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All cars don't have all settings, simply because the settings are available on the real life cars. Older shocks didn't have fast/slow rebound, newer cars have them and can set the threshold between them. This is an actual improvement of the barebones setup of DR1, where the suspension is modeled more accurately in DR2.

I set off on the Mk2 weekly pretty much as soon as racenet started working. That car is gloriously fun, and I have a snowballs chance in hell of controlling it. Every stage was fun, fun, fun, lose the rear and do a 170kph roll into the countryside. Powered through the first championship with my Subie just to earn cash to buy an R5, and I got just enough to get a used Polo tonight. Went ahead and did a "learning on the job" run with it for the R5 weekly, felt kind of slow but had sections that were allright. Lost a shitton of time on the penultimate night stage, where I just lost the rear very slightly and nudged the bank on the inside with the front after 20% of the stage. Of course, every lightbulb on the front of my car gave up at the same time, so had to drive the rest of the stage in the dark... Not an easy task. Oh well, there's always next week...

Remembered we used to have a weekly thread for DR, but can't seem to find it. So let's get one going again! Brag, whine, tell of your exploits, show videos or gifs. All pertaining to this week's online challenge is welcome!

Played a few hours now. Racenet issues aside, DR 2.0 is pretty much what I expected it to be. Most important for me is the handling model, and that really is greatly improved in my view. It's got the weight of the cars from D4 (which was good), combined with the predictability and liveliness of DR (something D4 sorely missed). The addition of tyre choice is nice and I can feel it making a difference. I also enjoy that the cars feel more unique than in DR and D4.

Last two hours it has been flawless, so looks stable now.

I did get a weird bug aswell today. When driving the DS21 I suddenly had the right front wheel appear floating around about 2 meters from the car at start, and it flashed around all over the screen when driving the stage.

I managed to get on and do one daily, on the seconds daily I lost racenet again. So better, but still not good.

I'm fine with it trying to file results with racenet when possible, but not even being able to do events when racenet is down is just silly.

Yeah, racenet isn't working at all for career mode. LEaderboards for time attack appear to work. @ChristinaMc, time to whip the server people to get racenet working 😉

Got a bug pretty much straight away. Started the game, changed display settings, went straight into career mode with the fulvia. Did the poland stages, won the rally, then went back to main menu. Took a long time, then I got a message that my career progress had been reset due to discrepancy between racenet and local data 😕 Edit; and now racenet gets reported as down.

I'm in!

No news, and I doubt any new team will join before 2022 when the new regulations kick in. If WRC/FIA can manage to deliver regulations this year as promised I wouldn't be surprised to see some new teams sign up for when it (most likely) goes hybrid in the next gen. Mitsubishi would be a prime candidate, among others.

Yeah, swedish gamereactor review was weird.

Just saw the news. I'd expect Mikkelsen to drive gravel rounds still, but I doubt he has a future at Hyundai next season.

Great round in Sweden, would've been even better if Suninen and Latvala had kept on the road to give Tänak som opposition. Great battle for the rest of the positions, love when it's still rather open for the last day. Tänak impressed, as he usually does. Begs the question if anyone will be able to stop him this year. Ogier was really fast but that off cost him dearly. Best of the rally for me was the Neuville fightback and Lappis response to it, that was a back and forth and it was fun to see Lappi being able to hold his ground at the end. Mikkelsen went OK, he still doesn't seem like he can get up to speed. Still a decent result for him. It was interesting to see how Tidemand did. He had some decent speed at some stages, but I still feel like he would've needed to show more to really impress enough to get more drives this year.