EA SPORTS™ WRC | Second impression of a DiRT Rally 2.0 fan (2024 Q3)

[@jamesleegte]

I enjoy being able to play both Dirt Rally 2.0 and EA WRC! EA WRC has by far the better FFB and steering feel! Dirt Rally 2.0 has by far better visuals and performance! Both games have strengths and weaknesses, both are very enjoyable and both have really annoying quirks like FFB and physics on tarmac. It’s so bad that I just don’t use the tarmac stages in either of the games. I only play racing sims in VR and I have a high end PC and EA WRC doesn’t look good, but the details coming through my DD2 are a lot more satisfying than DR2.0. It’s a shame both games come with compromises, but overall both games are awesome!

[@NPlay64]

It is a pretty objective / positive view I think. I guess it's always pros / cons and making peace with the actual game. I share your view and try to find the positive sides. Considering tarmac these two are nowhere compared to AC for instance. But overall a hell of a rally driving experience, both of them.

[@faqugang4527]

same, i get to enjoy it in 30 fps!! But i still like it

[@NPlay64]

@@faqugang4527 I think consistent 30FPS is still on the enjoyable side and only professional E-sports guys playing competitive shooters need more than 60FPS in the practice. To be honest I'm buffled when an average Joe complains like, "Damn, I can't be competitive in Asetto Corsa Competitione because it runs only @144FPS / 4K with 100FPS LOW in the highest resolution, how unplayable". Wow, I have 3 club championship titles in DR2.0 @60FPS 1080p in mid resolution and got to top200 during the official 2021 DR2.0 season, maybe something is wrong with me...

[@faqugang4527]

@@NPlay64 yes absolutely, ofc I d rather have a hundred (as a 144hz user), but like in a racing game it doesn't matter as much

[@NPlay64]

@@faqugang4527 Yes it is all up to your personal preference, smoother FPS and nicer resolution certainly doesn't hurt but along with actual price of the sim gear, the FPS and resolution doesn't translate into better stage times :) Skill does. During the DR2.0 championships I got in contact with some of my most fav rivals (great guys, knowing them a littlebit made racing more fun) and I had to realise that time after time I got beaten by guys running the game on a potato or using the keyboard, a gamepad or a pre-historic non-FFB wheel :)

[@rodriguezkev]

When franchises change game engines it usually means a step back in performance and visuals for the first game. Hopefully the next one will be better.

[@NPlay64]

I hope so. I consider EA-WRC a transition game, too. Both EA-Coddies merge and replacing EGO engine. I have much respect for EGO, it worked so well for racing games. Maybe developing it to the newest gen would have been burn more resources than using an updated engine. Unreal 4 has its merits but I think both ACC and EA-WRC feel a step back compared to AC and DiRT Rally 2.0.

[@rodriguezkev]

@@NPlay64 It's good for us PCVR enthusiasts when developers turn to Unreal Engine. If they stop supporting VR the chances are they will work with UEVR Injector lol.

[@NPlay64]

@@rodriguezkev Sure, we on PC have that escape route.

[@dauntae24]

NO PROPER TRIPLE SCREEN SUPPORT 😂

[@NPlay64]

Now that you're saying, I could not get a dual mon setup work :D

[@zzysk2]

I love this game, but I would have liked it to be released this year as EA Sports WRC 25, optimized with the new game engine.

[@NPlay64]

It makes sense and I would not be surprised much if it happened later this year, just like in the case of so many sports games under EA umbrella. I must also add that I tend to imagine that for example an annual FIFA game that is basically asset update with some minor changes is maybe less labour intensive than a proper rally sim. But what do I know, I've never worked on a game title like this or for a massive game dev.

[@simonoregan4744]

Yes lets turn it into another cash cow like the F1 series They didn't even lube that dildo.

[@Wajang1]

Its very cheap on ps5 now, it might not be great, but for the price 16 euro, cant complain.

[@NPlay64]

I bought my copy during some massive sale, too. I got additional -20% off as an owner of DR2.0 so yep I totally agree, such a sim that makes sense for such a price is a good value.

