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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

Leere Versprechungen... da kommt nichts brauchbares mehr

@ 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.

Grip levels are fine. Graphics are the only issues with the game...

I dont think i will play it that much before we get a "fix/update" for the vr beta

Your talks have a lot of dead air and take a long time to get to the point. For the first time watching is annoying and i had to stop half way through. For me WRC games need a career mode that is just a drivers mode since menaging finances isnt fun at all and i am not the team Principal. Daily/weekly/monthly challenges like in dirt 2.0 they make me come back again and again. Petter pace notes and better co driver voices since they sound extremly flat and bored.

the way they have broke the trust of the community with the terrible state of wrc23 at launch and beyond they will deservedly have a very low sales at the launch of a new game....

Speaking of codemasters having a monopoly: that is the reality of having the exclusive license and codies have the same issue with f1 which i think escalated even further in the last few years. Even funnier: the first f1 game to come out after EA bought codies - f1 2021 - felt like a downgraded version of f1 2020 in many aspects like the lack of classic cars, track variety, etc. Its not like any dev team could just make an f1 or a wrc game and blow codies away so we just have to hope they know what they have to do to make the best rally game there can be (and dont make us pay yearly for the annual re-release of it)

Totally agree but I don’t think they will do a new game come September. It’s such a small dev team and the same as Dirt Rally & 2.0 which only came out every 3 or 4 years. I think it will be DLC and tweaks till they get their head around the change in Engine. Probably a new game in 2025. It needs atmosphere. How hard would it be to make the stages more alive, could do something like Ghost of Tsushima 😬

Mostly agree with your thoughts and hope for either DLC or a new game, but the issue with the latter is that very few people bought the game we have now (especially with a pretty high price it has) and i fear making the same people who did buy it pay again is not a great plan. The idea of an expensive game which we had to buy once was that it was gonna be updated (and so we were promised on release). I also think that if making yearly releases was the plan the game would have a year number in its name. And I think yearly releases is the worst idea for a rally game: much fewer people care about rally than about stuff like f1 of football so they wont be able to make enough cash off of rally fans.

The problem with having too much grip on gravel is fault of default setups, I usually make the cars more oversteery to help with rotation. Lowering diffs can do a lot. Overall the game feels a bit too 'dead' or dry. Don't know how to put it better. Unreal Engines problem is that for devs 90% of stuff is miles easier to do, but the last 10% of quality and polish is impossible. Also the performance is really bad and it looks good only on ultra while its so blurry you can't see further than 5m. Compared to dr2 ea WRC is much more complete package and a better game. People just expected it to be more immersive and performance problems combined with not so good graphics especially when you start lowering settings to get the performance killed the game at launch. People these days just decide if the game is good or bad at launch and don't look back. I got my over 200h of enjoyment from this game, but if they will try to release 2024 version I would like to at least see tire physics improvements. (like you said inability of mixing compounds is likely engine limitation)

Yeah, when it comes to regularity rally, when I saw the trailers I was like "That's neat." When I first drove a regularity rally event, I was like "That's neat. I hate this."

Add rally cross!

I feel like I'm the only one enjoying WRC 2023. It's the best rally game that I have played so far. Dirt 2.0 is better in some areas but as an overall package WRC 2023 is better in my opinion. I do wish the game was better graphically and need optimization in other areas. Hopefully they improve the aspects you mention in the next game or updates. Cheers

DR2 in VR is the one for me.

It's so clearly all because of EA cutting costs and rushing the game. And as you said, I also hope another codemasters comes and blows EA wrc out of the water. We need more competition in the rally category.

best immersion for me is gt7 on the nordschleife with changing time of day and weather. and i dont even have a wheel anymore, nor the vr headset. still makes me feel like im in that car. another one is dare i say it, colin mcrae dirt 2. not 2.0. the arcade one. it has so much immersive little details: the festival atmosphere, the (visual) damage model, the cockpit interior, how the codriver reacts to your driving, how track side detail like poles or brickwork get destroyed by cars, how you can catch drivers in front of you or ai crashes on the road.

Asphalt needs lower grip values too. I just wish EA would take the sim racing community seriously. Your take is spot on.

