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EA SPORTS™ WRC - Patch 1.4.0 Discussion Thread

Hey drivers, The newest patch will be available from December 14 across all platforms. You can find out what's in this patch in this thread HERE. Need some help? Something in the patch not work...
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ScarDuck14's avatar
ScarDuck14
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2 years ago

@Toy4584Sorry you misunderstood what I meant and to be fair I didn’t explain it well.

Timing sucks for us not EA. Because all game developers want to release games before Christmas to obviously capitalise on people buying Christmas presents. But as I said all major industries shut down for an extended period over Christmas. So if a major issue is found in the game theres little to no chance it will be fixed before Christmas.

Just because I accepted to be a “Champion” when EA approached me doesn’t make me go from a long suffering gamer sick off broken unfinished games and micro transactions to a EA simp. I’ve over 5000 posts most are helping players with minor issues and a lot are nonsense but there are also chunk off me going on about gaming industries immoral practices.

Only reason I did accept EA offer. Was instead off posting my frustrations on these message boards and knowing there’s a high chance they were ignored. I now get to post my and the gaming community’s frustrations on EA slack where I know any legit criticisms I have get  listened to.

Toy4584's avatar
Toy4584
2 years ago

@ScarDuck14Sry, my bad... Well, yeah, if you look at it that way, yes, the timing is wrong for us.

Didn't mean to be rude in any way. Just very frustrating.

First of all... I got every single "official" rally game since "World Rally Championship" - PS2 2001. And most not so "offical" games - Dirt, Dirt Rally, RBR, Sebastien Loeb Rally, Colin McRae rallys... "WRC Generations" was first WRC I missed - just becouse I heared, that Codemasters got licence and will release new WRC games, I was sooooooooo hopeful - Dirt Rally was absolutely amazing! I was sure, that then Dirt Rally was made without official support from FIA and WRC Promotor and it was almost "perfect", then it's worth for waiting new WRC game. I even planned to invest in new wheel - Fanatec ClubSport DD+. Not only for WRC, but also for GT7, but still - proper WRC game with Fanatec direct drive wheel - what can go wrong?

And now... Instead upgrading my rig I think of finishing with simracing forever... ☹️ Sooo disappointed. ☹️

I think I'll keep an eye for updates, but there's no hope anymore. Deleted game from PS5 today.
And as I said before - I don't believe that the next version will be much better - if half the time that should be spent on developing a new game is actually spent on fixing the bugs of the old game, then there is nothing good to hope for in the new version either.

Sorry guys, but simracing (and rally in particular has been my all-time favorite, although I also drive circuit and formula simulators) is not fun anymore...

I have given up. ☹️

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    2 years ago
    @Toy4584 Dude it’s all good. I get the frustrations and as and I’m ever present and always post obscene amounts. Players need to vent but ideally need to vent at an actual human EA representative to get their point across and also get a response specific to them and not the same old generic responses. Which isnt the fault of the CMs but I dare say it’s a directive from the legal department. So on seeing my little EA champion badge gets people’s attention then seeing “volunteer” often think I’m a EA simp and I get it. How could any real gamer suck up to EA. So not a week goes by that someone vents or throws abuse my way. Genuinely the reason I’m always here other than illness keeps me pretty much housebound. Is because I’m sick off how most games are released and how the Only games feature that always works perfectly is games store. (Although credit to Codemasters on just adding the £5 season pass and not going overboard. ). So F1 is my game off choice and as I put up to a 1000 hours a year in the games I know them inside out so on those game especially I try and like helping other players. Which is why despite many critical posts about the game and EA. They decided I was “champion” material. And as they say best way to make change is from the inside. I’m far from the inside but I got my toe in the door and I do shout loudly.

    But like you with rally I’m the same with F1 and where you’ve given up and deleted WRC. I suffered and endured 350 hours on F1 23 most of the time trying to find workarounds for its endless issues. But in past years the games problems were just due to bugs. This year the games problem is it’s really really bad game

    But as a EA simp I was gifted WRC and it’s my first ever rally game and I’ve was absolutely loving it and been a decade since I enjoyed a game so much. But I’ve got a ps5 and patch 1.40 dropped😔

    As a rule and I’ve stated many times if I buy a new game it’s at least 3 months old. On sale and often half price and most of the biggest issues have been fixed. Winner winner chicken dinner. If we gamers did that on mass. We wouldn’t have game’s released in the state they currently are.

    I don’t blame the dev team. Or any CMs here. I know them and i know they do care. But corporate greed and those at the top will only start giving dev teams the time and resources they need when new release sales fail to hit their margins.
  • Toy4584's avatar
    Toy4584
    2 years ago

    Completely understand You...

    Problem is in today's gaming industry.

    Glad I didn't buy F1 2023 then - F1 is next fav after rally for me and I have almost every F1 game since 2010. Hoped that F1 2023 will be with PSVR2 support - and if that was clear that there will not be PSVR2 support, I decided to miss 2023 version. 

