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jonathan posted:I thought the ford rs200 caused the end of the group B era Helicon One posted:Is dirt rally finished yet or are they doing the whole Eternal Beta thing? I'm sure many would be thrilled for them to continue to pump out free content monthly, but I'd assume things will get a little more complicated once it's officially released. Was pretty worth the $30 back when it hit Early Access; definitely worth it now if you like rally racing and maybe even if not just as a different alternative to all the other circuit racers out there.
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jonathan posted:I thought the ford rs200 caused the end of the group B era honestly i think all of the cars contributed in some way
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Oct 23, 2015 02:25
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real_scud posted:Yup, and for people who don't have wheels or don't want to lug theirs out of the closet you can play it decently with a controller. Sure you may not set the fastest times overall but it's still a boatload of fun. hi hello its me, the guy setting top 50 stage times with a gamepad nice to meet you
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Oct 23, 2015 02:27
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SealHammer posted:not the fastest times?? But you're not setting the fastest times. 
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Oct 23, 2015 02:38
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njsykora posted:But you're not setting the fastest times. neither are 99% of wheel users 
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Oct 23, 2015 03:11
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Gamepads make a lot of sense for rally racing actually. The driving is generally pretty twitchy so the smaller distance you have to cover with the thumbstick helps with countersteer and stuff.
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Oct 23, 2015 03:35
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^^ So glad they agreed to Season 3 of Halt & Catch Fire.SealHammer posted:neither are 99% of wheel users Can confirm 
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Oct 23, 2015 04:17
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I don't care about fast times, I care about getting my car across the finish line with more than 2 wheels attached.
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Oct 23, 2015 20:50
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Is Dirt 3 competent in delivering some fun?
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holocaust bloopers posted:Is Dirt 3 competent in delivering some fun? Yes but get Dirt Rally
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IceAgeComing posted:it has all the good lancias; including the fulvia which lots of past rally games forgot about
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Oct 24, 2015 01:02
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SealHammer posted:not the fastest times?? I love it because I don't always want to get out my wheel and take the time to set it up but using my Xbox One controller is great and works flawlessly.
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Oct 24, 2015 02:40
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So I realize I've read tons of guides, tutorials and whatnot on racing lines, acceleration, braking, pacenotes, passing and all manner of things, but I've never really read a good guide on shifting, or gears in general. Any recommendations?
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Oct 24, 2015 10:14
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low gear torque, high gear speed, shift down if revs too low, shift up if revs going to redline
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Oct 24, 2015 12:46
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Yeah, there aren't guides because it's not complicated. Something that is interesting with shifting is watching someone like Senna back when F1 cars still used a stick and he choose when to shift to enable to have both hands on the wheel when he needed it. With paddles now thigh you just shift optimally always.
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Oct 24, 2015 12:51
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Watch Weekend of a Champion. It's a documentary about a weekend of F1 in Monaco with Jackie Stewart. In addition to his driving style, he also talks about how he shifts. Specifically he mentions that many drivers will shift down into the power band in a corner but then immediately have to shift up again costing them time. He says he typically stays a gear higher than most other people but he's able to go just as fast because he's not shifting two more times like everyone else. He ends up with more room to rev up. This really only work for H pattern shifting as hitting a paddle doesn't really slow you down. But if you're driving the miata, and you have the choice of being high in the power band but near the rev limiter or lower in the power band but plenty of room before the limiter, you're probably better off with the second choice.
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Oct 24, 2015 13:06
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Yeah I guess I know it's not very complicated, but I'm always looking for those little "oh of course that's more obvious!" moments.
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Oct 24, 2015 13:24
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Black Griffon posted:Yeah I guess I know it's not very complicated, but I'm always looking for those little "oh of course that's more obvious!" moments. Basically what gear to be in for a corner is something you find during testing without even thinking about it, and in most sims there's no transmission damage model so you can just abuse the gently caress out of the gearbox on downshifts. E: There's a Codemasters sale running on Steam right now, so the F1, GRID and DIRT games are all on sale including Dirt Rally being 33% off. njsykora fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Oct 24, 2015 |
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Oct 24, 2015 14:48
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Still waiting on on a sale for Project Cars, GreenmanGaming has no stock at the moment.