[@ajrichar0]

I hadn't played EA WRC since February this year. I just fell out of love with it and became engrossed in Gran Turismo 7 and Assetto Corsa on the PC. I loaded up EA WRC yesterday for the first time, saw there was 9Gb of updates, and then gave it a go. I had so much fun and thoroughly enjoyed it. It feels *improved* in tiny ways everywhere. Still a tiny bit of screen tearing (I'm on PS5) but the feedback felt better, the traction on rear wheel drive cars is slightly improved, and I just felt more comfortable overall. I'm going to get back into the game again. And your video was suggested to me the next day, so my improved experience has aligned with yours. 👍

[@NPlay64]

I'm happy that you experienced the same blast as me. A couple of months ago during my first video it felt like riding a dead horse. Racing on a flat mirror. I just wanted to check the changes and - BANG - it started to give a detailed and fun experience. I did not suspect that, at all. If only the damn anti-cheat system worked on Linux / Steam Deck. But as long as I have my PC / FFB rig, I'm ready to go.

[@Arth16V]

​​@@NPlay64I bought the game yesterday, and i gotta say, i wasnt expecting much, as i already know how EA has been lately. Well, i fcking love the game, as i said to a friend, i dont think im playing RBR in a long time, the physics, the VR, everything feels amazing, i was so surprised. I always enjoyed KT WRC games, but compared to WRCG, this is 1000 times better in almost everything.

[@NPlay64]

@@Arth16V It!s nice to hear that. I think the only objective way to judge games is to have both the positive and negative views of it then the customer can decide if positives are worth it or negatives are dealbreakers. Negativity, drama, nagging, toxic reviews are much more aggressive so they are in the forefront. But honestly, during the decades of me being a gamer, so many "ugly ducklings" with catastrophic negative push proved to be great to me. X-COM Apocalypse for instance. Everyone said how terrible it was. Well, I for me it's one of the best turn-based strategies ever with a super flexible flow, you can destroy the complete scenery if you wish. GT Legends, called unplayable because it was ugly AF. Well, one of the best FFB sims back in the days. Or RBR you mentioned! Back in the days every uppity ass hated it as it was hard. What a sim legend have it become? Dead Space 3, Mass Effect 3 + Andromeda, Fallout 4 and so on so on forth, a long list of games that accumulated so much hate but in the practice were fine to me. There are also negative personal experiences. Everyone was raving about Star Wars Force Unleashed. Well it was one of the most annoying games I've ever played. Still, not a waste of money as at the end of the day, just like EA-WRC, they costed about the price of a single dinner or a movie ticket, bought on a sale.

[@Arth16V]

@@NPlay64 Now that the new Rally Mode has finally come out in Assetto Corsa (CSP latest update) Where we finally have pace notes (generated by AI for any track, which is actually amazing) and new physics for gravel, i wonder if it will actually finally beat RBR.

[@NPlay64]

@@Arth16V It is a potential kingslayer as in my humble opinion, AC has the best car physics ever implemented in a game.

[@viunetwork5142]

Wow. Looking at the graphics I prefer Richard Burns Rally - I really did not expect such a comic style. It looks like Fortnite.

[@NPlay64]

I agree, it is sort of underwhelming. The other day I dusted off Seb Loeb EVO Rally that was criticised quite harshly for its inferior graphics to Dirt Rally. Well, after EA-WRC it was sort of refreshing. Apart from sound that's not too hot indeed, stage elevation dynamics, road surfaces and a plethora of small things that just make it feel better to drive. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy EA-WRC, it is a decent rally game and I think it is in an okay shape by now. There just have been better examples of a rally sim before.

[@matthewratcliffe1953]

It's a decent game now

[@NPlay64]

I agree and as far as news tell they have a long-term plan to make it better. I'm still rather a DiRT Rally 2.0 / RBR / BeamNG sort of guy when it comes to rallying but I completely admit that all the dealbreaker issues gone to me by now and I've had a lot of fun with EA WRC lately. So instead of compaining about stuff that is to be improved or moaning that awwww the old days with DR were better I'm just happy that I can have great time in so many fun sims today.

