DiRT Rally 2.0 General Discussion

[cjr3559]

Stages are too short to really have a big impact on tire wear and tactics. With that said, I'm not actually sure I would like 40km long stages. I think the current length is good enough.

They could implement a tire wear multiplier as an option though.

I'm pretty sure that multiplier already exists. You can really trash your softs in a 10+ km stage when you're pushing close to the limit. In real life a loop of stages is usually around 60km and softs seem only viable if it is cool or wet. We have very few stages in DR2.0 so I am pretty sure that the wear is multiplied to acccount for that. Also, as you state above, the current lengths (5-15 km) are good lengths. It's a game, after all.

What the game really needs is more unique stages, not longer ones.

EDIT: And Your Stage 2.0 💡

I’m still a proponent of less service stages to make tire wear more strategic, or at least shorten the repair time (which is available, btw) to make repair strategy and car preservation more worthwhile. Right now as CM sets up events we may as well get a service park every stage. Though this weeks events space the service out to every fourth instead of every third.

All I know is if I were to create a championship with service locations few and far between nobody would participate.

 

[fernandito]

Tyre compound choices have been without a doubt my less favourite feature in this game. I would have preferred old school gravel/mud compound choices. I mean hards are useless, mediums won't allow you going as fast as with softs, and softs are the best in almost all circumstances.

The only way to use other compounds is making custom championships, with service area each three stages, so you at least find some use for mediums if two long stages out of the three before service.

 

[MagpieRacer]

I think we should be able to mix compounds like in real rallying. Be cool to combine dry and winter tyres in Monaco or combine soft and medium for cars that are slightly heavier on on or other.

 

[MarcoM]

Is it me or are the dials in the RX RS200 barely moving?

 

[Pfei]

Leagues/Clubs coming next week:

http://blog.codemasters.com/community/06/dirt-rally-2-0-roadbook-june-7-2019/

 

[MarcoM]

and

• Visual improvements made to rain effects.

 

[cjr3559]

Leagues/Clubs coming next week:

http://blog.codemasters.com/community/06/dirt-rally-2-0-roadbook-june-7-2019/

• Service Areas will appear correctly in Weekly and Monthly Challenges.
• Elite and Master AI difficulty adjusted in My Team Rally Events to provide a fairer transition upwards from Pro.

How are the Service Areas currently incorrect, other than they are too frequent in my personal opinion.

The AI adjustment in My Team Rally should be interesting to see. I will admit that it’s been tough to advance past Pro. I made it to Masters in DR1 much quicker.

 

[Pfei]

How are the Service Areas currently incorrect, other than they are too frequent in my personal opinion.

In Community Weeklies and Monthlies the Tune Car option disappears in the service areas. You have to exit and re-enter the challenge to make setup changes.

 

[mwoodski]

Is it me or are the dials in the RX RS200 barely moving?

I never have time to even look at them! I drive all the RX cars in general by feel.

 

[PzR Slim]

So um... I work at Codemasters now

Posted a little thing here, but I’m looking forward to keeping you all informed and excited about DiRT

https://forums.codemasters.com/topic/38432-hello-all-codemasters-newbie-here/

Been ill all week with severely bad stomach so missed this news. Huge congrats PJ! Best of luck with it all.

 

[beyond72]

I've only played it for a few hours and it's a real mixed bag for me so far.

The handling is pretty good out the box and and the new track degradation system at times marks a high point in the entire Colin Mcrae/Dirt series.
And the intro movies for the classic rally mode is a lovely touch and is something I've wanted T10 to do for the Forza Motorsport series.

But there's also a lack of polish in other areas, with some blurry visuals and terrible frame rate if you're on the Xbox One S and use the full cockpit.
And personally I preferred the co-driver in the first game, he seemed to work better for me with it set to late calls. The new guy carries on even when you've come to a complete stop, even the older games didn't do that!
And not sure his calls work that well with the older tracks; not getting caution warnings that you would of before.
The menus are so poor too, not even bothering to explain what settings do.

