Tips & Tricks for 7 DIRT 5 Playgrounds

Tips & Tricks for 7 DIRT 5 Playgrounds

Nov 9, 2020 1 Min Read Posted by OverTake Team
DON'T GO TOO FAR ON SPEED HELIX Speed Helix is one of the most popular playgrounds to date. It is perfectly suited for practicing and mastering the basic handling of the rally car class in DIRT 5. Its tight corners on different surfaces always reminds you that sometimes less speed is faster. Yes, drifting into corners brings the most fun and is stylish above all. But on this playground you will definitely hit the walls in most cases when doing so. These are stacked with tiny edges and you can get stuck pretty easily as seen in this shot. Try to brake before the corners to avoid this fate. SLOWLY THROUGH THE RINGS OF FIRE Johnny Cash once fell into a ring of fire. Here it's you falling into a steep descent with rings of fire laughing at you, if you don't pay attention. This cage like "Smash Attack" course is very bumpy and your buggy can quickly bounce out of control with too much speed. As the objects are spread widely all over the track, you need every little bit of control you can keep. Try tapping constantly on the gas on bumpy terrain. In the pipe-like tight corners, push one time hard, then let go and try to make the buggy glide through. The jumps require full speed, but try to jump as straight as you can and immediately push the brakes after landing. In regular corners always stay on the inside as tightly as you can to get every object. SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RAINBOW In tradition of the notorious Mario Kart tracks, this "Gate Crasher" playground is long and evil. First rule for the course: Stay in the middle of the track! Typical racing lines don't work here. If you push too far in the pipe corners at the beginning, you may spin and fall on your roof. Later on, it is easy to fall off the track due to the changing obstacles and surfaces. Falling out of bounds costs precious seconds. On bridges you see in the picture, you can try to take the corners with one side of the car, but you will need enough speed. Good luck on this one. CUTTING GYM "Gym Class" is a "Gymkhana" playground and one of the most difficult but fun ones as well. The secret of achieving the highscore here is finding the ideal line. The typical layout of the arena either leads you to the left after jumping through the rings, where you can find a donut obstacle and some hidden pink boxes. Or you turn right and jump over the wall and then take on the awesome looping. You can save a lot of time though if you turn hard right immediately after the rings and leave the ramp, where you'll find a pipe jump. If you take it, you will reach a new line with lots of obstacles which naturally offers you more points in less time. WHO'S MISSING SLOPE-STYLE Your worst enemy on this "Gate Crasher" playground is your car itself. Its rear breaks out very easily and the track goes steeply up and down. Brake shortly before every change of steepness. On the downhill part, try to stay on the outside, cross the checkpoint in the middle and stay on the opposite outside again. Always try to steer as little as possible. When steering, don't accelerate. This track is destined to build up a love-hate connection with many players out there. NO NOISE IN DIRTY CASTLE While this "Gate Crasher" playground looks kind of impressive at first sight, it is quite basic, really. When entering the first four gates, everything is about timing and the right angle. Getting off the throttle is enough to drift properly on the dirt, you don't need brakes. Before entering the castle, make a wide turn right and then use your handbrake to execute a U-turn left. As drifting is harder on the short ramps inside, try to drive slowly but consistently, without wall contact. Once you are aligned to the outside walls, it gets pretty hard to get back into position and you will grind along. This costs a lot of time. HIT OR MISS THE LEAP OF FAITH "Hit 'n Run" is a "Gate Crasher" playground in disguise of a "Smash Attack". Green arrows will lead you through this maze of walls. To achieve a proper time, you will have to learn the line by heart, though. Then you can stay on the throttle for most of the time. Especially in the second part, you need to start turning even slightly before you leave a gate or you won't hit the next one. Try to align to one side of the track to shorten your way. Stay concentrated after the last gate, as you will have to hit the only objective in this "Smash Attack" then to make your effort count.

While DIRT 5 is only a few days out, there are already some interesting and creative playgrounds. Here is how you beat them.

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DIRT 5 features a lot of interesting disciplines in its “Playground” mode such as “Gate Crasher”, “Smash Attack” or “Gymkhana”. Whereas “Gate Crasher” is a simple checkpoint race, you need to hit different objects in “Smash Attack”. Finally, “Gymkhana” is the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater among racing disciplines. You have to do chain drifts, jumps and donuts to hit the highscore. Each of them can be practiced and mastered by heeding the right advice. Many playgrounds have some very unique twists due to their creative architecture, turning the usual gameplay upside-down. We show you how to climb their scoreboards. Here are seven pieces of advice for the most popular or creative playgrounds so far.

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