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DiRT Rally Thread
- Thread starter The Stig Farmer
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- mannjonusa
Hey Dirt Rally peoples! Noob here, thought I'd say hello.
I've played this properly for the first time today (PS4) - completed 2 events in the Open Championship (I'm somehow 1st haha) using the 60's Lancia.
Wow, this game is super hard, and super awesome. Loving the grip/surface change in the monte carlo stages with big altitude shifts.
The messy sound design is nice too, gravel flying everywhere, nice varied impact sounds (been impacting a lot).
Just a really nice feel to it.
I've played this properly for the first time today (PS4) - completed 2 events in the Open Championship (I'm somehow 1st haha) using the 60's Lancia.
Wow, this game is super hard, and super awesome. Loving the grip/surface change in the monte carlo stages with big altitude shifts.
The messy sound design is nice too, gravel flying everywhere, nice varied impact sounds (been impacting a lot).
Just a really nice feel to it.
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Finally bought this game, and I'm enjoying it a lot, but I'm not sure who or why proclaimed it's a sim when it's so clearly not, the cars feel very weightless and floaty and I don't get a good sense of balancing the car while driving, it's good simcade fun, but so far removed from being a proper sim. Otherwise it's all good, nice visuals and performance, good polish and overall good fun after a couple beers.
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Some people are never satisfied.
MagpieRacer
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Wut?
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Notice he didn't mention his control method or any further detail....
But in general, yes it's certainly true that DiRT Rally cars jump a little too easily, and that the physics for cars while off the ground is not that great. It was discussed a lot during early access (originally cars had more downforce, this was reduced to current levels).
And let's assume someone is of the "harder is more realistic" camp, then obviously the amount of grip in DR would appear to be unrealistic to such a person. Especially guys with many years of playing RBR tend to think that it must be closest to reality so other rally sims which feel different cannot be right, even though RBR was obviously a compromise at the time of creation.
As always, no sim is perfect. DR does a lot of things right, but not everything.
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So true, its hard enough to drive a car on the limit IRL, take away the feel from g-forces and it would be much harder. For me, Dirt has a good balance in realism, and captures the feel very good.
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I don't really know on the dirt side. But you'd be surprised to hear that it's actually easier to drive a race car in real life than on most sims.
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I can't wait until sims are so realistic that when I crash my car I have to pay real money to fix it. That's gonna be lots of fun. 
But until then, I am perfectly happy with Dirt Rally simply being a fun game to play.
But until then, I am perfectly happy with Dirt Rally simply being a fun game to play.
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To add to this post. I will create a league tonight. Could everyone
To follow up to this post.
I've just created the League. Will start Rallies over the weekend. Probably will be one every 3 days or so while I'm on vacation in Europe. When I return in August to the US. Daily rallies!
https://www.dirtgame.com/uk/leagues/league/55652/gtplanet-daily
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- mannjonusa
So I've been driving with the 60's Lancia so far, and recently switched to the Escort MkII (my first real-world car!).
I don't want to be stating the obvious here, but bloody hell, the difference. Could barely keep the damn thing on the road... Despite the obvious differences, the Escort felt very floaty and disconnected. There was a certain physical solidity to the Lancia that was quite convincing, but this? Not so much...
Is that just me?
I don't want to be stating the obvious here, but bloody hell, the difference. Could barely keep the damn thing on the road... Despite the obvious differences, the Escort felt very floaty and disconnected. There was a certain physical solidity to the Lancia that was quite convincing, but this? Not so much...
Is that just me?
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@Kamuifanboy I think I find sims harder to drive (not that I've driven a race car, driven a GT86 rally car) because No matter how good the FFb etc. there's nothing to replace the feeling of when you know tyres are at the limits of grip, or when you can feel the pendulum effect start when the back starts to break (or is about to).
All you have on a sim is your hands on the wheel and your eyes. You can't feel the whole cars movement with your body.
All you have on a sim is your hands on the wheel and your eyes. You can't feel the whole cars movement with your body.
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Thanks, but without wishing to sound completely dumb, what does 'open up the rear diff' mean...?
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Lower the differential settings in tuning - which will reduces the urgency of it to lock under acceleration/deceleration.
Aside from that, eh, it's just the Escort. It can only slide and you gotta learn to use that, but once you 'get' it it's entirely natural.
Aside from that, eh, it's just the Escort. It can only slide and you gotta learn to use that, but once you 'get' it it's entirely natural.
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Loosen the rear differential. It will limit the wheelspin, especially in low-grip conditions (which is pretty much everywhere; this is rallying, after all). You'll need to feather the throttle and short-shift with the semi-automatic gears to get to third as it's still squirrelly in first and second, but once you know how to tame it, it's brilliant.Thanks, but without wishing to sound completely dumb, what does 'open up the rear diff' mean...?
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Cheers @The Stig Farmer & @prisonermonkeys
So, apart from this diff thing, it's a case of #dealwithit
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Not really. Once you loosen the differential, the car becomes so much more drivable. It applies to pretty much every rear wheel drive car. Once you unlock the advanced setup, you'll have even more control over the settings.
The differential works to control torque across an axle. It allows each wheel to rotate at a different speed, which is particularly useful in cornering. When the differential is tightened, it allows more torque to go to the wheels, but because this is a rear wheel drive car, you're putting all the power down at once. It's great for getting traction, but it's difficult to manage through changes in direction. That's why the car feels like it's floating - the wheels are spinning so quickly that they can't bite into the surface. When you loosen up the differential, the wheels get more leeway to rotate on their own; you lose traction, but the car becomes so much more stable when you change direction - and that's important in rallying because so much of your overall speed comes from keeping up your momentum.
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Awesome, great advice man, much appreciated - this kind of advice in-game would be handy eh.
Also, I can't help thinking that my feeling of floatiness is affected by the audio too. I mean, if the back wheels are just thrashing through the gravel and churning it up, I would have expected most of the sound to be the gravel smashing against the chassis. I didn't get that sound feedback, so the feeling of disconnection was greater...
But anyway, I'll change the diff settings and try again tonight.
(loving the game btw - the snowed-in swedish stages, and the rallycross are so much fun)
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G'day brought a g29 with h pattern shifter and cannot get it to work on the ps4. If I select auto or sequential with the flippers behind the wheel it works fine but as soon as I select the h pattern with clutch, car just revs in neutral and doesn't move with depression of clutch and gear shift. Wheel and pedals calibrated but soon as it loads a stage it won't work. Anyone had this issue or know why Iam can't get the clutch and shifter to work, works of pcars no worries just seems to be dirt.
