I've turned up the difficulty another notch from "challenging" to "demanding", and now the difficulty bonus is at 88%. I decided to go back to play modern rally, but old low-tier stuff, albeit, with a higher difficulty level. You can drift a little, but is it really faster around the corners this way? Probably lower the stance a bit more for stability. Next will probably be the "sealed surface trophy" in Spain, where I've won once with the BMW 3 Evo in a different event. But if they all want a cut in the profit, what's left for you? Hmmm? (If you offer extension, you don't have to pay a hiring fee for a new guy, which can be significant).
There's RWD, and there's 4WD, and right now, I'm not sure I can afford them, as I just spend like 120K upgrading my PR agent and replacing one of my engineers. those super-HP monster cars with like 500 hp. But unlike me, quite inconsistent.Īlmost ready to buy a Group B car. Won that stage with less than a second to spare, but a win's a win.
Flipped the car ONCE, but still managed to pull out a 1st place finish on that stage, due to tremendous amount of lead built up before. If anyone has questions please post them, I'd love to talk more about rally gamesįinished the historical FWD Rally (tier 1) winning both rallies.
Sadly Codemasters seemed to have lost interest in using this system for future games.Īnyway, I've rambled on enough. So as a result, no two stages are alike, which is a pretty cool thing for a rally game. Now this system can be used to generate your own stages, but it should be noted that all the rallies in the career mode were generated using the "Your Stage" system. And once generated you can also reverse the stage direction.
This system randomly generates a rally stage based on a series of parameters like location, length, complexity, time of day and weather. One of the appeals of the older DiRT 4 game is that for rallies it uses the "Your Stage" system. I even started giving some of the rocks and trees names because I've run into them so often This was what finally drove me to give up on the original DiRT Rally game after about 45 hours, that even though I might be driving a different class of car, at a different time in different weather, it was the same old set of segments I'd run a dozen times before. However, in the four hours I've played DR2 I've come across at least a half dozen times where I'm running a stage on the part of the course I've run there at least once before. Of course, for variety the stages might be run in reverse direction, or in different weather or different lighting conditions. However, just like in the original DiRT Rally game, the individual stages of each rally event at each location are just segments of the one course present at each location. In the GOTY package there are eleven rally locations, which is quite a nice number. One of the draws of DiRT Rally 2.0 are the amazingly detailed stages. All that is missing from DiRT Rally 2.0 and so it lacks the immersive feel of being on a team. And as part of the sponsorship system, you can design your own liveries for your cars and your sponsor logos will be added to it. You even have a catering department! Additionally your Team in D4 has sponsors which will kick in extra money for achieving certain criteria during a rally, like winning X number of stages or having a clean run. Also there were several facilities you can buy, like larger garages to hold more cars and a better parts department so you can get repair parts cheaper. D4, like the later DR2, has a team mode, but whereas DR2 just basically has you employing a few folks like engineers who will give you some attributes and unlocks, D4 had a whole team structure with a chief engineer, other engineers, a PR person and others. Sadly, there are some disappointments if you, like me, have already played DiRT 4 (henceforth D4) with its own Rally and Rallycross modes. For a Rally or Rallycross enthusiast, it have lots of content. It looks great and the GOTY edition has about three dozen cars already unlocked and bought for the player. I picked up DiRT Rally 2.0 (henceforth DR2) on Green Man Gaming, the whole Game of the Year/Super Deluxe Edition with everything including the kitchen sink. I decided to post this topic since I've been tinkering between two games and since there are a lot of sales going on, someone might be interested in knowing more about the two games before buying.