Recent reviews by Patches O'Houlihan

TLDR: Broken mess.

I thought people were exaggerating, I see the discount at 30 EUR, so I'll see for myself. When I turn it on, EA greets me, telling me to log in, copy the code from my email, ... for God's sake why don't they just take the steam id and leave me alone, it's almost 2024 and I feel like logging to Games for Winfows again in 2007. Great, the game recognized that I have a wheel, all set after the calibration.

Then I'm greeted with the information to not play career because it's broken after the last update, which I guess no one in
codemasters tested. Great. 2 months after release and I can't even play the whole game.
I check the steering wheel settings, handbrake, shifter (despite originally setting "realistic veteran or whatever it was called" mode on the intro screen it's still set to automatic transmission with some weird assists for brake force before cornering and line assists, wtf trust me a little EA).

So, if I can't play the career I will play a quick event I guess... I'm welcomed with a track in worse graphics than 2015's Dirt Rally, but I see 70 fps, so hopefully it won't be as bad as others say. I take of and the powerpoint presentation starts. I have never seen a times between frames so inconsistent in game as with this one. In a moment I'm hitting the dirt wall because of the jerkiness of the image. Even at 70 FPS it feels like 20 FPS at times. I go into the settings, everything is on high or medium, 1440p. I turn everything down to as low as I can. Game looks terrible, FPS hasn't moved much, still 70 FPS, with G-sync there should be absolutely no problem with smoothness. Wrong, it feels like the image is jerking and sometimes in a few seconds the image freezes massively for about 0.3s. It's unplayable. Refund, half an hour was enough of thic bad tech demo, I refuse to pay to be an alfatester of the future WRC 2025 game.

Vote with your wallet, don't buy this scam. It should have got an early access label but that's an insult to a lot of great early access games. Stay with Dirt Rally 2.0 which runs and looks better or RBR with community mods where physics and gameplay is still the best and some community tracks are even with 20 year old game more photorealistic and believable. Also, EA WRC has no VR support and if it will it will probably make you puke with the unstable frames.

It's hard to belive that the same studio that was behind Dirt Rally made this junk. I guess it was probably not ready but EA does not care. I guess it will be a yearly release with minimal upgrades for fuill price as with other EA sport titles.

Why the hell is Steam just downloading some retarded launcher that uses 50% of the GPU and plays stupid music. Why the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at Asobo needed to reinvent the wheel and create their own genius launcher that doesn't support background downloads/updates is just beyond belief. The download speed is ridiculous too. Is it limited to 16 Mbits for downloads or something like that. Terrible.

I tried it when it launched on via Pass on MS Store and after the download pain I enjoyed it. I bought it at sale on Steam two years later believing it is utilising the Steam and there is not that issue that you want to play, start the game and the game shows you only progress of update. Naive idea to think that on Steam the game will be downloaded via Steam, right?

So here we have some custom Asobo launcher with terrible music intensively using the GPU just to show you some screenshots probably at 3000 FPS or something, which downloads game data from some speed crippled CDN not allowing it to do it as a background task. Really great way to distribute a +100 GB game. Just put the game data on the Steam servers, get rid of that funny launcher you made and with it the little smartass manager you got at Asobo that though this is good idea.

What a funny way to ruin a great game. Microsoft Download Simulator. Prepare for download hell and mind that your connection speed does not matter much. It does not matter that you have 100Mbits or something like that, Asobo makes sure that you are downloading like it is 2004 again.

Testuje to do prdele vůbec někdo? Expansive Worlds čím dál častěji vypouští rozbité sračky a každým updatem rozbijí i něco, co do té doby fungovalo. Bohužel i když tuhle debilní prťavou mapu bez možnosti cestování nějakým člunem (kde půlka mapy je voda), ve který nám vývojáři vnucují svůj libtardí pohled na ten "primitivní jih", nekoupíte, stejně vám update který tohle dlc obsahuje rozbil i původní hru. Jestli jste lovili třeba husy, tak teď už ne, rozbili je. Kachny jsou rozbitý už tak dva roky, takže nečekám, že je někdy opraví.