EA Sports WRC: General Discussion
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- Nicky-Boy_7
Great review brother!
I've told you this in the past, but I always enjoy watching and listening to your reviews.
I've told you this in the past, but I always enjoy watching and listening to your reviews.
Scaff
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Many thanksGreat review brother!
I've told you this in the past, but I always enjoy watching and listening to your reviews.
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Thoroughly-deserved brother.
My pleasure mate.
My pleasure mate.
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- Irish_Joel
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Funny, on the opposite end of the spectrum I was still having a nightmare with stutter and screen tear on XSX (and as someone else also said, I didn't even know what screen tear WAS before this game!) but this update seems to have all but cured it!
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I feel like with each patch the balance of power between the PS5 and XSX versions has gone back and forth, and now finally they’re equal. I do feel the XSX version was performing worse up to this patch, in contrast to what it was like initially. The problem with the PS5 version now is still the green plasma glitch JoeJoeMofo mentions, which I’ve never seen on XSX but several times on PS5. Generally though, all is good now on both.
It was £12 in the WRC bundle if you already owned Dirt Rally 2.0 but looks like they've removed it now.
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- Irish_Joel
If I were you I'd get the game without, see how you get on with the standard rally pass first cause you can see what you would get with the premium tier and if you've any use for it. Its not like in f1 where you get pitcoin and boosts and stuff, thankfully it's purely cosmetic... for now.
If somehow you're tempted then get it. I suppose if you feel like tipping the developers you can get it. Personally I don't think it's a great sign how heavily discounted the game is already, I bet it didn't nearly meet its sales targets if that's the case.
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Thanks for that. I grabbed it last night actually. I don't tend to go very deep with the rally games...really just do time trials usually as opposed to going into the career or full rally options. I spent about an hour playing around with it last night and I'm really pretty impressed. I think it looks and feels fantastic! Love the long courses too...
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Not sure if there is a setting I am missing but it seems that generating a random championships in Quick Play only spits out the short to mid range stages and never the long ones? I know that you can go in and change the stages individually after it is generated, but still, something I noticed.
In any case, I created a custom championship manually with the longest stages from each rally... well, nearly all, there is a cap on the number of events... and had good fun doing all of those.
In any case, I created a custom championship manually with the longest stages from each rally... well, nearly all, there is a cap on the number of events... and had good fun doing all of those.
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- chen-255
I noticed that just about all of the rallies generated in the two Quick Play championships I participated in were wet.
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Yeah, I think the auto generation of events needs more options. So before you auto generate you should be able to select parameters like car classes (also selecting specific cars within the classes would be nice), start and end season for the championship, number of rallies, rally length and max stage length (short, medium, long). That way you could end up with a nice random selection without having to go in and edit each event, which isn't particularly easy to do.
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So long. The improvement on asphalt is very evident compared to DR 2. And although the physics seemed better to me in this EA WRC, after 238 hours played... I returned to DR 2.0, and for me it is much more realistic. The weight, the skids, the inertia and especially the wheel locks are much higher in DR 2.0. This game is not bad, but there is too much grip for me. The Lancia Stratos is more real in DR 2.0. In EA WRC it is very easy to drive. There is almost no oversteer. I hope the next WRC looks at DR 2.0.
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I genuinely still love DR2.0 and if both games were hanging off the edge of a cliff and I had to save only one of them, I think I’d struggle to choose. DR2.0 is such a brilliant package, it has Rallycross, Wales, Scotland, Australia, Germany, better graphics, better performance, more interactive elements on the stages. But I’ve also kinda seen all there is to see of it, whereas there’s so much scope with the newer game - more cars, more locations, more customisation, and the promise of more coming….plus I think the physics are better. Settings tweaks really make a massive difference, the cars feel more alive which is why it’s a shame the stages themselves don’t. But it’s the promise of more to come that keeps me coming back to EA WRC, even if I’m happy to keep going back to DR2.0 whenever I feel more like playing that one. They compliment each other well. Few shared locations, different feel, I’m not going to stop playing either for some time.
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SLRE runs a bit better on PS4 anyway. I bought the Xbox version on the cheap ages ago and felt like it wasn't quite as good somehow, both a bit choppy and not as suited to the controller. Might have imagined the difference but I've put a lot of hours into it on PS4/5 and still love it. And yeah, the base game being so cheap is a bit misleading when all the DLC remains full price!
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A quick rant about game pricing. This not only applies to EA WRC but other games as well.
EA WRC has improved greatly, but its launch condition was marginal at best. Meanwhile less than 6 months later you can get a much improved game for half the price. Large portions of the game were unplayable until Jan-Feb with patches 1.4 and 1.5.
How about throwing some bones to those that pre-ordered and/or picked this up early and coped with all the issues. Like future free DLC, or immediate access to the collectibles instead of dealing with the XP.
EA WRC has improved greatly, but its launch condition was marginal at best. Meanwhile less than 6 months later you can get a much improved game for half the price. Large portions of the game were unplayable until Jan-Feb with patches 1.4 and 1.5.
How about throwing some bones to those that pre-ordered and/or picked this up early and coped with all the issues. Like future free DLC, or immediate access to the collectibles instead of dealing with the XP.
It's the other way round, because maybe you (and I
) payed the full price -> we get nothing extra. Only the people which are not so interested get the 50% off prices and don't have to figure out the problems and bugs.BTW: After a pause of 2 month I tried today the official WRC Club Croatia Rally (only the 1st stage) and it's really smoother than before but unfortunately, the hybrid tech is still not properly implemented. Graphics are quite ok and the stutter was only on some hairpins. I didn't know the stage but I liked it (my time was only 14:56 with standard setup, best time is 13:03)
I can't help but tarmac feels not really good and the FFB also misses a lot of information. If I compare it to AMS2 or rFactor 2 there are worlds between WRC and the other two sims.
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I bought it full price on both consoles and now it's on sale for a few magic beans. I try not to think about it really. It's annoying but it happens sometimes. I'm usually terrible at judging when to buy games. If I buy something full price, especially on Switch, its an unwritten rule that the following day it'll be on sale for £3.49 and I'll spend the day crying.
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