Adding old Group A to future WRC 4(?)

[Diablosrouge]

Hello everyone.
This one will be a big topic so for those who are not so forward to read this whole text I'll make it short here:
1. What about bringing back the old Group A cars to the future WRC game?
2. What do you think about official online championships held by MILESTONE in which people could sign up?
You can find a video and a petition link below to sign, in case you're interested.

Ok here we go:
I've been playing rally games since the early ages, being my first rally game the Colin McRae Rally 2.0.
During that era it was spectacular, the cars were good looking and each one had its own trick to get around.
I also started following the WRC season since 2002 and watched a few reviews of the old seasons.
As time went by, WRC started to lose its touch season by season, with the introduction of new cars far more balanced than they should be for a show like WRC and also a few things changed, from the scoreboard to the paintings and rules.

I play this new generation of WRC game made by MILESTONE and what really sets me back is the fact that we are forced to drive the new WRC cars on championship mode. Theres no old Group A anymore and it lost its fun that way. I've been sharing my opinion with a couple of friends and rally fans as well and we agree in many aspects, so I would like to come to you as you're probably the biggest meeting point for WRC gamers and share this opinion as well and see what you think about it. I think it's no news that rally games have been decreasing in rally quality.
If you look at the CMR Dirt series, you can barely say that's rally anymore. However, MILESTONE has been making an effort to re-launch the rally game industry and so far it ain't bad, but they are missing some important points which we enjoyed when we played a good rally game back in time: the old seasons, the cars, the drivers and all that had impact on WRC, which has been forgotten as time went by.

I have already emailed MILESTONE about this idea of adding the old Group A back in the series, not discarding the present generation of course, so we racers could choose between the seasons to our likes.
Also as part of the suggestion, I also suggested Official Online Championships to be held on www.wrcthegame.com so that WRC players could sign up and compete for the driver's championship title, etc.
The championships could vary between the type of cars used (for example Old Group A, Group A New Gen(present), Group B, etc).
This would keep the game alive for sure, as well as the WRC experience.

I've made a video to reinforce this whole idea:



Once it reaches the target, I will email MILESTONE again with the petition, the video and every information shared here so that we can at least hope that WRC 4 (perhaps) brings back the real WRC feeling that we've all been missing these years.
Start posting!


Best Regards,
Diablosrouge

 

[ussr]

Milestone would have to pay a lot of cash for all those licenses, for the cars and for drivers, some of them are impossible to use (McRae and Burns died) so i think what Milestone can do is to only improve physics of the game to make it more real.

But i like your idea 👍 those were best times for WRC, best cars, best drivers.

 

[MeanElf]

No harm in trying - being a small studio though, financial constraints might be a problem for them. I'm not just talking about licenses, but also the software engine capabilities. Milestone are using a new game engine this time around, we don't know its full capacity yet. Older games had more cars and long stages in combination, true - but not all game engines on current gen consoles can replicate that due to the higher level of graphics.

Maybe WRC 5 on the PS4 will free them up in that respect. I hope so, as long rallies with more vehicle choice would definitely be a good thing, and possibly might be where they are headed.

In the meantime they need to survive which means getting new people to see past the fallacy of bad reviews. I do believe that Codemasters have been taken a bit aback by WRC 3 and WRC 4 will probably be the make-or-break game for them.

I do agree though, as my only criticsim about WRC 3 in championship mode, is that you do get to choose only between WRC modern, Class 3 (homologated under Group N) and Class 2. All classes should be available for us to choose to do full rallies with in future - even Group B if we are insane enough.

 

[Diablosrouge]

Hello!
Thanks a lot for your posts
It looks like we agree in many aspects. I understand it will have cons in what touches the money and the engine capabilities, but just like you said theres no harm in trying and see what happens.
However, the only 'weapon' we can use to confront milestone about these issues is the petition so gathering signatures is important so that we can contact MILESTONE and have higher probabilities of being successful.

Here's the link to sign the petition: https://www.change.org/petitions/mi...-longer-cars-drivers-and-online-championships