EA Sports WRC: General Discussion

[tbtstt]

My guess: the reveal will happen when the season starts

I was thinking that: just a couple of days before news might be too optimistic though!

 

[sirjim73]

The Game Pass Rewards changed this week. Irritatingly, the new "4 pack" and "8 pack" rewards don't recognise any EA Play games, which means neither WRC and Grid Legends are recognised. Not sure if this is a "bug" or intentional, but it's costing EA logins and therefore money - please can you pass this on if you can @PJTierney

 

[PJTierney]

The Game Pass Rewards changed this week. Irritatingly, the new "4 pack" and "8 pack" rewards don't recognise any EA Play games, which means neither WRC and Grid Legends are recognised. Not sure if this is a "bug" or intentional, but it's costing EA logins and therefore money - please can you pass this on if you can @PJTierney

Is there something in the terms and conditions about this? I read that external launchers (Battle.net) don’t count but I don’t know if that extends to other third party services like EA Play.

 

[sirjim73]

Is there something in the terms and conditions about this? I read that external launchers (Battle.net) don’t count but I don’t know if that extends to other third party services like EA Play.

Thanks a lot for the reply. The only change to terms and conditions flagged by MS was the requirement to be over 18 which is new.
I haven't read the T&C in detail yet - I'll see if I can find a summary of changes somewhere - however I know the EA Play games worked for the 5 point Achievement and 3 point "play a game pass game" rewards which existed prior to this Monday, so I guesstimate that it's not a T&C issue. (I was literally using Grid Legends story mode achievements to pop the Achievement rewards last week in the Cloud, along with playing that game for the 3 pointers).
The new rewards DO pop for Game Pass games in the Cloud, but DON'T pop for EA Play games in the Cloud, which is why I think this [might] be a bug.
I will try downloading a EA Play game (if I can find space on my Series S ) to see whether it works that way.

EDIT - I installed Bards Tale Trilogy and that has popped the reward, so I think it should work on installed EA Play games.
Expect a sudden uptick in Bards Tale logins

 

[m355y]

Have just had a revelation with all games but this one in particular given the ‘performance issues’, and it’s one that I’m sure 100% of the rest of the forum had in about 2008. You can’t judge a game especially on technical stuff until you actually play it on a decent TV. We bought a new one after Christmas after our probably decade old Toshiba, which was rubbish even when it was new, stopped cutting it. And it's such a shocking difference.

So there we go, bring on Le Maestros. Please…..

 

[sirjim73]

Have just had a revelation with all games but this one in particular given the ‘performance issues’, and it’s one that I’m sure 100% of the rest of the forum had in about 2008. You can’t judge a game especially on technical stuff until you actually play it on a decent TV. We bought a new one after Christmas after our probably decade old Toshiba, which was rubbish even when it was new, stopped cutting it. And it's such a shocking difference.

So there we go, bring on Le Maestros. Please…..

I had the same experience when I bought a new TV black Friday 2023. The biggest difference being that it has HDR instead of just SDR.

All recent driving games look extremely dull and flat colour-wise without it (WRC, GT7, FH5, Grid Legends all rely on it).

I would argue that they shouldn't rely so hugely on HDR, which the majority probably still don't have and in most of the above examples, i would argue the current game actually looks WORSE or at least no better than the prior one in SDR because SDR just isn't factored into the game at all.

But when you do have HDR and a new TV, the colours absolutely sparkle.

 

[m355y]

It’s an LG OLED, so (once you get used to it not being as unnaturally bright), the colours and clarity are just amazing. Plus I’ve got VRR on, and it’s completely eliminated any tearing so far. Smooth, responsive, looks amazing, I genuinely think it’s improving my times too. I don’t think I can overstate just how awful my old TV was. It was 4k but it was one of the very earliest 4k TVs and had literally no other features. We got it free with a mobile contract a decade ago. So there I am judging the game for its technical issues without even thinking about how bad my setup was. I guess it’s like doing a road test on a Maserati without driving over 30.

