Intermediate rally makes no sense to me!

A Stratos, Integrale, Cleo, R33 Skyline, Evolution TME, Impreza WRX, all tuned to 340-342 and I still cant beat it! The first stage Im first place, 3 seconds ahead of everyone in it. Im even at 5 sec ahead of them at points in the other stages in it, yet they finish and it says Im 5 or 6 seconds behind them in the tally. I admit, Im not as awesome Loeb in rallying (Ive finished 2 of 3 of his, stuck at Charmonix) but the tallying doesnt make sense and seems rigged? Anyone have any tips for me? Ive blown over 400 000 credits on this. Perhaps, want to trade a wrc with me?, please. Im going nuts doing this over and again.

I did intermediate fairly easily in the RS200 and a 98 Rally WRX Imprezza. Just need to use your brakes fairly well, and maintain good speeds on the corners, and you should place an easy 10 second lead at the end.

KilzoneStrife

A Stratos, Integrale, Cleo, R33 Skyline, Evolution TME, Impreza WRX, all tuned to 340-342 and I still cant beat it! The first stage Im first place, 3 seconds ahead of everyone in it. Im even at 5 sec ahead of them at points in the other stages in it, yet they finish and it says Im 5 or 6 seconds behind them in the tally. I admit, Im not as awesome Loeb in rallying (Ive finished 2 of 3 of his, stuck at Charmonix) but the tallying doesnt make sense and seems rigged? Anyone have any tips for me? Ive blown over 400 000 credits on this. Perhaps, want to trade a wrc with me?, please. Im going nuts doing this over and again.

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The simple solution is to gold the Loeb challenges as you get his wrc rally car and you can use that in both the inter and expert challenges.

I golded those using a Subaru Impreza WRX STI Version VI Type-R with some mods. As long as I didn't crash into a wall, every win was many seconds ahead of all of them.

I found the same thing as well in some of the rally events. It seems like I'm ahead at the last split timer, then after a pretty straight and simple section I'll finish a few seconds behind.

The AI seems to sometimes get magical performance powers in the last sector, or the times are in fact simply generated and not based on the times they actually ran; although that would be extremely odd.

Once I got my Subaru STI sufficiently upgraded and turned off traction control, it did become significantly easier though.

I won with 1 min 27 sec with my Subaru Impreza STI Race Modded. I didn't even try.

I found it fairly easy with the 205 T16, very quick car when running 340bhp and the 5 speed short box suited all of the stages well. The Tarmac stages were close, I finshed over a minute ahead on the Snow stages, even though this happened...

Win the Supercar (Professional) Championship in B-Spec to get the Hyundai Clix Concept '01. I tuned mine to exactly 345hp, got the right tyres & absolutely destroyed the intermediate AI. And I'm not very skilled at all.

mizxecio

I found it fairly easy with the 205 T16, very quick car when running 340bhp and the 5 speed short box suited all of the stages well. The Tarmac stages were close, I finshed over a minute ahead on the Snow stages, even though this happened...

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I did it with a Subaru Impreza Rally car 01' Prototype, bought from used dealer for 298.000 credits, stock at 313Bhp. Quite an unfair advantage if anything as the AI drive beefed up road cars. For the advanced rally i used a Toyota Celica GT-Four 95' Rally Car (which i won from the intermediate).

I drove the C4 WRC (Loeb) car, had no difficulties winning them. :-)

Only 'problem' is that i bought it, so now I got two of them after finishing the loeb challenge.

Thanks guys, Im going to try all your suggestions and let you know what happens. Been battling with this for two days.

mizxecio

I found it fairly easy with the 205 T16, very quick car when running 340bhp and the 5 speed short box suited all of the stages well. The Tarmac stages were close, I finshed over a minute ahead on the Snow stages, even though this happened...

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Used the 205 myself, absolutely destroyed them on the snow.

Nice jump, what happened?

Tuned WRX STi '10 with TCS set to 0 gave me something like one to one and half minute lead in all intermediate rallies.

I used a Mistubishi Lancer Evolution IV and i had it tuned to exactly 345HP.

The thing that made it easy for me is to set your TCS off,Skid Recovery On,and your ABS to 10.After this just drive as smooth and as quickly as you can.

