Codies/EA Thank you for WRC!

@EA_ShepardJust my take. When I’m playing the game I feel a lot of love went into it by the team. Maybe getting to grips with using a new engine in unreal took longer than expected and/or the budget/resources didn’t stretch to adding all the little things that add to the immersion. If that’s the case.. They did the right thing and concentrated on the important stuff first. I’d be massively disappointed if the game had all the immersion but none of the gameplay I feel like a god mechanics

I’ve had worse finishes. Sweden in the snow. Slightly got it wrong Coming out of last corner just couldn’t gather her up in time and hit the finishing line gate and didn’t cross the line. Cost me ten seconds and stage win 😂. But it’s funny some game you get enraged through stuff at tv and quit blaming everyone but your self. But. Because the handling physics are just awesome and (it’s not a hardcore sim people) come with a little extra fun and personality. You can’t be angry with the cars or how they handle. Cause most of the time when I’m not crashing and I’m dancing on the brakes/throttle and nailing the perfect Scandi flicks.. huge huge smiles. Can’t blame it on the stage design being hard. It’s Rally not circuit racing. I think they are perfect foil. Awesome handling fun time cars that make you a true believer. You are the almighty. But well can’t stack it all in our favour. Oh no. That wouldn’t be cricket. So Codies stage design team wanted each stage design capable of making people cry looks babies. When we get it wrong but punch the air and scream when we get it right.

Never once have raged quite this game. Where F1 a game I put on average 600 hours each new game. I’ve broken many many thing in my lounge because it’s always one thing works great but another doesn’t. WRC feels like every department spoke to eachother throughout development. F1 feels like day be release. Each department adds what they are responsible for to the game not knowing if it works with the other parts. Which upsets me I’ve been a codemasters Fan OAP for 30ish years. And When they get it right it’s a big banging banger off a game. Plus being British developer and me being a chest thumping proud Brit. It cuts deep when they  fall short.

Anyway genuinely thankyou for taking the time to reply. For reasons you know I’ve lost that loving feeling 😔

While at it also explore not making this game unplayable (for Linux players and for those who at time of purchase did not agree to installing such intrusive software, otherwise it will still be playable) by implementing a useless and unnecessary kernel level anticheat instead of working on things players have been asking for.