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  1. Physics looks rubbish, I didnt thought C3 WRC suspension was that bad :D

    But stage doesn't look that bad, indeed I would like to give it a go with proper physics  :/ 
    Edit: It is wide buuut coming from Kylotton it isn't a 8 lane highway
    I can't understand the French, but where the hell is that stage supposed to be? A volcano? Weird landscape to have massive boulders like that all over and cliff faces, but only light gravel.

  2. gfRally said:
    Whilst waiting for gossip, here's Ken Block doing DIRTy like thing:

    https://youtu.be/33A0zZ5qb1Y
    I was there back in April, this is an awesome place to see, like another planet.  
    Like if you made the sky purple it'd be in Star Trek?

    I live in a fairly dusty place, and as much fun as it is to get DiRTy, I hate the feeling of being coated with dirt. I'd want immediate access to a shower and change of clothes.

  3. JZStudios said:

    The sad thing is, checking the forums used to be the highlight of my day, and now I don't even have that. Think it's time to break out the Simon and Garfunkel.
    https://youtu.be/4zLfCnGVeL4


    I can mention the Toyota S1E22B WRC to start an argument if you want?
    I mean, you could, but I don't know anything about the Toyota S1E22B WRC STI Superleggera SS  for it to make any difference to me.


  4. SamRWD said:
    Probably team was moved to F1 branch. Otherwise we would already get clubs. Physics won't get realistic overhaul IMHO. D4 feels like Gran Turismo, and that is a good think for gamepad users. Both games use the same handling philosophy. 
    I would heavily disagree. I played DR and D4 at launch using standard controller schemes on an Xbox pad, and DR plays way better than 4. I'm not sure what happened with 4.
    carpa said:
    Sees 15 new messages in Gossip Thread.
    Hopes is about new patch/handling.
    Heck at least the kebabpizza.
    Nope. Complaints about YourStage.
    Back to DiRT Rally.

    I'm joking obviously, I know you guys wanted this to be great as much as me. Unfortunately, it wasn't.
    Hell, at this point, at least it's conversation.

    The sad thing is, checking the forums used to be the highlight of my day, and now I don't even have that. Think it's time to break out the Simon and Garfunkel.
    https://youtu.be/4zLfCnGVeL4



  5. BadD0g said:
    JZStudios said:
    I was initially thinking that they would make the actual locations a permanent thing, then just have the procedural generation lay a road down on the pre made terrain. I feel like you'd have more control over that as well. You could potentially even make checkpoints that the road hits along the way, so you could go city, hills, forest. Instead they went with extremely repetitive tiles.
    You could potentially complain that the scenery never changes, but it also never changes with handmade tracks either, so it doesn't matter.
    That's what I thought it would do as well. I'm disappointed that the final product boils down to just "forest section" or "open section" with a handful of road tiles. That's why I bring up the Xpand Rally method, with today's tech it could be possible to make a map big enough and with a complex enough road network that simply blocking off various junctions to make stages may be good enough. The repeating tiles in Your Stage feels wrong because you're not actually driving though the same location multiple times, but if you drive through a premade map, the repetition might feel more natural since you know you're driving through an actual location (if that makes sense).

     Maybe there could even be premade sections scattered around with procedural roads inbetween? Also, if the stages are made by blocking specific junctions, it would be easy to incorporate an actual stage creator, where people can make their own route through the map.
    Well if they make specific junction junctions like towns, they could have the procedural generation take place in between while using the pre made streets of the town. There's a lot of ways to do it, but unfortunately the method they chose is the most repetitive.

  6. Never mind, it was just an error in the video and I managed to grab the real screen with correct car size.
    Sometimes these videos can get really messed up on youtube.
    ;)


    ... I'm really confused... does Wales have giant redwood forests or are they going for the Burnout Paradise toy car thing?
    SkyRex said:
    dgeesi0 said:
    another game with toyotas in why cant codies get them but everyone else can ? :/

    whatever the next rally game is make sure the iconic events courses tracks are in.
    I still think YourStage is definately the right direction. Don't go back to just replicate stages from real life. The locations are iconic, not all the stages and not knowing the stage is part of rallying. CM should instead refine YourStage to a point, where you don't feel so much as of now, that you drive a generated stage.

    Maybe they should go more procedural and away from the "Tiles" concept. Just starting with a location, without any roads and lay in the roads completely dynamic. Yourstage can alreay vary in height, same tiles can be level, uphill or downhill, just how the stage needs it. So you could start with much smaller pieces of surface, like 1m of road and mold them together dynamically up and down. Once the road is laid into the environment, a second generation process could start to create the roadside. Dynamically placing fences, houses, puddles, spectators, guardrails, significant trees, bushes, logpiles, trucks, cars, etc.  
    It already does this at some places, but the size of the tiles is to big, so they feel repetitive.