[@ianfan1420]

I really wanted to like this game but EA just does their best to prevent that. Optimization is still non-existent and for me to get a consistent 60 FPS, I have to make the game look like something from 2010 and even then, the texture pop-in and stutters are still there. I have a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU + RX 5600 XT GPU, not the newest hardware out there but it has no problems with newer titles on high settings 1080p like Baldur's Gate 3, Metro Exodus etc. But here comes EA SPORTS WRC with graphics from the 2010s and system requirements of the 2030s. The kernel anti-cheat is just the final nail in the coffin of this pile of garbage, not only did it screw over Linux and Steamdeck users, it reportedly made the game less stable even on Windows machines. I may sound really angry, but really I'm just incredibly sad. I'm sad that the sequel to one of my favorite franchises is just a terrible cash grab. I'm sad that I still have to turn to abandonware like the DIRT Rally games and RBR to have a decent rally sim experience. I'm sad I spent money on this.

[@NPlay64]

"It's got EA'd" as my friend Chris would say. Although I'm somewhat less sad than you as it seems to work fine on my machine and the early insane frame drops disappeared (R53600 + RX570) as well as my FFB issues so it's enjoyable - but I'm pretty much aware of what's happening with so many other players and it's sad to see it. I find the no Linux - no Steam Deck issue after working there for almost a year especially way off the chart.

[@BloomWCLightningMcQueenChevy95]

you do reviews on this game cool

[@NPlay64]

Yep it's a pretty fine rally sim. It had a rough start as a game but I think it is gunning for becoming one of the the prime rally sims just like DR2.0 or RBR and WRC series as honorable mentions.

[@BloomWCLightningMcQueenChevy95]

@@NPlay64 indeed

[@BloomWCLightningMcQueenChevy95]

@@NPlay64 So when is the review on 4x4 Jam uploaded

[@NPlay64]

@@BloomWCLightningMcQueenChevy95 Most likely it will not happen. We supported 3 songs to Project: Torque and we agreed that they can carry them to other games if needed and that was what happened. Personally I've never played / owned 4x4 Jam. I played the original P:T around 2008 and I think have it in my Steam library but as I've said I'm into different games now'days, also what you can see appearing on this channel were made 4-5 months (or sometimes longer) prior to the release as I'm on tour, mixing albums, working on film and so on. Only the responses are real-time. Considering Invictus Games I think I also have a box version of an another Invictus racer called Cross Rally Championship or CRC somewhere. It is about 20 years old perhaps and is more towards simulation, not as arcadey like P:T but I haven't checked it since 2007 or so. I don't even know if it starts on W10 as it was an XP game I guess.

[@BloomWCLightningMcQueenChevy95]

@@NPlay64 But I thought you we're going to do a review on it

[@marcusn254]

Played the demo a couple of months ago. Saw the game on sale recently, and decided to try the demo again before buying. After installing the update, the game blue screened my computer everytime I tried to start the game. Tried maybe ten times with different changes, but nothing worked. The problem is definitely related to the recent updates. It worked before, and no other game does this.

[@NPlay64]

Sorry to hear that. A lot of crash reports are around like yours. Also Linux users are completely cut off. It's a pity as the game itself got patched up quite well I think.

[@bearsjunky23hof88]

really happy you can finally play the game

[@NPlay64]

Thanks mate. As a game / rally sim I think I like how it feels now. If only this anti-cheat system worked better and without blocking Linux.

[@BloomWCLightningMcQueenChevy95]

Have you heard of Monster Truck Destruction it’s a game on app store

[@jasoncarmichael4540]

I had trouble understanding the card system , and which race was next

[@NPlay64]

It's a bit similar to the concept of the first Colin McRae DiRT trianlge system or the class unlock system of Sebastian Loeb Rally but both are better done I think. I must agree with you after all, it is a sort of puzzling at first, you can easily miss out important steps in the calendar.

