I registered on the forum to get on the complaints bandwagon. I play on PS5.
I never pre-order games because I don't see the point in paying a high price and buying games full of bugs, but I was very excited to play a WRC made by Codemasters again. Besides, seeing the game at a fairer price in my third-world country was very attractive, so for the second time in my life I pre-ordered, and for the first and last time I pre-ordered an EA game.
Supposedly it couldn't go wrong, there were several months to prepare after getting the WRC license, they already had expertise and a great game with Dirt Rally 2.0. Lots of people commented on YouTube "just improve the handling on asphalt, add the cars and the licensed championship and that's it, we don't need anything else". But of course, EA being EA, the game has been out for a month and a half and is completely broken, leaving us nostalgic for DR 2.0.
On PS5 and the screen tearing is worse than in version 1.3, stuttering still happens a lot, the career is no fun with the AI slowing down out of nowhere. What a horrible and sad thing.
DR 2 = amazing with 16 km stages at best.
WRC = awful with 32 km stages. I couldn't care less for longer stages if the previous game only had half but it was much better.