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DiRT Rally is available on Steam Early Access
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just the leaderboard. 100 have joined (presumably from here) before today
Yeah, we've had over 100 GAF'ers in the league for a while now.
Hopefully this weekend I'll have the time to complete some stages. I'm hoping to give some time to this and Project Cars, maybe take just a couple of days off from my new-found KSP addiction.
seattle6418
Member
I really wanted to try the Gaf league, but i still can't link my codemasters account to Steam.
How do i erase Dirt Rally from my profile, meaning that i would have to create a new account to link to the game... i can't find any option to change accounts and stuff... everytime i log in to the game i'm already connected to a codemasters account that i can't use it online.
It's a mess i have no idea how to solve.
How do i erase Dirt Rally from my profile, meaning that i would have to create a new account to link to the game... i can't find any option to change accounts and stuff... everytime i log in to the game i'm already connected to a codemasters account that i can't use it online.
It's a mess i have no idea how to solve.
So you linked a Racenet account to your Steam profile that you don't want? You should just be able to log into https://racenet.codemasters.com und delink it then. Or did you lose access to it or something? That would be a case for Codemasters support, I guess.
seattle6418
Member
turtlesbonanza
Member
My simpler method:
High speed:
6 - flat out, let's fucking go.
5 - flat if I can see where I'm going, lift if I can't.
4 - proper lift, maybe a tap on the brake.
3 - short full press on the brake.
2 - medium braking for a bit.
1 - HARD braking.
Acute/hairpin - handbrake yo.
Low speed:
6 - flat out, let's fucking go.
5 - flat out, let's fucking go.
4 - flat out, let's fucking go.
3 - flat if I can see where I'm going, lift if I can't.
2 - medium braking for a bit.
1 - HARD braking.
Acute/hairpin - handbrake yo.
Nothing else really matters, other than the dreaded 'don't cut'. RIP every time.
High speed:
6 - flat out, let's fucking go.
5 - flat if I can see where I'm going, lift if I can't.
4 - proper lift, maybe a tap on the brake.
3 - short full press on the brake.
2 - medium braking for a bit.
1 - HARD braking.
Acute/hairpin - handbrake yo.
Low speed:
6 - flat out, let's fucking go.
5 - flat out, let's fucking go.
4 - flat out, let's fucking go.
3 - flat if I can see where I'm going, lift if I can't.
2 - medium braking for a bit.
1 - HARD braking.
Acute/hairpin - handbrake yo.
Nothing else really matters, other than the dreaded 'don't cut'. RIP every time.
chrominance
Member
I have a surprising amount of trouble hearing "left" as "right" and vice-versa for some reason. I don't know if it's the accent screwing with me or what, but I would be fine without icons at all except for thinking the turn's going one way when actually it's the opposite way.
(also, chalk me up as someone who used to think 1-6 referred to the ideal gear ratio, and felt really dumb taking 6 turns in second gear)
(also, chalk me up as someone who used to think 1-6 referred to the ideal gear ratio, and felt really dumb taking 6 turns in second gear)
Big Takeover
Member
Jibbed. Spot on, and yeah, don't even think about disobeying don't cut.I haven't played the new one, but with Colin McRae Rally, I've always thought of the numbers as the gear you should be in while taking the tightest part of the corner.
I always assumed the number system was supposed to match a 6 gear car. So you can take a 6 in gear 6, a 1 slow the fuck down to gear 1.
EDIT:
Beaten.
Mohonky
Member
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Dear Wales, I hate you. But I love you.
Oh, right. I thought you could do that anyway. Never even looked at the setups, which probably explain why I'm not very good at this. Apart from just generally not being very good.
CountAntonius
Member
Was having the race of my life when...flat rear right tire. Kept going picked up speed and tire is gone. Kept soldiering on and flat front left tire. This game is amazing.
Caesar III
Member
I got it that way too! Perhaps it was in a manual or tutorial in the McRae games back then?
Am I the only one who thinks RWD cars are considerably easier to drive than 4WD cars? I just tried the first league event with the Delta Integrale and I sucked big time. My car slid around the track like a freaking piece of soap. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I can get around with the Fiat 131 or 80's BMW a lot easier.
On one hand, the RWD cars are easier to maneuver around 4 and up bends, but harder to come out out of tighter ones, I end up sliding, over correcting and bumping into the sides or doing a 180. The 4WD cars on the other hand, just slide through tighter bends and can be corrected with ease. This is for my style of driving, not some truth set in stone, obviously
The Group A cars are considerably worse than the Goup B cars. Also, the modern cars like the Ford Fiesta and the Mini Cooper are ridiculously easy to drive.
But that Subaru is starting to grow on me. It's just a matter of getting used to it.
The major benefit of an awd is obviously traction. It takes a lot less effort to get through a hairpin for example. Just slow enough, handbrake slide til you're almost pointing the right way, and full throttle out of it with no risk of spinning back to face the way you came.
That feeling when you're in a solid lead on your way to your first champion ship win ever and you mess up a relatively straight stretch 20 secs off the finish and crash.
