The DiscoBear is in! Go get Dirty!
Thanks!
Still have about 60gb to download lol
Err⌠fuck scotland
This might not stop you driving shit, but it will at least the car a tad more accurate on turn in.
https://wrcsetups.com/dirt-rally-2-0/setups/aldyr-subaru-impreza-1995-group-a-scotland
Iâve done a 180, this location is starting to grow on me. If they filled all the ditches in scotland with sea water, they could save venice before it becomes atlantis 2.0
Thats your first mistake in Dirt RallyâŚ
Your jokes are giving me PTSD
I binâd it, with punctures, and retired.
Probably for the best. Scottish Tourism are upset that youâve said such mean things about their lovely country.
Dabbled in a few of the stages earlier, literally took a Sunday drive. Scotland is rough, but I also find it quite pretty with all the lighting and reflections, seeing that itâs always raining.
Working headlights are recommended during night stages.
Yeâve got a face lit a melted welly
It seems that the Colin McRae Memorial Challenge Rally is proving to be an actual challenge! Seven drivers have started the rally so far, but only 2 have managed to successfully complete all 12 stages. So far, the Scottish sludge has knocked out both the champion and the P2 driver from our last championship.
Who else will succumb to the soggy Scottish sirens? Are you bravehearted enough to even try it? And will you manage to hold on to your car and reach the end in one piece?
You have until Midday on Friday to try!
Iâll be posting details of our next full championship, which starts this coming weekend, a little later today - stay tuned for that.
Oh damn, I need to make time for this. Broken headset and all.
Iâm about 1/3 of the way through⌠Lost my headlights right near the start of the night stage. Lost about 40 minutes on repairs so far iircâŚ
But you know what they say about ScotlandâŚ
New year, new rally championship season. I give youâŚ
The Global 12X12 Rally Championship
12 rally events - each one to run for two weeks at a time.
12 different locations - all the good ones, no Argentina
12 car classes - a different one each time.
12 stages on each rally - auto selected by the game.
Begining this weekend at midnight on Sunday morning, each event will run for two weeks through until midnight on the Saturday evening. The game has randomly selected the 12 stages for each rally as well as the time of day and weather conditions, and the surface conditions. I havenât adjusted any of these in any way at all.
The only settings I did manually apply were the event order and the car classes for each. And for these I simply put them in in the order that they are listed in the Season builder. I skipped Argentina and I skipped the R5 class that we used in the last season.
Also applied automatically is the Service stop every third stage. Not my favourite option, and I was tempted to change it, but I think Iâd prefer to see more drivers finish more stages on as many rallies as they can, so Iâve left them in. (We can perhaps look at doing a Hardcore mode event or two with few or no stops in-between this championship and the next.)
Round #1 is the Rally Monte Carlo, and weâll be using the Modern Rally Group A cars. You get to choose from any one of: Ford Escort RS Cosworth; Lancia Delta HF Integrale; SUBARU Impreza 1995; Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI; or SUBARU Impreza RS. Choose wisely though - youâll need to run it for 12 very tricky stages in the Monaco mountains.
12X12 Round 1: Rally Monte Carlo
Letâs get dirty again!
cc: @Boogey @aldyr @Munage @SlinX @Deadlypinecone @DarthMol @Massa @the9avenger9 @Dragonic @WarRack101 @czc @Entity @z1oc @oltman @DieGrootHammer @murfle and anyone else whoâd like to join.
New folks⌠any platform works, as does controller driving, and even keyboard driving at a push, and you can join in at any time youâd like, even if you miss some of the events. Simply request to Join the MEW Dirt Rally 2 Club here. You may also need to sign up for a Codemasters account if you donât have one or if you donât have a Racenet account. Then let let me know in this topic that youâve applied.
Also a final reminder that the current Colin McRae - Scotland challenge ends this Friday at noon if you still want to get that one done.
I will give it a go
I know im not a great driver in this game
Ah boo, you took out Argentina, home of coked up soccer players
Some info and tips, for those that want to improve and/or survive this rally or have struggled with it in the past.
Monte Carlo, as with all Dirt Rally 2.0 locations, is essentially one long stage, subdivided into snippets of the original. What may help is knowing that this location is divided into 3 types of stages.
- Tarmac, at the bottom of the mountain
- Snow, at the top of the mountain
- Ice, in the middle of the climb or descent
The tarmac sections are the fastest, and have the most grip, but are also the narrowest parts of the road. They also have plenty of unforgiving stone walls, that can at best, batter your car to within an inch of itâs life, and at worst, spin you around leaving you with very little room to turn around in. Tarmac can be done in winter or normal tires, with soft tires obviously being the fastest. However, only choose normal tires (soft/medium/hard), if you know you wonât need to drive in snow with them.
The snow sections are the slowest, and have the least grip, but are also the widest parts of the road. Live your drift king dream here. Donât be afraid to handbrake. These sections are best with winter tires only.
The ice stages, are in between the tarmac and snow stages. Phil tends to say something like Ice from here on, and the surface of the road will be patchy. They have the nightmare characteristic of having the most inconsistent grip of the stages. Theyâve literally put black ice in the game. When itâs patchy snow on the tarmac, expect grip on the tarmac, and dullness on the snow. When itâs patchy ice on the tarmac, expect absolutely no grip on the ice. The road will look dirty? Youâll need to figure out which colour is actually the ice, and avoid accelerating or braking harshly when on the ice. What this amounts to is, one second, you have grip into a corner, the next second, itâs gone, and youâre a passenger, on a flight to meet your maker. And to make matters worse, these are the only stages, that have gaps in the both the stone walls, as well as wooden barriers, meaning you can terminal damage very easily, and in slow motion.
Suggested tactics:
You have Attack(drive flat out), Defend(drive solidly, never over committing) and Survive(drive slower, assuming youâll need to react to unforeseen surfaces or calls or corners).
If you havenât figured it out already, Iâd recommend you Survive the dangerous sections, ie. ice. I tend to lean towards Attack for sections, that Iâm comfortable with, and Defend in sections where I feel Iâm less so. Slide as little as possible during the tarmac and ice stages, but please do slide in the snow. This is a conservative strategy, to help you finish the whole rally event not one stage alone, with a better average time.
Good luck yâall
Too bad I suck at driving games lately. Iâm probably the only one here who has extensive experience driving in snow and on ice.