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Career mode AI difficulty drops off mid event
I'm playing Career on the long event setting, which I'm loving. It took a while to find an AI difficulty that works, but now I have it's great. Unfortunately, there are 1-2 stages each event where I suddenly win by 2+ minutes, making the overall event difficulty minimal. I think this may be due to how the AI handle tyre wear or something? It's ruining the fun of career mode when a close battle suddenly becomes a dominant win.
Road textures from cockpit view way too bright
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC Platform:Steam-PC Summarize your bug Auto exposure for cocpkit view is not set right. Road textures are way too brightt, so bright that is difficult to drive in some occasions. How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Drive Mexico, Croatia in Time Trial mode in cockpit view. What happens when the bug occurs? Road textures too bright. What do you expect to see? Fix Auto exposure setting. Road textures from cockpit view way too bright.
Game crashes when clicking "Continue Career"
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC Platform:Steam-PC Summarize your bug Game crashing when clicking "continue career" in 1.4.0 How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? launch career started before the new patch What happens when the bug occurs? game crashes and shows the unreal crash window What do you expect to see? the career? the game completely crashes when clicking "continue career", nothing else to say
Hybrid implementation (Regen and boost) is incorrect and bugged in several ways
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC Platform:Steam-PC Summarize your bug [Edit - EA_Barry] a bug that even WRC10 did not have. How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? l;kk;l What happens when the bug occurs? ;l;l What do you expect to see? ll [Edit - EA_Barry] a bug that even WRC10 did not have.
Screen Tearing PS5 Patch 1.4
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC Platform:PlayStation 5 Summarize your bug Screen tearing across the board still after 1.4 on almost all stages. Start of a course often without and then steady rise of screen tearing. Also starts tearing in menu when move camera and also during stage select screen which wasn't present like that on 1.3 yet. How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Start courses like oceana, drive a bit and notice screen tear rise. Before and after races during next stage, move camera when car is shown. Screen starts tearing there. During create own championship and select more stages, screen starts to tear when go left and right during location selection screen. Usually happens when select more than 1 stage. What happens when the bug occurs? Screen tears apart most in upper screen What do you expect to see? Expected no screen tear after patch 1.4. Now after played much with new patch, expecting screen tear a few km into the stage and expect it happen during every stage. Fix would be nice to see. 
Stuttering frequently on highest and lowest settings.
Will a shader compilation process be implemented soon? It's the one thing that may have an immediate impact, at least with the shader cache stutters common for most DX12 games that do not have a pre-compilation. Wild to force DX12 and not ship with that sort of thing these days. Oof. Was really hoping this would be a Lies of P situation where they did the work and the DX12+UE4 combo runs silky smooth, but even when doing a solid 60fps most of the time in WRC, still getting hit with these random harsh frame time spikes which can easily ruin a run:
Information Regarding Career Mode Crashes & AI Performance
Hello players, Following the v1.4.0 update to EA SPORTS™ WRC, an unforeseen issue with Career Mode has occurred that is affecting a number of players. Please see below for further information and what we are doing to resolve it for you all. What happened: The v1.4.0 update was released. This update added Central European Rally to the game. Central European Rally was also added to Career Mode, both as part of the WRC class, and across several other Championships and Events in Career. The addition of Central European Rally caused a mismatch in the game code with a specific set of Benefactor objectives. Affected players will experience a 100% crash rate if their Career Mode save features these specific objectives. How are players affected: Career Mode contains hundreds of combinations of Benefactor objectives, specifying which Events and Championships the player must compete in as progression targets. These Benefactor objectives are randomly assigned to players at the start of each Career Mode Season. Players who have specific combinations of these Benefactor objectives will experience a game crash if they attempt to continue their Career. Players who have not started Career, or start a new Career are not affected in Career Mode Season 1. Some players may be able to load a Career Mode save without any issue, though this cannot be predicted in advance. Players who are currently in Career Mode Season 2 and beyond in WRC2 and Junior WRC are at risk of a crash if they attempt to continue their career. Players who are currently in Career Mode Season 2 and beyond in WRC are also at risk, and players in Season 3 and beyond are at a higher risk. If a player has experienced this crash, there is a chance that their Career Mode progress has been lost with no ability to recover. How players can mitigate the issue: If a player has an active Career Mode save, we are advising all players to avoid playing in Career until an update is released. With the hotfix we are aiming to restore existing Career Mode Saves for those that do not start a new Career. If a player wishes to start a new Career, they can do so without being affected by this issue, however their previous save will be permanently lost. How we are fixing the issue: This issue is the #1 priority for our team as regards fixes and updates. However, as this is a complicated and delicate issue that affects save games, we do not wish to rush a quick fix, and inadvertently cause further issues down the line. With this hotfix we are also aiming to recover lost Career Mode saves for those that do not start a new Career. The aim is to have a hotfix ready as soon as possible. What else will be in the hotfix: The primary goal of the hotfix will be to resolve the issues causing Career Mode to crash for players. In addition, we believe we have found a fix for the commonly-reported “inconsistent AI performance when resuming an Event” issue. We plan to implement this AI change into the hotfix as well, thank you for your recent reports which have helped us to potentially diagnose the root cause. Finally, we plan to implement a fix to the track limits issue reported on Rally Chile stages, which arose after the v1.4.0 update was released. When will a hotfix be released: Due to the complexity of the Career Mode issue, the action required to resolve it, and the time required for testing and certification, we aim to be in a position to issue a hotfix on all platforms in mid January.Late co-driver calls
