characters. 21 Words. 103 divided by 21 is 4.90. DIRT 4.9 CONFIRMED.I did some quick research, and found found this: https://mobile.twitter.com/xtinamcf/status/951049791118692353 I also used MS Word to count the characters and words in @ChristinaMc 's post: https://imgur.com/a/0xqRz I know it's not in English bit it says: - Words: 20 - Characters(spaces excluded): 101 - Characters(spaces included): 120 If you ignore the full stop at the end you get 100/20 = 5 These two clues make me believe, codies are going to release DIRT 5, which could mean DIRT Rally was a one-time spinn-off :( Offcourse this is pure speculation and even though @ChristinaMc and @CMMcBabe clearly hint that DIRT 5 is a thing and that it's supposed to come in the (near) future. As long as there's no official confirmation this is pure DIRTy gossip ;) But I think by now it's very clear what @ChristinaMc is going to write about "in the coming weeks" https://twitter.com/xtinamcf/status/951049791118692353?s=17 Sooo she's talking about a ~30s video (it is actually 34 seconds) and 15 stars collected in said time. She then says 15/3=5 but why /3 and not /30? That's the right number of seconds! Because 15/3 isn't a math calculation, it's a date! 15th March! The announcement date of DiRT 5! All this might be due to the fact I have 38.6°C fever. It actually is probablyThis is the brilliantly speculative sort of content I deeply enjoy. Keep looking. ;) It was noted that her post had C and B in caps, I speculated it might be extra RX tracks, perhaps Cataluya, Barcelona? Or Canada and Belgium tracks? *his Oh, come on, don't be like that Babe. You'll always be my special lady. As much as I'd like additional content for D4, IF it is, I still think some tweaks to car handling is a bit more essential. If it is a new RX game, that could be very neat indeed as long it actually has more content than DR and D4.
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Why do devs even do CG trailers? The CG wasn't that great, and in a racing game it's entirely unnecessary anyways. This did nothing but make me question why it isn't at least in engine.. "Hey everyone, look at our new game!*" *Not actual in-game footage I mean, old games on PS2 and such sure, and hell, I still like the Halo 3 ads, and the best ad ever being Forza 4's live action with Clarkson, but this was just all around.... poor really. It didn't even make you feel anything.
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Why do devs even do CG trailers? The CG wasn't that great, and in a racing game it's entirely unnecessary anyways. This did nothing but make me question why it isn't at least in engine..
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Texture pack confirmed?
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It's commonly known that if you want to be as fast as possible in racing sims, don't go for an authentic setup of your wheel. Low DOR and low FFB is the way to go. People even turn FFB off completely to be fast. Very true, but I don't understand how people get used to "driving" like that. It's absolutely bizarre for me. Indeed. I can't drive like that, I find zero pleasure at all. I want it to feel as authentic as possible and if that means I'm a tad slower than I could be that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make. That said, I respect other peoples choices as well. Negative, how dare they disagree with me! Their opinion is their own, but it's wrong and therefore invalid.
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It's commonly known that if you want to be as fast as possible in racing sims, don't go for an authentic setup of your wheel. Low DOR and low FFB is the way to go. People even turn FFB off completely to be fast. Very true, but I don't understand how people get used to "driving" like that. It's absolutely bizarre for me.
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Haha, what's next? "When a professional DiRT driver plays Rally?"
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You have better internet that a local connection inside a building? I highly doubt that.
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Do people racing the Dakar not use GPS now? If not, that's pretty dumb.
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This photo does nothing but make me hungry. I didn't think it was possible after everything I ate yesterday... What even actually is that? I can only tell it's fried... something... with maybe cinnamon ?
