I've played the games, i really liked the first Dirt... what is Gymkana?Drifting in circles through some industry park, mainly around some barrels and underneath some Caterpillar machine... completely stupid.
There is a bonet camera, a semi-cockpit and a full cockpit view beside the 3rd person cameras.
- 3P camera is puke
- The interior sound design has some nice effects, I'm sick of the bassy bullshit in other games
- Physics seem quite "rigid", maybe it's the perspective but the car seem to react too fast to the inputs, like it has more grip than it should
According to passionate driving sims enthusiast, physics in Dirt Rally is garbage. Only slightly better than other Codemasters games. But since I don't have a driving wheel, I'll be fine with Colin McRae 2005 like physics. Anything more demanding requires wheel and I'm planning to race using gamepad.
BUT (!) now there is Dirt Rally and while all the fans of the former Dirt games are disappointed, the old people like me who loved Colin McRae Rally celebrate big time.
Dirts were always too easy, tracks were soo dull... Dirt 3 for example: Michigan and Kenya? Ken Block as top rally driver? Heh
If you are old Colins vet you will like WRC 4. Cars in realistic classes ( Junior WRC, WRC, WRC 2, WRC 3 ) and all countries from 2013 season.
And RBR and its mod, forgot name, for wheel owners :wink:
You just gonna drive around in your Skoda Favorit anyway
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I'm playing with a xbox gamepad :?
I keep thinking about getting wheel and pedals some times per year but somehow I can't get myself to actually buy a proper setup.
I still enjoy playing with a pad tho... herezy... I know :3
And yea, slow cars are more fun for some reason.
Just bought a Opel Kadett GT/R from the 70's and I am already struggling with the power of that one :lol:
RWD is fucking me up all the time :D Suddenly the tires grip again and WHOOOOSH, off the car goes into a direction I do not want x)
So how is the game overall? How does the driving feel?
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Since you have to earn money to advance to bigger, better, faster cars, I've been only able to drive the Mini Cooper and it feels great.
Scandinavian flick, gas steering, loose rear end, handbrake turns... you can see the car react to every single different kind of input. Feels really nice, looks really nice and believable.
I am deeply enjoying it and finally they made a worthy Rally game!
So how is the game overall? How does the driving feel?
Jesus fuck im struggling with the 80s car like I've never sat behind a wheel before and then you see this video
I take it you bought it then. Maybe you're just bad. In any case, using a gamepad or keyboard is limiting.
That said, Bidno Moorland is fucking brutal and that guy is a beast.
My guess would be that 80's cars still have the H-scheme as gearbox which is significantly slower than a sequential one...
Besides, getting the R is tricky. Sometimes I have to properly stop the car and then release and hit backwards again to get it shifted.
Also, is shifting supposed to be this slow on the 80s cars? Whenever I have to go from 3rd gear to reverse it takes forever.
My guess would be that 80's cars still have the H-scheme as gearbox which is significantly slower than a sequential one...
Besides, getting the R is tricky. Sometimes I have to properly stop the car and then release and hit backwards again to get it shifted.
I was wondering if it was a keyboard thing or whatever... The problem is that every time you shift to lower (or higher) your guy needs to complete his animation before the game allows you to shift to lower once more. Just feels slow and if you need to stop fast and go from 3rd gear to reverse for example, you're left sitting there for a few sec shifting to reverse. Shouldn't you be able to shift from 3rd directly to reverse with H-gearbox? :/ Isn't how I described this behaviour exactly how a sequential gearbox works, except that the real one is much faster I presume.
Maybe it's a settings thing, with keyboard the only option I had was either automatic, semi-auto or sequential, I believe.
(the only option that makes sense if you don't have an H shifter)
Can a XBOX 360 controller be used efficiently with this game?I'm playing with one. All the buttons and knobs work if that is the question.
If you hate not winning you won't like this game.This. :lol:
If you hate not winning you won't like this game.
Anyone else played the Monaco stages yet? Tight road in the Alps and ice patches, what's not to like?
Tip for gamepad:
Play around with the advanced controller settings. Especially steering sensitivity and linearity made my life so much easier. Take your time to play around with those!
I didn't bother with deadzone and such. That works out of the box but my cars were so wiggly on a straight when coming out of a corner...
Went down sensitivity and altered the linearity... helped a ton!
Much of the advanced settings (and car set-up) stuff is also alien to me :P very tricky...
Like you said Vibe, controller sensitivity is from center to the circle limit. So if you have low sensitivity, you must be that much closer to the maximum tilt to have the same effect. On a high sensitivity setting you will be able to do hard steering from moving slightly from the neutral position.
Linearity must mean that the sensitivity is not equal wherever you tilt your stick from. Meaning that, for a similar sensitivity setting, you will gradually have more or less steering power the more you are away from the neutral position.
Yes.
Sensitivity allows you to alter the maximum turning speed of the steering wheel.
Linearity allows you to alter the way the maximum turning speed is reached. Full linearity means that it's always the same turning speed right from the start.
Less linearity makes the turning speed start slow and becoming constantly faster till maximum.
You can't really describe how it's best because this is very subjective. Like I wrote before, take your time to test this out. Bit of a chore but it's time well worth it.
Will give this a try, but holy smokes 20 gigs. :shock:
Reading all that controller crap is slowly giving me eye cancer. Want to press the gas pedal halfway? Press the gas pedal halfway x) There are entry steering wheel + 2 pedals kits for less than 100 euros new.
I prefer mouse and keyboard in racing games, but that's just me.
Dude I'm a die hard mouse/keyboard fan but playing this game with a keyboard is like eating soup with a shovelWell, can't judge that yet, as I am still downloading it, but I bet you're exaggerating
Reading all that controller crap is slowly giving me eye cancer. Want to press the gas pedal halfway? Press the gas pedal halfway x) There are entry steering wheel + 2 pedals kits for less than 100 euros new.
Personally, I just feel that if I get one, I'd stop using it after a month. That would be a waste.
Just did the weekly in Sweden with the Kadett. I though the Stratos had stability issues but this thing just doesn't want to drive straight at all.Told ya! :lol:
Managed to get to professional championship. Driving the Impreza compared to Peugeot 205 almost feels like cheating, so much easier to handle.
Also with the new car im having difficulties on completely different tracks, Sweden is now easy as shit, Wales is also pretty easy, however Greece... is fucking me up good.
Entered professional league. gitgud scrubs
Sébastien Loeb. He's French (technically) and his game is better.ok.
The problem I'm having in pro league is that there's a lot more of those super long tracks (12km+). It takes a toll on your time because the AI is more consistent than you and it's hard to finish the track without a single fuckup somewhere along the track. Your car is also wrecked completely from such long tracks. Though it feels good to finish 1st-3rd on such a track 8-)
I just finished 7/8th track in Sweden (was ~12km) and my engine is making a weird noise, so is my co-driver yapping something about it. And the last track is 11km+ long as well... I wonder if I make it lol.
Also, I lowered my FOV to 0.3 (first person). You see less on the edges because it's more zoomed in but you also see more of the track in the middle and less of the inside of the car. Makes it easier to drive for me, I feel like it's more in line with how your view is in real life. Had it up at 0.7 before and I think my screen had more car than track.
Force feedback steering wheel is a must! Vibration toys don't count.
Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak, Renault 5 Turbo, Renault Alpine A110, Opel Corsa Super 1600, Peugeot 207 S1600, Renault Clio S1600, Mini Classic Rallycross
Read 3 different tests... all 3 state that the car physic on Dirt Rally is better by a good margin. Not to mention that the above suffers from rather big technical issues.(click to show/hide)