DiRT Rally Hits Steam Early Access

steve45 · 26 May 2015 at 21:45

Damn PP is nails, prefer the gravel to the full tarmac, much more forgiving.
For any wusses still on Auto gearbox, I have found that manual is a must for these PP cars, Auto holds the gears way too long and is so slow on the upshift, makes the car feel nearly undrivable.

Thesnipergecko · 26 May 2015 at 22:08

steve45 said:
Damn PP is nails, prefer the gravel to the full tarmac, much more forgiving.
For any wusses still on Auto gearbox, I have found that manual is a must for these PP cars, Auto holds the gears way too long and is so slow on the upshift, makes the car feel nearly undrivable.

I noticed this, it red lines in each gear for at least 1-2 seconds. Very annoying.

Here was my first run.

Skeeter · 26 May 2015 at 22:23

Crikey that's hard! 11:47 on my first run up the mixed hill in the 405.

savagesam117 · 26 May 2015 at 22:39

I just done a 12:00 on my first run. with about 3 minutes in penalties. I reckon with a bit of practice easily under 10 minutes

Thesnipergecko · 26 May 2015 at 22:41

Tried turning on Advanced Blending...

Menu runs at 14 FPS and game flickers like made. I guess it's buggy.

Edit. Turning Shader Detail down to it's lowest brings the FPS back up but it looks poor.

savagesam117 · 26 May 2015 at 22:42

With Advanced Blending on it would sit at about 40FPS in game but runs fine for me?

Digital X · 26 May 2015 at 23:20

Advanced blending dropped my fps like a rock. What does it do, basically? It just seemed to fill in more objects somehow..

katinacooker · 26 May 2015 at 23:24

Just did a 10.46 on the Tarmac PP. Gets really hard when you get above the tree line

~>Dg<~ · 26 May 2015 at 23:30

im fine on the dirt but the tarmac im a spectator killer

SonniLombardi · 26 May 2015 at 23:42

Woohoooooo it's out !!!! only just got back I thought it might of been the amount of replies this thread has had! downloading now

SonniLombardi · 27 May 2015 at 04:05

Wow, what a difference PP is! the cars got some turbo lag, and I love how the front of the car lifts up when turbo kicks in, I am losing it everywhere, it's extremely difficult, but enjoying it

chris-82 · 27 May 2015 at 10:27

This is looking brilliant ,might have to jump on the rally train.
Where's the cheapest place to get this at the mo?

chris-82 · 27 May 2015 at 10:27

This is looking brilliant ,might have to jump on the rally train.
Where's the cheapest place to get this at the mo?

arknor · 27 May 2015 at 10:54

I don't know if this still works DiRT Rally - £17.02 with code:RALLY on Gamesplanet.de
someone posted it in here about a week ago

if you don't have a wheel the game is likely to hard to enjoy.
I did 2 days with a keyboard before plugging in a wheel though.

Game is awesome once you find good wheel settings.
I finally settled on 325 degrees of rotation any higher or lower and the steering just felt wrong and going in a straight line felt all weird like the car wasn't turning with aaa 1:1 ratio with my wheel input

~>Dg<~ · 27 May 2015 at 11:33

gunna have some more practice at pikes later. it sure is a challenge

if i can master the tarmac bit im not too worried about the dirt section.

i did twitter today to one of the devs about the auto gears on pikes and over revving and the under steer though. seems slightly exaggerated.

chris-82 · 27 May 2015 at 12:29

arknor said:
I don't know if this still works DiRT Rally - £17.02 with code:RALLY on Gamesplanet.de
someone posted it in here about a week ago

if you don't have a wheel the game is likely to hard to enjoy.
I did 2 days with a keyboard before plugging in a wheel though.

Game is awesome once you find good wheel settings.
I finally settled on 325 degrees of rotation any higher or lower and the steering just felt wrong and going in a straight line felt all weird like the car wasn't turning with aaa 1:1 ratio with my wheel input

Thanks arknor will check it out when I finish work.
I have a Logitech dfgt,so hoping that will work okay with it.
I'm thinking at that price its worth picking up now even if I only play a little of it before release as it will go up in price on release and will be a good few months again until its £17 or below or?

arknor · 27 May 2015 at 12:53

yea many of us use DFGT's including me and according to codemasters it's the most used wheel by far according to their survey.

I wouldn't expect to see it cheap for a very long time

~>Dg<~ · 27 May 2015 at 13:07

yeah its full price will be when finished so december. so cant see it dropping much at all.

arknor · 27 May 2015 at 13:15

Its amazing how much time DG spent playing the game and still quite often I don't see times from you.
did you skip group A?

~>Dg<~ · 27 May 2015 at 13:22

i don't do group A yet . i will do all. just been mainly doing the group b stuff practicing tracks and the 60s mini cooper. i also leveled the 2010 fiesta.

so thats where you will see most of my times.

just started doing the masters for the mini. won it with the pug 205 t16. so then one more for the achievement.3 masters with 3 different cars.

then casual other stuff.

i do have a soft spot for group b rally stuff though. it makes the other cars seem avg.so fast and fun.

had a few goes in the subaru but nothing fast times wise. think i only done the subaru on sweet lamb.