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Dirt Rally has better car models, visual style and atmosphere. WRC has better stages and handling. The dust trails as well, are incredible. Best I've ever seen. It took me a while but WRC is better overall.

There is so much to love in EA WRC such as the cars and stages, but equally there is so much to frustrate. On a next gen console its hard to understand why something like the fences and surrounding environment remain absolutely solid, when in Dirt Rally 2.0 these items broke and you could find yourself in a field trying to find the road again. The pace notes should have an alternative option where drivers can select to have 1 as the fastest note instad of 6 and vice versa for slowest, as this is a commonly used system in the sport and would just require a small patch for a remap of the audio.....its probably more complicated but I think its doable. Tyre degradation was a feature of the CMR games on PS2, yet its never been repeated as well on newer hardware. The livery editor is a great feature, but real brands and logos really need to be given licence to be used, with nearly all brands already present on various liveries already in some shape or form. The only real restriction they would have to enforce for that would be to make the Ford, Ford Racing, Ford Performance or Ford Motorsport logos only available to Ford products and the same for Opel, Peugeot, Citroen etc etc. I dont think that these are demands that are too much to ask for

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If I'm recalling it right, I believe it was mentioned in the leadup to the release of CER post-launch that they had to use these Barum Rally Zlin roads because of the actual CER being totally new for the 2023 WRC season; when work started on it, it was before the route for the actual rally had been locked in, so they had to pretty much work blind and then retrofit appropriate surroundings to it when it was revealed and subsequently ran IRL. In that regard it's probably closer in its effect to the Swedish stages in-game, being as you mentioned in the guide for that location, stages used in the Värmland-based ERC event dressed up in the locations of the Umeå-based WRC event, instead of being a total fiction like Norway. Although, yeah, maybe using German signs and props on Czech roads was a bit too far, LOL

I just wish i could play some ranked style multiplayer that had a feeling of progression. it's insane they leave all of the lobby making up to the players also, sometimes ill get on and try to join a lobby but yhere is literally none available and when i try to make my own session, nobody joins and i wish i had some preset championships to choose from instead of having to mash together something myself. For thebmore hardcore fans i bet its fun making your own rallys but for casual players like myself, i want some more pre set stuff. And tuning is wayyyyyyyyyy too complex for someone who doesnt have real life experience working on car setups. It feels like if they put 10% more effort into this game it could be 90% better

Here I'll let everyone know how to drive a RWD vehicle and get into the top 90% of every event: Turn both Stability Control and Traction Control to 3 and stop fucking around with trying to actually control these cars. You're welcome.

I quite like the CER. Reminds me a lot of all the fun road trips I’ve made in Germany and Austria. Also quite different from other locations in the game.

how to get this track?

interesting backstory that there is no overlap with the real CER Czechia roads - but I will say I really enjoy this stage, it is at least well designed.

It seemed to me from my few drives in CER that the co-driver calls are way too cautious and I had a few moments when I drove through a 3 or 4 as I usually would but there was so much more speed to carry through the corner as if it was a 5-6 without even cutting the track. A weird location this one

Argentina is one of the most brutal tracks for begginers shear cliffs tight brutal paths with rocks waiting to crunch your car everywhere it is brutal

I see feel this had to get rid of my focus rx5 turbo start of this year. as sad as it is to let it go I can say I could not have asked for a better first car to own

I LOVE the multiplayer in this game. It’s a bit time-consuming with the wait times. And it’s wonky to figure out the first time (a lot of people complain that it’s broken and ridiculous) But it’s such a satisfying way to play, and I think it should get a ton of hype, and should be improved and implemented into every rally game from now on (But I usually don’t hear people mention it…) I’ve had so many fun times on it. Joining lobbies of clans who are drilling practices on certain stages. So many random and fun situations where you get to go head to head with people in real time

The most intense and gritty is by far RBR for me. This is mostly due to how the roads are modeled so much better-divots, slants, cambers-it’s all there and it’s lovely I can’t stand how the roads are all smoothed out in Codies And the other advantages of camera freedom, pace notes freedom As well as the other stage pros of unique assets for each stage, *collisions on assets that make sense* - This all symbolizes for me that Codies simply doesn’t want to simulate rally for real They have the style of game they like to make, and that’s it For some reason they don’t want it to be a pure simulation, they don’t want the roads to be accurate, etc. To me that is very disappointing, so RBR is at the top for me