    Right now it's probably easier for the algorithm to find a road as it has a subset of tiles that all fit together in a believable way and can just pick one at random.  If much smaller roadpieces all fit together, they can no longer be put together randomly, as it would end up in a super-messy spaghetti-road, so refining such a believable road-construction-algorithm is probably the difficult part here
    I was initially thinking that they would make the actual locations a permanent thing, then just have the procedural generation lay a road down on the pre made terrain. I feel like you'd have more control over that as well. You could potentially even make checkpoints that the road hits along the way, so you could go city, hills, forest. Instead they went with extremely repetitive tiles.
    You could potentially complain that the scenery never changes, but it also never changes with handmade tracks either, so it doesn't matter.

  7. BadD0g said:
    dgeesi0 said:
    or its just a dirt rally shot :D                              
    Hey, where's your wildly speculative spirit? This thread has been down on the tin-foil hat conspiracy energy lately, we'll take anything we can get.
    Unfortunately, the color grading, models, lighting, and background trees all suggest DR. I mean, we could tin foil hat it into something.... but... the energy and charisma just isn't there.

  8. gfRally said:
    Since the Gossip thread is disgustingly empty..  I thought I would post this here:

    https://youtu.be/YlsobMyM8rQ

    I could see a simplified version of this in many racing sims in the future, it would make a whole new 'thing' like spending time making your branding suite.  
    3 seconds in and it's a VR title. Meh, I'll just wait for My Summer Car to go on sale.

  9. edgenz said:
    Etirion said:
    Well there was this
    https://twitter.com/Kick_Up/status/894657896620929025

    Rally NZ confirmed... just dont know when or which game  :p
    :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth: actual gasp.
    Don't go breaking my heart now @KickUp....
    Well... if they do the Your Stage thing it's possible. They could just do some scouting trips, but the locals might not even like that.
    And I thought the locals were the problem.
    Edit*
    Unless of course we take care of the locals....
    httpassetsnydailynewscompolopoly_fs115660131388805409imghttpImageimagejpg_genderivativesarticle_750horse4n-2-webjpg

    You wants we should whack em?

  10. zissakos1 said:
    Hi @KickUp
    those .nefs file not only seem to be a new way of packaging the files, but the game actively checks for any change being done to them and then changes into a mode where nothing is being saved online /no preogression possible etc.(maybe some kind of CRC/hash check?)

    While I remember you saying that there is a different approach this time, I don't remember anything being said about the game actively preventing any modding.

    While I understand that the topic of changing liveries might be a very delicate one and subject to any licencing deals, I don't understand why the same applies to modding the camera files. What is the harm if the users change the default cameras?

    So  - I dare to say in the name of the whole community - I humbly ask you to consider at least allowing changes to the cameras.xml file without preventing saving/career progression.
    Would this be something that could be considered?


    The problem is that it could be far deeper rooted than just ticking an "Allow this option" box.

  11. kobeshow said:
    gfRally said:
    JZStudios said:
    tbtstt said:
    Not DiRT related, but it's been announced that Forza Motorsport 7 won't have any Toyota production cars, only racing models. Toyota's licensing is becoming a law unto themselves!
    An exclusive license deal with Polyphony perhaps? Be interesting to see what makes it into GT Sport.
    Somehow I don't believe that, though they are Japanese, so it could be true. Think Forza 6 and H3 had to skip on VW altogether for some reason.
    Real shame, and it's weird that they won't license out the street cars. Even AC has a few. I always liked the MR2, but I don't want to buy an Xbone just for Forza when my wheel won't work with it. Really hope they manage to make the Win10 version actually work.
    I might be late on this, but I just noticed the Hyundai R5 rally car is available for purchase as a DLC now 
    http://store.steampowered.com/app/437120/Hyundai_R5_rally_car/

    The Team Booster Pack is available as well http://store.steampowered.com/app/437121/Team_Booster_Pack/
    Figures. And it's the worst possible outcome. Selling the pre-order bonus is always bullshit.
    Not sure what you paid for your copy and can't remember what the pre-order price was, but the 2 packs only cost $5 total, not exactly braking the bank, and if  you didn't pay the retail price anyhow, possibly you are still getting the base+DLC for less than the initial pre-order.  Not trying to argue at all, I know DLC is somehow taboo around here, but I don't think its that big of a deal.  
    Maybe he is coming from a different perspective, maybe he is mad because he wanted the pre-order car, so he bought the game in advnace without waiting for reviews, and is now left disappointed. Would CM have told us that the car will be there as DLC after release he may have ended up not buying the game, but if he liked it he might not mind paying a little extra to get the car.
    Preorder just seemed to be a way to secure sales then, if the DLC is available for everyone now, without properly communicating that prior to release.
    I'm sure I can find the direct quote from @kickup somewhere in the gossip, but paraphrasingly he said "because of the suits, preorder was the only way to get the car into the game"
    Partly true there too. Before launch I asked Kickup if it would ever become available, hopefully for free. He didn't say free, and I'm pretty sure he just said it might happen. So, in lieu of any confirmation I did pre-order a few hours before release, and everyone is fairly disappointed in the current handling.
    SkyRex said:
    please CM, if you have to use those nefs archives, maybe next time make smaller chunks of them...
    It's really bad for my SSD if it has to rewrite all the gigabytes for every small patch...

