esports DiRT Rally 2.0 World Series - 2020 Season

[FlatOverCrest 121]

On 8/25/2020 at 5:46 AM, PJTierney said:

Quick check, can everyone see the World Series tab in-game now?

 

They should do since Qualifiers are live.

I already have Steam confirmation, checking Xbox and PS4.

I have the World Series tab in-game on Xbox.

[dejkoo 55]

1:05

What do you think about that?? 

For me is not fair 🤷‍♂️

[PetSild 29]

Here are lacking penalization, rider helped so about -2s?

[PetSild 29]

According to almost any response , cheats the majority of riders on the first places World Series?

[Jake Cushing 820]

Real men mow the lawn

[Dytut 91]

Cheat? Absolutely not. There's no auto reset zone, so it's fair game. Ugly and risky, but fair. Would've been different if it was a hole in the auto reset zones that could be exploited. 

Some cuts in Poland are what I would consider exploits, but that's about it. Remember, until WRC made rules that at least one wheel was to be on the road drivers did some really dodgy cuts at places, at times simply skipping the road and driving on the side of it.

Edited August 30, 2020 by Dytut

[VolusiaF5 8]

nothink stopping you from taking the same cuts, git gud

[Maxiemwagenaar 14]

First two times on PS4 in RX need to be investigated. 19 and 2 seconds faster than the current champion, sure.

[MattJelonek 24]

I thought it was fine... but it couldn't happen in real life! haha

Certainly suspension damaging, car flying corner... but in saying that I watched some footage from USA stages of this game and there were some great cuts!

I'd love to be able to push more knowing I wouldn't get reset and a penalty... too if I go wayyyyy off the road and know I can turn around and head back on the actual stage rather then reset and a penalty! It's not that great 😞 

[PJTierney 5,085]

All times in potential qualifying spots are investigated when a Qualifier ends. If you want to report any though, email custservice@codemasters.com 🙂

[PJTierney 5,085]

 

[PJTierney 5,085]

On 8/30/2020 at 12:23 PM, Dytut said:

Cheat? Absolutely not. There's no auto reset zone, so it's fair game. Ugly and risky, but fair. Would've been different if it was a hole in the auto reset zones that could be exploited. 

Same policy as last season; if a line is legal in the game, use it.

For the 2020 season we looked to select Stages that have as few "cuttable" areas as possible, which is why Poland isn't on the calendar this time, for example. Some Stages, like this one have minor things like this, but nothing that'll gain you 5+ seconds like the famous "Polish potato field".

[Peter Mathen 61]

I really like this world series even when I only get 4:05.8 in week one but to be honest I have done it without a training of the car and track. So I get a new car and that's ok for me  It's a nice add on to the dailys and weeklys.

For sure some will try very hard and will try to find the shortest way using each unsportsman cuts. But that's the way if you could win prizes, each time it goes this way.

Edited September 1, 2020 by Peter Mathen

[Dytut 91]

@PJTierney apologies if i missed it somewhere, but is the overall cumulative time or points per stage? 

[PJTierney 5,085]

6 minutes ago, Dytut said:

@PJTierney apologies if i missed it somewhere, but is the overall cumulative time or points per stage? 

Cumulative time.

[Maxiemwagenaar 14]

10 hours ago, PJTierney said:

Some Stages, like this one have minor things like this, but nothing that'll gain you 5+ seconds like the famous "Polish potato field".

What is the famous potato field? If it's the one in Kopina that one doesn't even save a full second and this NZ one saves way more than that 😕 If it was Czarny Las then ye, that was quite an off-track festival with one driver exploring for half of sector 4 if I recall correctly 😅 Nice to hear you've taken this into account! Using these things is not something most top drivers like but it is almost required. The stages picked barely have any of them though which is nice so again thanks for doing that! A personal downside is that this probably caused 3 stages in Spain haha

 

EDIT://Speaking of cuts. Holjes seems to be broken and it seems the PS4 guy is legit according to the rules. Cutting half the track can be classified as a major problem I reckon. And Holjes will appear again in 2 months time.

