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I think its because of the 06 Focus skin, i had the same issue on a 02 Focus skin. When i disabled the skin, the headlights returned.
EA Sports WRC: General Discussion
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cjr3559
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Speaking of headlights, we need more options. High beams do not work well in heavy rain. It’s better to turn the lights off altogether, but that is not logical.
Give us a low beam/fog lamp option please. That, or tone down the rain effects. I’m having flashbacks of the rain when DR2 was released.
Example of current WRC heavy rain conditions in the dark/dusk/sunset.
Give us a low beam/fog lamp option please. That, or tone down the rain effects. I’m having flashbacks of the rain when DR2 was released.
Example of current WRC heavy rain conditions in the dark/dusk/sunset.
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yeah I started doing that as well as soon as I noticed I can actually see with the lights off...lol
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The skin maker tested it and was able to see the light(this is what he posted on RD, err overtake), so maybe there is some setting that was off:
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Yea, thats intresting. Hope you find out what setting makes it work! ^^
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Is the game going to have the Saudi and Paraguay rallies that will be in the 2025 calendar?
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The 2025 edition of the game will yes, whether that's as an expansion or a new game, we won't know until probably July or August.
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It’s a reasonable assumption based on the pattern of 2024 but nothing has been confirmed or announced. Anything you see is speculation.
The only content that has been officially confirmed however are the Le Maestros and Hard Chargers packs. Some info about both is out there already (new stages) but the remainder of the content is yet to be revealed.
The only content that has been officially confirmed however are the Le Maestros and Hard Chargers packs. Some info about both is out there already (new stages) but the remainder of the content is yet to be revealed.
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I know you have an NDA about this but apart from the initial announcement there seems to have been a lack of excitement about from the Devs ( other than yourself of course ) and indeed the release date is still a bit vague. Would be nice for even a snippet of extra news about the dlc
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Trophies should be refreshed with additional ones like they did with dirt2. The Colin Mcrae pack was very nice and the flat out trophy in scotland a good challenge.
I already got platinum but few extra trophies would easily add replay value.
There are no trophies for winning specific championships in career mode, neither to try all stages and cars.
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MagpieRacer
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Better is subjective, is it good? Absolutely, is it better than at launch? Undoubtedly. It's currently £11 on the UK PSN store for WRC 2024, if it's the same equivalent cost in your country, it is an absolute no brainer.
It can certainly exist alongside DR2.0 as the stages, locations and a good chunk of cars are very different to the DR2.0 offering. What I personally found however, is the driving on WRC is far more enjoyable, more weighty and, dare I say it, more realistic. Which I found made it quite hard to go back to DR2.0 which just felt a bit lifeless in comparison. But I do have some 7-800 hours in WRC.
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I'm not sure if I've made any kind of sim racing "hack" but I'm not seeing many results when searching for 'sim racing reading glasses', a £1.99 monitor/gfx upgrade, to me as previously a non-glasses wearer anyway. I'm no eye expert and this affects both eyes so may need caution, but I feel it's a really cheap and easy way to get much more road surface to play with if a bigger/sharper screen isn't an option right now.
B&M and most supermarkets I think sell them for a couple quid, I opted for +2.00 as I've just been prescribed glasses to wear when reading after a visit to SpecSavers at 42. I bought a cheap pair from them as their designer ones looked no better, including some special glass (+£35) for £50, but going by the new cheap one's I'd hazard a guess my prescribed ones are maybe +1.25 or +1.50 (B&M sell those strengths and 2.5, 3, 3.5 etc but trying high ones in there just blurred things for me - there's a test card and mirror in stores but I could read it all so maybe don't need these - but they make everything close bigger so got them - they blur everything further away, so not for use while moving in the real world).
For racing I sit in front of a 32" 4k hdr screen behind my wheel (maybe 6 inches behind) where I can just touch it with my fingerprints if I lean forward a bit (I'm 5"10 for reference) but the cheap +2.00 appear to add 2-3 inches at each corner when peering over the top of the glasses and back, so maybe like using a 38" screen now, although it's hard to describe it's just more immersive and the scale of everything feels so much more realistic.
I'd previously tried putting my screen directly behind the wheel where I'd nearly hit it with my knuckles, but the graphics didn't look right at all and I could see all the imperfections - I've no idea how this making it bigger just works, maybe my eyes? I've always felt it looked better on a TV further away which might make sense as I have 20/20 vision for distant stuff SpecSavers optician said. I asked if I should use my prescribed glasses for watching TV but she said no, my TV is at the end of my bed though and looks fine with them so not sure why not, maybe a risk?