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC Platform:PC Summarize your bug The co-driver pacenotes are incredibly late in the game. Even though I'm using the "Earliest" setting, I always end up missing hairpins and squares. I'm not a particularly fast driver, but in some of the faster cars pacenotes are absolutely useless. How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play any stage with a co-driver, especially in Rally1 cars What happens when the bug occurs? Calls are incredibly late, making it impossible to react to any corners. What do you expect to see? Calls being made earlier. I'm a pretty slow driver, but the calls are still too late on "Earliest", making the game nearly unplayable at higher speeds.Career - each event has the exact same stages each year
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC Platform:PlayStation 5 Digital Edition Summarize your bug Career mode rally events use the exact same stages in the same order and the exact same conditions each year. No variation or randomness to keep things interesting How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play a career mode rally event in multiple seasons What happens when the bug occurs? The event uses the exact same stages in the same order and the exact same conditions What do you expect to see? Some variation / randomisation in stages used and weather conditions etc. Update 2.1.0 the game crashes to desktop at launch at the EA Logo intro
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC Platform:PC Summarize your bug Update 2.1.0 the game crashes to desktop at launch at the EA Logo intro. How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Update the game from v1.9.0, then launch it from EA app. What happens when the bug occurs? Crash to desktop. What do you expect to see? Finish the EA Logo intro and reach the main menu. Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview Version 10.0.27718 Nvidia GameReady Driver v565.90 CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7700x 8-Core Processor RAM - 32GB AMD Expo - 5600mhz Secure Boot - ActiveAssists automatically activating despite being disabled in settings.
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC Platform:PC Summarize your bug So on the day of release for the early access of the game, I set myself up and played for the day on my proper racing rig, using a Moza R9 wheelbase and a set of Heusinkveld Sprint pedals to play the game. After a bit of fixing of the inputs XML file to get the FFB to work, everything worked flawlessly. I had a great day playing. For context, during this time I had all the assists turned off as I am a reasonably experienced rally game player, and simracer, and it worked perfectly fine. For today, I fired the game up from my work desk, as like usual I don't have the time to set up my rig properly to play the same way as previously. This time I attempted to play the game using my XBox One Controller, which I simply plugged in and left the controller settings as default. Now, despite still being all turned off in the menu, the game seems to be activating all of the driver assists, most notably the automatic throttle lift, meaning despite me holding down the throttle to try and go fast the game is preventing me from doing it a lot to try and help me keep control. It makes the game borderline unplayable, costing me around a minute of time per stage completed. I've heard through a friend that at least one other person has encountered this bug as well, but have no idea what is causing it and how to reproduce it. How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I don't know what specifically is causing it, but I've tried to detail the process I've had with setting up the game up until now, and would be willing to answer any further questions to help try and reproduce the bug so it can be fixed. What happens when the bug occurs? The driver assists are being activated and working, despite being turned off in the settings because I do not want them. What do you expect to see? The driver assists be turned off when I've turned them off. I put "the bug occurs 100% of the time", since at the moment I can't get it to not happen, but it wasn't happening before when I played on the early access release date... Apologies if some information might be in the wrong field. Thank you for the work you've all put into this game, I do really enjoy it when it's working properly.Poor performance and low GPU usage.
I have a i7-8086k, an RTX 4070, 32GB and the game installed on an NVMe Samsung 970. The GPU is not used at 100%, it always runs around 45~65% usage and there is not bottlenecking cuz the CPU Usage is around the 25~30%. There is not bottle neck. There is a lot of stuttering and osten FPS drops below 60FPS due to low GPU usage. I have not issues with other games, only with EA Sports WRC. I have tried all settings and always happens the same. Really bad optimization. Please fix the optimization. Best regards.Service repairing penalty doesn't count in clubs mode
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC Platform:PC Summarize your bug If you get penalty in service park when repairing your car, then this penalty won't count in the end. No penalty will be added to your track times. How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Just break your car, go over limit in service park repairs and drive through next stage after service. What happens when the bug occurs? Penalty does not count in the event. What do you expect to see? Penalty should be added to total time after the service park. If you get penalty in service park when repairing your car, then this penalty won't count in the end. No penalty will be added to your track times.