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But again, NONE of the games as they currently sit look anything like a competent "new" product. Sim racing is extremely disinteresting if you think about how it has almost actually gotten worse since GT2 10 years ago. I love racing, but I struggle to pull out my wheel and set up to play because everything is so lifeless, sterile, and boring, and no one asks for change. AC FINALLY made a big deal about how their AI finally works after years of telling people to just deal with it and rabid fanboys attacking any one. Every time there's been a major eSports sim racing event it's been awful. I don't care about it, but I also don't care about real sports, but when every event has just lost money and made a mockery of itself it's not a good business practice. Not to mention that making games for eSports (Like GT Sport) starts to heavily push towards always online only, with little to no career or meaningful progression. And in GT Sports case, some cars just dominate period. It just doesn't work in sim racing. That would be cool. I REALLY miss split screen and hate that it's gone the way of the dinosaurs. I kind of want to see if I get a side by side split screen game and set it up as dual monitor if I can just have each person have their own monitor... That'd be really cool. if i look at what you saying you dont look like the person who wants to be involved in esports or watch it. so will even the perfect racing rally game make you interested ? esports is rapidly growing at a ferocious speed.you may not think so it is ! in a few years it will be stable tv and a lot more common with big tournements.the thing is many or some are not thinking " future " .. the thing is you have to be in early anything new or you last. thats why companies are pushing it and putting money in. esports racing has only grown so i dont get what you are saying to be honest.you may struggle to play racing rally games that doesnt mean others do.look at the bigger picture. the F1 2017 event was massive.you may not like it im not a F1 person either but ..it wasnt awful it attracted massive media.it was live on sky sports.it made advances that hadnt previously been done.so the event gained rather than lost.the thing is you may lose money to gain in a area for later to be succesful ! as i said previously to be in the driving seat of anything you have to push you have to risk things you have to spend money. if you want to be a factor in anything to come. esports is mainly about teams vs teams or people vs people. its not about playing a campaign.why would it be ? its about the skill of the people competing of the sport they are taking part.not finishing a single player game.their needs to be excitement of challenger vs challenger. its not perfect yet but that takes time to perfect the showing of these events.its new it will take time effort and money. also understanding of what works and doesnt work. esports maybe not tick your box but it will for many others for the community and thats the point to look at the bigger picture.esports racing / rallying is going to be big.very big.people just either have no vision or just do see it yet. I guess I don't know anything about the F1 event. Maybe it went well, but that would make it THE first to ever not be a colossal **** show and waste resources. iRacing is BUILT around competition and every "major" race they have has had connection issues, pitiful views and the chat gets turned off EVERY TIME. There was a Vegas eSports event, which took place in a poor mod of... rFactor I believe... in which people voted for their "favorite" driver to give him a boost, which ended up being abused, the winner was a cheater, and they had to revoke his stupid trophy to give to second place, not to mention all the same aforementioned issues. It has NOTHING to do with my ability to play a **** game. People just don't care about the real sport, let alone the grown ass men acting like children and maxing out 3 credit cards to build a Domino's racing rig with custom fire suit to play in his moms basement. Let's look at fighting game competitions, there's obviously a lot of drama and **** talk before the game actually starts, but at the end of the day, when the match starts it's more interesting than virtual race cars, and people only watch it to make fun of nerds cry because they lost. That's it. I will agree though, I have zero interest in eSports, so what? I can't talk about dumb it is and how it pushes even further away from giving us what we actually want? LOL! I beg to differ: lots of people have been asking for change for years but are often met with defensive dismissals like "quit whining, stop being so entitled, don't be so impatient, nothing is perfect, can't please everybody, grow up, it's just a game, why are you such a hater, don't you have anything better to do with your life besides complaining, I'm sick of all the toxic negativity, I'd like to see you make a better game, go play something else if you don't like it," etc. Quite a lot of people prefer to unconditionally defend games instead of advocate for progress, which has helped usher in this new era of 'lifeless, sterile, & boring' recycled games. Hence what I said about rabid fanboys. They don't ask for change, they just accept and defend mediocrity. Anyone who does gets ousted then just stops caring because it just doesn't matter that much. i get its not for you as said previously i dont think even set up right you would probably watch it or be involved with it. as for credit cards and getting high end rigs sitting in moms basement. i use for eg a £50 wheel.thats it.you dont need super duper rigs to be fast.all expensive rigs get you is realism and mostly slower.most of the fastest people use cheap wheels.so nothing what you saying is relating to anything of truth.you have your opinion though. as for the tile system of Dirt 4 if it could be truly infinite then yes it could be ideal but it isnt.so i would take real life tracks done well over generated until the system can be perfected.even then im not sure if i would pick a generated track over a perfect sweet lamb . the tracks need soul they need to have the right bends fast bits. a computer doesnt feel that. man does ! computer could generate what it thinks is great but be dull and boring. true it maybe unpredictable but if its not truly fun or exciting people wont enjoy it. But happens, has happened, will happen, and the idiots keep urging people like that along. NO ONE maxes out 3 credit cards to play DOTA or LOL or rocket league or whatever. I mean, those guys are nerds and everyone expects it, but the sim racing guys all actually man children. Hey, if you get into a eSports league or whatever with your $50 wheel, then that's awesome, I'll root for you. Maybe you'll be the only normal ish person there. Until then, sim racing is chock full of grown ass men in diapers.
