I want someone to find something they really like and mod it into Assetto Corsa
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btw,
this Trailer and the swedish stage vid posted above (shoutout to oldschool dad on his swagger go-cart) piqued my interest, even though i havenât even given the WRC 8 (âfor freeâ on XBL gold or whatever it is called) a shotâŚ
anyone gave this a proper spin yet?
have Sonic F and Star Ocean 6 on my todo-list already, so thisâd be 3rd place anyway atm 
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Look at this fucking Subaru / Motorcycle. God damn. Probably absolutely terrifying to drive, but would be a hit at cars + coffee
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Iâm really curious about this too. Waiting for reports from folks I trust!
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fwiw, checked them 'tubes and realized I have absolutely no clue whom.to.trust when it comes to reviews, that I am hilariously out of touch with the format of ytube video game reviews, and that I have no clue whatsoever why or what is missing to make them become/seem? useful to me.
Itâs bonkers that I cannot put my finger whatâs wrong/what i need that isnât there, have to think more about that for a whileâŚ
(maybe i should just plunge down the cash, or start playing Seb Loeb Rally on the rusty PS4 for real instead)
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The WRC games are by and large fine but they dont get much post-launch support in terms of patches and theres almost always some quality of life stuff that will bother you like settings resetting every time you start up the game or general UI annoyances. I will say if you didnât buy 9 or 10 this is probably the one to get, it has most of the stages kylotonn produced during their run on the series which i think includes the content from 9 and 10 for once. That means outside of RBR this is the largest selection of rally stages you can buy in a game right now. the vibration in WRC 9 felt like the controller was going to fly out of my hands and in the little bit I played of generations gravel sort of felt like driving on ice. I dunno, these WRC games always have weird physics, itâs not that important to me because youâre comparing it to, what, Dirt Rally 2? theres not that many of these games on the market to begin with.
If you like rally sims and arenât like super into something like RBR, you will probably have fun stage to stage. Thereâs some cool little stuff you can set that you canât set in DR2.0, like your co-driverâs name and nationality, you can also have a female co-driver like the older dirt games. The biggest issues with their WRC games always pop up outside of driving, like they implemented tire management last year but without anyway to see information on the weather conditions that would inform your decision there. That one is fixed this year at least. in the career mode thereâs all these events you do in between rallies and you can still get stuck doing nothing but Extreme Conditions events for 6 weeks straight even though you need rest events for your crew or maintenance events to fix your vehicle and have to go into a rally with a 0% condition carâŚthis doesnt always happen but it basically ruins your career when it does. However there is also a season mode without the crew management as well. You can still only start as WRC3 or WRC2 which means you always have to work up to WRC1 which I haaate and as far as I know private team (where you get to make your own livery and pick sponsors!) is still in the game, but I dont know if its from the start or needs to be unlocked. In WRC10 the process for unlocking this mode was ridiculous until they patched the game, so hopefully thats not the case here. The one thing I will recommend about WRC without hesitation is the co-driver mode, itâs like kind of stupid mechanically but me and my friend got on discord and trying to read the pacenotes while pressing A whenever the game tells you to (this is what shows the driver the visual pacenote on the screen) is really, really fun. I will be shocked if the new dirt doesnât steal that mode whenever it comes out. Be aware that itâs half as fun if youâre not talking to each other while you do it!
I only played like 30 mins of it with a copy I downloaded cuz it was making my GPU 70 degrees for some reason on medium settings (WRC 10 doesnt feel particularly optimized on my Steam copy either) but hopefully some of that is helpful
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IRL car review
2021/2022 Mustang convertible, 10 speed auto with paddles, 460 HP.
I was going to visit my sister and needed to rent a car, the hertz Id reserved my econo-box from was out of econo-boxes (wtf was the point of reserving??) so I had to either drive some hulk SUV or take the mustang. So I took the mustang.
First impression: Its huge on the outside, wide and squat inside. The seats are very nice and comfy. The pedigree as a try hard machine was obvious at first start up. The burble and rumble were aggressive and very PRESENT but not pleasant or beautiful. Somehow the engine vibrations could be felt through the steering wheel and nowhere else. It felt curated, staged. like a harley. The car was otherwise comfortable, passing was very easy and speed was meaningless number on a dial. The 10 speed however was annoying.
The car wanted to always be spinning as slow as possible. Which is fine but the result was the engine occasionally lugging and felt sluggish. The throttle response on regular mode was very hesitant when transitioning from cruising to âgetting on itâ with lag being as long as half a second at times. This manifested dangerously when in situation where traffic around me was being vague and I was on and off the throttle resulting in what felt like buffered inputs. The shifting happened comically often like I was in a fast and furious movie. Just constant shifting. Using the paddles could help but the gears were so numerous and so close together a down shift could be 3 or four clicks on the paddle, each with a random delay period. I tried to mitigate the sluggish response by using sport plus mode. It was muuch much better. Cruised at 2K rpm instead of 1.5 and responded in half the time to inputs. I only lost .5 MPG on the highway. Makes one wonder if the extra half an MPG was really worth the danger of a 460hp 3klbs lump of steel with a laggy throttle. The steering was a little vague but never mysterious. Even on the less boosted settings the steering was never above average.
