A second look at EA'S WRC 

It will be nice if it got VR, but Im not worried if it doesn't since we have Dirt rally 2.0 and RBR rallysimfans plugin since both of them have Vr

@@sbsimulators6913 just been announced today for end of april... final date to be confirmed.

@@user-jx9nu1nu5n Okay nice. Let's hope they actually implement it well.

HAHA yeah. That's what I get for not paying attention there 😅

Might be just me then so. Just for further context. I'm on a GTX 1660TI GPU along with an AMD ryzen 7 cou. I'll keep on tweaking it until the stuttering is resolved for me

@@sbsimulators6913I'm on a RTX 2070 Super GPU with a Ryzen 5 3600. I also tweaked my settings further after reading suggestions online. Anti aliasing at High, DLSS on Quality with sharpness at 60, Car reflection and Mirrors at medium as before. Shadows at medium. Crowds at medium, Dynamic objects to High or below, The rest on Ultra/High depending on your available resources. And it goes without saying I have the FPS limited inside Nvidia control panel. Hope you can get your stuttering fixed.

@@samwch16992 Thanks Sam, I appreciate that. I really want to like this game in its current state. But until I can resolve the stuttering it's really hard to do so. I'll try your settings on it and see if that will work

@@sbsimulators6913Glad I could help. My experience with EA WRC has been decent so far. I was there at the beginning when the game launches as I had Xbox PC game pass active and I have 5 hours trial of the then newly released EA WRC. I had owned Dirt Rally and 2.0 as well as WRC 7 9 10 and Generations so I have pretty high expectations for this game, and as we know it's release state is pretty crappy. While my stutter is not as bad as the ones I've seen others had it's still enough to dissuade me from getting the game. Then in the recent Steam Spring Sale, the game is on 60% discount, so I was tempted and gave in. I bought it but didn't put much time in it because I was busy with another game (Cyberpunk 2077) until now. I ran it with all settings at high at first, the game runs far better than my experience in the launch days but it's not as smooth as I liked it. Now after tweaking the settings, it's still not 100% buttery smooth, but is playable 98% of the time. I did some stages in Monte Carlo, Japan, Central Europe, Oceania, Portugal, Italy and the game is very playable. While the game doesn't look that great compared to Dirt Rally 2.0, which is the benchmark of modern rally games. It beats the WRC games by KT Racing hands down in terms of the sound department. The car modelling is also far better compared to KT racing's WRC games. Take a look at the cars in WRC Generation in the showroom, the lighting is bad and the model looks flat, especially the older WRC cars like the Subaru Impreza.

Thanks mate, much appreciated

I've raced in normal cockpit view with the wheel in front of me a few times, but I don't recall experiencing that on my version of WRC

@@sbsimulators6913 I got it figured out. Set software to 540. Then in game calibration step 1: full lock clockwise step 2: counter clockwise to -34 or -35 just between. So weird but it works. Having a blast. Thanks for your response. Subd

Okay I'll be honest I wasn't aware of the comment the EA representative made on discord so I'll put my hand up and say my bad on that one 😔 But yeah, you're right in saying that I do enjoy it more than I did when I first reviewed it.

Somebody mentioned in the comments that it might be a few updates to the firmware of my Moza wheelbase which could have been why I was feeling a difference. Still I like the game more then I did at launch

​@@sbsimulators6913 hey, that's great! I was not bashing you at all btw. I too thought the game was handling weird at launch but there was a bug that turned on assist even if you had them disabled. This massively affected the handling.

Well I thought I felt a difference in handling when I looked at it the second time. I might have gotten a little too enthusiastic in certain parts of the video

@sbsimulators6913 I think it felt fantastic from the outset, the notes are far more comprehensive too.

@@YBFocus Well each to their own as they say. Personally while I still prefer Dirt 2.0 over this. I still respect the game for what it is now compared to when I first reviewed it

I think Dirt 2 stages were a bit too generic and I missed it a lot. This game solved it and with good handling and ff. At least we are not bound anymore to wrc gen (great stage but VERY BAD handling)

I can confirm, the patches did indeed change the handling model. very slightly but noticable.

this is good to know, i was considering buying this game with my 4070ti but if the performance is still bad i guess i'll wait

Graphics is really good. In videos look little bit bad but i try it myself and is looking nice.

