DiRT Rally 2.0 General Discussion
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I’m surprised how quiet the forum is, would’ve thought there would be more posts given that the masses have now got (as opposed to just the people that got it early.
Poland, arg, and NZ are great and are of the calibre of the stages in the first game in terms of how intersting they are (that’s a compliment btw!).
A little disappointed by Spain and and New England, feel like Dirt 4, and so does the car list. New England benfits from the degradation though so i guess it feels a little fresher.
Looking forward to the Fabia WRC though.
Poland, arg, and NZ are great and are of the calibre of the stages in the first game in terms of how intersting they are (that’s a compliment btw!).
A little disappointed by Spain and and New England, feel like Dirt 4, and so does the car list. New England benfits from the degradation though so i guess it feels a little fresher.
Looking forward to the Fabia WRC though.
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Thanks, I'll mess around with the tuning a bit and even see if Traction Control settings help, as @GroupB suggested. It just seems a bit more difficult to control the RWD cars than it was in DR1, to me. All hope is lost if they add the Lancia 037 in DR2.0.
I'm still having a blast, the steep learning curve is actually a good thing to me in the game.
I've not touched anything with Traction Control, be aggressive with toe in. Try it out in some short time-trial stages.
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How about they created the Spain Stages with YourStage and added trackside objects etc to give it a unique feel ? They say YourStage has a lot of repetition but I think there are quiet a few similar sections throughout the new stages (Youtube footage) or am I wrong? Argentina and Poland feel unique. Michigan, Spain, New Zealand pretty much generic.
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Is there a big difficulty jump in career? Because i breezed the first championship in the Fulvia,but now in the 205 in the 2nd championship,im something like 10 seconds down after the first checkpoint vs the same cars?!
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I'm feeling like there is a jump in difficulty, too. I won my first championship easy but am struggling to keep pace in the 2nd championship in my VW GTI. I don't mind it, though, it gives you the chance to race until you either get better at the stages with the car you're in, or you can afford upgrades/ a new car.
If you are a subscriber of WRC+ you can watch a real life onboard of that Spain stage. It's from 2014/2015 and is name LA Figuera.
It's not 100% identical but it is obvious it's the same stage. About the same accuracy as the DR stages.
Yes, Spain just feels like Dirt 4 with extra trackside objects. New Zealand abd Arg are outstanding in comparison to the rest and really stand out, 6 new locations of their calibre would have been amazing.
On another note, is it just me that thinks ths heavy rain looks really odd? The thick blue/white rain drops are so long, looks more like hailstones... really odd, looks like graphics from a ps1 game, very off putting.
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I remember when the first New Zealand and Poland footage was released within an hour people on the Codies forum had already traced the stages to their real-world counterparts, with Google Earth screenshots and YouTube onboards. I have not seen any of that for the other locations.
To me I think NZ and Poland were done back in the day as DLC for DR1 but for some reason were whitheld. Spain, Australia and New England look ripped right out of Your Stage (with some handmade details to make them "alive" and distinct). Argentina also looks Your Stage-ish. Could Argentina have been a possible Your Stage DLC for DiRT 4?
This is just speculation on my part based on my observations and impressions. @bogani you and others have referenced La Figuera for the Spain stage. Do you have any video/photo comparisons as convincing as what I mentioned for NZ and Poland? I must have missed that at the time.
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start at 1:24 - the stage has been called many things over the years, but it's famous for the El Molar hairpin (hence Dirt 4 modelling one of its tiles after the same hairpin, just without the scenery...)
For the record, Australia has the same route, but it a little off scenery-wise:
The reason any of them familiar from Dirt 4 is that these locations were clearly used as inspiration for the tiles in that game. Only now they have the genuine route that were used as 'inspiration' previously. So personally I'm glad - I never spent much time with DiRT 4 but now I get to drive the proper versions of those stages in a game I actually like. I'm one of those that really wants to see Finland, Wales and Greece's stages come back from DR1 though (seeing as I haven't played them for two years and remember very little of the actual routes).
Urgh. I own Deluxe but I'm really not a fan of splitting the player base this way.
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Think of it another way - At least when the new car classes/environments arrive, we can use them in My Team. It's a far better solution than placing them in the poorly-structured career mode championships.
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I wish DS4 vibration did a better job communicating surface characteristics - rumble feedback on rough gravel is so vague. Pad steering is nicely optimized out of the box, but I still felt the need to increase steering sensitivity to a value in between 55 - 60. More responsive this way.
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After seeing the onboard footage of Spain , I start to appreciate D4 YS effort even more. They did a pretty good job actually with the generated stages.
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G'day folks. Hopefully ok to share some nice scenery pics? I moved from Poland to Australia. Gave me also a high fun factor.
After a challenging and sometimes stressfull race it is great to watch the replay and come back to the relax mode.
The headlights lighting also looks great during the night races.
After a challenging and sometimes stressfull race it is great to watch the replay and come back to the relax mode.
The headlights lighting also looks great during the night races.
Looks like the online daily/weekly events were migrated into he career section of the game to just make the career look more padded out than it actually is. All it is Rally and Rallycross, same as dirt rally 1, but at least that pikes peak too, so technically ths career mode of dr1 is bigger than dr2. I can’t believe they didn’t just add a bunch of career events by car classes like dirt 4, that was hardly groundbreaking but it least it lengthened the career mode. It’s a shame, they’ve done the hard bits well (physics, graphics, stage design [well, for most the new locations at least]) but then don’t bother adding a few more events in career.
I would say that Spain was the best location from a YS point of view while Wales was the worst/most repetitive.
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Yeah i dont mind it - scrambling in the midfield battles while you get used to the car,quite like real life and if you nail a stage and manage a top 5 finish there is a huge sense of achievement.
Is there ever any point to using the hard tyre compound seeing as your tyres only ever need to last two stages before getting to the service area again?
I’ve been using medium is the next two stages are quite long and soft if they are both short...or 1 long and 1 short, noticing a tiny bit of drop off towards the end of the second stage... but to be fair that could just be a placebo effect.
Any going back to a point someone else mentioned earlier, yes, the high proportion of night vs day and wet vs dry stages in career is odd. I always thought the night stages were a novelty in rally, not the the norm lol.
I’ve been using medium is the next two stages are quite long and soft if they are both short...or 1 long and 1 short, noticing a tiny bit of drop off towards the end of the second stage... but to be fair that could just be a placebo effect.
Any going back to a point someone else mentioned earlier, yes, the high proportion of night vs day and wet vs dry stages in career is odd. I always thought the night stages were a novelty in rally, not the the norm lol.
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