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Been getting my ass handed to me in Sekiro. Time to check out the new goodies today.
DiRT Rally 2.0 General Discussion
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fernandito
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My expertise on dark souls and Bloodborne definitely goes to my detriment on Sekiro, have I found out.., too.
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- MarcoM1972
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- Kembro45
Deluxe owner in Oz here. It was like that for me too, when I went to the PlayStation Store through the DR2 page. But when I shut the game down and went into the Store through the main PS menu I could download it. Weird, but worked.
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The interesting thing I find with night stages is that it's like wearing blinkers, you focus on the co-driver calls and notice elevations and camber more. Always think it feels steeper at night. Personally I like a balance of stages, morning/day/twilight/night, 4 stages per day of the rally.
Groundfish
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Dang It!
Finish updating!
Lol I’m like a kid at Christmas waiting for the update process...
Finish updating!
Lol I’m like a kid at Christmas waiting for the update process...
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I've read over half of this thread, and while I love reading about people crying about FFB issues, I'd love to read a guide for setup. I've got a pretty good grasp on it, but I'd like see what other people are having success with. I can say that I had major issues with my brakes locking up using old G27 pedals, but adjusting brake saturation up made all the difference, and I no longer have to adjust my brake pressure down in the tuning screen for each car. Camber settings seem pretty sensitive, sway bars even more so. Diff settings completely control the attitude of the car, but I haven't found myself changing damper settings as much in DR 2.0 as DR 1. I found for my group A EVO at Poland, less camber was better for me, -.020 toe out in the front, and .00 in the rear brought back some of that slow steering reaction that I was having in the rain.
Everyone using short as possible gear ratios for Argentina and Monte Carlo? Any reason not to? Alpine A110 with short as possible final drive seems like the hot ticket for H2 RWD.
Also, lets talk tires. Someone posted their times on Monte Carlo with Winter vs Soft tires, has anyone actually tested the speed and performance degradation model for soft, medium, and hard compounds?
Everyone using short as possible gear ratios for Argentina and Monte Carlo? Any reason not to? Alpine A110 with short as possible final drive seems like the hot ticket for H2 RWD.
Also, lets talk tires. Someone posted their times on Monte Carlo with Winter vs Soft tires, has anyone actually tested the speed and performance degradation model for soft, medium, and hard compounds?
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I'm a tuning novice but must say that the standard setups in Dirt 2.0 are bloody awful, I'm yet to find a car that feels good out of the box, I did pretty well with the original Dirt with minimal tweaking but I can see I'm gonna have to put in some time in Dirt 2.0 to get half the cars feeling good to drive.
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I find a lot too 'floaty' The 95' Impreza, for example, is way too loose, at least compared to the more stable version in Dirt. I find most of the RWD cars far too tail happy- more so than in the 1st game and the Porsche is a twitchy pig 
The 2000 class cars are quite unstable at speed in that once you start to lose them they become very hard to bring back round. And finally several of the Group B cars suffer from strange oversteer when decelerating at speed.
Might be just me, but I need to get my tuning cap on as I simply don't enjoy many of the stock setups. I went back to Dirt and son was throwing the cars around with aplomb so there is a clear difference imo
The 2000 class cars are quite unstable at speed in that once you start to lose them they become very hard to bring back round. And finally several of the Group B cars suffer from strange oversteer when decelerating at speed.Might be just me, but I need to get my tuning cap on as I simply don't enjoy many of the stock setups. I went back to Dirt and son was throwing the cars around with aplomb so there is a clear difference imo
fernandito
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It's not the setups. There's something fundamentally wrong in DR2 physics overall, and the Dirt 4 "dark side" of it has a lot to do with it imho. The attempt at "simulating" the tyre physics could very well be the second culprit to look at, because after all we are talking about EGO here, the last suitable place where to experiment on simulation matters.
I too have been revisiting DR1for a couple of days and oh boy, what a difference, to the point I have begun another master championship and see whether I can defend it. I have chosen the RS Escort, car that has been giving me a lot of headaches through oddities handling-physics wise on DR2, and the difference is like day and night, although but icing on the cake on DR2 in that very category has been the Lancia Delta pretty much instead of the Impreza. This last mentioned on DR2 suck regardless your setup and tyre compound, and taking into account it was the undisputed champion of the said category..., oh well, bring it on babe let's go for another attempt and see whether I can crash it to a different tree than the one I signed in on my previous failed twenty two attempts.
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Does anyone know if the default set ups for each car, change from one location to another? For example, does the Mini Cooper S have one default for New Zealand, and another for Poland? Or does it remain the same regardless?
I seem to remember in Dirt Rally, the mechanics gave you a different set up depending on the stage.
I seem to remember in Dirt Rally, the mechanics gave you a different set up depending on the stage.