[@YoeriKurvers]

I played about 40 hours in Dirt 4, Rally and 60+ in DR 2.0. I have about 25 hours in WRC. I still really dislike it, it looks horrible and its performance lacks in many aspects. The driving itself is fine, it's fun to play but the graphical and performance side really kill this game.

[@NPlay64]

I agree. EA-WRC is a decent drive as for now after my FFB issue became solved by the patches but it looks like a movie that was shot with a cheap mobile phone. I can no report significant FPS drops. But before the updates the game was all about significant FPS drops :D

[@sbp6326]

Someone know how it is on xbsx? There are fps drops and tearing? Thank to all that will help me

[@steveambrose-y8q]

for me the VR stopped working when the introduced anti cheat , as i only play in VR this now seems a total waste of money and no sign of it being fixed never mind how invasive it is .

[@NPlay64]

I'm sad to hear that. As I've said in the video, it seemed to cause some strange things in my OS too but after a W10 update it seemed to disappear so I guess I'll never know if it was the 3rd party kernel-level cheat mod or not. I must add that since I threw up in BeamNG.drive my Oculus is lent to a friend and he is sort of lost in HL:Alyx so I haven't tested the VR mode. But anyway, the anti-cheat system should not have been introduced to this game this way so many months after the release, potentially crippling or disabling the game. It's a pity as I honestly like the way it feels.

[@yannwymann8796]

Vr still "works" for me but the visual are so bad and performance so bad that I stay with Dirt 2 0 and AMS2 . Have a 3080 and it s enough for the dozens of other VR game I have. Even the flat to VR mods work better than WRC VR implementation...

[@NPlay64]

@@yannwymann8796 Wow. A 3080 should easlily shred a game like EA-WRC through fluent 100FPS at least. To be honest I haven't tried VR since I threw up after a BeamNG.drive run and lent my Oculus to a fellow to play LH Alyx but anyway it's sad to hear that VR in EA-WRC doesn't work like it should.

[@socks2441]

the vr was so bad it wasnt really worth playing anyway. so as a vr only racer i just play dirt rally 2.0 still.

[@NPlay64]

@@socks2441 Again, I haven't tested VR mode but I played DR2.0 that way and I can understand, it's still a blast. I think DR2.0 (actually 1.0, too) will age pretty well as apart from better VR as you guys report, I think considering graphics DR2.0 mops the floor up with EA-WRC. I like the physics in both of them but DR2.0 is still my most fav rally sim.

[@TheMash84]

Pre order to play on early access, after few months it's taking dust. Graphic engine looks terrible even at max detail (although you can gain some sharpness and detail using Reshade and CAS and Luma sharpen). the tarmac still feels very wrong, with the cars feeling very floaty and not feeling weight transfers. And the cars rotating on a central pivot still in 2024 is a cheap wap to implement cars physics model in a video game. To be honest it was the same model on dirt rally 2, which i loved honesty, but that's a cheap way to recycle old tech and hiding it in a modern graphic engine, which managed to look terrible anyway! Such a disappointment. Force feedback though is good, quite detailed. Preferring AC mods for rally and RBR, those are great.

[@NPlay64]

Initial impression must have been shocking during early access, especially having a completely refined DR2.0 on the library. EA-WRX was in a bad shape even when I joined months after the official release. Some essential things became fixed by Q3 2024 but I agree it doesn't look pretty after all. The central pivot rotation is a very interesting and correct remark. Playing Coddie rallies since the late '90s I guess it was always like that way, since CMR. Okay there are more realistic ways considering physics but it has worked for decades for them so maybe keeping one leg in the arcade world to some degree is a tradition decision, I don't know. Have you played BeamNG.drive? I think it has a bloody amazing physics engine. If only it took itself more seriously as a racing sim. I prefer to drive it to both AC/Rally and RBR with the footnote that they are awesome sims indeed.

[@bail1s939]

I am really really torn between both games. I've got too many hours in both. when EaWRC performs well and all my hardware registers with the game, the driving feel in WRC mostly the grip as compared to DR2.0, is so so so much more authentic. I felt dirt rally 2 almost forced lateral / drifting almost too often, regardless of surface when you compare it to EaWRC or Real life modern footage. I LOVE Both games, I just wish EAWRC looked and sounded like DR2.0, and the engine was better suited. ( would love hard core damage to be like RBR ) but now I'm renting and dreaming. loved this video mate. you NAILED IT.

