Hey Rally Fans! We got a first look at actual gameplay going live in 2 hours at 15:00 UTC, where rally driver and game designer Jon Armstrong takes the wheel to tackle three of the game's locations. You can check it out there: -Vendcera

Hey folks, you can also check out what WRC World Champion Kalle Rovanperä thinks about the game! 😃

Great, so i've seen it, graphically it doesn't seem mindblowing and some details like the static droplets on the hood should be addressed (maybe they have imported all the assets from EGO?), we also haven't seen the terrain deformation aswell.Other than this i expect the stages to have more LIFE: there were NO DYNAMIC SPECTATORS, NO CRASHED CAR ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, NO RANDOM EVENTS in general which affects the immersion, but let's judge when we see the FINAL BUILD. Physics seemed fine and SOUNDS.. well the codriver voice was too high (with the intercom is likely this is the way it is in real life) but i believe they are still great!.

The game looks visually amazing, usually people who play simulators focus a bit more on the physics than on the graphics, having said that there are several things that I would like to comment on that they should improve and take into account. 1.- When driving on a wet or muddy surface, the car always tends to slide like butter and here you can see too much grip in these conditions. 2.- The asphalt, although it manages to look a bit more grippy than in Dirt 2.0, I think it is questionable how the rear of the car still looks like it has less grip and starts to skid even at low speeds, which should not happen all the time. 3.- Where is the weight transfer in the suspension of the cars? Has anyone seen a WRC warm up tires or brake to the max during the stage? You can always see this weight transfer by compression at the front when they brake and at the rear when they accelerate, in the gameplay it seems that it is completely solid and the car does not lean when braking. thanks for reading, hope this can help someone!

@maxwrc1 you can see an example of the weight transferhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/4MUTGDp02sg

@maxwrc1 your example is probably not the best max as the car in question has a gravel setup (softer suspension settings) on highly abrasive tarmac.About the muddy surface i don't think it was that muddy (only doubt i have is about Japan on winter conditions.. but even if i don't know his tyre choice i expected the car to slid or having rpm spikes once hitting those patches)I think overall we need more footage to draw better conclusions.About visuals which is easier to judge i can also say i didn't like the rain effects overall, aswell as the snow ones.Still i'm quite impressed overall, looks really nice!

EA SPORTS™ WRC First look at Gameplay

13 Replies

rallyefan
New Vanguard
2 years ago
Great, so i've seen it, graphically it doesn't seem mindblowing and some details like the static droplets on the hood should be addressed (maybe they have imported all the assets from EGO?), we also haven't seen the terrain deformation aswell.
Other than this i expect the stages to have more LIFE: there were NO DYNAMIC SPECTATORS, NO CRASHED CAR ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, NO RANDOM EVENTS in general which affects the immersion, but let's judge when we see the FINAL BUILD. Physics seemed fine and SOUNDS.. well the codriver voice was too high (with the intercom is likely this is the way it is in real life) but i believe they are still great!.
maxwrc1
2 years ago

The game looks visually amazing, usually people who play simulators focus a bit more on the physics than on the graphics, having said that there are several things that I would like to comment on that they should improve and take into account.

1.- When driving on a wet or muddy surface, the car always tends to slide like butter and here you can see too much grip in these conditions.

2.- The asphalt, although it manages to look a bit more grippy than in Dirt 2.0, I think it is questionable how the rear of the car still looks like it has less grip and starts to skid even at low speeds, which should not happen all the time.

3.- Where is the weight transfer in the suspension of the cars? Has anyone seen a WRC warm up tires or brake to the max during the stage? You can always see this weight transfer by compression at the front when they brake and at the rear when they accelerate, in the gameplay it seems that it is completely solid and the car does not lean when braking.

thanks for reading, hope this can help someone!
maxwrc1
2 years ago
@maxwrc1 you can see an example of the weight transfer

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4MUTGDp02sg
rallyefan
New Vanguard
2 years ago
@maxwrc1 your example is probably not the best max as the car in question has a gravel setup (softer suspension settings) on highly abrasive tarmac.
About the muddy surface i don't think it was that muddy (only doubt i have is about Japan on winter conditions.. but even if i don't know his tyre choice i expected the car to slid or having rpm spikes once hitting those patches)
I think overall we need more footage to draw better conclusions.
About visuals which is easier to judge i can also say i didn't like the rain effects overall, aswell as the snow ones.
Still i'm quite impressed overall, looks really nice!
poju123
2 years ago
its nice to see how beautiful game is but reality is its all about physics and what game feels to play like wheel and its everything in rally game its not matter how good are graphics and that is all what you see on videos.but because marketing go over players we dont get beta. iam happy if i get even 1 track and 1 car to try game but no media and creators get it next week and i allready purchased and paid full price on steam or what ever it cost with loyalty sale.but anyway thats marketing is acceptable but when it comes to media and creators who maybe like rally games and make 30 min video in 3 weeks early.they can play game as much they want. not fair to us who are real fan.we are actually those players who support game with money not these media who make as i said 30 min video and off course is so hyped.but because business is gone this point this means we normal players means nothing to big publishers even we pay and want support these games.and if it is just for money i can pay extra money that i can play early.
ScarDuck14
Legend
2 years ago
@poju123 Totally agree it’s the physics that matter. I’m from the F1 boards and yes game has big issues and everyone who bought it has genuine arguments for wanting the game to be much better. But I’m so get over people being enraged because Hamiltons gloves are a different shade. Or at turn 1 at such and such a track there’s a fence panel that doesn’t look like it’s fixed in a correct manner 🙄

But your point about content creators getting early access. Ok there was no beta for F1 22 so we only had the content creators word for it. Giving big shout outs to EA and Codemasters for the opportunity…. To not tell their own followers about the issues with the game. Wasn’t until 2 weeks after game launched and everyone was angry did they start posting videos about how angry they were also. Thinking we are stupid. Stopped following a couple of the big creators after that. But they are no different to every content creator that has a relationship with a Game developer. Getting in the likes of EAs good graces matters more to them than their followers.

But the reason Game Developers give the game to them is because there are thousands of sim racing creators that get very good view numbers. Add them all together and they get more views and reach more people who are interested in the game than traditional advertising could ever hope to reach.

Just have to take a what they say with a pitch of salt. They will be correct it they say EA hasn’t told them what to say. But EA will give them direction on they can and can’t talk about. And they all agree to the terms or they don’t get game.

As for no Beta. Maybe they are confident they have built a banging game with only few bugs😇. Not like F1 games that have been ported over for years and had its code butchered every year
maxwrc1
2 years ago
@rallyefanI'm speaking a bit more generally, but really when driving a real rally car on gravel or mud, it always feels very loose, much more than in dirt rally 2.0, a bit more like RBR, which is still a simulator from 2004 and many people still say it's the best. I think nobody here asks for it to be RBR, but it would be fair that having a professional driver, he should guide them and make these corrections. The king of asphalt is AC and really EA WRC on asphalt doesn't look close to reality, I admit that what we saw is gameplay and as you say, nobody has tested the game yet, maybe it feels better than it looks, let's hope it surprises us, but I really think nobody is saying that the physics look amazing, more like they look questionable. Dirt 2.0 is still a great simulator and to date I have more than 600 hours played, but I think all rally and simracing lovers deserve a good modern rally simulator.
GOA__Racing
2 years ago
Already booked and looking forward to it. It will be a great game for me!
Noriswrc97
New Novice
2 years ago
But this game is arcade or simulation?😳
EA_Vendcera
Community Manager
2 years ago
Hey folks,

you can also check out what WRC World Champion Kalle Rovanperä thinks about the game! 😃