Dirt Rally.. looks promising!

[FiF]

Agreed, with the 205 T16 I'm off before the start line, though am currently trying with only keyboard, which is bad enough with a Cooper S frankly.

[wst]

I gave up on the first stage of the climb after not even getting halfway into the second split without a big spectator-ending off. Doesn't help that I can't save the 205 from certain doom as soon as it starts to slide...

[klunkT5]

This sim is coming along nicely, Money well spent so far i reackon

[Mr Happy]

The 405 is much easier to drive than the 205, and orders of magnitude less likely to swap ends on you as soon as you have the audacity to give it more than 60% throttle!

My best so far is 14m29.887, finishing bottom half (3rd quarter) of the table.

[Douglas Arfempty]

Is there a PH league for this?

[Tonsko]

Mentioned it a while back, but at the moment, no. There's a PH Dirt Rally steam group to make it easier to find folk though.

[Mattygooner]

Heads up, update today, new rally and new cars!

12 new rally stages based at Baumholder in Germany
Owners Club Online Events – A second DiRT Daily where you compete in your own car
A second weekly event where we’ll be experimenting and throwing new challenges at you
7 new rally cars featuring new Group B RWD & Kit Car Classes
Renault Alpine A110 1600S
Opel Kadett GT/E 16v
Renault 5 Turbo
Opel Manta 400
Lancia 037 Evo 2
Seat Ibiza Kitcar
Peugeot 306 Maxi
New calibration and options screens in “Advanced Wheel Settings” (added in v.0.4.5)

[soad]

Looks like there's more to come?
https://www.dirtgame.com/timeline

[rhinochopig]

What does it drive like with a multi-rotation wheel on the new tarmac stages?

Since the new tarmac updates I've found that my really old PS2 or 3 Gran Turismo wheel is unusable as it results in the car being too twitchy.

[Tonsko]

They updated it to take into account 540+ wheels. You have to play with the settings a bit. By all accounts, it's pretty good.

[wst]

Mr Happy said:

The 405 is much easier to drive than the 205, and orders of magnitude less likely to swap ends on you as soon as you have the audacity to give it more than 60% throttle!

I was a fool and bought the only one I could afford at the time! I'm getting better with it. Not undertaken any full length runs yet though...

[rhinochopig]

Tonsko said:

They updated it to take into account 540+ wheels. You have to play with the settings a bit. By all accounts, it's pretty good.

Ta. Might have to treat myself to a new wheel at some point then.

[Tonsko]

rhinochopig said:

Ta. Might have to treat myself to a new wheel at some point then.

Would dearly love one. I've seen some of the home build race seats, with movement and all that business. They come in at respectable cost - but space, and more junk hanging around is anathema, so I will live with joypad.

[craste]

I can't stop watching YouTube videos of the game, can't wait for it to come out on PS4!

Anyone on here play this and project cars?

Which do you prefer?

[danllama]

I play both of them and AC on PC. All 3 I have had since beta. All 3 I play regularly and are worth owning as they all offer different experiences.

Dirt is bloody difficult but you get the hang of it.

[Tonsko]

Dirt is a game that made me buy a wheel after 100 hours of it. PLayed AC, PC and iracing. They're all different, but I struggle to enjoy them. R3E is the one circuit racer that I had the most fun with. Dirt is mighty. Steam ID danllama?

A load of new cars will be released on console debut, too.

Edited by Tonsko on Wednesday 3rd February 00:56

[andrewrob]

I love it. Also like the way that if you have mentally switch off for a few seconds and miss couple of instructions from the co driver you're in the trees or off a cliff, and that's in a 60s mini, let alone group B!

[xRIEx]

craste said:

Anyone on here play this and project cars?

Which do you prefer?

I think they complement each other very well - I enjoy them both. I've not played pCars for a while but will be one going back to it once I've got all the Dirt Rally cars upgraded.

[Jon_Bmw]

Yes it is hard work. I am using the E30 M3 and it is good fun, but frustrating, mainly due to my lack of skill!

When you get a stage all hooked up, it is great. I find on 3, 4 or 5 corner calls, if I use one gear down from the call I will generally not crash, but I am losing time to the fastest stage time.

Graphics are very good and is more simulator based, rather than Arcade like previous version of Dirt.

[rhinochopig]

craste said:

I can't stop watching YouTube videos of the game, can't wait for it to come out on PS4!

Anyone on here play this and project cars?

Which do you prefer?

Yes. I pay both with a G29 wheel.

Graphics: PC wins hands down.

Sound: PC is dreadul IME. DR has the best sound of any driving game I've ever come across. It really does sound like being in a stripped out tin box.

Handling: Impossible to compare really. What I can say is that having driven my grp-N lancer down some very narrow and bumpy country roads at speed, DR does a very good approximation. Some cars handle more accurately than others, but generally I'd say it's about as sim as you'd want to go and still be fun. Any more and the lack of bum on seat feel and G effects that you'd get in the real-world would make it too difficult. It does camber sniffing, lift-off oversteer, turning in on the brakes, i.e. some fo the more subtle handing effects, very well.

I can spend a good hour on just playing on a single tarmac stage - in fact I've hardly bothered with the actual game.

Just buy it, you won't be disapointed. The only downside for me is the rather limited number of courses.