[@NPlay64]

It's just a straight opinion of a DR2.0 fan but I'm glad that you like this video :) The sound, how I could forget. I haven't mentioned in none of the reviews, but how true. It is more visceral in DR2.0 and I think it plays a major part why I love it so much. Also, the overemphasized driftiness. Absolutely true. Maybe it's just me but any time I desire for grip, I drive AC and the like. I drive rally games for a sideways dancing car :D EA-WCR is more realistic but for me, for the danciness DR2.0 is just more fun. I can absolutely understand if someone's thing is realism, those sim fans can enjoy WRC titles more or the wonderful ruthlessness of RBR or BeamNG. Anyway it is just great that we have many options. Maybe some likes one sim, someone else the other sim but we have an ample of great sims around. It's a great time to be a sim racing fan I think. Cheers mate!

[@michaelc3977]

As if anyone with a wheel actually plays Dirt 2 while WRC is available

[@NPlay64]

:D Why would anyone with a wheel play anything else while Richard Burns Rally is available, or BeamNG.drive with a physics engine that beats them all easily? Folks have a diverse taste, gear, goals, style etc. and all of them provide differences. off: I don't think that mixing the subjective with the objective would result in a useful opinion. In the reviews I often say that it's my personal / subjective opinion only, feel free to disagree. Maybe it would be useful to put a short disclaimer about it at the beginning of the videos :D

[@michaelc3977]

@@NPlay64 Because RBR isn't available on console

[@NPlay64]

@@michaelc3977 I see., you're right. That is an unavoidable gatekeeper. I tend to forget that not everyone keeps the option to build / run a gaming PC and many use a console only. Actually a couple of years ago during the GPU price crysis, for gaming a console was the only viable / reasonable price option. If I hadn't just bought my RX570 GPU right before the stunning price jump, I'd have gone that way, too.

[@michaelc3977]

@@NPlay64 Yup, Series X is just hassle free gaming - power on and play. And as I understand it, for the money it's the best gaming experience available. And I've been an xbox user since the days of the OG XBox and Project Gotham Racing 2 where we invented the cat and mouse racing format. And around the ring, no less.

[@NPlay64]

@@michaelc3977 I'm not a console guy, all I know about is from friends who are that it has impressive speed and is very easy to use, go and play as you say, plus gamepass - great options On a side note I think I can still build a gaming PC that makes sense for much less and if someone buys games only during sale I think it can be very cheap to use, too. I'm not saying that X is not a great price-sensitive option, it is. I'm just saying that price/value matter is like a cube with more sides than six :)

[@bartecki75]

Grafisk DR 2.0 better 💪🏼mud water 💦

[@NPlay64]

Agreed!

[@makavelisreturn86]

I have held off buying this game on pc because of all the issues I have seen in reviews, looks like I might give it a go just a bit concerned about graphical issues. Does it still have loads of pop in with textures and objects?

[@NPlay64]

Indeed it has. You can see in the video. In certain spots the scenery is displayed step-by-step like Last Ninja from C64. In the GFX department I guess older WRC titles back to 9 and DiRT Rally 2.0 mops up the floor with EA-WRC. What became fixed (for my wheel at least) is the FFB / communication of physics engine between the controller and the wheel. Honestly, it feels fun to drive by now, cars feel great like they should have been around the start. If you want a somewhat detailed rally driving / physics, it seems to deliver. Considering the game itself, for me at least, it's been patched up enough to be an enjoyable rally title. In my opinion good level design is among the merits. Maybe it's just me but stages are great and plentiful. I'm okay with car selection / feel, too. Career mode is better in later WRC titles but it is still fine here. I also enjoy building / developing my own car quite much.

