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Thank you for making this. I came from RBR and DR2.0 made me quit racing games. I am getting a wheel soon and I will be returning to RBR. Codemasters rant incoming: I have a strong opinion about Codemasters. They have a history of faking realism. They bought Operation Flashpoint the most realistic military simulation ever - squad-based AI, real ballistics, 1st + 3rd person infantry that can, drive transport vehicles, command tanks, fly aircraft, walk across an entire island with multiple towns, and from the main menu you could use a mission editor with its own scripting language. Codemasters turned that masterpiece into a linear story-driven first person shooter where you control a squad through a series of scripted scenarios. For fans of the original game it was a "_do you think us fools?_" kinda move. Bohemia went on to make Armed Assault (ArmA, for the public) and Virtual Battlefield Systems (VBS, for the military) and dominate that niche. In 2012, they released the fourth consecutive annual F1 game in which they had made extremely incremental realism improvements. Come on now, this is the officially licensed F1 game, and it is developing a thriving sim-racing scene. In the same year, they released a sequel to the epic Dirt 3... Dirt: Showdown? That's when I realised they were not aiming for driving simulation. Despite their pedigree in creating the most highly rated and, we assumed, realistic sim racing games, Codemasters had an internal mindset of, "We make games, not sims,". This is common in the games industry. In reality, that approach is analogous to constructing a tool out of plastic rather than metal - it cuts costs, and operates fine within the design constraints, and the customer doesn't complain. However, when you have a near-monopoly on the racing sim market, and you own the rights to F1, and drivers winning races online are getting picked up by professional teams IRL - you choose metal, not plastic. Racing is fun. Events, challenges, trials, courses, online - that's fun. Give us a realistic car, and we will create the fun if you'll allow it. Codemasters are afraid a realistic car will make it too hard for some people. They should actually do the hard part, make a real physics simulation, and keep their fake physics as a difficulty option. Instead, they chose to fake realism in a manipulative attempt to please racing fans while clutching onto their 💰💰

I find the tarmac to feel kinda numb, it to me feels like there's too much grip, especially on the older cars and the FFB especially on tarmac feels super numb and not very helpful. And I also report the spinning out pretty much randomly on some stages and cars.

SO MANY LOOPS

Thanks man great explanation, only got the game l wasn't impressed out of the box tried few settings that are recommended for my wheel still was impressed, after following your guide it feels like a different game much appreciated, am using t300 should l have soft lock on or off

U don't want Forza Horizon fun... ...in the meantime driving physics are more realistic than in both rally games and FFB is better to 😅

As you yourself said at the beginning of the video that you did not manage to play the 10th part. So I can categorically say that in the 10th part everything is EXCELLENT with the controls. There is no "boat". Another thing is that the visual component of the 10th part is terrible. EVERYTHING is terrible there. I have VRC 10 on both PC (with High settings) and PS5 (everything is the same, only the resolution is 2 times smaller), this does not matter. All the maps are overexposed, the sun and shadows fall somehow clumsily, as if playing in Crysis 1. And no matter what anyone says, it is very distracting. Yes, you are right, everything is fine with the controls in EA WRC. But it is BORING! It doesn't keep me in suspense, and it's not about the complexity of the game. It doesn't really matter how fast the virtual opponent goes around the track. I had to come to terms with/adapt to the Generation and its "boat". I managed to adjust the steering wheel, with a strangely low value of 180 degrees it became acceptable. Feedback power all sliders at 150, except for the feedback on the front wheels - 70. Steering wheel - T-GT2 I'll try part 9, I'll add to the review... probably.

Thank you man! This has to be the best video out there explaining what each setting does.

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Great how to vid!!! Not just numbers but a great explanation!!!! Thanks!!! Cheers!!!!

I bought this game a few days ago I absolutely love it all bugs are fixed now no more frame drops that joilted you badly, runs perfect had to crank the handbrake up felt like I was grabbing a bag of spanners lol kinda useless so I fixed it ,this is the most realistic rallying sim out the cars perform as they do in real life, just play around with the settings and then hold onto your fillings lol no room for error.

Nothing beats DR1...Maybe RBR but I am yet to find out

Great resource!

Tarmac is super sticky in this game. You start with cold tires and you are glued to the road. We have no clue if they are using their own physics engine or the one from Unreal engine right?

exactly how it should be done

I don't know why the entire playerbase shits on this game just for 1 man's death.

Bits like this made the game as memorable as it is.

Cool 🎉🎉

good

Thank you for accurately, explaining exactly what I felt was going on. I was wondering why the car felt like it was spinning from a center axis. These programmers are clowns. Ironically the parasite class think they are actually good at their jobs. Delusions.

2:30 fuck, I knew there is something wrong with hitting walls, now I know why. Why nobody can`t make proper rally game with RBR physics and for example with some easy mode for beginners? Or at least allow modding so players can fix all issues.

No VR available now for consoles.

I'm a huge fan of the Finland stages, in this game and in almost every rally game, but the way jump landings have no feedback at all in the wheel really annoys me. Does someone have any tip?