Still only doing 60s ch'ships lol. Promised myself to stick with it until I got good at it, and now I'm consistently close to the top. Progression feels wonderful, really get a sense of learning the rally way. Think I'm ready to advance now.
Still only doing 60s ch'ships lol. Promised myself to stick with it until I got good at it, and now I'm consistently close to the top. Progression feels wonderful, really get a sense of learning the rally way. Think I'm ready to advance now.
Superkamikazee
Banned
Using a G25 here, occasionally when playing the car will pop out of gear. The h shifter obviously hasn't moved, but the game puts the car in neutral when I just cruising along in 3rd or something. Also there's times I can't always get the car into a gear, but I suspect that's me not pushing the clutch all the way to the floor.
Anyone else experience these issues or is my G25 messed up?
Anyone else experience these issues or is my G25 messed up?
Reluctant-Hero
Member
I love the 4WDs, I feel so much more in control.
That or I messed it up.
Haha, well it'll be interesting to see what cars people choose if it's a free for all.
Here's a video of the Geufron Forest run i did on NeoGAF League.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojkq2GfqC6I
Shame about the damn pole at the downhill corner though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojkq2GfqC6I
Shame about the damn pole at the downhill corner though.
cool video
It happens when you talk to a smoking hot redhead chick at the same time. Added now
It happens when you talk to a smoking hot redhead chick at the same time. Added now
Pics or it didn't happened.
Added now
gj
There's a couple of nice surprises on that stage (and the shorter stages over the same ground). This one, where your co-driver hilariously didn't call the slightly hidden 2 right, and this one (right 4 continues over jump) caught me out a number of times on my first attempts. I swear the latter one I made the mistake of overshooting into the trees like 5 times in a row during a championship.
Didn't even realize he did not call the hidden 2 right. I just knew it's going to come there so i knew how to react.
Betta Lines
Member
To finish first, first you must be Finnish.
I wish you could change video options while in replay mode. I'm playing with low quality trees because of that dithering bug on AMD cards but that looks like crap in a video. Anyway, I made one of a not terrible run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPiZZ4Trp30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPiZZ4Trp30
Guess it's all down to practice and getting used to the car.
So far I've played every championship in my good old Fiat because I didn't have enough credits to buy anything else
I am so glad that I bought this game. Wasn't sure if I want it because despite loving racing games I am not really that into rally (I like watching it but I don't know nothing about it) but after watching (and HEARING) some youtube videos I couldn't resist.
At first I was frustrated because it was almost impossible for me to stay on track and finish whole stage. Now, after some time with a game, I am getting better and better with every race (I am still terrible though). I adjusted some control options, learned to control throttle and learned some tracks and now it is just pure fun even when I fail.
Driving in this game is just awesome and it keeps you on the edge for a whole stage.
What is also awesome is sound design. For me it is new standard in racing games at least when it comes to cockpit view sound. It is just incredible. All this details and great use of effects.
Amazing game and it is only early access!
One complaint though is that audio is really quiet, especially in cockpit.
At first I was frustrated because it was almost impossible for me to stay on track and finish whole stage. Now, after some time with a game, I am getting better and better with every race (I am still terrible though). I adjusted some control options, learned to control throttle and learned some tracks and now it is just pure fun even when I fail.
Driving in this game is just awesome and it keeps you on the edge for a whole stage.
What is also awesome is sound design. For me it is new standard in racing games at least when it comes to cockpit view sound. It is just incredible. All this details and great use of effects.
Amazing game and it is only early access!
One complaint though is that audio is really quiet, especially in cockpit.
If we had two events next season each with 5 stages running for 3 days, would you all want services areas before every stage?
My thinking for splitting it up into two longer events rather than six smaller is that it will make it easier for people who don't have much time to complete all events. It's possible to save and quit after a stage, which would suit those who have time every day, but can't play for more than a say half an hour a day.
It would be ideal of course all events could be played from day one, but that didn't work when we tried it earlier.
My thinking for splitting it up into two longer events rather than six smaller is that it will make it easier for people who don't have much time to complete all events. It's possible to save and quit after a stage, which would suit those who have time every day, but can't play for more than a say half an hour a day.
It would be ideal of course all events could be played from day one, but that didn't work when we tried it earlier.
That sounds fine to me.
I think you should allow servicing between each stage because a lot of players in the league may still be getting to grips with the game, and, with no restarts, being unable to repair after an accident would seem like unnecessary punishment on top of the time penalties.
Do you mean the co-driver? I'm wondering if this is a widespread issue. The audio sliders make 0 difference for me, even changing the values in the config file to below the normal limit (or even 0) does nothing.
I think you should allow servicing between each stage because a lot of players in the league may still be getting to grips with the game, and, with no restarts, being unable to repair after an accident would seem like unnecessary punishment on top of the time penalties.
Do you mean the co-driver? I'm wondering if this is a widespread issue. The audio sliders make 0 difference for me, even changing the values in the config file to below the normal limit (or even 0) does nothing.