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But again, NONE of the games as they currently sit look anything like a competent "new" product. Sim racing is extremely disinteresting if you think about how it has almost actually gotten worse since GT2 10 years ago. I love racing, but I struggle to pull out my wheel and set up to play because everything is so lifeless, sterile, and boring, and no one asks for change. AC FINALLY made a big deal about how their AI finally works after years of telling people to just deal with it and rabid fanboys attacking any one. Every time there's been a major eSports sim racing event it's been awful. I don't care about it, but I also don't care about real sports, but when every event has just lost money and made a mockery of itself it's not a good business practice. Not to mention that making games for eSports (Like GT Sport) starts to heavily push towards always online only, with little to no career or meaningful progression. And in GT Sports case, some cars just dominate period. It just doesn't work in sim racing. That would be cool. I REALLY miss split screen and hate that it's gone the way of the dinosaurs. I kind of want to see if I get a side by side split screen game and set it up as dual monitor if I can just have each person have their own monitor... That'd be really cool. if i look at what you saying you dont look like the person who wants to be involved in esports or watch it. so will even the perfect racing rally game make you interested ? esports is rapidly growing at a ferocious speed.you may not think so it is ! in a few years it will be stable tv and a lot more common with big tournements.the thing is many or some are not thinking " future " .. the thing is you have to be in early anything new or you last. thats why companies are pushing it and putting money in. esports racing has only grown so i dont get what you are saying to be honest.you may struggle to play racing rally games that doesnt mean others do.look at the bigger picture. the F1 2017 event was massive.you may not like it im not a F1 person either but ..it wasnt awful it attracted massive media.it was live on sky sports.it made advances that hadnt previously been done.so the event gained rather than lost.the thing is you may lose money to gain in a area for later to be succesful ! as i said previously to be in the driving seat of anything you have to push you have to risk things you have to spend money. if you want to be a factor in anything to come. esports is mainly about teams vs teams or people vs people. its not about playing a campaign.why would it be ? its about the skill of the people competing of the sport they are taking part.not finishing a single player game.their needs to be excitement of challenger vs challenger. its not perfect yet but that takes time to perfect the showing of these events.its new it will take time effort and money. also understanding of what works and doesnt work. esports maybe not tick your box but it will for many others for the community and thats the point to look at the bigger picture.esports racing / rallying is going to be big.very big.people just either have no vision or just do see it yet. I guess I don't know anything about the F1 event. Maybe it went well, but that would make it THE first to ever not be a colossal shit show and waste resources. iRacing is BUILT around competition and every "major" race they have has had connection issues, pitiful views and the chat gets turned off EVERY TIME. There was a Vegas eSports event, which took place in a poor mod of... rFactor I believe... in which people voted for their "favorite" driver to give him a boost, which ended up being abused, the winner was a cheater, and they had to revoke his stupid trophy to give to second place, not to mention all the same aforementioned issues. It has NOTHING to do with my ability to play a fucking game. People just don't care about the real sport, let alone the grown ass men acting like children and maxing out 3 credit cards to build a Domino's racing rig with custom fire suit to play in his moms basement. Let's look at fighting game competitions, there's obviously a lot of drama and shit talk before the game actually starts, but at the end of the day, when the match starts it's more interesting than virtual race cars, and people only watch it to make fun of nerds cry because they lost. That's it. I will agree though, I have zero interest in eSports, so what? I can't talk about dumb it is and how it pushes even further away from giving us what we actually want? LOL! I beg to differ: lots of people have been asking for change for years but are often met with defensive dismissals like "quit whining, stop being so entitled, don't be so impatient, nothing is perfect, can't please everybody, grow up, it's just a game, why are you such a hater, don't you have anything better to do with your life besides complaining, I'm sick of all the toxic negativity, I'd like to see you make a better game, go play something else if you don't like it," etc. Quite a lot of people prefer to unconditionally defend games instead of advocate for progress, which has helped usher in this new era of 'lifeless, sterile, & boring' recycled games. Hence what I said about rabid fanboys. They don't ask for change, they just accept and defend mediocrity. Anyone who does gets ousted then just stops caring because it just doesn't matter that much.