I had TC set to 3, ABS 1 and everything else off btw.

More fun drifting through the turns then braking

BradKinder

I golded those using a Subaru Impreza WRX STI Version VI Type-R with some mods. As long as I didn't crash into a wall, every win was many seconds ahead of all of them.

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ASH32

The simple solution is to gold the Loeb challenges as you get his wrc rally car and you can use that in both the inter and expert challenges.

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You make that sound easy.

witham

You make that sound easy.

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It isn't easy, but I was able to do it quite quickly so I think most others should be able too.

i think with skid revovery everyone can gold loeb.

I too have experienced the odd effect of being 8 seconds up on the rest only to be a second or to down at the end with no obvious mistakes.

for some reason the ford focus wrc is quicker than loeb's c4 wrc. i used that. itsonly got 300 ish horse power and the only available upgrade in tuning takes it over 345bhp but i still won easily. the tarmac is the hardest by far. probs cause all the ai cars dont ever slide so they never go quickly on dirt and snow.

turn off all traction control. it just means u cant slide properly and so waste time on each corner waiting for the car to straighten out before you can accelerate away

The rally races are easy dude, the X-1 challenge is hard

AgentGT

I too have experienced the odd effect of being 8 seconds up on the rest only to be a second or to down at the end with no obvious mistakes.

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Me too. It's very frustrating. Obviously some kind of design error if not an outright bug.

AgentGT

I too have experienced the odd effect of being 8 seconds up on the rest only to be a second or to down at the end with no obvious mistakes.

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Same here, went from a couple of seconds up to 5 behind in the last 'sector'. Happened a couple of stages in a row, ended up 5.8 behind after 3 stages. Managed to claw back 1.5 seconds in stage 4, then 4.5 in stage 5.

Pretty odd. That was against one A.Yamauchi in an Audi S4 lol

Loeb's C4 WRC simply owns the intermediate and advanced events by embarrassing amounts.

I too noticed some strange goings on with the checkpoint differences, very wierd. Just build up an early lead in SS1 and then ignore it.

Ok. I did it! Golded Loebs challenge, got his WRC car and golded the intermediate event ! , but I realised something. 1) the stages were easier, literally. When using my old cars,tracks were much longer. Took me 12 min to do a set! 5 min with the WRC. Average lengths were shorter, not sure how to explain it. Also 2) Cars breaked unnessercerily, almost making it easier to win? EDIT: and reguarding the weird times in various sectors set by the a.i, it is a huge problem when modding a regular car for these races but not such a problem with a WRC. Is this a massive bug or glitch?

Lotus Elise 111R '04 RM clears intermediate easy with over a minute total time to spare at end..

Evo IX worked ok for me, all light weight mod, height adjustable sport suspension, and a rear wing....about 342bhp. The gravel is the worst for me as I barely eeks by after many tries. Snow was challenging due to visibility but I am usually beating AI by 20+ sec. Tarmac was relatively simple too once I dialed in with the pace notes...

Gravel is just an issue with braking early and somehow getting the car turn in. The first 3 stages usually are wide open and easier, but 4th and 5th are tighter and you really can't push it...I liked and hated the fact that the stages are randomly generated so you can't "learn" it...

I used to C4 Loeb Edition, and didn't lose a single stage, I put a turbo on it i think.. and it was 344bhp, 1 under the limit, then I did the next difficulty with the Impreza WRC that I won from this event.

Hope this helps

I struggled with a tuned road car, tried an EVO VI TME tuned to 340bhp-odd at first, and was getting bronzes, might have had the odd silver. Then managed to snag an Escort WRC for a pretty good price, tuned this up also and started getting golds. The Impreza you win is better still and shouldn't need any tuning.

It's worth turning ASM and Anti-Skid off though, least I found it easier to slide around some of the corners. With them on there is a tendency to undesteer, which reminded me of the rally stages in GT4...I found those to be hard work and rather unrealistic.

I got the impression the timing issue was because during the rally it was giving me my split against the last place car rather than the leader, but could be wrong. If that is the case that needs to be fixed.

I also found the snow stages relatively easy (especially in a WRC that pushes 150mph), tarmac a little more challenging but gravel hardest of all. To those who have mentioned how the rallies seem different each time, I believe that's because the stages are randomly generated?