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Has anyone experienced CTDs in Dirt Rally when alt-tabbing? I just lost a beautiful lap in Germany because the game decided to crash when I paused to check on something outside the game, and I'm wondering if it was just a freak beta occurrence or if I should be extra careful about alt-tabbing in this game.njsykora posted:Basically what gear to be in for a corner is something you find during testing without even thinking about it, and in most sims there's no transmission damage model so you can just abuse the gently caress out of the gearbox on downshifts. I've wrecked the engine during shifting a couple of times in Asetto Corsa, so I think it counts there.
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Oct 27, 2015 13:23
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Black Griffon posted:Has anyone experienced CTDs in Dirt Rally when alt-tabbing? I just lost a beautiful lap in Germany because the game decided to crash when I paused to check on something outside the game, and I'm wondering if it was just a freak beta occurrence or if I should be extra careful about alt-tabbing in this game. Alt-tabbing in dirt rally works fine for me, never crashed, but it does switch out of fullscreen into a tiny window and I have to Alt-enter when switching back to it.
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Oct 27, 2015 15:51
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I'm trying to enjoy AC, but so far I've spent at least 6 hours trying to find XB1 controller settings that don't feel like literal trash garbage. Would anyone mind posting the settings that work for them? I tried googling for settings but I guess things have changed in various versions and the values don't mean the same things anymore or something. @dirtgame tweeted this today, stoked to finally get an Evo when they drop the "Modern Masters" pack. What I've really been waiting for is MORE SNOW  Edit: MOTHERFUCKER all of my car tune presets have been erased with this 0.9 DiRT Rally update. I guess everything is new again. Hopped in a 60's car and went to Finland, everything feels real floaty now, but I think that's just the course. Oh wow did all the times get reset too? All of my precious top 100 times are gone 
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Oct 27, 2015 19:39
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Black Griffon posted:Has anyone experienced CTDs in Dirt Rally when alt-tabbing? FancyMike posted:Alt-tabbing in dirt rally works fine for me, never crashed, but it does switch out of fullscreen into a tiny window and I have to Alt-enter when switching back to it. conversation piece posted:Edit: MOTHERFUCKER all of my car tune presets have been erased with this 0.9 DiRT Rally update. I guess everything is new again. Hopped in a 60's car and went to Finland, everything feels real floaty now, but I think that's just the course. Yeah, I'm not sold on the new physics models. I haven't driven a rally car, but the new physics models feel stupidly light (maybe realistic?) in not a good way compared to the old physics model. On the one hand it makes the cars feel more responsive, but, on the other, I feel like small bumps are much more liable to just throw you clear off the stage if you hit them wrong, ruining/ending your run.
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bUm posted:Did they actually all get erased due to the patch or did they get erased because you haven't played since prior to the transitioning to their version 2 physics model for cars? Same difference really. bUm posted:Yeah, I'm not sold on the new physics models. I haven't driven a rally car, but the new physics models feel stupidly light (maybe realistic?) in not a good way compared to the old physics model. On the one hand it makes the cars feel more responsive, but, on the other, I feel like small bumps are much more liable to just throw you clear off the stage if you hit them wrong, ruining/ending your run. I was wrong about it feeling floaty, that's definitely just Finland. I'm in loving AWE of how much time you spend in the air on these courses. I'm not going to pass total judgement until I've worked my way back up through all of the classes, again. Even a notch in either direction of ride height has made serious changes in the way the cars feel, definitely a massive improvement over the old system. I'm still routinely in top 2500 my first time through these so I can't complain. Edit: they definitely played with the lightness, probably to make Finland the most fun. I have half a mind to start manually diffing every patch to get a complete list of the value changes. They love to sneak in new default tunes for cars, I've noticed a handful myself after complaining about the terrible center diff settings in 0.4 or so. If anything the game is easier, just had a near flawless night run and got 121st globally conversation piece fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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Oct 27, 2015 21:11
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FancyMike posted:Alt-tabbing in dirt rally works fine for me, never crashed, but it does switch out of fullscreen into a tiny window and I have to Alt-enter when switching back to it. bUm posted:Nope. Think I've had maybe one or two CTDs ever since getting it shortly after it was opened for Early Access. Alright, I'll chalk it up to a freak crash. But it really sucked because I kinda hate Germany so far, and getting a good time on Waldaufstieg was the bees knees.
