DiRT Rally Thread

paulpg87
I tried, just 5 minutes yesterday without even calibrating, and i had the FBB (i have t300 GTE, ps4).. i mean it's like F1 2015, the usual codemaster FFB. Non existent is the usual over-reaction of the internet. I hope i will be able to play and test today. the only thing i noticed is that with the alpine 110 is very very light on the front-end.
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You know the engine is in the back right?
 
dopedog
You know the engine is in the back right?
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yes i know, the reality is that you feel basically nothing with the alpine in the game. it reminds me shift 2 on ps3, a floating boat. However just tried that for 5 minutes.
 
I tried the Alpine on the PC for the first time last night (it was added in patch v1.1), and it felt really light and floaty. At first I was wondering if I needed to change my T300 settings, but after moving to the VW Polo WRC car I realised that it's just the Alpine being light and floaty. The Polo WRC was giving me very strong FFB as usual.

So please guys, don't draw conclusions from the Mini or Alpine.

Furthermore: The FFB is designed to handle relatively wide dynamic range. So on flatter surfaces with lower speed corners you won't feel huge forces. You only really get heavy load on the self-aligning torque when you go through faster corners with lots of vertical change to get heavy compression. Wales stages are good ones to feel just how powerful the FFB can go.

Go to Custom Events mode and try out modern WRC rally cars around Wales/Greece, then go to Rallycross and Pikes Peak. Adjust FFB from those.
 
skazz
You are testing with the floatiest cars.... Especially the Alpine is very light (all the weight of the car is at the rear, including the engine). Try custom event in a modern WRC car as a better indicator.

I haven't run DR on my T500 since Early Access, but it felt very similar to my T300. I just needed to turn down the FFB overall by 5% due to stronger forces on the T500. Now I'm not going to recommend PS4 settings because apparently there are differences between PC and PS4, but it *should* be possible to follow T300 recommendations and simply lower overall FFB a little.

What you could try is removing damping completely. On the PC I have that set to zero to ensure that the wheel resistance is low to aid spinning the wheel around like a crazy person.

P.S. 50% saturation could be 540 or 450 degrees. Depends on whether 100% is 1080 or 900. Have you confirmed it's a real 540 you are getting?
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Thanks Skazz I will try some more modern cars and your other recommendations, I'm calibrating the wheel from 1080 and following the Thrustmaster recommend settings but just wasn't happy with them, I tried just taking the soft lock off and putting saturation to 50 which I found slightly better but still not feeling the slide of the car, like yourself I played a lot SLRE maybe I need to get that out of my system.
Anyone reading my post and being put of this game don't be. The game is awesome, I just need to find my set up and any ideas are welcome.
 
torque99
I'm in the same situation after trying all settings on T300 and not getting the feedback off the wheel or from the road, feels floaty(ish) and the FFB seems to be 'Too near the centre of the wheel' with hardly any vibration if that makes sense it doesn't follow the full rotation, I will give it another go later tonight but I am also preferring the DS4 for a quick go.

My only slight issue on the DS4 is there is little, if any vibration coming through at all even on rally cross when the car is jumping up/down on gravel with all the sliders pretty much on 150% and I checked settings on console and vibration is on full and I am not biting on the dirt or feeling the tarmac differences when I enter it as much as I would like or imagine the game to be, I get more on DC round a tarmac track? Is anyone getting full vibration through the controllers? Otherwise I really love the game...👍:P
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I'm glad it's not just me. From the start line I wheel spin away and I can see the suspension bouncing but the feedback on my wheel is smooth,
I'm sure it's just a case of getting e right set up for the wheel, the game itself is great.
 
I didn't play this a whole lot last night, but coming into Dirt Rally directly from playing Sebastien Loeb Rally Evo for two weeks, I have to say that I am enormously pleased with Dirt for two reasons alone: 60 FPS and the sound quality, both of which were lacking in SLR Evo.

However, I do absolutely suck at Dirt right now and I barely won any races, but that is okay with me because I enjoy the amount of focus and attention needed to actually win a race. It actually was painful to land in a ditch in the middle of a stage. So far, this game is a great experience, I'm looking forward to playing more.
 
Mr Latte
Two things Id like to know before buying this...
1) What are the PS4 audio options (selectable/changeable)
2) T500RS how good is it with this wheel
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You can change the equalization from "flat" to "TV" or "Headphones" and you can change the relative volume of:
Co-Pilot
Engine
Effects
Menu Music
Music on replays

I use the T500 on the PS4 and the FFB is quite good, I´m still messing arround with it because i felt that the values from thrustmaster are a bit to heavy.
I´ve only test the little Ford in some greece stage fideling with the FFB, and from what i´ve experience if you´re into rally, don´t miss this one.
I just hope that codemasters include some more locations in the future.
 
Thank You @Goruk, appreciate if you later respond with more preferred settings for the wheel.
Looks like Im going to be enjoying some very powerful engines in tactile soon.

The "FLAT TV HEADPHONES" seems to be an EQ based boost feature, likely flat, less bass, more bass.
 
OK so fired up my TX wheel and straight out of the box it felt amazing but TOO STRONG! So followed the Thrustmaster advised settings and calibrated wheel and wow.
This game is incredible, just incredible.... I'm sat there and inside i'm smiling and almost laughing but my face is pure GAME FACE... its hard to explain but I'm loving it but I'm so serious when i'm in the zone. It feels awesome!!
The wheel feels alive like it should as in a car wheel in real life will literally do stuff itself as it follows bumps and line in road etc, this game does that sooooo well!!! Its ALMOST to the untrained non drivers like assisted steering but that misses the point, wheels are on the ground the ground will take you and its that which you fight against, I can't even get that feeling in PCars and that is my go to game for great FFB!!