​@@RST9413it honestly doesn't look good at all. If the performance was smooth. Sometimes the cars even look rough in the sort of garage / menu screen 🙈

Okay well I'm glad to hear your having a better time with EA'S WRC then I am ATM. I'll keep tinkering with the settings and see what I can do to resolve the stuttering for me

That's why I like Dirt 2.0 and 1.0 more than EA'S WRC. I find the physics and the handling on different surfaces feels better and more realistic imo

@@sbsimulators6913 "Dirt" and "Dirt Rally" are two different game series by Codemasters. The Dirt games were very arcadey and not always fun to drive. Dirt Rally on the other hand was quite good to me too except that with Dirt Rally 2.0 they removed the ability to drift through corners as it was in Dirt Rally 1.0. 🙂

Yeah I'll be honest, I'm more of a circuit racer then a rally racer, so I didn't think about that Tbh

Or VPN switch yourself to Argentina and buy it for $5

​@@LJT9393You know what. I think I'll do that 😂

@@sbsimulators6913 lol I have a buddy that does that. He’s also super techy and set up his own network at home (still uses a local provider but has superb firewalls and defences against breaches and that).

Yeah another commentator here mentioned that someone from EA said that no physics changes were made. Nevertheless though, I do find myself enjoy EA'S WRC more then when I last reviewed it in December

@@sbsimulators6913 Yeah i think it is a great game, good fun but has its flaws like all the rest

@@racinvr I agree for what it is, it's a good game. I never once said in this or in my honest review that it was a bad game. I just felt it was a little bit of a downgrade from dirt rally 2.0. But that's just me, not the game

Or maybe he was One of those who had the assists bug that would Turn the assists on in Race even tho people turned it off. When they fixed that bug a lot of people thought they did something to the physics.

@@richardoliveira153 I'll be honest. I wasn't aware that this bug existed. I hadn't played EA'S WRC since December so I imagine alot has changed since then

Well fortunately a patch update was released fixing the stuttering for me, just shortly after the video went up

@@sbsimulators6913 that's good to hear. For me it still feels they did a quick update on Colin Mcrae rally 2 😂 . I just don't like how the new game looks.

@@sbsimulators6913 that's good to hear. For me it still feels they did a quick update on Colin Mcrae rally 2 😂 . I just don't like how the new game looks.

Glad to hear you're enjoying the game. At least more than I am ATM. I will keep trying to fix it for me to see if I can enjoy it more than I am right now

@sbsimulators6913 it's a shame that this happens to you

@@taxi615 I know, and I couldn't agree more with you, but I'll keep trying to fix it for myself and see if I can find a solution to it

My bad there. I had that issue for a while now with Vegas magic. It's bean something I've bean trying to resolve for sometime now

Just giving my honest opinion at the time of recording the video, wasn't over-hyping anything. I even mentioned the game up until recently, has stuttering issues on various stages

@@sbsimulators6913 How could you have a positive experience with this game at time of recording, when you played DR2 before? It’s a horrible downgrade in almost every way from DR2.

@@Silentpartner2176 I think your missing the point here. Yes I agree, EA's WRC is a huge let down compared to DR2.0. Which I have mentioned here in my actual review that I made prior to this one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WU2W-_INNS4.html What I am saying is that, while I am having a better experiance with it then I did before I would rather play DR 2.0 over this still. I think I mentioned that near the end of the video

I agree, while I like this game better then I did before. I will still take dirt 2.0 and RBR with the rallysimfans plugin any day of the week

Okay fair enough. I'll keep trying to fix it for myself then

For me at least I believe. I'm enjoying it more than I did at launch

Good news now. A patch was released recently that fixed alot of my stuttering issues. It's still there, but it's fairly subtle now

In fairness though, I'm more of a circuit racer than a rally racer. 😂 Luckily though, I don't mind because I don't take rallying as seriously as circuit racing 😂

@@sbsimulators6913 I’d be better on a track myself sir. Just love a bitta sliding on gravel for the craic

@@rabmccudden683 Same here. I just like sliding the car around corners while rallying, especially FWD cars 😁

Well I mean, as much as I hate them, they seem to have published a semi decent rally game. It's still plaguing with issues. But better then the usual slop I suppose