Drives like shit .looks like shit . Stages are boring . I stopt playing long time ago 💩

realtalk about a game that needs a little more love for detail. I totally agree with you, the driving experience is really great but visually too flat and dull. The sound does bring out some emotion. I wouldn't mind another DLC or a new WRC. I'm fine with both.

Couldn't agree with you more!!

Came here to learn how to drift RWD on purpose. I can tame it, can balance it, but I can't enter the drifting state on purpose. I kinda got into the habit of grip technique. Corner dc i cant do a drift purposely.

To mention there are actual races that are completely impossible in this difficulty, short lap circuit races and slow cars (some season or temporal races) are completely impossible because you can’t even surpass the 7 or 6 and at that point the ones left are like half a lap from you, unmatchable

i though driving like a madman was bad, until i realized its good (even pros do it) wow

Man I really hate the drivatars!!!

Thank god you hit the finish blocks aswell because I do that every time I do this stage 🤣🤣 good stuff!!!

3:45 - You misunderstood how the Diff lock works. By lowering the braking lock you have effectively made the car more oversteering on corner entry. You should do the opposite if you want to keep the lift-off oversteer to a minimum. Raise the braking lock to reduce oversteer on entry and lower the driving lock reduce oversteer on power exit. Does that make sense ? To limit corner entry oversteer, you effectively want to brake the tire with the most grip at the entry of the corner, that is the load bearing tire, the tire that is outside. Hope this helps.

I ran s2 meta hypercar on Goliath and nearly instantly went from 10th to 20th, I couldn’t even hit 40% before getting gapped in last place

This franchise is so pathetic, next gen graphics in 2024 🎉 omg so ugly. We need more haze, ugly trees. Looks like the developer wasn't that motivated

After struggling for hours demoralized, I come across this video and feel remotivated to push on. Thank so much, easiest subscribe of my life

that's just gta everything look like it even the phonecalls...what a lame game

lol nice 👍

Gap 1 minute with my Fiat ABARTH group B.. 🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Enjoy your driving.. 👍🏻💪🏻

Hehehe. My country. I like Estonia Otepää Rally road.

Hey man, i like your guides on this game, much appreciated. But I'd like to have sections in the video so I can return later and jump into a specific part of the video, thanks!

thx :-)

The Subi 08 is my favorite car in the game. The default setup works well enough everywhere. Sure, setups can make it better, but if I don’t want to plan ahead I can just roll with it.

Whats your favorate stage in Estonia??

This tutorial seems really odd and filled with a lot of half truths. Yes, FWD can't drift like a RWD car can, but you can still slide them easily, even on grippy surfaces, by shifting the weight towards the front at turn in (lift the throttle or tap the brakes), the loss of grip on the rear tires causes them to slide a little giving you a lot of rotation (the same way you would rotate an AWD). On the other hand, FWD is easily the second best drive train to rally in, behind AWD, no questions asked. If you try to go on max attack on a RWD and the stage is anything other than dry tarmac, you are always gonna be on half throttle or just trying to manage oversteer to not smash into a tree. Other than that, the race line bit is true for all cars, unless the surface has uneven grip or there are obstacles in the course, the racing line is the fastest line. You seem to be mistaking the concept of racing line with what would be a traditional "grip" driving style of braking on a straight line, coasting through the corner and accelerating when the car is out of the corner. However, you can slide the car and still be on the racing line, that basic traditional style is really more of a circuit tarmac simplification to teach newbies, and even then, trail braking to maximize slip angle and attacking the throttle as soon as possible are still the fastest way around.

It doesn't matter the setup, there's always that uncontrollable bounce that trows you out of the road into a cliff or a wall. Without a wheel this game is stupidly impossible. A waste of time and money. Imit doesn't matter how well I drive, even in my best moments I can't finish in the top 15 VS the AI on pro difficulty. It's dumb.

Very useful video series. I'm a fairly long time sim racer in track stuff but recently decided to give WRC a go and highly enjoying it, last rally game I played was Colin Mcrae 2.0 back on the family computer. I'm certainly having to get out of a lot of my habits from track-based racing sims, and there have been a lot of pathetically bad scandi flick attempts so far, in many ways it feels like i'm having to re-learn almost everything from scratch