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Black Griffon posted:Alright, I'll chalk it up to a freak crash. But it really sucked because I kinda hate Germany so far, and getting a good time on Waldaufstieg was the bees knees. There used to be a nasty crash that could sometimes happen while trying to submit your score to the online leaderboard, I'm pretty sure they fixed that though.
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Alright, second time now, so I'm not chalking it up to a freak crash. This is what I get, right as the race is over.  First time was single player, second was the monthly. Both runs are completely lost. Edit: This time involved no alt-tabbing.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:01
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Steam -> Games -> Create Desktop Shortcuts -> Floodfill
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Oct 28, 2015 16:06
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Oh god that desktop. Triggered
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Oct 28, 2015 16:48
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It's like some people haven't figured out that windows has a convenient menu in the lower left for finding and executing software. It even has search functionality, just start typing and it lists matches! As for the steam error.. it seems pretty evident to me. Steam is busy! I say report it as a bug or start a thread on the game's steam forum because there's absolutely nothing in that message for anyone to generate advice on.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:51
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Black Griffon posted:Alright, second time now, so I'm not chalking it up to a freak crash. The only known cause I know of offhand that came up in the Dirt Rally thread was caused by their C drive being near full capacity; not sure if that's been fixed by Codemasters yet. Think this has to do with the game creating the replay (see: a large file) alongside your run and it only saving if you tell it post run and this would crash it if there wasn't enough space on your C drive to store the temporary replay file. I can't really say more since I haven't had any problems; your best bet is probably Steam discussion and/or Dirt Rally forums. conversation piece posted:Same difference really. Norns posted:Oh god that desktop. Triggered 
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bUm posted:There was quite a few issues with Error 41 crashes for months (mostly on game start so people couldn't play at all), but, by the sounds of patch notes, most of them were fixed. Alright, thanks. I guess it might have something to do with the replay thing seeing as it happens a second after I cross the finish line. I'll see what I can get out of the official forums. GhostDog posted:Steam -> Games -> Create Desktop Shortcuts -> Floodfill Norns posted:Oh god that desktop. Triggered xzzy posted:It's like some people haven't figured out that windows has a convenient menu in the lower left for finding and executing software. It even has search functionality, just start typing and it lists matches! bUm posted:Agreed: it has Uplay on it. Well maybe someone is perfectly organized in their own way while also having the attention span of a toddler and requires every single game he's ever owned to be accessible ASAP, nerds.
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Black Griffon posted:Alright, thanks. I guess it might have something to do with the replay thing seeing as it happens a second after I cross the finish line. I'll see what I can get out of the official forums. So... this then? 
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Oct 29, 2015 00:59
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To be fair my desktop looks like that as well, however I don't think I've ever actually clicked an icon on it or even really looked at it. I guess I'm just too lazy to uncheck "create desktop icon" in installers.
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Oct 29, 2015 02:36
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KillHour posted:So... this then? Do you really have to have both Dirt 3 and Dirt 3 Complete Edition installed?
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Oct 29, 2015 06:35
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I thought you guys would appreciate this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gswv1NqsVpc
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Oct 29, 2015 12:35
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KillHour posted:So... this then? Takes like two clicks to bring up that, desktop is just win+d. That's like five hundred thousand more clicks. Anyway, more on topic: What the gently caress is a Lancia Stratos? How do you drive this loving thing? Who the gently caress made this monstrosity? Why is it designed to spin constantly during every single moment of eternity? Why? Why?
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Black Griffon posted:Anyway, more on topic: What the gently caress is a Lancia Stratos? How do you drive this loving thing? Who the gently caress made this monstrosity? Why is it designed to spin constantly during every single moment of eternity? Why? Why? See that first part of its name? That should answer all your other questions to satisfaction. It's an insane car made by insane people for insane drivers, meant to be driven insanely. Also, it helps if you're kind of small.
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Black Griffon posted:Anyway, more on topic: What the gently caress is a Lancia Stratos? the second best rally car ever made ever the best is the lancia delta s4, which somehow manages to be even more bonkers despite being four-wheel drive
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You can't forget the 037 Stradale which is the most beautiful rally car ever made.
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