No sprint stages please, lets just run the 4 long stages back and forward in different weather conditions
That won't happen. Every 12 versions will be used, just like in every other rally
No sprint stages please, lets just run the 4 long stages back and forward in different weather conditions
22 stages! Niceeeee
Even though it was good for me at Rally Germany to know the stages I'm convinced, that YourStage in Dirt 4 will raise online rally championships onto a new level. Hopefully the created stages won't be drivable/downloadable for every competitor with the start of the event. Would be great if you could only drive them within the event, otherwise you could download them by the start of the event and train them in an individual event...but even that would be better than the 2 long stages now, which can be learned by heart quite fast if your mind is as fast/good as your car
And if Codies would get it working, that every abrupt ending of the game (i.e. Alt+F4) would leave a marker for the driver in the leaderboards, then my wishes would have become true at last. Every driver could have one marker "free" for every event as it always can happen that you have a CTD or whatever Windows wants your PC to do. But 2 markers would lead to a DSQ
Umm, yes that's true, unless of course it takes your *worst* time, instead of just keeping the first time you set... Do we know for sure that it doesn't do that? Cos that would make it much less worthwhile to alt-F4... I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't have coded it that way. But have they made any kind of public statement about the league change?Just catching up on this restart change, doesn't this make cheating MORE likely? You can go as hard as you like to set good times, reset and then dawdle(turtle) back through the stages again to keep a perfect car for longer... This seems like a step backwards.
as far as i know it overwrites the old times. i had to restart 4 stages in this tournament in sweden because of a bug which made my game freeze close to the end of those four stages (i think they were numbers 7-10 or some such on the list). the times i put up in the second running of those stages were the ones given on the final timesheet. i realized i had gained about 10 secs all in all so i waited 10 secs before rolling across the finish to kind of get back to the original amount of time spent on track.
@LuMue From what i have seen/heard, stages will be generated by league. The code for that stage generation will be sent to the driver before the start of the stage. Then the stage generator will load up that stage for you to run. So impossible to run the stages before an event.
Darn. I just tested the behaviour - I drove way slower on the second attempt and it kept the faster time.Umm, yes that's true, unless of course it takes your *worst* time, instead of just keeping the first time you set... Do we know for sure that it doesn't do that? Cos that would make it much less worthwhile to alt-F4... I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't have coded it that way. But have they made any kind of public statement about the league change?
On a different (and happier?) note, I did a little testing in Wales tonight. Got my little Fiesta improved from a truly awful 3:15ish to a merely mediocre 3:03ish on Bidno. That feels really really fast to me but is still only about p400 on the rankings
I think somebody muttered something about Dirt showing its physics engine limitations on loose surfaces. That'll do me as a reason why I suck in Wales (I was finding it much faster to floor it through the corners with near-full lock (not opposite lock mind you!) than to lift... Feels wrong, but then I mostly drive on tarmac IRL!)