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- PJTierney
On Tarmac Stages (Spain) you can adjust your suspension to numbers beyond the limits of what you can do on Gravel, like more negative camber etc.
Not sure on defaults though.
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Loving Monte Carlo all over again in DR2.0. It is noticeably more difficult than it was in the first game, but a lot of fun. The snow physics will take some getting used to because right now I have little to no confidence going fast.
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It's not just me then, I've been going mad thinking Dirt 2.0 is the same but it's just that I can't drive anymore
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fernandito
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Nah. Physics is a step up in DR2. DR is too forgiving in many ways. You can bring the car back even though you should lose it. With the pronounced weight transfer in DR2 this isn't the case. If you come in too hot you will go off the road in DR2. The inertia of the cars will see to that.
There are still oddities and quirks, it's not perfect but I'll take DR2 physics over DR1 any day of the week.
There are still oddities and quirks, it's not perfect but I'll take DR2 physics over DR1 any day of the week.
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I feel the thing that makes DR2 more challenging/loose and I consider more realistic. Is that if you lift off going quick then you'll get compression lockup of the drive wheels. Had this happen on mud one day with my Subaru, instant four wheel slide only gathered up by accelerating out of it. Trick is the same in reality, you have to get on the throttle to get some control. Tuning diffs will reduce this effect and looking forward to trying tunes but I'm looking forward to testing others tunes. Not sure if it's a mistake or more real and difficult.
Groundfish
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Yes yes yes!
It took some work with settings, but I just won my first stage! I have that real feeling of accomplishment a game like this can give...Man the twisting tarmac is sublime.
The way the car behaves is excellent. Very very much a sim this.
My first impressions were my wheel was too heavy and felt over damped...Very diff feel from what I had in Dirt Rally. That was this morning and I just didn’t have enough time before work...I honestly left with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth...
I just spent a couple hours tweaking settings. I am only using the a110 so far. The Spain tarmac! Yeah baby! That’s what I love. I really like the behavior of the car after playing with wheel settings. I really feel they have made a big step forward on physics of car behavior. I’m on console and think the ffb is awesome, but if you like canned effects that’s not what this game seems to be... but default didn’t work on my fanatic for me, it was far too heavy, I did have to play around an awful lot, but it’s pretty sweet right now...
I’ve only done a few Dirt stages thus far, but omg I really really like what this games got goin.
I’m lovin’ it. The same excited satisfaction I got from when I first got the controls adjusted a bit for the original!
This game is a very good one.
Initial impression?
TOTALLY STOKED! Thank you developers!
It took some work with settings, but I just won my first stage! I have that real feeling of accomplishment a game like this can give...Man the twisting tarmac is sublime.
The way the car behaves is excellent. Very very much a sim this.
My first impressions were my wheel was too heavy and felt over damped...Very diff feel from what I had in Dirt Rally. That was this morning and I just didn’t have enough time before work...I honestly left with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth...
I just spent a couple hours tweaking settings. I am only using the a110 so far. The Spain tarmac! Yeah baby! That’s what I love. I really like the behavior of the car after playing with wheel settings. I really feel they have made a big step forward on physics of car behavior. I’m on console and think the ffb is awesome, but if you like canned effects that’s not what this game seems to be... but default didn’t work on my fanatic for me, it was far too heavy, I did have to play around an awful lot, but it’s pretty sweet right now...
I’ve only done a few Dirt stages thus far, but omg I really really like what this games got goin.
I’m lovin’ it. The same excited satisfaction I got from when I first got the controls adjusted a bit for the original!
This game is a very good one.
Initial impression?
TOTALLY STOKED! Thank you developers!
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- paulpg87
Bought monte (3,49€). Beatiful.
Super hard also.. when you get to proper ice and the wheel goes light you know you are about to find yourself in the barrier. At least with my driving skills.
I decided i will also try to get the platinum trophy on PS4 but being in tier1 with the audi quattro is a damn challenge. I had a try only and landed in the top part of tier2 but i was 8 seconds per sector off the leader.
Super hard also.. when you get to proper ice and the wheel goes light you know you are about to find yourself in the barrier. At least with my driving skills.
I decided i will also try to get the platinum trophy on PS4 but being in tier1 with the audi quattro is a damn challenge. I had a try only and landed in the top part of tier2 but i was 8 seconds per sector off the leader.
I think it does save between surfaces at least. Spain will save your Spain setup, probably same with Monte Carlo, I think the other locations all carry over. New Zealand setup will carry over to Australia...etc. I could be wrong though.
For those complaining about a muddy steering feel. Try reducing steering saturation for more precise turn in feel. That helped for me (PS4 G29), but when I watch the replays of the top times, it sure looks like the cars are turning in and transitioning a LOT quicker than my cars could ever hope to. Steering saturation helped this for me, I'm hoping car setup is the rest. Would love to know what alignment setups people at the top of the leaderboards are using, even if they're using default.
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