If you're on the base Xbox/PS4 and have never played the first Dirt Rally, I would still get that cheap over this to be honest, as it's more of a satisfying, consistent experience.

 

[JakeJortles]

Did anyone else not get any rewards from yesterday’s promo events, or did I miss anything?

 

[Pfei]

Did anyone else not get any rewards from yesterday’s promo events, or did I miss anything?

Been affecting all platforms since the Friday events.

 

[ELmarcotuff]

Been affecting all platforms since the Friday events.

That explains a lot then.


Has the rewards came back? I need them to repair my cars lol

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Gameplay videos of this game look stellar. For those that own it, do you recommend it? It looks to be best experienced with a wheel, which I don't have for my XbOneS. Thoughts?

 

[mwoodski]

its hella fun.

i play on a controller

 

[PJTierney]

Did anyone else not get any rewards from yesterday’s promo events, or did I miss anything?

Been affecting all platforms since the Friday events.

That explains a lot then.


Has the rewards came back? I need them to repair my cars lol

The team fixed that one Monday morning, and any owed Credits were paid out

Gameplay videos of this game look stellar. For those that own it, do you recommend it? It looks to be best experienced with a wheel, which I don't have for my XbOneS. Thoughts?

I'm on a controller and it's great fun. You can be quick too

 

[MrCrynox]

To be fair all CodeMasters games play great with a controller

 

[Losco]

Has anyone managed to unlock the "Fire up that car again" trophy/achievement? Is the one with the Audi Quattro, and still the only one that bothers me.

 

[beyond72]

Gameplay videos of this game look stellar. For those that own it, do you recommend it? It looks to be best experienced with a wheel, which I don't have for my XbOneS. Thoughts?

It plays fine with a controller, however sadly it's a little rough around the edges on the XbOneS, with frame drops on some stages and makes the full cockpit view unusable for me. (Which wasn't a issue with the first game.) Unless they end up adding all the locations from the first game, it's hard for me to recommend it over the first game.

 

[flatdarkmars]

Has anyone managed to unlock the "Fire up that car again" trophy/achievement? Is the one with the Audi Quattro, and still the only one that bothers me.

I have it (on PC). It was bugged for a while but they fixed it at some point prior to April 23, because that's when I got it.

 

[Losco]

I have it (on PC). It was bugged for a while but they fixed it at some point prior to April 23, because that's when I got it.

I don't have any glitch, simply I can't finish in the top tier

 

[mwoodski]

I don't have any glitch, simply I can't finish in the top tier

Then get better.

 

[JakeJortles]

Has anyone managed to unlock the "Fire up that car again" trophy/achievement? Is the one with the Audi Quattro, and still the only one that bothers me.

I got it, and I’m complete balls at the Group B cars. My method was to focus simply on bringing the car home – especially in Poland or New England, where I actually got the achievement. With the amount of retirements and mistakes from other drivers, a nice, clean run should usually get you pretty close to the top tier at minimum.

 

[bogani]

Latvia track is awesome!

https://media.giphy.com/media/VhcAFCesA0mdBcWx5h/giphy.gif

 

[MarcoM]

Latvia track is awesome!

https://media.giphy.com/media/VhcAFCesA0mdBcWx5h/giphy.gif

Nice negotiating that corner there @bogani .

I am not a big fan of RX. But what Codemasters delivers, makes me reconsider.

With wet track, it looks stunning and plays very good.

 

[kembro]

Really enjoying Latvia it's a great track, especially in the wet. Easy to overdrive and hang it out, instead of pushing on.

 

[fernandito]

Do we already know in some official form whether this game has been either a fail or a success on sales?

 

[Racetee]

Do we already know in some official form whether this game has been either a fail or a success on sales?

I guess they wouldn't report on failure.

ShopTo (one of the official retailers) is still selling Day One steel book editions (discounted nearly 50% already), so you can make your own conclusions.

 

[GTMajarcus]

Latvia RX not showing up yet in Canada PS Store.
With most of the season 1 and 2 content I’ve noticed its usually not available until early afternoon of the day it’s supposed to be released, but it’s never been this late before (day 2)..