 

[Cabelmania]

Alleluia ! Alleluia !

 

[m355y]

A trailer for a trailer!! But still, good to see this is imminent. Looking forward to seeing which cars are included. My guess would be DS3, C3, Polo WRC and maybe a wildcard. If it's a French/Loeb/Ogier theme.

 

[tbtstt]

Excitedly clicks on YouTube link...



...premieres in 32 hours.

A trailer for a trailer!! But still, good to see this is imminent. Looking forward to seeing which cars are included. My guess would be DS3, C3, Polo WRC and maybe a wildcard. If it's a French/Loeb/Ogier theme.

Given the name it surely has to be French content? Polo WRC is top of my wish list and the DS3 would be welcome as well. Seb 1 & Seb 2 liveries are a must, bonus Francois Delecour and Simon Jean-Joseph liveries also very welcome!

 

[Cabelmania]

Excitedly clicks on YouTube link...



...premieres in 32 hours.

Yeah, sorry, my fault for not warning you

By the way, on Reddit they said that they have found in game files regarding the 1998 Escort and a unknown S1600 Peugeot.

Hard Chargers content ?

 

[tbtstt]

Yeah, sorry, my fault for not warning you

Ha, no worries! As soon as it said "premieres" I remembered that the last couple of EA WRC trailers have been revealed the same way! Fingers crossed that we won't have long to wait for the content to be added to the game.

By the way, on Reddit they said that they have found in game files regarding the 1998 Escort and a unknown S1600 Peugeot.

Hard Chargers content ?

Oooooh, that is interesting. 1998 Escort would presumably be the Escort WRC, which would mean that I'd be expecting to the audio team to bring the noise.

S1600 Peugeot? 106 maybe?

 

[Scaff]

Oooooh, that is interesting. 1998 Escort would presumably be the Escort WRC, which would mean that I'd be expecting to the audio team to bring the noise.

100%, bring that noise.

S1600 Peugeot? 106 maybe?

More likely the 206, as I don't think the 106 was homologated to S1600, while the 206 was.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Excitedly clicks on YouTube link...



...premieres in 32 hours.

Given the name it surely has to be French content? Polo WRC is top of my wish list and the DS3 would be welcome as well. Seb 1 & Seb 2 liveries are a must, bonus Francois Delecour and Simon Jean-Joseph liveries also very welcome!

I believe it was confirmed a while ago by one of the public facing devs or Jon Armstrong in an interview that it is French theme.

Yeah, sorry, my fault for not warning you

By the way, on Reddit they said that they have found in game files regarding the 1998 Escort and a unknown S1600 Peugeot.

Hard Chargers content ?

Files were found for the '98 Escort WRC and S1600 206, those files disappeared in the last update. Could be coming, could also not be coming. 206 S1600 would make sense in the French theme, Escort less so, perhaps a hard chargers pack car. Neither are a given however, could be for sound files or something, e.g. the Fabia WRC uses Octavia interior sounds.

I'm glad there's been an announcement with an impending trailer, the Discord speculation thread was just getting annoying, everyone is so impatient.

My wishlist/prediction:
Cars:
Citroen DS3 WRC with Loeb and Ogier liveries
VW Polo WRC with Ogier liveries
Citroen C3 WRC with Ogier livery
Peugeot 206 S1600 with 2006 Ogier Peugeot Cup livery
Citroen/DS 21

Liveries:
Xsara WRC: Loeb 2006
C4 WRC: Loeb Red Bull 2010, Ogier Citroen Junior Team 2009
206 WRC: Delecour 2000
207 S2000: Ogier 2009 (IRC Monte Carlo)
C2 S1600: Ogier 2008

Unlikely:
Citroen Saxo 1999 (pre-facelift): Loeb 1999
Skoda Fabia S2000: Ogier 2012
Renault Clio R3 or R4