Midway through the trip I decided to go do some bullshit to really push the car and while I got a few good launches in the transmission remained spooky and I never got comfortable enough with it to do anything but go straight. My dreams of doughnuts were never fulfilled. Getting the car to lay tire was nearly impossible even with traction control off despite its obviously very high horsepower. I have no idea what it would even do if it started to spin on me. I had no idea what I would do. The anxiety this caused ruined the potential fun. The worst part? All your setting reverted to default on vehicle start up. And while a startup sequence seems fun pressing all the buttons every time was boring by the 3rd time I had to do it.
I have previously driven a 700+ hp dodge challenger hellcat and have none of these complaints. Sure the extra big number is nice but it had the things this lacked. An understandable transmission, great throttle response and actual steering feel. Even with half again the horsepower I think the challenger is a safer car.
On high horsepower generally: I find I dont care THAT much about it in the real world on an actual street. In my experience stomping on the throttle of the mustang or hellcat just shrunk distances. It compressed space which while a neat trick was not a sustainably fun time. V8s that arenât race car engines never sound excited. They dont scream and strain. So there is no real pageantry to going flat out and if you do it for a couple seconds youâre already going as fast as you want to or are able to be going. it IS nice passing people on the highway and especially on 2 lane roads. Having an escape option under your foot feels nice from a safety perspective and gets you around cars that would have you going sower than you might like.
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first WRC Generations Impression:
playin on xbox 4, ânormal padâ, 1st Tutorial stage (FF Fiesta from lowest(?) class:
rear end swapping two times, spinning into a ditch and almost rolling:
Three out of Five stars already! 
Menu Electro-bgm is ace, make that 3.5 â
âs.
more to come when someone lets me get the keys ro the fun machines
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grabbed V-Rally 4 and Grip from this Fanatical bundle, where you can have either for a dollar and a bit, or find five to get them for âlessâ (I did the latter, but the rest of my picks so far arenât that great; see below) Build your own Nitro Bundle 3 | Fanatical
Grip is pretty cool, I feel some lineage to Jak X in it, hoping the campaign gets a little more interesting soon because while I like the driving so far the AI isnât really doing much. Doesnât seem like they bothered to write any story to string things together, though.
Crashday seems fun but it crashes after the first mission on Steam Deck.
Cluster Truck isnât a racing game. Itâs fun but given the concept it gets real hard real quick.
Race Condition is so far not really interesting enough to write about.
I need to free up some space for V-Rally lol
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oh man the new hybrid cars are SOOO fun to drive. group B is fucking back, baby!
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noticed today, when doing the tutorial a second time, that the Fiesta was a 4WD car⌠explains why enthusiastic handbrake-yanking made the read end paying a visit 
anyway, there were some keys on the table, and nobody in sight âŚ
well, they asked for it:
had a go in all three new Hybrid-era Vehicles firstâŚ
⌠and can report back that luckily for us, fun is not a straight line 
Also, since there was one more key waiting for a patient user, took a short Group B flight lesson:
Tres Bien, lovinâ it!
(n.b. for pad users/on Xbox:
if you use a pad for your wheelinâ, you may want to turn down the sensitivity for steering, i had to put it to -3.5 dor left/right for a sweet spot where I can catch the rear end, so sticking w/ that for now)
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Wow
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thatâs right
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Looking good.
And 0-60 in just over 6 and a half seconds? Not bad. Faster than a Mazdaspeed Miata.
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The rear end looks a bit drab compared to the MK4 pre-facelift, but it gets the 2.0L ICE and 13kwh battery pack, thatâs a clear âproâ point. Kinda doubt it will be sold here (see: for UK, it was already confirmed that it will not be sold there), but letâs see ⌠maybe i can grab a MK4 for small $$$
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I rented a Gen 4 Prius last week because it was the cheapest option they had and I was actually pretty impressed, had way more pickup than my 10y old Prius C
I am still a big hybrid booster, I donât feel like EVs will be more utilitarian or mass market than good hybrids for most of a decade still
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Yeah itâs weird how Toyota is being panned so hard for still pushing hybrids. They always seemed like the best transitional solution. And plug-in hybrids are a nice step up from that. Certainly you get the best of both worlds there. And it buys more time to upgrade the recharging infrastructure.
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I think itâs an understandable knock-on effect of how much EV journalism right now is necessarily evangelizing. They need massive infrastructure investments, massive subsidies, enormous public support to theoretically get people to really want to fight global warming by buying a $70k car because of who theyâre necessarily being marketed toward, that it can seem pretty ham-fisted if youâre reading it as a reasonably self-interested consumer or even a more open-minded enthusiast.
also, I think the money math is just way better for toyota than other companies at this point, since they still have a lot of the hybrid patents, and most people would rather see that market open up more, since most other companies wouldnât be confident introducing such a relatively low-margin product as the plug in prius these days
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fwiw, the uptake on MK5 prius on day 1 seems to be way more positive than MK4 prius was during its whole lifetime
brother reminded me that there was a guiguiuiuiugaro design concept in early 2000s that bears a fleeting resemblance with the MK5 ⌠basically nothing aside from the badge if you ask me, but I can see some ideas improved over the generations that may have started there, OK:
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