I'm in love...

By the way..I like this game... even with the spooky co driver looking at me in replays...:eek:
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^^^ Regarding my issues with the FFB as said they are only minor niggles that will be tweaked when I have more time and don't let this issue put you off buying this awesome game. I have just finished the first Open Championship and now on Clubman and had 4 full stages in most countries now, all different all amazing lighting and track details and awesome. Greece and Wales for me seem the hardest but most realistic due to amount of tight corners but Finland some of the tracks are nearly all 5 & 6 corners and flat out and the snow sprays when you hit the banks in Sweden are unreal. I now get through most stages without any damage and penalties so a few weeks on this and I think I won't be so rusty!..

I also have since advanced the DS4 and now in manual gears only and set it up like I use in DC and Pcars (This has helped immensely due to holding on to the gears when going round a 2/3 corner rather than auto when it slowed right down or you didn't get going) I also find this handy on the DS4 to drop a gear before you handbrake taking the momentum out and less skid, this game is the best Rally game out there. I was also smiling going through the water splashes & fords in Wales putting the manual wipers on dropping a gear and caning it down the valleys :D
 
So, after a couple of events, I'm still getting used to it. I had to turn the vibration off, since it kills my hands, so I have lost a bit of sensitivity. And I do have a bit of trouble processing pace notes, especially complex ones - I find myself wondering "what the hell does that mean?" and missing notes. But I'm loving every moment of it.
 
You are the opposite to me I don't have enough vibration, maybe my DS4 is broken :lol: I took most the HUD off, those round road signs/arrows are not great and you don't have time to look in detail so I now just listen like it is real life, and for some strange reason (Why?) like on DC they put messages/ boxes of Split times right in the middle of the race/stages bang in the centre view of the window screen for at least 2-3 seconds (they would be better top right under the main time) on a blind corner that is a 'crash' so they have gone too and now off the HUD :lol: Just me and co-pilot :D
 
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Guys, how did you set up preferences? I kept ABS on 4 and everything else off and i think it's the most useful set-up.
Trc control just make the car stop at every thight turn and it's really annoying.

What's the best configuration to make the handling be like Dirt 1/2/3?
 
torque99
You are the opposite to me I don't have enough vibration
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I cut my teeth on the original Colin McRae Rally, right when the DualShock was finding its feet. It wasn't subtle. And it wasn't much better in Colin McRae Rally 2.0. I've hated it ever since. I know Dirt Rally claims that it will put the finer inputs through the vibration, but it just feels like a handful of carpal tunnel syndrome to me.

torque99
Just me and co-pilot
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I miss Tatiana, my co-driver from Dirt 3. My current co-driver sounds vaguely Australian, and it's just not the same.

I also miss Sherman, the passive-aggressive crew chief from Grid Autosport (he used to pass on the most useless advice, so if you changed your nickname to "Princess" or "Cupcake", he became an unintentionally-hilarious jerk).

There is, however, a Finnish driver who has consistently beaten me after eight stages. I came close to besting him once in Monte Carlo, but he got me in the final sector. I hate him with a furious passion.
 
Yesterday, I fell in love all over again with the 95' Impreza. :drool: Also, DS4 is a tad difficult, but I think it's not so bad (for me at least), though I wish I had a wheel (which is no doubt the better thing for this). I can understand why some will have issues with the pad, since it's a little on the edge. Turning the sensitivity down and adding a little stability control helps.
 
prisonermonkeys
So, after a couple of events, I'm still getting used to it. I had to turn the vibration off, since it kills my hands, so I have lost a bit of sensitivity. And I do have a bit of trouble processing pace notes, especially complex ones - I find myself wondering "what the hell does that mean?" and missing notes. But I'm loving every moment of it.
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An understated feature of the game is how it actually teaches you in real rally situations about what the pace notes mean. I was the same as you and now it just channels into my brain (for the most part) like a new language. Its amazing. :lol:
 
Certainly can feel like a proper work out with a wheel, I could almost be pushed to say you need to be quite fit to play it for long periods with a wheel. Might be over doing it there but certainly had me sat there feeling like I'd just done Karting.
 
dopedog
Certainly can feel like a proper work out with a wheel, I could almost be pushed to say you need to be quite fit to play it for long periods with a wheel. Might be over doing it there but certainly had me sat there feeling like I'd just done Karting.
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Probably not completely exaggerating it. Wonder what it'd be like to do 12 stages of Monte Carlo. :eek:
 
The Stig Farmer
No. Only PVP is rallycross
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I've not tried it, but I recall that there's a rally online mode (at least on the PC), where you basically compete with others across a multi-stage "league" rally. It's asynchronous with a start and end date, so you just need to do the stages by yourself over the course of a few days, then at the end compare results. No restarts, identical conditions, etc...

Or am I totally off here?
 
I haven't had any issues with adapting to the default DS4 settings and feels bloody good for me personally. I did the preview event with the Ford Escort MKII (all assists off) while the game was installing and was surprised how intuitive it felt (unlike a certain other game).

With that said, I did eventually ''nail it''.

:D
 
Losco
Guys, how did you set up preferences? I kept ABS on 4 and everything else off and i think it's the most useful set-up.
Trc control just make the car stop at every thight turn and it's really annoying.
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I'm on a controller and have everything turned off. Reconfigured the buttons to match my Forza Motorsport 6 layout and it already feels natural.
 

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