r/simrally

So, I would like to tell you about my terrible decision in hopes of amusing you all.

Im new to the game and honestly, rally is by far the most enjoyable form of racing I have experienced so far, but I realized something during my gameplay. Controller feels very inadequate for rally. Some of you may see where this is going.

Anyway, I left the game on the shelf for a while and now with the release of forza I yet again noticed that rally is indeed very fun. Fast forward a bit of gameplay and redownloading dirt rally 2.0 and...Im buying a moza r3 bundle.

It arrived today, I fiddled around setting it up and I launched the game. It is very fun!! The feedback is a very new addition to my gameplay experience(foreshadowing) and im going around free practice getting used to things, trying to decide if I should adjust the pedals, etc.

So, now is the time, let's get on a rally. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Go. Let's get up to speed, left 4, crash. No biggie. Continue. Next turn, crash. Couple crashes later, let's just restart.

This goes on for a while and about 2 hours in I feel like Im mentally drained. Well, no wonder, yours truly doesnt have a driver's license and has never driven a car before, which means my first experience of driving a car is pretty much in a forest, covered in snow, going way faster than anyone's supposed to their first drive.

Anyway, if you read to the end, I hope you enjoyed my idiocy, rally may be a bit of a strong start, but that means i gotta get stronger. I still enjoy it even tho finishing an event is a borderline miracle. If y'all got any easy track recommendations I would love to hear them.

TL:DR: buying a moza bundle and playing dirt rally 2.0 with absolutely no driving experience is difficult. 10/10, would recommend.

I just learned about it, I never heard about it before. It would be awesome if we could have it in one of the simulators, though I'm not sure where it would fit best. How do you think?

Took over 6 months off from even sitting in my sim rig. No really into telling internet strangers my life's story, but we'll just say life got busy. Had nothing else going on on day so I dusted off all the cobwebs and fired it up. Had to update all the games and recalibrate everything. Many games had lost setting, but I was determent I was gonna do some rally racing!

I did a few runs on AC Rally (which I bought on launch but never had a chance to play) for the first time and boy that game is tough. Felt good to finally survive a run lol. I then hopped on DR2.

The video here is after I had been playing for about an hour and just seemed like everything came back to me. Almost didn't do the run because it was such a fast car and I'm feeling super rusty. Glad that I did tho.

Sometimes life gets messy, but remember to take time and enjoy your hobbies.

Got my first top 100 in Dirt Rally 2.0, it's on a niche vehicle class/stage with a slower fwd but its a start and its so fun

https://reddit.com/link/1tg8z11/video/pgqpzdjn0t1h1/player

I can't seem to get FWD cars to rotate a full 180º with a handbrake pull (or scandinavian flick) in DR2.0, the car just turns something like 100º and then bounce back a bit. It works fine in AC but it seems like there is something not quite right with the physics of DR2.0, or am I missing something? I'm very inexperienced with FWD cars, I usually just play RWD.

I'm relatively new to simrally, and have been trying to get gold medals in each of the courses in ACR to learn and practice. One very basic thing I am struggling in particular is tightening slow corners and tightening hairpins (or hairpins in general). I can't see the corner apex or exit at all, and I can't visualize a line. My setup is a 43 inch TV already quite close to my face but every tine I hear something like "one left tightens" I would be driving by guessing. How do people with single screen setup deal with this issue?

Also my 3060ti gives me horrible performance in VR so that's a no-go.

I found a pretty good deal on fb marketplace for a Logitech G920. I know it’s hated by a lot of people but i’m on a controller right now lol. I’m getting the wheel, pedals, and a shifter for around $100. The seller has sent pictures and it’s all in good condition. Is it worth for the upgrade from controller?

I got Sébastien Loeb Rally Evo last year in between buying WRC Generations and Dirt Rally 2.0, and even though it's objectively more flawed (and took a lot of troubleshooting to run properly) I keep coming back to it because there's just something inherently fun about it. Like it's a simcade that knows it's a game instead of trying to be a serious, grounded simulation if that makes sense?

Anyway, excuse the poor YouTube compression, but I thought this Monte Carlo stage was especially pretty, challenging, and fun, so I recorded my (poor) gameplay as an excuse to talk more about this underrated gem. Who else enjoys SLRE?