Co driver SUCKS BIG TIME

[Marcille Donato]

Phil Mills ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks, what a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ downgrade from the previous co driver of Dirt Rally. Calls are often too late and they're usually not accurate and it especially shows when you're driving a faster class. New England is one of the worst, he rarely warns us for the rocks outside and 4-5 turn feels more like 2-3 turn. The faster you drive the more prone you're having mistakes since this guy is getting worse with his calls along with the higher speed. There's no sense of trust to him in the slightest bit and it makes me hesitate to drive fast. In Dirt Rally 1, the co driver was much much more better, his calls are accurate, his timing was perfect, and he always gave us a detailed condition of every turn. I can drive so fast because I ACTUALLY trust him to guide me along on the track.

Driving on this game feels fantastic, but the co driver totalled kills the fun. Absolute garbage. I don't get how CM approved this kind of ♥♥♥♥ in their game.

[RidianBean]

Leave Phil alone he's doing his best.
But seriously yeah the calls suck often called too late that you inevitably crash or are called too tight when you could've taken it flat out, you just learn to take his calls with a pinch of salt and learn the stages with time.

[Xenial Jesse]

None of that has anything to do with Phil so lay off the personal hating.

The bit Phil is responsible for - his voice acting - is excellent.

[MISTER WU]

I put my calls a tad earlier because i drive fast, yes its bad out the box but you need to keep turning the calls a little earlier the faster you get in this game.
There are not many that can beat my times man online!

[CRL1]

Originally posted by MISTER WU:

I put my calls a tad earlier because i drive fast, yes its bad out the box but you need to keep turning the calls a little earlier the faster you get in this game.

Even with calls set to earliest, there is still an issue of some slow corners being called too late for a given context.

[Marcille Donato]

Okay I'm sorry, I may went over the line there but I personally think my points up ahead are justified. How come the pacenotes are so horrible? It's not like he's just an ordinary voice actor, he's a certified professional rally driver himself and yet I can't trust his calls at all. Everything felt so different with Paul Coleman (co driver for DR 1) where I actually feel safe no matter how fast I drive. Before you think that maybe it's all because I'm not good enough, I finished Dirt Rally 1 all the way up to the hardest difficulty on career mode so I'm quite confident with my skill. And never just once I had a problem with Paul's calls during my journey on DR1.

[CRL1]

Originally posted by Wayne:

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I's not the co-driver who comes up with notes, his job is to write them down and read them. And its not that calls themselve are completely wrong or voice acting is bad.
If there's anyone to blame, its Codies, who should've playtest everything more thoroughly, resolving any potential timing issues.

[jakerock]

Honestly, I thought that it was there on purpose for realities sake.