DiRT Rally 2.0

This was the first game that i started playing daily after work. I built a triple monitor racing sim to put the limits to this game. I have been grinding some other rally games wink wink. But i always have time to get some dirt on me

One of the better feeling rally games I have played. Pros: - Starter car is pretty great. - FWD car actually behaves like a real FWD car. - Seems to have better track/location variety than previous titles. - Controller response is exactly how I'd expect it to be. - No Forza-level arcade slop (sorry). - Co-Driver is about the best of any game so far. Cons: - "Connecting to server..." smh.

This is THE rally game on steam, bar none. Sorry WRC. I recently played the original Colin McRae Rally, which codemasters also made, and its really cool and a lot of fun despite its age. Amazing they've been at it so long for rally titles, but this was probably their crowning achievement. Who knew the WRC license, and with it, the expectations of extreme accuracy to the real life World Rally Championship, could be such a poison pill??

10/10 rally game, handles incredibly well. and compared to EA WRC, much much cheaper for essentially same quality

Codemasters was good. Great, even. this game was good. phuck EA forever. go to Assetto Corsa Rally.

I really want to like this game. It's everything I ever wanted from a rally game, feels great on a wheel and with H-shifter. But, ugh... Why, for the love of all good, always online singleplayer in career? I just wanna race, I seriously don't give a damn about online leaderboards and whatnot, I wanna just drive a little after work and that's all. Then, you can't change difficulty of AI in career. Even if you delete your save (which somehow also wipes your keybinds, like, was it difficult to put it in another file?). If you're bad, you gonna keep coming 30th. If you're good, you're gonna yawn until higher tournaments. There's a difficulty setting in every sim out there, and most of them allow changing things on the fly too. But unless you're exact skill level needed to be, game will be either frustrating, or boring. Then there's wheel setup. If your wheel is slightly new or slightly less known, you're gonna have troubles. You set up everything and then realize FFB doesn't work. Well, why? You go search things up, trying common stuff like calibration and enabling/disabling options, nothing helps. Then suddenly you stumble upon the fact, that, ugh, you need to MANUALLY copy hardware PID and VID into the game config file, following a special format that you also have to look up, and then save the file and now your wheel has FFB. But maybe you'll want to look inside that file again because FFB is too weak/too strong, or something is lacking. Then you go to Options->Input and realize you can't set half of the keybinds for your wheel (grayed out), even though you absolutely could before! For some reason, no, all menu navigation is grayed out, you literally can't set it, even if you could before. So adding back FFB breaks control remapping. I guess all dev time went into server infractructure for online singleplayer? I've tested my wheel with all kinds of things from Assetto Corsa, AMS2, Gran Turismo 5 (through RPCS3), Forza, to the original PC NFS Porsche Unleashed (that game is 26 years old and has no problem picking up my wheel and even sending FFB to it) Oh, and if you delete your game and redownload it later, you'll have to go over all this again. Your remaps and progress are saved, sure, but now you don't have FFB. Again. Why not just add a generic catch-all wheel preset, like literally every other racing game did? So, I've restarted the career three times, several control map resets, always-online nagging me for mismatched saves (there's no other way to restart career but to WIPE your whole profile folder), sometimes it fails connection (way worse for other people - up to being unable to just PLAY or wiping their saves outright because of mismatch between local and server data) Like... the game is great, like, when you're actually playing it, it's beautiful. But... forget FFB and setup, why did you have to lock a singleplayer experience to some server which I do not give a damn about? I paid for the game, just playing singleplayer on my local PC with my local data, and you're looking at me as if I'm some potential cybercriminal, threatening to wipe my career or refuse to let me play, again, a singleplayer experience.

Good. Can't complain about graphics, performance or physics. It delivers the rally experience and gameplay just flows. Hope they don't sunset it and prevent me from playing the game I purchased. Sadly it's a risk with this kind of game.