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Great Joe posted:When you're finally getting the hang of the 4WD cars, do yourself a favour and get in the Lancia Stratos to ease into RWD. Stratos was the first car I bought after the 60s Lancia, needless to say I quickly retreated back to the 60s one and have hardly touched the stratos since. I'm liking the group b 4wd cars too much too.
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The Stratos is objectively the best car in the game, alongside the 037.
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Jul 27, 2015 19:29
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Really liked the kit cars from the league event, so light and fast. I busted out my left headlight on the last stage about a third of the way through which sort of sucked. The Stratos was one of my favorites too, made me enough money to buy the Lancia Delta, which is amazing.
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Jul 27, 2015 21:29
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The 60s Lancia is the absolute worst car in the game for me, but the Stratos is definitely the best. It feels like the Stratos is actively trying to murder me at every bump and corner which is the most fun way to drive.
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Jul 27, 2015 21:35
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Out of Band II posted:Really liked the kit cars from the league event, so light and fast. I busted out my left headlight on the last stage about a third of the way through which sort of sucked. Yeah the kit cars are fun, but I don't like taking them out on the stages without at least some tarmac. Front wheel drive can be annoying because of how slow the 'fast' line is through turns is, when you are used to the fast awd cars.
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Jul 27, 2015 22:25
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SealHammer posted:The Stratos is objectively the best car in the game, alongside the 037.
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SealHammer posted:The Stratos is objectively the best car in the game, alongside the 037.  Managed to snag a place in the 20's (think I was 26th with ~5 hours left) though with slightly improved times each stage on the second round. Pushing the 037 to the limit is exhilarating, even on tarmac.After Group B RWD and Kit Cars (offline career), getting in my Group A Lancia for the other Weekly (haven't got around to buying/upgrading the Lancia Delta) felt so tame and boring in comparison. I thought about using the 037 again, but it is a very brazen beast on Wales and I was a tad gun shy after the Germany runs. Out of Band II posted:Really liked the kit cars from the league event, so light and fast. Then again, I felt majorly let down we didn't see a Suzuki Escudo with the Hillclimb stuff which was a monster that actually raced (and Group B cars with their '85, '86 HPs of 500+) so I won't count my blessings on getting gimmicky non-existent stuff that are totally ridiculous.
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Jul 29, 2015 01:15
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Buck Turgidson posted:Really? You can't even alt+enter? What happens? Does nothing. It's a known bug, lots of people have filed reports, but no fix as of yet.
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Jul 29, 2015 01:46
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So I decided to stop being a baby and try the Stratos instead of the opel and Uh it's way more fun and I'm better with it. Stop scaring people away from it, it is the best car.
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Jul 29, 2015 03:02
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The kit cars are hot garbage, holy gently caress. I wonder if Codies can figure out how to implement front-wheel drive without it being so incredibly awful.
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SealHammer posted:The kit cars are hot garbage, holy gently caress. I wonder if Codies can figure out how to implement front-wheel drive without it being so incredibly awful. Try loving with the settings, Google some other dudes settings. The default for that one seem to suck.
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shortspecialbus posted:So I decided to stop being a baby and try the Stratos instead of the opel and Uh it's way more fun and I'm better with it. Stop scaring people away from it, it is the best car.
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Great Joe posted:The Stratos owns and more people should use it. I will say I could see it being a nightmare with a controller or even a wheel and the default force feedback stuff. Use the IMPACT mod.
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SealHammer posted:The kit cars are hot garbage, holy gently caress. I wonder if Codies can figure out how to implement front-wheel drive without it being so incredibly awful. What's so bad about the implementation? The feedback or how they actually drive?
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bsamu posted:What's so bad about the implementation? The feedback or how they actually drive? The way they drive. After getting so used to driving RWD, that exaggerated power-lift oversteer is maddening.