[@makavelisreturn86]

​@NPlay64 Thanks for your reply Im going to give it a go and hope the pop in and stuttering isn't too much of an issue for me 👍

[@NPlay64]

@@makavelisreturn86 Fingers crossed mate 🤞

[@makavelisreturn86]

@NPlay64 so I got it and Been playing it for the past 2 days and I have minimal issues it's actually running really well on my PC! 4k ultra no upscaling arround 110 FPS (except shadows, reflections and particals on High) I don't get any stuttering think it happened literally 1 time only thing I do get is a bit of texture pop in and objects popping in and out that is a bit annoying but no way as bad as I thought it would be and not sure if there is any solution other than a game update as opposed to any settings. Love the game actually just wish I could fix the text popping and Assets randomly loading in. 👍

[@NPlay64]

@@makavelisreturn86 Great to hear that mate (y) If you are not involved either in kernel-level cheat protection or GFX issues you're supposed to have a lot of fun. As far as comments and feedback showed to me, this sim is a sort of hit-or-miss: works fine for some guys and have dealbreaker issues for others. I have a pretty modest system (R5-3600 + RX570) and by the latest updates all the stuttering and extreme frame drops gone, I could even turn up the quality a little. Around 6 months ago it was pretty frustrating but a game is as functional as it is and not as it was, right? :)

[@darkblader06]

Rally Evos performance is horrible. I really wanted to play it but its full of bugs that were never fixed

[@NPlay64]

Sorry my feed did not show your comment, only in YT studio with no relevance. Do you mean Seb Loeb Rally Evo? I've heard that it's a hit-or-miss and indeed became abandoned not long after the release. In my machine (R5-3600 + RX570) it seems to work fine, so far. I sort of like it because of the physics / FFB. I think in a couple of aspects it bests DiRT Rally 1 but DR1 was just a more impressive experience overall. becoming a prime predator of the genre at the time.

[@darkblader06]

@@NPlay64 Yes thats what I meant, i keep getting stutter issues on my rig ( Ryzen 7600x + Rx6750xt )

[@NPlay64]

@@darkblader06 That's odd for sure. On the paper it eats alive my rig, should pump out I don't know 250FPS from a 2010's game. Currently my gaming machine sports W10 but Evo was made back in W7 times. when none of these new hardware / OS existed, maybe it's a hit or miss if they work fine or not. Now that you're saying my DR2.0 experience was hindered a little after switching from FX-6300 to R-3600. On this channel, 95% of my DR2.0 videos were recorded with the old rig in 2021. It wasn't the fastes machine and it produced a couple of hiccups but nothing major. It was my rig during my active sim racing days, playing online ACC, F1, RR, RF2 and DR2.0 where I was the most active. When I started to use my present Ryzen system all the FPS hiccups gone - but loading times in DR2.0 grew to 3x-4x and nothing seems to fix it...

[@jintei8524]

Visuals look inferior to codies' titles from ps3 tbh, unreal will never compare to ego

[@NPlay64]

Perhaps modding EGO (last version 2015-16 I guess) to modern systems would have been much more tedious than using a pre-existing one that is tailored to 2020+. I miss it as it was designed for racing, despite that some other types of games used it as well. I can remember how stunned I was playing GRID the first time. The game was not for me but the way it worked and looked - wow. So it's a pity that it was put on ice.

[@jintei8524]

@@NPlay64 i did also get astonished by how gorgeous grid looked back in the day since it was the first racing game i've ever played on pc. It really has baffled me how good a game could look on that time, along with cmr dirt 2. Booting these two up even nowadays still makes my jaw drop, truly passionate titles

[@NPlay64]

@@jintei8524 I agree. In my humble opinion GFX started to peak around a decade ago. Of course there are packleaders considering GFX now'days too but as for an average shooter running on average machines, let's not even try to compare even the earliest Metro game to something like Suicide Squad Kills Arkham Franchise :) A lot of things became dumbed down in a way. So now that you're saying, for enjoying GFX I'd pick GRID any day against EA-WRC.

[@darkblader06]

i really other sports games adopt the WRC Seasonal expansion method.

[@NPlay64]

I agree. It is a pretty well-thought system.

