Dirt Rally 2.0 Cross Platform Championship 9: Group B RWD Madness

Last night I did the 9 stages back to back.
After spending a couple of stages trying to remember how to drive a rally car, I spent the rest of the rally to hold off a gaining Jonny, and secure a second place behind Koastr, until I had a full-on Austin Powers moment on stage 9...

Well done to Koastr and Jonny! Looks like MSR may slip past me onto the podium this rally too...

Oooh, behave!

You got me, rushed the last 4 stages, son broke my wheel last week, borrowed one off a mate to finish tonight, rwd sux
KoAStR very impressed with those times, do you do any full size motor sports?

Maybe I'll need to give drifting a go one day, something I've never really tried properly. I know that @Mike--ekiM is also a keen drifter which shows in the DR2 leaderboards also. Just gotta link these videos you made Mike from GTS as they are freaking awesome!

Looks like a hoot!

Anyone prepared to share tuning tips for Greece? I've put a bit of practice in today playing with some settings, but interested to hear everyone's thoughts on lock vs open differentials.

Oh and it's a nightmare with rocks and lack of crash barriers

Just put on softs and go for me. Steering rotation at 540 degrees. I don't know much about this tuning wizardry sorry.

Pretty sure I can't change my wheel rotation. I'm on an old tr500 thrustmaster

Don't leave it too long to get into it, once you get over 40 you lose 1sec /km/yr age
I have been rallying for over 17 yrs, i started with rwd s12 silvia for 1-2 yrs, then awd subaru, i wish i was as fast as i was lol

sparklehead83 i found for me next to no lockup at all, on power or brakes, but full preload gives better drive out of corners and keeps it straighter on decel, my driving style maybe not fastest, but i like the rotation of the car done on entry.
search MSRengineering on youtube.

Mode button and 3 clicks to the right should cycle through 270, 360 & 540 degrees on most Thrustmaster wheels I thought

You can adjust steering degrees of rotation in game, very useful.
I use a T300RS. I leave the wheel base at its default rotation of 1080 degrees.
Then in game I go to Options & Extras > Input > Thrustmaster T300RS > Advanced Settings > then turn Steering Saturation down to 50% (50% of 1080 degrees is 540 degrees). You can adjust to whatever percentage suits you:

You then need to turn Soft Lock to 'Off'. Soft Lock is supposed to automatically adjust the degrees of rotation to match the car, but I find it's often wrong (I'm on Playstation, not sure about PC or Xbox) so I turn it off and use the Saturation setting to adjust degrees of rotation manually:

Now you can set your wheel to whatever degrees of rotation you like, it will apply to every car, and the force feedback should act as a bump stop at the ends of your chosen rotation

Nice one, I'll try that this afternoon

Greece was going well for about 3 minutes until I clipped a rock and got a puncture on stage 1. Beware the deceptive crests, rocky edges and undulations! I had a server error in between stages, but it just fixed my car (server didn't receive damage data) and kept the stage time! After narrowly avoiding a couple of cliff sends, championship complete. It's always a journey with Dirt Rally