To be fair it’s hard to compete with the epic feeling of Wales in the rain 😆

I see a lot of people liking this game a lot. I’m not sure why it feels weird to me-that includes DR2. I guess it feels like many things are scripted and game-y rather than feeling like results of a simulation Graphically I think they’re both great. I think people overblow it all. I totally get saying you prefer one or the other-but turning that into “this game is so bad compared to the other one” doesn’t make sense to me - Not only does the handling feel scripted sometimes But also the roads are SO disappointing This is one of the best things about RBR to me. They model the roads as well as possible-including divots, slants, all of that I have no idea why Codies doesn’t do this. It totally kills the vibe of rally for me. I can’t stand the roads being all smoothed out What the point? Simulate the real world for rally Why bother doing anything else? The more they don’t do this, RBR just remains as the best simulator (which is great actually because you get all those fantastic modeled stages for free-support the creators) Codies never went this route-most likely they never would have. But especially now that they are contracted with EA-I think they will continue to do exactly this To get a rally sim that simply wants to simulate rally-we’re gonna need a new studio to do that

Too frustrating trying to even listen to you over the co-driver

For the construction of this text I will use a translator. Personally, I think that this game "EA Sport WRC" has forgotten about the fans of "Dirt Rally", the game is much more arcade or is presented in a more arcade way than its previous version "Dirt Rally 2.0"; the game at this point seems to try to attract a newer audience to rally games, this since it seems to be not as complex as DR2 (maybe I'm wrong), I really hope that this game improves, I love rally games and I share many of the points of opinion that you have given in this video, I just hope that this world of rally simulators continues to grow, perhaps a button to make the game more simulator and less arcade would be a solution.

DR2 definitely gave me the most immersive experience but it lacked the feel and stage lengths of wrc

Lancia Stratos. Which is like a tiny little piece of shit...lmao! I thought that too, until you helped me tune it.

Really makes me sad :( this could have been such a good game. Unplayable for me in VR at the moment.

I'm curious how this cracking ice system is made

That was so bloody beautiful. I got second hand thrill from watching this. Absolutely amazing!

I'm kinda late on these, but just gotta say, your guides are amazing. I was hard to find them (tnx YT) but once I did, I come back to listen to each one multiple times, to improve myself. Thank you.

Start play Rbr!

Il est sur et certain pour le prochain WRC je vais attendre plus qu'il le faut car franchement jai les yeux qui pique avec le 2023

most inmersive sim is assetto

Really good recomendations. Thank you!

Quit cause i can do wothout kernel anticheat. . Nothing wrong with the game, its pretty good.

My friend wants me to get this so bad. I played alot of Dirt Rally 2 on Ps4 and almost want to get it again for the PC. The launch of this soured me a little hearing some of the gripes. I guess i will make a decision after putting my second PC together

Great video, but I disagree about the grip on gravel. DR 2.0 is too slippery, WRC does a better job.

Many companies did major overalls with patches and DLCs! No need to Cod rob us again! Just reset time tables if they change physics and just add rallycross as DLC! WTF man! Are you playing on EA side or something?

One thing I absolutely don't want and disagree with is making this into a yearly game where multiplayer always dies every year and you split the playerbase. It is better it's on a 3-4 year cycle and then dlc for the annual championship etc.

I agree, the tarmac is very On/Off in it's grip, gravel can feel really nice when it is that more gritty rolling gravel where you can really feel the wheels dig in and just slide. It differs which is nice, not all gravel is the same, Kenya sand is a bit more grippy I would imagine and the more small stone filled gravel roll way more. But yeah a bit more slide here and there because I notice sometimes in Kenya that I have a hard time getting the car into a nice slide like it grip a bit too much, same there a bit On/Off, like the sweetspot for losing grip is just too steep and have no spectrum. Edit: I agree, one thing I loved in the old Ralli Sport Challenge games were the hill climbs, they were so much fun, not sure why they are not in other games as much.

i don't get it why WRC is worse than Dirt Rally 2.0. Their recent Grid Legends is awesome.

