DiRT Rally – Codemasters Partners With FIA World Rallycross Championship

DiRT Rally – Codemasters Partners With FIA World Rallycross Title

Codemasters announced a long-term collaboration with the FIA World Rallycross Championship for DiRT Rally. The showtime stage of this partnership will see the RX Supercars, tracks and racing modes implemented into Dirt Rally equally part of Codies delivery to evangelize regular content updates during Early Access.

Owners of the game will soon be able to drive a selection of these monstrous cars for themselves across three different game modes and experience the sheer speed, action, dynamism and performance that makes World RX one of the fastest growing motorsports in the world. As with all previous updates, this new content will be available gratis of charge to existing and included for new owners of the game.

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The tracks that accept currently been built and included in the game are Holjes (Sweden) and Lydden Hill (Swell United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland). The Hell circuit in Norway volition be added in the near future.

Clay Rally's Chief Game Designer, Paul Coleman, explained:

"From the outset we wanted Dirt Rally™ to be the ultimate off-road racer and to fulfill that vision we knew we had to include Globe RX. Since the launch in Early on Access back in Apr we have connected to add together new, diverse content to the game and World RX will add another dimension that volition claiming even the most experienced players."

Team Volkswagen Sweden'due south Johan Kristoffersson, who is currently 2nd in the overall Globe RX drivers' standings, stated:

"Codemasters accept done a brilliant job – the details is very realistic and not far from real life,"

"As drivers we are ever wanting to change the smallest things with our cars, but this version is very good. There are just a couple of tweaks that need to be made and and so I call back it volition be merely like driving the real affair. It's by far the all-time rallycross game I have played."

Martin Anayi, Globe RX Managing Director for IMG, concluded:

"It was great to accept the Codemasters squad with united states in Holjes over the weekend, which allowed us to showcase our new articulation game venture to over 40,000 fans. Codemasters has worked uncommonly hard to get this projection off the ground and it'southward been encouraging to hear such positive feedback from our drivers later they had exam-driven the game. We are very excited about our new collaboration with Codemasters and look forward to working with the team more closely to assistance develop the game further."

Codemasters have recently released the first major update for DiRT Rally. The update brings several fixes and improvements to the Steam Early Access racer and at no extra price adds the Pikes Peak Pack.

Codemasters note that Pikes Meridian is congenital "from the basis upward in its total fat modern tarmac state (the first time in a video game) and the mixed surface variant we all grew up loving."

You can view the Changelog below:

New – Added over 4,300 metres of rock otherwise known as Pikes Peak
New – Or old depending how you expect at it, yeah that'due south right we've besides added the mixed surface version of Pikes Acme besides
New – Each road on Pikes Summit is available with a diverseness of weather conditions (Sunny\Rain\Overcast\Clear)
New – Hillclimb car class featuring the Peugeot 405 T16 Pikes Peak, the Peugeot 205 T16 Pikes Height and the Audi Sport Quattro S1 Pikes Summit.
New – Hillclimb career mode and full support for Online Events and Leagues
New – Added a few tutorial messages and hints and tips to some menus and loading screens
New – Sent all our AI drivers back to rally school, turns out they were struggling to keep upwardly with you lot guys and so expect a fleck more of a challenge from now on
New – Your changes in position are now shown on the issue and championship standings
New – Added a message to let you lot know when you've been promoted or relegated in Championship mode
New – thirteen new achievements for all you unlock and rub in your friends faces.
New – Added the ability to map clutch and gears for the following steering wheels: Logitech Driving Force EX, Logitech Driving Force GT, Logitech Driving Force Pro, Logitech MOMO Racing Wheel, Thrustmaster F430 Force Feedback Racing Cycle, Thrustmaster Ferrari GT Experience Racing Cycle, Thrustmaster RGT FF Pro, Microsoft Wireless Xbox 360 Racing Bicycle
New – Added analogue handbrake support
Change – Engineer slots at present unlock based on distance driven rather than spending your hard earned credits
Change – When using a wheel the ragdoll milk shake effect is at present turned off
Change – Had our mechanics make some improvements to the drivetrain on all of the cars
Change – Custom Events at present utilise the full fat versions of the cars rather than the poor mans versions
Change – Improved our Steam error reporting, this won't really change anything for you right at present but information technology volition help us in the future in particular with getting to the bottom of fault 41 problems
Change – Fabricated it clearer when y'all tin't beget a car
Change – Improved the messages which tell you what the different game modes are
Change – Custom events now tell you if a stage is a "Long" or "Sprint" (curt) version
Change – Changed certain title headers in the leagues reward screens to brand it clearer where you lot finished
Change – The weekly event is now half dozen stages instead of four
Fix – If you're using a H-Pattern with clutch setup, the game no longer shifts to neutral when contact with your kit is lost.
Fix – Turns out that sometimes the AI would overshoot the start line, nosotros've had a word with them about it
Fix – Hand braking when using manual clutch now no longer locks all four wheels on the Ford Fiesta
Fix – Position indicators will now stop showing the wrong information
Prepare – Fixed a weird thing that would sometimes let you take more than one go at an online issue (bet you're gutted you didn't notice that one)
Fix – Always been defenseless in an space loop of disconnects and reconnects at the end of an online event? Yeah, we stock-still that.
Car update – The Fiat 131 Abarth at present has historically accurate rear lights
Car update – The Fiat 131 Abarth now features the Rallysport Evolution livery
Car update – The Ford Escort Mk 2 now features the Phil Collins' livery
Car update – The Lancia Fulvia HF now features the Lancia livery.
Car update – The Peugeot 205 T16 Evo 2 now features the Peugeot Sport livery