![]() I’ve looked at online guides and messed around with various force feedback (FFB) settings, but I can’t get it to feel good. I can drive a few fast laps by driving from memory, but I can’t feel the track, and I end up spinning. So I loaded up Assetto Corsa and here’s the shocking thing I found: I can’t drive it for shit. The whole setup is pretty similar to what I used a couple years ago, and I was feeling a little nostalgic to give the old rig a whirl. It’s not as good as the PerfectPedal, having much less range of motion and precision, but it’s better than a spring on a potentiometer. This week, I hooked up my old DFGT to a set of G25 pedals with an AP Electrix load cell brake pedal. I was immediately a little faster with the TS-PC Racer.I went back and re-read my review at the time and here were the 3 important take-aways: They never broke, and I was really happy with them.įor some reason, which I don’t recall exactly, I decided to plunk down $500 for a Thrustmaster TS-PC Racer. I spent a lot of time using Logitech products. Much of my DiRT Rally time was with the DFGT. I went from G25 to G27 to DFGT steering wheels, each one being a slight upgrade (believe it or not, the DFGT is on par with the G27 and has some nicer buttons). I quickly upgraded the brake pedal to a PerfectPedal hydraulic unit, and I maintain that at $300, it was worth every penny (they now cost $250). When I first started sim racing, I went through several iterations of Logitech gear including Momo, G25, G27, and DFGT. Assetto Corsa and Logitech don’t play well together.I had a lot of competing titles for this post. Like Project CARS, the original was better than the sequel. During sales, you can pick up the OG DiRT Rally for as little as $5.99. It’ less fun, doesn’t have hill climb, locks you into online play, and has various monetary schemes that will see you paying for extra content. Unfortunately, DiRT Rally 2.0 is not better than the original. I’m currently making my way through the rally cross career mode and having a pretty good time. Rally cross is much improved in DR2 also. Not all of that is because of Argentina and Spain. While I preferred stage rally to rally cross in the original, it’s the opposite in DR2. There’s a lot of contact allowed though, so it easily becomes a demolition derby. Next, I switched to rally cross, and the career mode there is good fun. In DR2, these are also great, but despite graphic differences (possibly improvements), they aren’t any better than the original. ![]() My favorites in the original were Greece and Germany. And the next level it would probably be 8. Even with the softest suspension I was jumping all over. It’s so freaking bumpy that I just hated it. Then I hit Argentina and couldn’t progress further. The first season went just fine and I was having a great time. I thought I would do the same thing in DR2. I did the entire career and won every championship, even to the top level. I don’t normally play career mode in simulators but I did in DiRT Rally. I don’t know why different locations should have such different physics, but they do. Somehow they are not the same as Germany, which feels more like the original. Also, the asphalt physics in Spain are better. It now has one of the best interfaces for controller input. And to my surprise and delight, it is much improved. The next time I purchased DiRT Rally 2.0, I got it during a sale, and paid half the price. It felt like I was driving a 1980s arcade game. But the reason I asked for a refund was the asphalt physics in Spain. I couldn’t get my controllers mapped properly because the interface didn’t show controller values. Would it be the much anticipated sequel to DiRT Rally or another disappointment like DiRT 4? It was terrible. When DiRT Rally 2.0 was announced I was both excited and nervous. Not only have I uninstalled it, I completely removed it from my account so I never have to see that POS again. Great idea but it didn’t actually create much variation as there were too few building blocks. It had this cool procedurally generated track technology that allows it to randomly generate stages. When Codemasters announced their next title, DiRT 4, I was pretty excited. I absolutely love driving on dirt, be it virtual or real. I haven’t competing in rallies yet, but I still think about it. I became so excited about rally that I went as far as building my Yaris to rally rules. I fell in love with it instantly and it remains one of my favorite driving games. DiRT Rally is a brutally hardcore game that doesn’t even have a tutorial on how to drive on dirt. I didn’t know much about rallying beyond the spectacular crashes. When DiRT Rally was a beta release on Steam, I picked it up out of curiosity.
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