dirt rally DiRT Rally trailer

[The Compensator]

 

That was kinda unexpected! It's available now on Steam - Early Access version that is.

 

Welcome to DiRT Rally - a new world of DiRT. A pure expression of rally, the pinnacle of off-road motor racing and it begins now, in Early Access, with regular free updates including new locations, new game modes and new vehicles.

 

DiRT Rally captures the essence of what makes rally unique – that sense of trying to remain in control of your emotions, as you hurtle along dangerous, undulating roads at breakneck speed, aiming to squeeze everything out of your car whilst knowing that one crash could irreparably harm your stage time. It’s the ultimate test of a driver’s skill, and it’s the ultimate in high risk, high reward gameplay.

 

Every stage will test you differently, as you feel out grip across varying surfaces and adapt your style to a range of different weather types. As the car suffers attrition you’ll need to account for mechanical damage whilst your dedicated rally team tries to keep you competitive with time-limited repairs between stages. As stages string together, each rally becomes a marathon-like test of concentration and skill, as you trust in your co-driver and your own ability to react and adapt, in order to stay competitive and chase that ever-elusive perfect run.

 

• DiRT RALLY AND THE COMMUNITY: The community is DiRT Rally’s co-driver and their feedback will help shape the evolution of the experience. For players joining DiRT Rally in Early Access and the road ahead, the team want their feedback. They’ll be helping to test theories and providing vital data that will help to refine DiRT Rally.

• EXPERIENCE 3 MASSIVE NEW REAL-WORLD RALLY LOCATIONS: From the start of Early Access, DiRT Rally offers three massive environments and 36 challenging stages, with more to follow. Drive them during the day - in dry, overcast, sunny, misty, wet, rainy and snowy conditions - and then take them on at night for a very different, intense experience that will challenge the elite.

 

• Powys, Wales - Muddy, wet gravel stages and forest runs often in the rain during the day and at night.

• Monte Carlo, Monaco – Tight, twisting, dangerous roads covered with snow and ice that wind through the Alps. Snow and mist affect visibility during the day and at night.

• Argolis, Greece – Sweeping dusty gravel stages that take their toll on even the strongest rally cars in the intense heat of the Mediterranean in the bright daylight or at night.

 

• 14 CARS OVER 6 NEW AND CLASSIC CLASSES TO DRIVE NOW: Rally is about having the right car and DiRT Rally will have all of the right cars. At the start of Early Access, DiRT Rally delivers 14 cars and will be adding more cars over more classes in the future.

• NEW DRIVING MODEL: The physical simulation for DIRT Rally has been completely rebuilt to adequately capture how it feels to race across changing surfaces, and loose surfaces collect under the wheels during lateral sliding, creating a completely new feel to sliding around corners.

• RALLY CHAMPIONSHIPS, RALLY ASYNC & CUSTOM RALLY EVENTS: Take on a single stage and learn the calls in Custom Rally events, compete against increasingly skilled opposition in Rally Seasons or prove yourself against the entire community of players in Rally Async challenges.

• TEAM MANAGEMENT: Hire up to four engineering staff to work on your vehicle between stages. Drill down and hire them based on their contract length, wage demands, and on the insight they can offer over upgrades to the vehicles you own. Keep renewing an engineer’s contract and you’ll be able to give them perks that will help upgrade specific vehicles faster.

• UPGRADES: As you drive a vehicle in events your engineers will become more familiar with it and will research upgrades that will unlock the full potential of the car. DiRT Rally’s comprehensive upgrade system makes meaningful improvements to the car’s handling and performance to stay competitive

• TUNING: Delivering the most comprehensive tuning system ever in a DiRT game, DiRT Rally enables players to tune their cars based on weather conditions, car condition and more to ensure they can refine their setup and get the car feeling right for their driving style.

• DAMAGE & REPAIRS: Off-road racing is tough and unforgiving; competing causes vehicles to suffer wear and tear as replicated by DiRT Rally’s comprehensive mechanical damage system. Thankfully, damage can be repaired by hiring eEngineers to work in the team’s Service Area between stages. Much as in the Colin McRae Rally games, there’s a finite amount of time to repair cars between rally stages.

• PHYSICS-BASED ASSISTS: Being fast is about skill, not raw speed. Whilst DiRT Rally allows players to experience cars in their purest form it also offers a selection of real world assists, similar to those seen in race and road vehicles. Traction Control works to minimise wheel spin, ABS increases your braking ability by preventing the wheels from locking up and Stability Control keeps your car from over rotating in the corners.

[Driver:TDU]

So, they decided to retrieve their game into a Real Rally Game? Interesting step and good, honestly say. Good rally game always will be good for me :) Looking forward the final result...

[rebelinho]

This looks way more awsome than I could ever expect. Seems like a return to the good ol'days, a remastered Colin McRae Remastered.

[Loz]

Just been playing it for the past hour or so. This is what people have been wanting from a rally game for a while now. It's just pure rally with no fluff. Gone is stuff like Gymkhana and dude-bro and in comes a more realistic experience.

 

For an early access title there is quite a bit in it. 3 Countries with 12 stages each, all (most?) of which are longer than any of the past Dirt games. The stages are more like real stages too, narrow, bumpy and tricky. Wales is your traditional British rally stages with lots of wet gravel, forests and fields. Greece is a quick but bumpy heavily dusty challenge. Monte Carlo is Monte Carlo in the most Monte Carlo way.