Hi! I agree with u in all aspects, sadly I believe that wont be a game for the 2024 season, because we would have already some news about It, and as an esport driver, codies said that in september we would have some news about esports oficial events, so... I dont think WRC 24 would come... But we Will see. Anyways all that u commented would be nice for the next game

Game design for this is terrible IMO. The career mode is a mess and so much worse than DR2 - it's more complex, cluttered and yet somehow has less variety. I can't drive a single rally with loads of classes without being able to run road positions 60-90. What's the point of regularity? Moments are so much worse than the daily/weekly setup. Graphics are worse, so much less immersive. Look at the water splash in your video! So poor. Compare the rain to the Assetto Corsa CSP mod. The dirt build up to DR2. Broken down or crashed competitors you could react to!? I bought the game, couldn't log in because EA locked my account due to inactivity (tried FIFA demo years ago) and when I was finally able by creating an account with a fake email I couldn't get a refund of the stuttering mess. I love rally. I loved DR1 and DR2 - all I wanted was more content (and weather not being dependent on the difficulty mode) - I can't believe how bad the choices were that led to what we got. I'd love to get some use from it; I've played less than 5 hours, most of that trying to fix stuttering. I'd like to try the stages and cars. But I can't see it happening unless they can make a game I want to actually play. At this point, I'd rather they made DLC for DR2; it has more players, it'd probably sell better. I won't buy DLC for this game. I might consider a purchase for a game I consider playable and immersive. Don't add hillclimb or RX though please, just a waste for me.

Thing for me was that Dirt rally 1 blew my mind on controller for how much focus it took and how raw. I stopped playing it after about 20 hours because i just thought that I was missing out on the point of the game without sim rig. Then after getting Dirt Rally 2.0 on sale with all dlc i got the go ahead to buy a G920, proper H shifter and cheap rig. I got my mind blown away by DR 2.0... Learning the different drivetrains, old turbo cars, modern 4wd, the Escort mk 2 with shifter on the left... I did everything i could to boost immersion. By the time EA wrc came out I had pretty much learned everything and they simplified the handling just enough for me to kinda feel like i had already played the game before. I like wrc but it just didnt blow my mind like DR2.

EA WRC is still so fun to boot up

EA WRC is still so fun to boot up

No problems with grip issues for me, graphics a little lacking in some scenarios but overall I enjoy the game quite a lot

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@ 2:08, you have driven off course and now there is a bush in your car. so immersive that i had to spit out some leaves and twigs. WRC has a long way to go to match DR2.

Being able to choose two spares for rough rallies and to be able to change them round between stages

In championship we need to be able to for WRC 2 pick your events from the total as they do in real life

Agree. Front grip is way too high on gravel imo and the car's weight and center of mass and pivot point seem a bit off also. Other thing thats pretty big downgrade is that you cant drive down the fences or other roadside objects, everything is just like concrete block, even small bushes...

You are spot on pal! As someone who exclusively races in VR, the lack of those brilliant small details seen in DR2 compared to WRC has significantly downgraded the overall experience. WRC feels so dull and "gamey", whereas DR2 feels unbelievably realistic and immersive. Pretty much the only thing WRC does better is the tarmac physics and the overall stage variety. Everything else like the overall visuals, the sound design, the dirt physics, the crowds, the random events, the particle effects, the lighting, the rain effects, the co-driver, the classic cars etc. are all vastly superior in DR2.

My biggest gripe with EAWRC is about the quality of the co-driver calls. Bunching is odd, pacing is monotonous, timing is often off, and there's almost no sense of tension. Even if they couldn't afford full recordings like in DR1/2, they surely could have done a better job. Despite using a real co-driver, it's somehow worse than DIRT3.

The rallies and stages are great so is handling. Graphics is the main issue for me and some retired cars on the side of the road or unexpected moments like DR 2 would add to the immersion. Co driver voice could be improved too.