    I know that devs at CM work hard and they want best. But... For me enough is enough... I'm going to pull the plug and stop doing racing simulators altogether. I guess EA WRC was the last straw in the cup of patience. 

    Not fun anymore. Sad. Really sad.

    ☹️

  • Sokittoya76A's avatar
    Sokittoya76A
    Rising Adventurer
    2 years ago
    @ScarDuck14 Its a really good rally game once everything is dialed in though the lazy driver/ hdw support and optimisation is just unacceptable.Who the hell is in charge of QC? Where are the responsibilities to the players who pay full price for an uncompleted product?
  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    2 years ago
    @Sokittoya76A I miss the days when buying a physical copy of a game came with a manuals up to 500 pages long.

    It’s far easier and cheaper to let the YouTube sweats figure beat settings and setups then post ‘Best settings’ videos. Problem with that is there’s alot of click bait YouTubers that just want be famous on the internet. However there are also a lot of genuine enthusiasts want to help players. Then if you can find them. Maybe you’ll stumble upon the few A-liens channels that do know what they are talking about. But even still as all settings and setups are personal thing. I find it best to lean towards the channels that share similar idea to my own on the game.

    I stumbled upon this guy and found him helpful. https://m.youtube.com/@skyrex2465
  • Quietpartner's avatar
    Quietpartner
    2 years ago
    @Sokittoya76A wrote:
    @ScarDuck14Its a really good rally game once everything is dialed in though the lazy driver/ hdw support and optimisation is just unacceptable.Who the hell is in charge of QC? Where are the responsibilities to the players who pay full price for an uncompleted product?

    I think the fired most of their QC. 

  • yr2hpq275e6h's avatar
    yr2hpq275e6h
    2 years ago

    Now with the holidays out of the way until march I have a feeling we get a little update on the matter

  • philipp1906's avatar
    philipp1906
    2 years ago

    I'll still need some performance fixes and a slight pretty-up for the game. The cars look great, but the environment could be more cohesive in brightness and the motion blur was better in pretty much every Ego engine entry of the series save for the original DiRT. Proper rotational blur for the wheels and a pleasing blur effect on passing scenery, going all the way back to Race Driver GRID, and its missing in EA SPORTS WRC.

    Im on a 10400f with 32 gigs of ram and a RX7800XT and if I lock FPS to 60, my lows will be in the mid 30s to mid 40s on ultra settings. Nothing is fully utilized unless I went 4k, where i get the same FPS. Please optimize and improve the shadows and reflections

  • yr2hpq275e6h's avatar
    yr2hpq275e6h
    2 years ago

    Well we getting close to mid January so it’s time for a update on the matter about the career mode bug (I got this game for Christmas)

  • ojciecmajster's avatar
    ojciecmajster
    2 years ago

    Codies, before a release the patch, check please whats going on with Quickplay solo mode. I lost twice my save profil (message - save file is corrupted) and I'm afraid to play this mode. I dont know what is the reason for wpied of all data. First time i restarted the ride, after 3 weeks i changed setting in option, then save file was corrupted. In other game mode I didn't have this issue.

    I described this problem here, but no feedback 

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/corrupted-save-file-another-one/m-p/13269097#M1263

  • Xav_EA's avatar
    Xav_EA
    2 years ago

    Agreed.

    I bought the game on launch (pre-launch?) and played in my Career a little every day - up until the patch broke it (on PS5). Now I only pop in every few days to run some Clubs then go play other things.

    I was half way through my second season and don't feel like starting over. I had to put a lot of effort into "manually" going week-by-week through the calendar to decide which events I could run and plan my activities out on paper since the in-game/UI doesn't really allow for that. Something I really really want them to address. But until they do that - I just want to be able to continue my career.

    Thanks

  • GottaEvil-WRC's avatar
    GottaEvil-WRC
    2 years ago

    Waiting for the patch 😞

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    2 years ago

    Don’t mind having to wait abit longer provided they are rigorously testing every which way so the patch doesn’t make things worse.  Just about every   F1 23 patch this year made things worse.   F1 community have come  to dread game updates 🙄🤷🏻‍♂️

  • P4st3l1ak's avatar
    P4st3l1ak
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    @ScarDuck14
    I agree, I don't want to have another similar issue when I resume playing the game. Proper pre-release testing is a must.
  • ojciecmajster's avatar
    ojciecmajster
    2 years ago

    agree, but is so difficult for a developer to write a few words about progress and cut through the speculations? Hotfix is already called cold fix on forums.

  • P4st3l1ak's avatar
    P4st3l1ak
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    @ojciecmajster
    I guess not. But I would rather expect regular updates from EA guys who get updates from developers. Why to bother developers when they for sure share progress updates with EA personnel internally. So EA should pass it on us.
  • Toy4584's avatar
    Toy4584
    2 years ago

    Boys and girls. Do yourself a favor - delete the game. I did so and much calmer.

    Well, nothing will come of it until the new, 2024 version is out. Although, to be honest - there is nothing to expect from there either - if the development team is busy correcting the bugs of the old version half a year after the release of the game, then it is simply not possible to engage in the development of the new version.

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