    By the way, how are clubs coming along? Once I'm ze fearless h-shifter historic champion I will need those sweet sweet leagues against real players ;)

    I can't even update my game without uninstalling something else.

  12. gfRally said:
    JZStudios said:
    tbtstt said:
    Not DiRT related, but it's been announced that Forza Motorsport 7 won't have any Toyota production cars, only racing models. Toyota's licensing is becoming a law unto themselves!
    An exclusive license deal with Polyphony perhaps? Be interesting to see what makes it into GT Sport.
    Somehow I don't believe that, though they are Japanese, so it could be true. Think Forza 6 and H3 had to skip on VW altogether for some reason.
    Real shame, and it's weird that they won't license out the street cars. Even AC has a few. I always liked the MR2, but I don't want to buy an Xbone just for Forza when my wheel won't work with it. Really hope they manage to make the Win10 version actually work.
    I might be late on this, but I just noticed the Hyundai R5 rally car is available for purchase as a DLC now 
    http://store.steampowered.com/app/437120/Hyundai_R5_rally_car/

    The Team Booster Pack is available as well http://store.steampowered.com/app/437121/Team_Booster_Pack/
    Figures. And it's the worst possible outcome. Selling the pre-order bonus is always bullshit.
    Not sure what you paid for your copy and can't remember what the pre-order price was, but the 2 packs only cost $5 total, not exactly braking the bank, and if  you didn't pay the retail price anyhow, possibly you are still getting the base+DLC for less than the initial pre-order.  Not trying to argue at all, I know DLC is somehow taboo around here, but I don't think its that big of a deal.  
    It was a standard $60 to pre-order. But if I didn't, it'd still be $60 and then the additional 5 for something they gave away free. The game is still $60, and the DLC is still 5. So to get something I didn't get for free from pre-order I'd have to pay more. I hate that shit.
    The only thing worse is I'm playing through the Mass Effect trilogy (barring Andromeda) and ME2 has full on story based $10 DLC missions that actually effect the third game. Apparently the third game opens on Shepard being on trial for killing 300,000 Batarians which is ONLY in DLC that I'm not buying.

  13. tbtstt said:
    Not DiRT related, but it's been announced that Forza Motorsport 7 won't have any Toyota production cars, only racing models. Toyota's licensing is becoming a law unto themselves!
    An exclusive license deal with Polyphony perhaps? Be interesting to see what makes it into GT Sport.
    Somehow I don't believe that, though they are Japanese, so it could be true. Think Forza 6 and H3 had to skip on VW altogether for some reason.
    Real shame, and it's weird that they won't license out the street cars. Even AC has a few. I always liked the MR2, but I don't want to buy an Xbone just for Forza when my wheel won't work with it. Really hope they manage to make the Win10 version actually work.
    I might be late on this, but I just noticed the Hyundai R5 rally car is available for purchase as a DLC now 
    http://store.steampowered.com/app/437120/Hyundai_R5_rally_car/

    The Team Booster Pack is available as well http://store.steampowered.com/app/437121/Team_Booster_Pack/
    Figures. And it's the worst possible outcome. Selling the pre-order bonus is always bullshit.

  14. carpa said:
    CMMcBabe said:
    Dytut said:
    BTW, has anyone actually found the pizza yet?
    We might have to start giving out clues if you guys don't hurry up.
    Yeah but keep it subtle. Always. 
    I think it's definitely repeatable so i'm doubting if it's on a stage as they're all generated. My guess is it's a specific car, specific location, (maybe specific time of day?) and possibly in the back of said car instead of the spare wheel
    Meh, I hope it's an easter egg where I can be a pizza delivery man with a Lancia Delta S4
    Super Special Stage Unlocked!
    KevM said:
    JZStudios said:
    CMMcBabe said:
    Dytut said:
    BTW, has anyone actually found the pizza yet?
    We might have to start giving out clues if you guys don't hurry up.
    Has anyone even tried looking for it?
    I don't play it so won't find it.  I'd rather find £54.99
    Awwww, that's harsh. :'(

  15. gfRally said:
    OH yeah... real gossip:





    cuz this place B dead .. DiRT is DEAD :neutral:
    So, I was going to post a bagpipe video, but A. I couldn't find a good one, and B. I think it's for some reason more popular in America. I guess also C. The only one I like is Amazing Grace, which as far as I know is basically a pretty much purely American song.
    I don't know why exactly Scottish Bagpipes are so popular at American funerals, maybe it's just because the sound that bloated goat is making is the same sound in our hearts. And on that note:
    https://youtu.be/7oday_Fc-Gc


  16. versedi said:

     if I was to review FIFA I'd be like: ok there are 22 chaps running behind a spherical object on a square part of grass. That's it.)

    That made me chuckle so much :D 
    I didn't even know soccer had 22 players. The only thing I know about it is people faking injuries, except that one dude who got his leg slashed from someones kleets.
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