WRC 23: Rumours from Insiders

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As many of you know, this is the last year before Codemasters hands over the WRC license. Many of us had a remote hope to see a Dirt Rally 3 before this happened, but the last leaks (or rumours) point in a different direction.

These rumours, already published in a couple of sites, supposedly coming directly from EA employees announcing that Dirt Rally 3 have been cancelled in favour of WRC's new title. A game with an unexpected new feature that could be game changing for a franchise like this.

Last titles have a big problem; lack of models due to be linked to the official WRC license. Now they will let us build our own rally car picking parts and components of different range and status.

My doubt is if only internal parts will be allowed or external chassis also. It could be a nice moment race against modern cars showing an old fashion ride, as we have seen in other much less restricted competitions. Insider also claims that game will feature 16 classes gathering all WRC categories.

There is still time to work and for time being, we have to see what Kylotonn can deliver this last year in WRC Generations.

Post your opinion in the comment below.

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There is a suspicion that WRC 2023 will be a clone of Dirt Rally 2.0 and will not offer anything new.
 
Looking at it from 2022 it looks pretty dated to me sry :p

NFS 2015 on the other hand looks like it will be released in 2023 :roflmao:

Codemasters has a great engine. I really love how Grid Legends looks and runs.
oh, sorry, I meant Dirt Rally2, my bad, forgot to put in the numeral. ts ts ts
 
We will see, we will see. ..

Dirt Rally 1 was Paul Coleman's & Team passion project. It was also heavily communicated with the community and it was awesome. Ofcourse it has some flaws, but you could feel the rally, the love, the power

Then we got Dirt 4 which was advertised as best of both worlds. If failed to deliver. Weird handling, repeating produceral generated tracks, and some more. The generated tracks could been awesome if there was some more time for Paul Coleman to invest in that.

Finally we got Dirt Rally 2. Paul & Team has left and it was picked up by other people. It failed to deliver. Lots of bugs, missing features, even the FFB was sort of absent and feeling weird. It took them 9 months to fix some of the stuff. Don't forget the anti-consumer DLC policy. The weirdest I've ever seen. Still to this day It's buggy, like all the popping textures, and lightning flashes all around the track. I loved some of the new stuff, like ice patches in Monaco, but that's it.

Dirt Rally 3 aka WRC is now in EA hands and will just be crap. I am sure of it. Rushed, missing features, dumbed down, weird RPG-lite featurese and all that. Hit a tree, just brush it off and continue your way.

I played WRC 5 6 7 and saw the developers making improvements. Been playing WRC 10 for a bit as a side-project I am impressed how far they have come and how the game drives. Is it perfect? Ofcourse not, but the tracks are surely fun because they are narrow, scary and makes me sweaty. Only I don't like is that weird RPG skill-tree. I want a 'sim'. Not farming skill points to have a better car or better grip.

Imho RBR with NGP 6 is still the king of rally, but applying all these mods can be a hassle. There are 1 in all-install mods, but still a hassle. I think someone asks me for an easy totall package I would say Dirt Rally 1 or WRC 10. Curious about the reviews of EA's WRC. But I doubt it will be good.
I agree with what you wrote must another Dirt 5 game garbage
 
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Honestly, now that RallySimFans exists, I'm not sure I can agree that RBR (which by the way is now on NGP7) is a hassle - at least based on my own experience. It takes a while to download the 100+ GB of stages, but other than that, it's been nothing but easy-to-use for me since I first installed it a number of months ago.
There's a couple of things I would've improved though.
Easier update function. I didn't even know of the last update until I suddenly couldn't drive a rally because I didn't have a stage.
Should've been easier to switch co-drivers (or I might just be stupid), also, I hate those stages were I suddenly get a different co-driver.
RSRBR had a genious replay pause/speed up/rewind/resume system. I want that as well.
 
I don't buy any more EA games related to FI and other racing games because they have been very buggy, in my opinion EA should stick to NHL and NFL games and not get involved in other games.

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I don't buy any more EA games related to FI and other racing games because they have been very buggy

Can not confirm that. Had never an unplayable or constantly crashing EA race game in 24 years. Or which specific game/games do you mean ?
 
Now they will let us build our own rally car picking parts and components of different range and status.

Now I'm gonna put my EA conspiracy hat on and say rally car parts available through loot boxes.

The licensed content will stay but the "build-a-car" game mode would be a way to attract a general audience. Then again, that could also mean un-simming the future WRC title to keep said audience.
 
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The Rally genre is a crapshoot, and its only going downhill from this point.

Dirt Rally 1 and 2 were the only games in a long long time that I broke my "Never give money to EA" rule, But they have zero to no chance of reaching that level of quality again (and it still wasn't close to the level of quality it should have been)
 
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But this is the internet? We're not allowed to have fun playing games unless it's From Software or CDPR because they're the good guys. /s

But seriously, while some of the games have issues and things I don't like I can agree with this statement almost 100%. In fact I feel like people blame EA for issues that in some cases they're not responsible for, like F1 22's online or the entire debacle that was Anthem. All while conveniently ignoring all the good games and experiences they've produced.
A bit of an aside here, but a significant part of Anthem's issues (and those of bioware in general) did come down to mismanagement from EA. That studio absolutely got run into the ground post acquisition, what with near impossible deadlines (bioware lost a lot of good people due to sheer burnout},the demand to use the frostbite engine for everything (frostbite was made for battlefield and battlefield alone) and Patrick Sodurlund personally meddling with development. Jason Schreier, previously of Kotaku and last time i checked for Bloomberg, had a couple of really good pieces about it. a link for your convenience.

EA sometimes gets singled out as the worst of them all which is unfair, all the problems that EA has are problems that the entire aaa industry has. But that doesn't mean they aren't problems.

And also, yknow, their execs enrich themselves over the backs of the people that do the actual work for them. I'm not particularly keen on being fair to people like that.
 
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There seems to be some confusion here. WRC 10, Generations ETC has nothing to do with WRC 23. Completely different dev team, engine etc. So just because you didn't like the WRC games before or had hardware issues don't let that influence your opinion on WRC 23.

Anyway this just sounds like a system to upgrade cars in career mode similar to the Monster Games career which is cool but I wouldn't say ground braking. I'm more interested in it having 16 different classes, and I want to hear what the plans for stages are, because really that's been my biggest gripe with the newer rally games. Some of the procedural rally tech that's been worked on here on RD looked promising but IDK if the hardcore market would want fictional stages.
 
This is going to be horrible because EA. I still haven't forgiven them that late term abortion that was "NASCAR SIM Racing" back when they got the exclusive license after years of having Papyrus hand their backside to them.

"We hear you. You want a realistic sim and here it is!" Then they squeeze that game out (plop) and never look back.

F EA.
 
Those who have been employed in an oversized corporation know how this will work out.

They are breeding grounds for mediocrity, mismanagement, incompetence and laziness. Which shines through brightly in whatever products they rush out the door in order to meet some unrealistic timeline.

Might as well have Xfinity make the damn game. Probably end up with the same results :p
 
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It doesn't matter what it will be in the end and if it will be good since people will still complain as always and even more because "EA". Personally i can say i play EA games since 1998 and never had a bad experience in any of them and always a lot of fun.
Last f1 game has a lot of game breaking bugs. It’s just terrible.
 
If I remenber well, for 3 years ago some news I heard , Codemaster WRC23 buy the license? or Im wrong?
 

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