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Dirt Rally |OT| Dont Cut, Be Brave
- Thread starter Watevaman
- Start date
Lion Heart
Banned
Never trust Bestbuy to deliver on time. Wednesday at best, fuuuuu.
if no one else does it, ill make one by tomorrow night if/when i can figure out how to do it. i just signed up to the site and started the process just to check it out so far.
DidntKnowJack
Member
About 3 more minutes 'til it unlocks...
Whooooooooooo
Whooooooooooo
Heavy_D206
Member
Pre-Ordered on PSN and ready to rock!
Can't wait to dig into this at 60 fps, I was only getting 40 @ Medium settings on my PC so hopefully PS4 will be a nice upgrade.
Can't wait to dig into this at 60 fps, I was only getting 40 @ Medium settings on my PC so hopefully PS4 will be a nice upgrade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjILuvJ6OQ4
cool doc about the history of Rally.
^^im at the part about the Stratos now. hope i find it drivable in game. such a sexy car.
cool doc about the history of Rally.
^^im at the part about the Stratos now. hope i find it drivable in game. such a sexy car.
Now that Dirt Rally has gone from being on a single platform, to being on three platforms, and assuming it sells decently, I'm hopeful there will be DLC with yet more courses.
10 hours until I can get my physical copy. Can't wait.
Edit: this stream is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PeFeRzCcI8
10 hours until I can get my physical copy. Can't wait.
Edit: this stream is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PeFeRzCcI8
I just stop accelerating, correct, and accelerate again. That car is notoriously "oversteery".
DidntKnowJack
Member
Just finished my first career event in Greece with my Mini Cooper and finished 2nd overall. And you know what, I'll take it. I started out a little rough, but quickly learned the benefit of feathering my throttle and brakes on some of those turns rather than using the e-brake. Using the latter I slowed down way too much, sometimes even stopping then having to accelerate back up to speed - which was killing my times.
First impressions are WOW. What an exhilarating game. It really does take a lot of concentration but I'm loving it. I'm fine using these slower vehicles for now, I have a feeling the faster ones are going to be absolutely scary by comparison.
First impressions are WOW. What an exhilarating game. It really does take a lot of concentration but I'm loving it. I'm fine using these slower vehicles for now, I have a feeling the faster ones are going to be absolutely scary by comparison.
TheAdmiester
Member
One tip for the Mini and later for the faster FWD kit cars. Because of the realistic physics, you might notice that there's such a thing as steering too much, and not as in oversteer, if you go full lock you'll feel the tires are just kinda spinning because you're going too fast to grip at that degree of turning. The Mini and Maxi (heh) both benefit in tight corners from steering around 50-75% as opposed to full lock.
DidntKnowJack
Member
Yeah, absolutely. I definitely noticed several times when I was spinning my tires. Especially from a stand still - like at the beginning of a race.
It'll take me awhile to come to grips with this handling model. That's true of every rally game, but expecially with this one.
DrGonzo615
Banned
HueyFreeman
Banned
Man
This fucking game
This fucking game
AnythingBut
Member
Amazon copy out for delivery.... Leave for work in 2hrs!
The countdown begins.
The countdown begins.
DidntKnowJack
Member
Took 2nd place (again) in the next career event - Monte Carlo. Now I'm 3rd overall.
Grr. I really need to get better at this.
Grr. I really need to get better at this.
Dirt 3 is an entirely different beast, and also quite fun. VERY arcade-focused(to the detriment of many Rally purists), it has very wide tracks and most of the events focus on flashy excitement as the AI is all over the road and the bump n grind is in full of effect - and looks spectacular at times.
It does also throw in a ton of stunt-like events too, which I never really enjoyed(drifting, gymkhana - essentially a minigame stadium where you bash down cones, do donuts, get some slight airtime through gates, etc...) It breaks up the monotony of pure racing and Rally-type stuff, but I got pretty sick of seeing that stuff pop up in the career.
Dirt 3 was just on sale on PSN a couple weeks back for like a few bucks, and the "Complete Edition" on Steam can be had for super cheap on regular sales. Well worth checking out if you want a silly race experience. Definitely less forgiving than this game(features flashback rewinds and some nice risk/reward difficulty sliders to tailor the experience for all player types), I recommend checking it out.
I'm happy with 2nd or 3rd personally, at least for now.
Amazon better bloody deliver my copy today......or else......
PS4 league link for the new page.
https://www.dirtgame.com/uk/leagues/league/30595/neogaf-ps4
PS4 league link for the new page.
https://www.dirtgame.com/uk/leagues/league/30595/neogaf-ps4
I guess no cross-platform leagues
Unfortunately not :-(.
Corleth the Fey
Member
Hey guys. I've joined the PS4 league. PSN name - philisatwat.
Bit too expensive for a double dip. 69,95 on PSN..