Phones and Laptops also benefit from the reading glasses/my prescription ones, I generally watch YouTube at 4K although my screen is only 1800p (managed to get an affordable 15" OLED HDR one) and definitely notice the difference stepping up from 1440p on it before I went to get an eye test, making me think I must be fine. The reason i went was at night time I noticed my phone becoming harder to read, apparently it's tired eyes. I also noticed light sensitivity sometimes but they never explained that. Also asked about yellow banding in the whites but that's UV from the sun they told me, rather than too much screen time.
If anyone is able to confirm any of this for racing it could be useful for others, or let me know if there's stuff here I shouldn't be doing.
So far I've tested on WRC and DR2.0 which both benefit, and WRC9 was fine, I thought it'd highlight the imperfections but it somehow improves everything. ACC is brilliant too, but Forza Motorsport is hit and miss, some things look great like cars and crowd but other stuff seems to lack detail (I'm on Xbox so PC users might be fine - almost feel like I have a Series X 'Pro' now). I just got V-Rally 4 on sale but it's not improved, maybe took shaky or too traditional GFX, similar for Sebastien Loeb rally with older graphics, looks better without. GTA V with RT on Xbox I really like the look of normally, but these did nothing really for it in third person driving mode.
B&M and most supermarkets I think sell them for a couple quid, I opted for +2.00 as I've just been prescribed glasses to wear when reading after a visit to SpecSavers at 42. I bought a cheap pair from them as their designer ones looked no better, including some special glass (+£35) for £50, but going by the new cheap one's I'd hazard a guess my prescribed ones are maybe +1.25 or +1.50 (B&M sell those strengths and 2.5, 3, 3.5 etc but trying high ones in there just blurred things for me - there's a test card and mirror in stores but I could read it all so maybe don't need these - but they make everything close bigger so got them - they blur everything further away, so not for use while moving in the real world).
For racing I sit in front of a 32" 4k hdr screen behind my wheel (maybe 6 inches behind) where I can just touch it with my fingerprints if I lean forward a bit (I'm 5"10 for reference) but the cheap +2.00 appear to add 2-3 inches at each corner when peering over the top of the glasses and back, so maybe like using a 38" screen now, although it's hard to describe it's just more immersive and the scale of everything feels so much more realistic.
I'd previously tried putting my screen directly behind the wheel where I'd nearly hit it with my knuckles, but the graphics didn't look right at all and I could see all the imperfections - I've no idea how this making it bigger just works, maybe my eyes? I've always felt it looked better on a TV further away which might make sense as I have 20/20 vision for distant stuff SpecSavers optician said. I asked if I should use my prescribed glasses for watching TV but she said no, my TV is at the end of my bed though and looks fine with them so not sure why not, maybe a risk?
Phones and Laptops also benefit from the reading glasses/my prescription ones, I generally watch YouTube at 4K although my screen is only 1800p (managed to get an affordable 15" OLED HDR one) and definitely notice the difference stepping up from 1440p on it before I went to get an eye test, making me think I must be fine. The reason i went was at night time I noticed my phone becoming harder to read, apparently it's tired eyes. I also noticed light sensitivity sometimes but they never explained that. Also asked about yellow banding in the whites but that's UV from the sun they told me, rather than too much screen time.
If anyone is able to confirm any of this for racing it could be useful for others, or let me know if there's stuff here I shouldn't be doing.
So far I've tested on WRC and DR2.0 which both benefit, and WRC9 was fine, I thought it'd highlight the imperfections but it somehow improves everything. ACC is brilliant too, but Forza Motorsport is hit and miss, some things look great like cars and crowd but other stuff seems to lack detail (I'm on Xbox so PC users might be fine - almost feel like I have a Series X 'Pro' now). I just got V-Rally 4 on sale but it's not improved, maybe took shaky or too traditional GFX, similar for Sebastien Loeb rally with older graphics, looks better without. GTA V with RT on Xbox I really like the look of normally, but these did nothing really for it in third person driving mode.
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I'm just a layman. But I think...:
If you've been using screens throughout the day with vision that is +2.0 , getting tired eyes makes sense. In the dark, that will have been more acute. Plus when using your phone you're constantly looking at much smaller stuff which is that much harder. I find I notice blur in games a lot more than some others do, which I put down to having prescription lenses. The amount of anti aliasing blur in some games is dreadful (FM23 on Series S is blur city still sadly).
I don't think there is as much anti aliasing in EA WRC or Dirt 2 (or it's handled a lot better by Codies) which is why there's much less blur going on.
Light sensitivity can be caused by lots of things. Now that you have your specs, make a note of whether that improves or not, it might just be a side effect of eye strain - if it is, the light sensitivity should start to decrease or go away entirely now that you have glasses. If it doesn't, or it gets any worse, don't be frightened to go back to Specsavers and ask them about it further (if it starts to get worse, then you might be best to ask your doctor about it).
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