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SealHammer posted:The way they drive. After getting so used to driving RWD, that exaggerated power-lift oversteer is maddening. I was doing Wales, but, if anything, I felt I was struggling with understeer and bump stability problems (I think because it's so light little bumps upset it a lot more than one might expect, especially with how well you carry speed). That is to say: maybe tool around in the suspension settings a bit because that might be able to make it react less extreme under weight transfer, just maybe giving rise to other problems instead.  Like the Lancia 037, I was unable to find a setup I was really happy with the Peugeot 306 on Wales; no matter what the setup just feels like a bad compromise that drives relatively stable for the longest periods, but occasionally just gets murdered by localized areas.Did you happen to be doing Germany? I feel like every Default setup on Germany in general (haven't done it single player yet in my Kit Car which is usually where I hone setups) has weight transfer issues that turns into mad oversteer if you aren't careful; I've found softer suspension and less negative camber helps me a ton in general on Germany to prevent the car from entering the Default's stiff lean in high speed turns that causes the car to totally let loose if you don't un-lean it carefully prior to lifting off the gas or heavy braking. * I even managed a 6:29 on Pra d'Alart for the Monthly, a quite solid time judging by our earlier talks on ice driving using that stage. On a related note: does the game keep track of personal best runs on stages per cars at all? Seems like a useful thing for it to do, but their UI is half baked so it's hard to find some stuff, if it even exists.
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I picked this up day one because I loved the previous Dirt games, and I knew it was going to be harder, but the challenge has been consistent in a way I haven't experienced with any other racing game. But today,  I got my first win.
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Cyberbird posted:I picked this up day one because I loved the previous Dirt games, and I knew it was going to be harder, but the challenge has been consistent in a way I haven't experienced with any other racing game.  In other news, I am so confused how the repair cost at the end of rallies in tabulated. Finished my Peugeot 306 Wales and, despite repairing everything to 100% almost every repair session I came away with a 170,000 credit charge for repairs.  I barely made any credits despite getting first (Master's event, so 200,000 credits). Decided to buy the Ibiza for the next event so I can fully upgrade both Kit Cars in a single Kit Car Championship. Used probably about 3/4 the total repair time as the previous run and even crashed hard right before the end of the last stage (breaking my radiator and roughing up my front end pretty bad) and the repair cost was *drumroll* loving 20,000 credits. What in the world decides the repair cost that a not ridiculously different amount of damage would diverge the repair costs by 150,000 credits? I had assumed it was by lingering damage + damage from the last two stages, but that doesn't make sense since with the end-of-run wreck on the latter, the damage had to be higher post-rally than the first one.
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Seriously, drive cleaner if you can. That way, you will be faster than you thought you could be.
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pik_d posted:I think the damage is all the repairs you made plus the damage at the end. Some rallies I feel like I get really beat up though (using most of the 30 minutes to repair, occasionally not getting everything to 100% each time*) and it's a pittance to repair; other rallies I felt were not too bad (similar or better repair situation like the aforementioned Wales) and it's an arm and a leg, despite never having a component drop below 85~90% integrity per repair period. It just seems really inconsistent in my experience, but apparently I'm alone in that feeling judging by the responses. * Does seem like cost and repair time is tied to car driven so that's probably part of it. I have always repaired everything to 100% but Kit Cars and 2010's since getting a full crew of 85 overalls since it takes drastically less time (and presumably credits) to repair lower-level/cheaper cars. Triple A posted:Seriously, drive cleaner if you can. That way, you will be faster than you thought you could be. Maybe there's still work to be done though. Do people here manage to consistently do sub-5% damages per repair on gravel? I can usually manage that on tarmac and often find myself using under 15 (sometimes under 10) minutes of the repair window to get everything to 100%, but on gravel I usually have enough damage, even without notable accidents, that it's into the 15~30 minute range most repair windows with most components at 90~95%. * At least you don't have to pay repairs for online stuff: should get a nice ~350k from the Monthly event ending imminently with no cut taken. 
