DiRT Rally 2.0 General Discussion
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Also what's with the crazy jump in Ai difficulty, I'm now in Clubman and on a few of the Argentina tracks, I would be 5-8 seconds down after one sector?!? With no mistakes and pretty flawless driving.
cjr3559
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Interesting that Argentina is giving some issues. So far it’s my best location and thus far can finish in the top 5 consistently with the Alpine, though a faster car will probably be a nightmare.
Maybe Argentina fits my slow, deliberate driving style. The only thing keeping me from winning are the long straight and bumpy sections (you know what’s coming) at night and in the rain.
Meanwhile the other locations are my current challenges. I can do ok in Spain.
Maybe Argentina fits my slow, deliberate driving style. The only thing keeping me from winning are the long straight and bumpy sections (you know what’s coming) at night and in the rain.
Meanwhile the other locations are my current challenges. I can do ok in Spain.
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- MarcoM1972
It's a bit different than that. The ps4 does need drivers for everything you want to connect to it. For the Logitech G29 to work on the ps4, Sony needs to install Logitech drivers on the PS4 operating system.
As a ps4 gamer I indeed cannot install drivers or extra software. Sometimes that's a con, sometimes it is not.
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@KK78 Thanks for your inspiration (and my frustration 
). Came home from work early and had the need to do a quick run in DR2.0 before diner time.
After reading earlier posts in this topic I decided to choose the Audi S1 Quattro in Argentina (La Merced)
. This is the result:
My lap in the virtual world (2:26 something and realizing the #1 is about 16 seconds faster on a 2.35km track.....)
And then a Youtube search to find a real life example. Insane!
). Came home from work early and had the need to do a quick run in DR2.0 before diner time.After reading earlier posts in this topic I decided to choose the Audi S1 Quattro in Argentina (La Merced)
. This is the result: My lap in the virtual world (2:26 something and realizing the #1 is about 16 seconds faster on a 2.35km track.....)
And then a Youtube search to find a real life example. Insane!
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@KK78 Thanks for your inspiration (and my frustration
After reading earlier posts in this topic I decided to choose the Audi S1 Quattro in Argentina (La Merced)
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My lap in the virtual world (2:26 something and realizing the #1 is about 16 seconds faster on a 2.35km track.....)
And then a Youtube search to find a real life example. Insane!
I must have gotten a bad copy of the game. It is much wider on your copy.
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@BrainsBush Impressive driving buddy, I'm usually upside within half a mile! The Ai times are crazy though but not as crazy as the real-life car, you'd need balls of steel to drive it, let alone push it to its limits 
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On at least one rally (the 1985 RAC) the S1 ran the PDK dual-clutch gearbox from the Porsche 956. Roughly a decade before widespread flappy-paddle adoption in the WRC.
fernandito
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fernandito
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Artificial AI times back on DR2 is another huge con I had with the first tittle too. AI on DR1 is, in just few words, stupid fast, and so is again on DR2. This is something I really don't understand about devs and them decisions. It is true that on the harder difficulty settings, as long as you connect second global positions on each rally or something like that they have made the system to make you win through the first or second cars miraculously retiring in one of the last rallies or something, but you still don't feel the system is playing fair.
The is one of the things that disgust me the most on DR1 and 2, and no codie will always talk about this **** and give some explanations on why the AI times system is that bad, ever.
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So the Citroen and Skoda are available on Steam now. I guess everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow.
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I was expecting to be dismal at Argentina when I did it in the 131, but I somehow managed to win the rally. Which is strange, because rocks are absolutely everywhere. I think it's due to the fact that the stages are quite slow, so there's less chance of making a huge mistake. I hate New Zealand more because if you make a mistake there, you're going into a ditch. It's much harder to recover as a result.
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Had some frustrations with the weather and AI at Spain. The weather shows as "Cloudy" no rain suggested and the game suggests medium dry tyres. True to form it's not raining, however the road is soaking, there are puddles of surface water all over the road causing major aquaplaining, including stationairy pools on inclines that seemingly defy gravity. To top it off the hot sun of Spain that is clearly visible through the mild clouds is not enough to dry up that road.