Oh well
I guess we could run the same league setup concurrently on each platform and manually amalgamate the results on here if there was enough interest in a GAF all platforms league?
Needs 3 league hosts working in unison then. I can atleast do this week if necessary. Granted we have the NeoGAF League on PC side already but i dont know if the host(s) are alive
Needs 3 league hosts working in unison then. I can atleast do this week if necessary. Granted we have the NeoGAF League on PC side already but i dont know if the host(s) are alive
Just needs 2 other people to setup the same league on the other two platforms, and then we could just manually copy and paste the results here at the end of the event and do an overall leaderboard, or someone could setup a google docs spreadsheet that is easy to update......
Obviously a bit of work required, but if there is enough interest it might be worth looking into.
Woot!
I'll try my hand on it, see how much work it is this week. I'm going to create a league for PC.
We can call it a test run
I'll try my hand on it, see how much work it is this week. I'm going to create a league for PC.
We can call it a test run
Sounds like a plan!
I assume the way you setup PS4 league is.. 1 event 6 stages?
Yeah, just an easy start with the 3 beginner cars, we can ramp up the length and difficulty once everyone is used to it.
I'd suggest for next time, disable career engineers & stage retries but allow event restarts. Of course we can see what the drivers here think about these
NeoGAF PC League:
https://www.dirtgame.com/uk/leagues/league/30793/neogaf-pc
Protip: Jumping between different DiRT Rally website tabs WILL change your session between PS4/Steam.. Welp.
dreamstation
Member
Probably already been asked and I apologise if I missed it but how does the PS4 version play with the controller? I've been really looking forward to the game but I don't have a wheel that works with the PS4. Would love to upgrade my DFGT to something that does but unfortunately I just can't afford it so I'm stuck with using the controller. Does it feel natural using the controller (like it does in Driveclub for example) or does the realistic nature of this game really lend itself to using a wheel and not so much a controller? Thanks everyone.
I've yet to play it, but apparently it plays very well on the pad, not heard anywhere near the gnashing of teeth from pad users that happened when PCars released.
TylerDurden4321
Member
I'd be either for
- just one stage and infinite retries
or
- one event without any retries
and I'd prefer the 2nd one because it's 1) more authentic, 2) less time consuming for me and 3) if you crash and end up with a bad time it might be more welcoming for gaffers that aren't so good at this(or think they're not good) to join.
- just one stage and infinite retries
or
- one event without any retries
and I'd prefer the 2nd one because it's 1) more authentic, 2) less time consuming for me and 3) if you crash and end up with a bad time it might be more welcoming for gaffers that aren't so good at this(or think they're not good) to join.
dreamstation
Member
That sounds promising indeed. Probably too early to tell but I'd be interested to hear if controller users can be as fast as wheel users without having to be a freak or anything. I'm willing to put in the time to learn but if it's practically impossible for a controller user to get anywhere near a wheel user's time then it may turn a lot of controller users away from leagues and multiplayer in general. Hope it's well optimised for both input methods.
Corleth the Fey
Member
I'm a controller only player. I found the default configuration fine.
I did take the advice of a user in this thread though after playing for a few hours and changed steering sensitivity to 100 and linearity to 10. It instantly felt better to me. But this is all personal opinion I think. Someone else here preferred quite a different setup.
I'm not gonna argue with anyone who thinks a wheel is better. It probably is. Problem is - I suck with wheels and pedals. I'm always going to do better on a pad.
See I don't drive. So I have pretty much zero experience using 'real car controls'. What I do have is 30 years experience using joypads every day. Which one do you think I'm going to be better with?
If that's the general consensus then we can adjust the format for the next event, I just chucked something simple together for a start.
I actually set a few events this morning for the PC league, but running events in parallel to the console leagues is a cool idea. We could use the existing (200+ member) league for this or run your new league separately. The events I set this morning can easily be cancelled. I promoted you to owner, so you can take control if you want.Needs 3 league hosts working in unison then. I can atleast do this week if necessary. Granted we have the NeoGAF League on PC side already but i dont know if the host(s) are alive
I gave it a quick try with an Xbox One controller on PC and it seems like they pretty much nailed the controls, at least with the Fulvia HF (beginner car). Your times will be limited by your skill only I imagine, it's good with a controller.
17.3 GB update on PC. I don't want to wait 3 hours for the download.
Tell me about it, my computer is saying 13 hours for the download. I'm just gonna download it at work and copy the data over to my desktop when I get home.
Omnii-chan
Member
17.3 GB update on PC. I don't want to wait 3 hours for the download.
Must be the rest of the complete game.
Well each of the regular updates was pretty big and they included some cars and stages usually. I know there's some new cars added, but I'll have to wait and see the changelog to see what all has been added.
Hopefully I can update the OT with the new content tonight!