[@hypoman1]

Your video looks like your blacks are crushed. Are you using the correct settings? The colours seems off. Even on my PS5 they look way better.

[@NPlay64]

I think it's on default (PC). I changed things only that affect consistent FPS but that's all, no changed color grading whatsoever. Maybe I should have bought a PS5 instead :D

[@Alexneroverona]

Wrc Generations its the real Wrc Game . Much much better.

[@sergeantwombat]

I think they took a step back with tarmac physics in generations imo, still prefer wrc over ea's games

[@NPlay64]

Personally I'd find hard to recommend one vs the other. The pros of WRC-GEN is the career system that is one of the bests of its kind IMO and for sure it is a beast on tarmac. Still it was pretty unstable on my system so I prefer the more fluent and stable WRC10. As for EA-WRC, the game feels nice and runs stable after all the updates but it has the late-attached anti-cheat system that can make weird things. And yes, tarmac. KT WRCs feel better there. Still, if I compare these rally games to the likes of AC or BeamNG.drive, tarmac behavior of one rally sim vs the other starts to lose it in my humble opinion. Okay these totally lack the framework but the physics... Insane :)

[@nodekaspa8376]

WRCG' car is hovering everywhere when I play with controller. It's horrible experience. But EA WRC feels connected with ground

[@NPlay64]

@@nodekaspa8376 Now you're saying, a couple of months ago when my FFB wheel did not work well with EA-WRC I did some test runs with a controller and I was surprised how well it worked. I have a Nacon rumble pad and you could feel bumps, grip and so on. That's why it's a pity that Linux / Steam Deck users got locked out. The Steam Deck has a pretty smooth controller surface. I have a couple of friends who played EA-WRC on a deck. Well, not anymore.

[@Alexneroverona]

@@nodekaspa8376 EA its an arcade rally game thats why

[@rodriguezkev]

I prefer the shorter stages of Dirt Rally 2. You have to focus so much as you drive that they're long enough for me lol.

[@NPlay64]

You absolutely have a point and I'm all into shorter stages, still in the reality, especially considering older rallies, this is more realistic. On a footnote: I know it's not a sim at all but I played The Crew games for the very same reason: hillclimb anywhere, also for cannonball runs, coast-to-coast. Endurance time attack challenges on a changing scenery have a very special feel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eniTg3Sop7eprZYsi=QxhC_8CWEks2uWBh

[@rodriguezkev]

@@NPlay64 Have you tried Dirt Rally 2 in VR? looks and performs great.

[@NPlay64]

@@rodriguezkev Yep it is so bloody awesome in VR but I haven't played it that way for long since I threw up in BeamNG.drive and on the same momentum the following day I lent my Oculus to a friend playing HL Alyx last year :)

[@rodriguezkev]

@@NPlay64 lol. I've finally got my VR legs and can play for hours no prob. When I first started couldn't play for more than a couple of minutes before feeling sick.

[@NPlay64]

@@rodriguezkev Yep a gradual adjustment to VR worked nicely to me in the case of DR2.0, too. I believed that I'm all set. Then I tested BeamNG flying all around on a rollercoaster rally stage. Everything was fine then motion sickness hit me like a mule very suddenly. I could not even get out the PlaySeat before I became reintroducet to my dinner. After that lending the Rift to a friend maybe was a rush decision :D He completely stuck in VR. On a footnote he really should buy a VR headset for himself after all this time. But that's just so me. I lent so many things to friends during the years: motorcycle helmets, racing wheels, guitars, computers... never seen again. Fuck that, instead of "lending" let's call it "gifting" :D

[@bartecki75]

Grafik like PS4 not new generation joke 😂

[@NPlay64]

:D DR2 eats it alive in that department. Not to mention GFX-accented titles like Forza and the like. Maybe it's just me but damn I think even some Grid games looked better back in the days. But for mechanincs at least it seems to work for me. Quite a step-up compared to the pre-parches "I'm racing on a sleeping mirror" feel :D

[@mattyb1624]

DR2.0 physics are total rubbish.

[@NPlay64]

Physics sucks. In general. Any cosmologist can tell.