The worst bit is the AI, while the players get to choose tyres every two stages the AI is putting in times that suggests it has the ideal tyre choice in each stage, so it can do a dry stage with competitive dry tyre times and follow that up with a wet stage with wet tyre times. The result of which is that I went from a rally in spain that I was comfortably leading to getting a string of these dry/wet back to back combinations where the game not only misleads me as to the weather when I'm choosing my tyres but also allows the AI to bypass the tyre rules.
Who knew it rained more in Spain than in Wales.
The worst bit is the AI, while the players get to choose tyres every two stages the AI is putting in times that suggests it has the ideal tyre choice in each stage, so it can do a dry stage with competitive dry tyre times and follow that up with a wet stage with wet tyre times. The result of which is that I went from a rally in spain that I was comfortably leading to getting a string of these dry/wet back to back combinations where the game not only misleads me as to the weather when I'm choosing my tyres but also allows the AI to bypass the tyre rules.
Who knew it rained more in Spain than in Wales.
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cjr3559
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Learned about Spain is you can’t just rely on the weather icon and have to read the conditions. It always seems however that there’s rarely two wet stages in a row. At least one of the sessions will be half wet/half dry between service stages. Makes setup and tire management tricky.
Have to admit I purchased the season pass yesterday. It’s been so long since I’ve played DR1 I don’t remember the locations much. Plus it should be fun trying them with surface degradation and different tire options availabile.
Have to admit I purchased the season pass yesterday. It’s been so long since I’ve played DR1 I don’t remember the locations much. Plus it should be fun trying them with surface degradation and different tire options availabile.
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The annoying thing is having these wet/dry back to back and seeing the AI doing their standard optimal tyre times, if you choose Dry tyres thinking based on the information that it's going to be 2 Dry stages you could find yourself a good 20 seconds off the pace when you hit that wet stage, yet the AI won't pay that same penalty because they don't follow the tyre rules.
I just went from having a massive lead to having to do a wet stage on worn dry tyres, it feels like if the game is going to not tell you the weather conditions at Spain that you're better off just choosing Wet tyres and risking not having a wet stage, since you lose less time with wet tyres on dry stages than if you run a wet stage on dry tyres.
It'd all be fine if the AI suffered the same compromises, there is a bit of an artificial difficulty bump on tarmac because of this oversight.
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I got a message on PS4 saying that I had access to the new cars. I did get the money, but...the cars are no where to be found.
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Same here, learnt that lesson too. Saw the dry stage first and wet second. Went with hard dry, to help them last thinking the wets would be destroyed on dry tar. It was like driving on black ice off the line with wet tarseal in a Porsche. Got home but lost about 200 places on the board though. Last stage on wets was much easier.
PS has had the DLC in the store in Oz since early today. Had to download them even though I had deluxe edition. Free for that edition though. The Skoda has been the pick for me so far. That sound, simply awesome.
Which cheat code did you use to accomplish that?
fernandito
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The north of Spain is cloudy and rainy mostly, way different to the usual image we've got from foreigners. There's mountains and green everywhere.
I live in the north and assure you don't see the sun much. Most days are cloudy, relatively cold if you like me live next to the coast, and very cold if you enter the land. It doesn't rain everyday as It happens in the UK and of course ain't dat cold, but our weather is very similar anyway and it rains a lot too, If you leave the coast (where I live) and enter the land then there are zones that can get colder than in the UK on winter.
Spain is hot from Madrid (the centre) downwards in the map up to Andalucía, as well as our east coast where the rally we are playing is located, Barcelona/Cataluña, which precisely, we call it "La Costa del Sol" Coast of the Sun_Sun's Coast. The rest of the east coast facing El Mar Mediterraneo is very hot too, with Locations that will ring you a bell if you are English such as Alicante/Valencia, and of course, Magaluf, located in Las Islas Baleares- Isla de Mallorca. And yes, pun intended on this last one
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Cars are up in European PSN: €1,39 per car if you don't own the DL version.
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that's not too bad
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