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But again, NONE of the games as they currently sit look anything like a competent "new" product. Sim racing is extremely disinteresting if you think about how it has almost actually gotten worse since GT2 10 years ago. I love racing, but I struggle to pull out my wheel and set up to play because everything is so lifeless, sterile, and boring, and no one asks for change. AC FINALLY made a big deal about how their AI finally works after years of telling people to just deal with it and rabid fanboys attacking any one. Every time there's been a major eSports sim racing event it's been awful. I don't care about it, but I also don't care about real sports, but when every event has just lost money and made a mockery of itself it's not a good business practice. Not to mention that making games for eSports (Like GT Sport) starts to heavily push towards always online only, with little to no career or meaningful progression. And in GT Sports case, some cars just dominate period. It just doesn't work in sim racing. That would be cool. I REALLY miss split screen and hate that it's gone the way of the dinosaurs. I kind of want to see if I get a side by side split screen game and set it up as dual monitor if I can just have each person have their own monitor... That'd be really cool.
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Oh that tweet probably only refers to e-sports.. Sadly Oh no, are they going to commit the cardinal sin of forcing esports on a game when the players arent interested? Esports needs to come naturally from a competitive scene. Or else it will just turn into an unpopular mess. car racing / rally games is the next big thing for esports.so it shouldnt come as a surprise really. most car games will push for this now. already some are in place to do so. I don't care for esports at all, but every racing one that's been setup has been a major **** show and done nothing but drain funds and interest. you maybe dont but its a big thing for the games involved and the people competing or watching. for eg myself it gives me a reason to push and play the games and do the best i can at them.with possible great rewards. so it makes putting in that extra effort worth doing. the prizes and money being offered now by games is no laughing matter. giving away hundreds of thousands of pounds in money real cars all sorts. also like the F1 event thats just been on which was a big event even if you dont like f1 it brings people to the community . if codies can get rally eveny for esports the same as what they doing for f1 then it is a big thing. That's a nice sentiment n all, bur I agree with PRC's viewpoint. Anyone not already in the sim crowd will see games like iRacing and Assetto Corsa, question why they're using games straight out of 2002, meanwhile the actual participants are capitalizing on poor track boundaries and using techniques that shouldn't work in the real world, as well as having gimmicks and cheats in the main championship to make you go faster to win, then having you're first place rescinded because it was found that you're cheating. That doesn't even mention the abysmally low interest even from people that ARE in the sim community. Let's also not forget the declining popularity of the real motor racing series, much less watch a bunch of nerds get all heated up and cry over a shitty game they're cheating in. Game competitions have always been a thing, but the whole eSports seems like it's just a window for the goober viewing hole.
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Oh that tweet probably only refers to e-sports.. Sadly Oh no, are they going to commit the cardinal sin of forcing esports on a game when the players arent interested? Esports needs to come naturally from a competitive scene. Or else it will just turn into an unpopular mess. car racing / rally games is the next big thing for esports.so it shouldnt come as a surprise really. most car games will push for this now. already some are in place to do so. I don't care for esports at all, but every racing one that's been setup has been a major shit show and done nothing but drain funds and interest.
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Oh, you were part of it too? I had a very strong feeling you European types would VERY much not like the "dudebro." At this point, it's like they're trying to go absolutely head to head with Forza Horizon, which is an extremely poor choice. I haven't heard much about the handling. I thought they were changing it. I.... didn't get that impression. It felt more consistently stable, but still extremely bizarre at worst and boring at best. The map is designed to suit the physics, so there's no tight turns, since you can't drift... or turn... the roads are rather wide and exceptionally straight, and they have some race tracks, some that are "real" and some are fictional. Every one of them is like... 15 meters wide for the entire track. The first game had Laguna Seca and it was TERRIBLE. The track is too wide, it barely fits the actual layout, and the corkscrew is a joke. Not even a funny one. The Crew needs to focus on having a fun map to drive around, but with boring straight roads and terrible physics the game is just boring. I think they took 90% of the Crew 1 map, and just straight up ported it into the new map, but the new map is bigger with very little new to fill in the large gaps. I read a post on the forum complaining about how terrible Laguna Seca is and how it's exactly the same as the first game. You used to be able to see Pikes Peak from damn near anywhere in the first, but in the second it's not. I'm using that to gauge my map scale. BTW, in TC2, the satellite dishes and observatory on Pikes Peak are damn near the size of the mountain. I mean, they're f'in HUGE. The road up Pikes Peak is also exactly the same. If they don't make some major changes I imagine a lot of people (should) be very upset about how it's basically just a port of the original, + planes that handle like barges. I honestly thought the boats handled like GTA's boats (from what I can remember) and I actually kind of like how the wake from a boat ahead of you can suck you in.... Which reminds me, the biggest visible difference to the map is a suspicious amount of rivers/lakes that weren't there prior...