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https://www.dirtgame.com/uk/blog/4897 1. Backup your savegame before going to Win10 in case something goes wrong 2. FIA World Rallycross update is next week, AI for it isn't great yet so it might be too easy, rearview mirror available on all camera views but it is disabled by default due to performance concerns
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I really hope they get around to cross-car courses with this update, being able to (try) to take the kit cars up Pikes Peak, take that beastly audi out on Germany, and then these Rallycross cars out on Wales.. Or even better, Group B rallycross. Edit: Also a reverse Pikes Peak would be loving amazing, imagine trying to control some of the cars going downhill on that track.
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Keket posted:Edit: Also a reverse Pikes Peak would be loving amazing, imagine trying to control some of the cars going downhill on that track. Nope, those downhill sections in Greece are stressful enough, especially with those boulders lining the road.
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Today, I drove the Subaru.  And also the Pikes Peak Audi. 
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Obviously it is early days but has there been talk of a console release? I so want to play this game
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Potentially useful info: if you dead tie in points with an AI for a championship, it seems to give you the benefit of the doubt. Ran 2nd/1st/2nd/1st getting both Kit Cars upgraded and the top AI did 1st/2nd/1st/2nd and it still gave me the win and the corresponding achievement. Surprisingly, I think Monaco was actually the hardest to manage with FWD, but maybe that was in part to it being the unupgraded Ibiza so I couldn't fix the suspension being so oversteer-happy over bumps which is always a tricky condition to manage. The Default for Germany (usually a sore spot in most cars for me) was actually exceptionally good, all I changed was adjusting for more even gearing and making it turn a little more aggressively (toe out on the front wheels). julian assflange posted:Obviously it is early days but has there been talk of a console release? I so want to play this game
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VikingSkull posted:Just picked this up today and holy poo poo is it fun.
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So if this is a rally game, do you have a navigator? Is it human or AI? (I'd have plenty of fun navigating. I think I'd be good I just have this bad habit of mixing up "left" and "right" occasionally.) Also, is there any real-time racing against other players/goons?
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Three-Phase posted:So if this is a rally game, do you have a navigator? Is it human or AI? (I'd have plenty of fun navigating. I think I'd be good I just have this bad habit of mixing up "left" and "right" occasionally.) Also, is there any real-time racing against other players/goons? You have a co-driver which reads out pace notes. I wouldn't even call it AI since it's just "call this note at this position on track". There's a PvP update scheduled for this month, but right now the only thing you can do vs other humans is essentially the daily/weekly/monthly events (which are global), or leagues (against whoever is in said league), which are just "do a You can see the goon league here: https://www.dirtgame.com/leagues/league/13996/dirtygoons
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pik_d posted:You have a co-driver which reads out pace notes. I wouldn't even call it AI since it's just "call this note at this position on track". The actual physical online racing is going to be in Rallycross which is due for release within the next few days. They've actually missed their deadline for it but no-one's really complaining because unlike the F1 2015 community the Dirt fans seem to be generally cool as poo poo. E: I fiddled with the OP a bit and finally updated the FFB mod link. I also like the UI. njsykora fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Aug 2, 2015 |
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Three-Phase posted:So if this is a rally game, do you have a navigator? Is it human or AI? (I'd have plenty of fun navigating. I think I'd be good I just have this bad habit of mixing up "left" and "right" occasionally.) Also, is there any real-time racing against other players/goons? We're all hoping for co-op rallying but I doubt they'd bother.
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I took the Peugeot out for the league event this time. After some really awful shakedowns, I just kept telling myself that if I'd just go slow and easy I'd do fine. Five freaky fast stages later, I think I'm getting used to it, but it's still pretty scary. I usually go for the Lancia, but I'm glad I went with the Peugeot this time around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4elzGZCrANM e: Apparently my computer hiccups while recording.
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Things I didn't know: The car you choose for the league event uses the upgrades earned in your championship.  Also, is anyone doing a new goon league season? I'd step in, if neccessary. e: WRX update is live: https://www.dirtgame.com/uk/blog/4905
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One thing I like about the upgrades is that they help you relax when you're just easing into a new car.  
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Schorsch posted:e: WRX update is live: https://www.dirtgame.com/uk/blog/4905 A good list of upgrades. I thought they figured out the random slipping out of gear? Was I mistaken on that? It's incredibly annoying.
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