Not Enough Tracks

[The Truth]

So I bought this on sale a couple weeks ago for $10 USD and it's not a bad game and all (using my G27). But it seems to lack enough tracks. I am running through the championships with each car it's just not enough.

Is there only x6 tracks and a hill climb event in the whole game? The simulation aspect and driving aspect of the game is great but where are the tracks? Glad I didn't pay full price is all i'm saying.

[mr. z]

No, 6 individual rallies but more stages on each as you progress, 12 per rally on Masters level. You'll be glad to finish them all on the first place on Masters under 200 hours and get all cars upgraded.

[Bob]

Like the poster above said , come back in 200 hours and tell us this was not the best 10 bucks you ever spent on a Rally game , I bought the game in Early Access , worth every penny TBH, hands down the best Rally game in recent years .. next to RBR .. But DR wins in VR, the game is on a different level.

[The Truth]

Yeah i'm just use to road racing games such as Project Cars 1 and 2 where there is many tracks to choose from and not just the same "rallies" with the same tracks most times sometimes in reverse repeated over and over again. Oh well

[invision2212]

there are 6 stages with each stage broken down into sections. i can see why you think its just 6 tracks but if you played the track in its entirety it take 15-20min so they break them down into 2-3 sections.

going reverse may seem like you got ripped off a track but its completely different how to drive on some and you cant go fast one direction but can blaze going the other.

theres also 1 hill climb event also broken into 3 sections, and 3 RX race tracks.

i wish there were a few more too but what they did give us was pretty high quality

[zefrancou]

If you compare Dirt rally with WRC 7
DR: 6 countries , 12 stages in career championship to complete a rally, repair of cars every two stages. Reverse tracks are indeed completely different. It is even difficult sometimes to identify that it is a reversed one:)). 72 runs to complete a career championship.
+ 3 circuits for RX, and Pikes Peak.
46 cars with each having a specific behaviour on the road.

WRC 7: 13 countries , 5 to 6 stages to complete a rally in 3 sessions (repair between the session). And often you may do in the 3rd session the same track as in the 1st session.
between 65 and 78 runs to complete a career championship.
16 cars in Junior, WR2C and WRC. IMHO, cars in each category have very similar behaviour, compared to the diversity of behaviours in Dirt rally.

Conclusion: DR is offering much more flexibility, variety than WRC 7.
I don't t compare with arcade game. I don't have one on my PC.

[BluesyMoo]

The rally stages are rather long compared to the average racing circuits, which are around 2 minutes a lap. Pikes Peak alone takes as much time as Nordeshleife.

Not that I don't want more stages. I'm just saying the amount of work that went into each rally stage is already quite significant.

[Mukatahren]

The reason there are not more tracks is due to the fact that they are real world locations and modelled accordingly. This why the stages are so high quality, but it means that adding new locations is costly. In DiRT4 Codemasters tried to address this by making dynamically-generated tracks, which by most lpayer's account fails miserably to give the feeling of realism and immersion that DiRT Rally's stages do.

The devs stated at one time that they would have liked to add New Zealand and a few other iconic locations. Many of us hoped DiRT 4 would be a progessive step towards the ultimate rally game, but it was not to be. Keep your fingers crossed for a DiRT Rally 2 and hope they abandon the idea of making it for the broader arcade and casual racer market.

[laff]

Originally posted by Mukatahren:

The reason there are not more tracks is due to the fact that they are real world locations and modelled accordingly. This why the stages are so high quality, but it means that adding new locations is costly.

Had they not wasted so much time recreating a few patches of dirt for the role players, you'd probably have a lot more unique tracks and better car physics. What a shame.