DiRT Rally - Flying Finland Update

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It’s time for version 0.8 and we are returning to our rally roots with the mighty Flying Finland pack. We’ve added 12 new stages from Finland, the world’s fastest rally and two iconic cars driven by our local heroes from one of the greatest battles in rally championship history.

Add to this a new game mode and loads of fixes and features and this pack is almost as big as those Finnish jumps and crests.

Oh, and did we mention mouse support for the menus? You did want that right...?

So here is what’s new:

• 12 new rally stages near Jämsä, Finland
  
• All new 2000s vehicle class
  
• 2 new cars - Subaru Impreza 2001 and Ford Focus RS Rally 2001
  
• Custom Championships – You can now tweak the number of events, stages and AI difficulty. This will mean that you can set up an event that suits the amount of time you have available and get rewarded accordingly.
  
• Mouse Support! – Yep you asked for it so here it is. It’s still a work in progress so please give us your feedback on how we can improve it.
  
• We’ve reworked the handling on our 60s, 70s, 80s RWD and 2010s classes – these changes have seen improvements to the way we model suspension and tyres, along with engine and aero rework they really make the cars feel a lot more dynamic to drive.
  
• We’ve updated the engine audio for the 1995 Subaru Impreza in the Group A class. We’d like to say a massive thank you to Ryan Champion for letting us use his awesome car for the recording!
  
• We’ve wrapped our replays so you can rewind from the start of a replay to watch the final section of your run much faster than you could before.
  
• We’ve added a new ‘Invite Friends’ option in the lobby to make it easier for you to get the people you want into your PVP races.

Here’s what we’ve fixed:

• The audio FX levels for the surfaces and kick up have been brought back so that you can hear all that gravely goodness.
  
• We sent our Rallycross AI drivers to the opticians so that they can now see when they need to avoid other cars when they are approaching the joker entrance.
  
• Now that they can see better they are also setting faster laps.
  
• We’ve fixed the camera clipping in certain camera angles when you changed the Field of View.
  
• We’ve made some Hyper threading fixes that should now prevent those annoying stuttering issues that some of you were having.
  
• We’ve stopped the Engineer contract lengths and costs from being affected when competing in league events.
  
• Toggling Push to Talk or enabling/disabling voice communications through the pause menu is now actually working.
  
• The Reset Timer has now been increased to 15 seconds when attempting to get back on track. I know we said that before but this time it is actually in.
  
• Cars will no longer roll over on the start in PVP races, ROFL.
  
• We’ve made sure that the cars are visible on the start line even when collisions are turned off in PVP – they will still ghost during the race though.
  
• Your PVP opponents won’t be showboating and driving around with the handbrake on anymore.
  
• The gear setup will no longer be changing between stages without a service area.
  
• We’ve fixed those odd camera angles that were being used in spectate mode.
  
• The miles driven using owned vehicles in PVP now accrue towards unlocking upgrades for that vehicle.
  
• When viewing a replay using an interior camera, the speedometers now show the correct speed for all vehicles.
  
• We’ve fixed a whole host of other stuff too but they were too boring to call out in this list.

Be sure to let us know how we’re doing, or just stop the forums by to say hello.

Stay mid over BIG jump!

The DiRT Team
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[RED]

amazing job guys , thank you for this update :]

[Doylee]

Let's go! Cheers CM!

[Mike]

Just started Steam... Blue line showed an active download. I was curious and started hoping it was DiRT Rally update and yes it is... Meet me in virtual Finland :)
Especially looking forward to those new cars. They bring a lot of memories back. CMR3 was my first rally and racing game !

Thank you guys and 0.2 over finish ;)

[Cruisix]

Downloading as we speak. time to get the wheel out of the cabinet again. Thanks!

[Mukatahren]

Originally posted by Dnote:

• We’ve fixed a whole host of other stuff too but they were too boring to call out in this list.

Is there a list somewhere of the boring stuff for the DiRT-O-Philes to read?

[Tiago Gouveia]

Great Work

[Meszes]

Just amazing! I'm speechless.

Really appreciate the effort you guys over at CM put into this game and update. On a side note I'd also like to read a full release notes, if possible. Big-big THANK YOU!

[Cyroch]

Originally posted by Mukatahren:

Originally posted by Dnote:

• We’ve fixed a whole host of other stuff too but they were too boring to call out in this list.

Is there a list somewhere of the boring stuff for the DiRT-O-Philes to read?

I would be interested in that too

[Ekskom]

Mouse support in menus, woohoo. Some great additions and imrovements here thanks so much Codies.

[mig64]

!!!

[bobradar]

Originally posted by DKCCyroch:

Originally posted by Mukatahren:

Is there a list somewhere of the boring stuff for the DiRT-O-Philes to read?

I would be interested in that too

same here

[flagg]

I hope that the behavior of the cars now is more realistic and that they can do things with the car that now can not be made.

[Hattori Hanzo]

Great support!

[flagg]

No new pacenotes? No new copilot sing?
We must continue with the current crap notes?

[Pelerin]

Woohoo! :D Thanks Codies, so excited for this.