Edited September 1, 2020 by Maxiemwagenaar

[PJTierney 5,085]

 

[RacingJunkie76 1]

Would like to know what I can do if my round 3 time never posted. My vr headset crashed b4 I could hit continue to register my time and now I can't go back in the qualifiers and my time doesn't display in the top left corner. Not that I was going to win this thing but I was kind of curious to see if I could finish in the top 500...

[PJTierney 5,085]

9 hours ago, RacingJunkie76 said:

Would like to know what I can do if my round 3 time never posted. My vr headset crashed b4 I could hit continue to register my time and now I can't go back in the qualifiers and my time doesn't display in the top left corner. Not that I was going to win this thing but I was kind of curious to see if I could finish in the top 500...

I believe there are no do-overs, so a technical issue counts as a retirement 😞 

[PJTierney 5,085]

 

 

[stein11 5]

How does the track stage degradation work in these Championships?  Is this the same for everbody in the championships? Can it be switched off?

You're 04:34.465 is a good time!  So how is it possible that someone can get a 04:19.068 with this different, more difficult surface degradation in this championship mode?

Can this more difficult track surface be practised on? Or is it only Time Trial smooth surface?  

 

Edited September 12, 2020 by stein11

[UnderclassGDfan 499]

6 hours ago, stein11 said:

How does the track stage degradation work in these Championships?  Is this the same for everbody in the championships? Can it be switched off?

It is the same for everybody.

6 hours ago, stein11 said:

You're 04:34.465 is a good time!

It is Jon Armstrong's time driven in Time Trial in perfect conditions (currently 106th place as of writing with cross-platform leaderboards enabled).
I'm sure he can drive much faster in the Kadett, and even faster in the Escort. Was probably just a quick run for the video.
He is just a tenth faster than me currently, and he is much better than me.

6 hours ago, stein11 said:

So how is it possible that someone can get a 04:19.068 with this different, more difficult surface degradation in this championship mode?

Because they are aliens. I'm sure of it.

6 hours ago, stein11 said:

Can this more difficult track surface be practised on? Or is it only Time Trial smooth surface?  

In Time Trial you can only run in perfect conditions, but you can do a custom championship and choose the degradation level as you wish.
But I don't know wich level of degradation this championship run is on.
None, low (Time Trial conditions), medium, high and max are the options I think.

Edited September 13, 2020 by UnderclassGDfan

[somethingthing 284]

On 9/1/2020 at 12:17 PM, PJTierney said:

Same policy as last season; if a line is legal in the game, use it.

For the 2020 season we looked to select Stages that have as few "cuttable" areas as possible, which is why Poland isn't on the calendar this time, for example. Some Stages, like this one have minor things like this, but nothing that'll gain you 5+ seconds like the famous "Polish potato field".

Would have been better if you actually took the time to fix the "cuttable" areas.

Edited September 13, 2020 by somethingthing

[emp9u 0]

I don't understand.. I drove 4.41 in practice (free run time trial) and in real World series run got time 4.50. I spinned out, because of low grip and I also felt that gear ratio was not the same.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but is cars always in 'stock' setup in time trial? And can it be considered that car is in same setup in World series stage?

I just can't believe that 4.19 time is possibile, if you can't practice exactly the same setup and surface degradation.. 

[UnderclassGDfan 499]

2 hours ago, emp9u said:

Maybe this is a stupid question, but is cars always in 'stock' setup in time trial?

No. You can use setups in Time Trial.

2 hours ago, emp9u said:

And can it be considered that car is in same setup in World series stage?

No. In World Series qualifier it's always stock. No setups allowed.

2 hours ago, emp9u said:

I just can't believe that 4.19 time is possibile, if you can't practice exactly the same setup and surface degradation.. 

I explained it just two posts above yours...
Yes, you can practice in all conditions.