I bought Dirt 5 now that it's $40 everywhere, and I gotta say what a beautiful looking game. Evolution studios has done it again. Yes, some races look meh and downright ugly, but those same tracks are transformed in the right lighting conditions. Dusk setting in this game with the sun shining through looks photorealistic at times. Rain under cloudy conditions making mud transports me to Motostorm Pacific Rift days. Snow levels with the gorgeous light bounce off of the iced tracks makes everything look like it was lit by ray traced GI. Looks phenomenal. I think it's a cross between driveclub and motorstorm and if you are a fan of either of two those games, you gotta give this game a chance.
They did a great job with the dualsense controls too. The haptics on the triggers feels great, and every once in a while you hit some bump in the road and i swear its like in real life when I go over something when driving. it's rare but its amazing. I actually think they can improve it even further by implementing sound effects coming out of the controller like demon souls. DS added it a few weeks ago and it completely transformed the experience. it's not the entire audio, just bits and pieces and really enhances the experience.
So yes, go buy it. it looks great. it feels great, and above all it plays great.
With that out of the way, lets talk about how fucking broken the image quality mode is in this game. it chugs and stutters like crazy in some turns even if there are no cars on screen. you can be leading the lap and it will stutter and chug for a game 2 seconds which is an eternity in a racing game. these arent framedrops, these are stutters you see on pc games. this is clearly broken and im quite frankly flabbergasted by how this hasnt been fixed. apparently people have been complaining about it since november when this issue was introduced in a patch that added vsync to the PS5 version, and evo hasnt fixed it.
I am tagging
@NXGamer and hoping he covers it even if its for a short 2 minute video. it is simply unacceptable for a game to perform this bad. switching to prioritize resolution mode reduces the framedrops but it still chugs, just not as bad as it does in the image quality mode. only the 120 fps mode seems to work fine but i dont like the cuts they made to the graphics in that mode.
Looks like they just fixed the xbox version, but i hate that it came at the expense of the ps5 version. surely, they shouldve known the game performs awful in some races even if they dont read era or twitter.