What about the RBR physics? That feels way more realistic.

Wrc Generations is miles better than ea wrc in almost all categories if you have played your share of rally games.. come on..

I will give this a go and come back to you...

Hey mrelwood, I'm new to simracing and EA WRC is my first rally game. You can't imagine how dissapointed I was when I jumped in to try WRC Generations or Dirt Rally. EA WRC just drives almost like a real car compared to those 2 and stages look amazing. I can't understand why poeple are shitting this game so much for graphics. Just play the game. It's much better than it might seem from the first look and whining of youtube/reddit.

you dont know how to play wrc generations. Setup the thumb sensivity to -10 and dead zone to 50%. And change the linear input on every button. Set dead zone on throttle and break to 50% as well. Use Hard tarmac tires like 99% of the time. I played both wrc G and EA wrc.... EA sucks compared to Generations or even wrc 10. You just need to know what you are doing on a controller. Try those games with a steering wheel. WRC G and 10 is king. EA sucks ;/

Great approach to isolate and understand each setting. This is a scientific method. Great call on the order as well 💯 Thanks.

This is a great video man!

for some reason i really enjoy the chile stages :) nice driving

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all skill, baby!

Dirt Rally 2.0 was frustrating because I've done plenty of dirt-road driving in RWD cars (90s Firebird and 2004 Mustang) and never spun out IRL, but in that game it was terrifying.

I picked up EA WRC on PS5 on sale last week, and overall I'm pretty happy but there's some weird stuff like placeholder textures that appear all over the course sometimes. But yeah, the overall driving model feels more forgiving and fun than Generations.

This bugged the living daylights out of me pretty much as soon as I started playing Dr2, combine that with the numb rock hard suspension I basically shelved it. Then went over to the KT games and it was night and day superior. Although try explaining the 'automatic turn in' function to a codemasters fan and you get nothing by flak for pointing out cars simply do not handle in way that codemasters think they do.

I know the video is kind of old but they did they changed anything since release? Recently I downloaded the game on EA play and driving model feels very very wierd and unnatural for me but I don't know why. Like the car turns too much and oversteer is like 0 or 1, nothing between and cars have no weight to them. I use G29 and I have no issues in Assetto Corsa. AC feels very natural to drive and I can feel the car but not in WRC.

You are trippin´

I think EA WRC is a good rally game, I just don't think it's a very good WRC game.... I never really felt like this was the Official WRC race season so much as I felt like I was playing the new DIRT rally game. That basically comes down to presentation, but with the work that Codemasters does with the F1 games, I was expecting, and really hoping, for this to give you the feeling of being a WRC Driver in your first season., and it fails at that. Solid rally game though.

I agree, this is the best rally game I ever played. It's incredibly fun, realism or not it's absolute madness while driving and that to me is how I think rally irl is.

You pointing out exactly my issues with Generations and previous games. The sound, the boat delayed feel and I also feel they nerfed sense of speed. I just think it was time to leave over the project to EA Codemaster now. The company felt like it lost passion, if sound can't be fixed to perfection in 11 games then they will never be fixed. Otherwise I did like the stages a lot so a shame they never got some things right. Good comparison.

dirt rally is indeed great in physics, better than 2, ea wrc has competition from only dirt 4 has both feel similar, otherwise generations is the only other modern rally game currently in competition

Was that the cover of a pearl jam album?

I'm just annoyed that there isnt rally cross

I've been off road racing for a little over 10 years now. Not rally but very similar in a lot of ways. we close off open roads and use them as a circuit. We have 13 and we practice them whenever we get the chance, so those hairpin left unseen over crest moments don't happen haha. I will say I'm quite impressed by EA sports WRC. I have a low end racing rig for my computer but even on controller this game is good. The audio specifically, I find myself checking my mirrors sometimes I get so immersed. And you really do need to use proper racing techniques to go fast. I have no idea how to drive a real full blown rally car but they handle how I'd expect them to based on my IRL experience. The only thing holding that game back for me is the performance issues but those are thankfully being fixed! When I played wrc generations I could instantly tell it's meant to be accessible and fun to drive. I personally didn't find it as fun though because I like doing the flashy and tricky maneuvers that are slow but look awesome that I can't really do in real life without effing the car up. all in all try out beamNG. It has really fun tuning and the off roading feels surprisingly good!

Could you record next video about EA WRC comparison with RBR? Especially the Hungarian Mod? Back in the day you had one of the most controversial and hands-on video with Physics explanation. However, you skipped RBR for some reason, which I believe is still the best sim out there.

Check out my EA WRC Clips www.youtube.com/@BelowAmbient/videos

WRC Generations is much better and runs smoothly the unreal engine 5 is overated and awful optimization..

Even RBRs NGP they tooked similar appraoch to EA WRC or DIRT RALLY1 like Increasing Grip possible

Does EAs have the karlstadt special stage?

Did you make your driving example inside Reaper?