 

The cars feel a lot more weighty than other Dirt games. Sounds are the usual Codies greatness (I love Codemasters engine sounds). Rewind has been dropped too.

 

Can't wait to see what the game goes. I wouldn't mind seeing Rallycross return, it was the next best thing in old Dirt games.

[Milli]

Sounds like a "must buy" game then. I loved DiRT3, seems like this will be way better. :D

[rebelinho]

And there go my grades...

[Loz]

Sounds like a "must buy" game then. I loved DiRT3, seems like this will be way better. :D

 

I recommend it.

 

It's no RBR, but it's also not Dirt 3 etc. It's kind of in the middle.

[RobikV3]

Proper rally game finally i dont want to drive a different car every two stage proper championship or GTFO

[hassan1995]

Yeeees! I've wanted a proper rally game since Colin mcrae 05 I loved dirt 3 but it was missing something..... But why pc only! :cry: :cry:

[RobikV3]

Because glorious PC master race! thats why

[superhyper]

I think they said they'd consider console versions after they get the early access phase out of the way :nods: I will surely be buying this once I get my paycheck :D

[calster17]

Good Codies ditched all the non rally stuff. Dirt 1 was good as everything was rally based with hill climb, Raid & Special Stage's...then it became all "Kenny B and Friends at the X-games"...good they ditched it!

 

Should be a fun choise with this, Sebastien Loeb Rally & WRC5 coming out this year!

[Ryzza5]

Sounds like I'll be giving this a go on the weekend. Good on them.

 

 

 

Upcoming content:

 

Pikes Peak Pack

Scheduled date May 2015 - Pikes Peak returns to DiRT. Rebuilt from the ground up and now featuring the modern full tarmac route alongside the mixed surface variant. We’ll also be including a full Hillclimb season mode and putting some Hillclimb Online events into the rotation. Obviously you’re going to need some wheels and you’ll find a collection of hillclimb cars added too.

 

Tarmac Terrors

Scheduled date June 2015 - This month we’re heading to Germany to tackle some of the most technical and challenging tarmac stages in the world.

 

Classic Icons

Scheduled date June 2015 - This collection of classic rally cars are the cream of the crop, true rallying legends from days gone by and some of the finest machines you’ll ever have the privilege of driving.

 

Rallycross Pack

Scheduled date July 2015 - Rallycross comes to DiRT Rally with two brand new circuits, a pack of rallycross super cars, a brand new single player career and of course fresh Online Events.

 

PVP Pack

Scheduled date August 2015 - Competitive multiplayer comes to DiRT Rally for the first time.

 

Rallycross Expansion

Scheduled date August 2015 - Launching alongside the PVP Pack we’re also adding new cars and a new Rallycross circuit to the DiRT Rally roster.

 

Flying Finland

Scheduled date September 2015 - We head to Finland for some of the fastest sections of road in rally with two legendary cars from two legendary drivers to go with it.

 

Modern Masters

Scheduled date October 2015 - A whole new class of car for you to master in career containing some firm fan favourites.

 

Winter Wonderland

Scheduled date November 2015

[Loz]

Upcoming content:

 

Rallycross Pack

Scheduled date July 2015 - Rallycross comes to DiRT Rally with two brand new circuits, a pack of rallycross super cars, a brand new single player career and of course fresh Online Events.

 

Rallycross Expansion

Scheduled date August 2015 - Launching alongside the PVP Pack we’re also adding new cars and a new Rallycross circuit to the DiRT Rally roster.

 

Flying Finland

Scheduled date September 2015 - We head to Finland for some of the fastest sections of road in rally with two legendary cars from two legendary drivers to go with it.

 

ALL OF THE YES!!!

[mau92]

I thought this was going to have some WRC content. Might think about this.

[Paladin Skylark]

Impressed.

[Ozzmcom]

I just hope it's actual rallying not just 3 minute sprints and then a lot of milk in classic Dirt fassion.

 

EDIT: Nope nevermind I've just checked, short sprints only.

[nfsMIB]

Looks like they have listened to the players.

They made some great games in the past. I'm sure this will be great!

[Paladin Skylark]

Downloading now. Seems far too impressive to pass up.

[Eudemon]

Been reading tons of good about this, if you can get it do so. This is going to be a title that just keeps on getting better and better from looks of it. :)

[Ryzza5]

Yep, just waiting for some spare time, and wheel fixes. Some say nothing has changed from DiRT3 as far as wheel settings go, and DiRT3 is unplayable for me (which is odd given that DiRT 2 is good).

[Camel]

How did I miss this!? Man, I loved the old Codies rally games and never really understood why they stopped making them.

 

I was only tempted to buy this now... But then I saw a screenshot with a Mini in it and well, you know.

[T3hReaper91]

Bought it and have played it for a bit and it definitely takes a learning curve compared to other Dirt Games! Will be interesting to see where this is by the end of the year but can see it only getting better!!

[superhyper]

I bought it and have played it for a couple of nights and I'm definitely with reaper here, it's really hard and unforgiving but nailing a stage feels much more rewarding. In that aspect it's closer to RBR than DiRT imo. FFB could do with some improving but they still have time to improve that.

[Camel]

Just had a go on it and it is fun but my god it's hard and frustrating.

 

No matter what I do I can't slow down and turn around corners. ABS on full and the car just goes straight, even when not braking. Just crashed into a tree because I couldn't go around a corner at 10mph. :shrug: