I've been trying out the h2 rwd class, and from the feel, sound, challenge, my favs are the alpine, great feel, the kadett, very smooth, the hillman avenger, light and responsive, the mk2, performing, all cool sounds.
I tried out the different degradation levels on Estonia gravel.
Big difference between heavy and max, at max, road is very rugged, the light old cars move around, skidding on bumps, love it.
It seems if choose the dynamic degradation, like it is i guess in career and championships, most times, you will rarely experience the max degradation.
I wish we could set degradation levels for each stage in custom championships, to vary things ftom one end to the other.
In dr2, you can set it for each rally event at least, but it seems you can only set it at the beginning for the whole championship in wrc24..
You sure feel it in the ffb, when at max, and even just at the launch off the start, the car jiggles around, cool.
You can soften the suspension of course.
I like the added thrill, feel, challenge, and physics of it at max.
But i tried it at pacifico i think it's called, must be new zealand i guess.., and it seems mostly sand, and there is barely any degradation i can notice, a bit dull of a surface that one, for now..
I did only try that one with newer current r1, r2 cars though. Many of the newer cars dont sound that great to me, and seem easy.
At Estonia, at max especially, you get grooves on driving line, bumps on the middle, and sides, less gravel on the line, but more on the edges, and overall feels very rugged, tricky, on old rwd, love that.
And on tarmac, you get edge of road dirt dips, grooves.
Optimization wise, had no issues, even 31km long stage.
I wish we could set menu effects audio off, i have to off my sound on my headphones each time, gets on your nerve, the loud click, click each you move one set the cursor..
One bug i noticed is, if you restart many times a stage, sometimes a part of it will change physics and sound, as if on gravel, when it's a tarmac stage.
Happened at croatia, and monte carlo, if ever they want details, i can say where more exactly.
I thought at 1st that it was dirt on the road from degradation, or season etc. But if i go back out, and restart the trial mode, or championship, it fixes it.
Oh and, with degradation, it helps have a challenge with ai i think, because i didn't notice ai times slowing from it, but it sure slows your own times, in a good way of course.
I was checking that since at some point i had set a pretty good run, but not amazing, and i tested ai, and had to be at 100% to match that time, made me worry of lack of challenge of ai once experienced with the game more.
Ofc, you can set just one run for yourself, no restarts, that surely makes much harder.
But i love retrying, improving, etc.
The steam from busted radiator isn't such a big deal often, but when sun is low, it lights it up,,and blocks your view pretty much sometimes.
In dr2, it dissipates as soon as you move, as it should.
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