The General Games Discussion Thread.

Well it was very good during beta and pretty good at launch, then they made stupid changes and destroyed all the fun elements of the game. Then they eventually repaired it but by the time they did that pretty much half the player base had left.

I had heard the beta for that one was a disaster.

Just seen the new Dirt 4 trailer, looks very good indeed, hope its not as stupidly hard as Dirt Rally proved to be. By the looks of things they've gone back to their routes of the likes of dirt 2 which I thought was a thoroughly enjoyable game.

https://youtu.be/-wtIjcKwdr8

Dirt 2 & 3 were both the best for me. As for Dirt Rally I didn't find the actual rally stages that hard but the rallycross events were ridiculous at times, it felt like the AI cars were on rails. Also I hope they keep the hillclimb mode and add more tracks for it, would be amazing if they could somehow get the Goodwood hillclimb course in there!

Only done the first 2 races in career mode so far in F1 but the only slight problem i've found is that the AI cars can ram you as much as they want and don't even get a warning for it. Still, it does seem a decent game considering it only cost me £22.

Only done the first 2 races in career mode so far in F1 but the only slight problem i've found is that the AI cars can ram you as much as they want and don't even get a warning for it. Still, it does seem a decent game considering it only cost me £22.

Wait till you get online! They seem to settle down a little, but sometimes really don't have any space awareness. And god forbid you get them in the wet..

Or wait till you race in Russia, AI 100% of the time crashes on the right sweeping corner off the line

Oh yes! That and Italy. Me and a friend are doing an online career and our last race was a wet one in Italy.. the amount of restarts because of that first corner..

Oh I don't think I've had too many issues in Italy.

I do love the fact you can now do online career multiplayer, definitely a good aspect added, hope they keep it in the next one.

Yeah it's fun, but slightly broken.. We've had a rule to restart after any first lap / corner crashes, because no one wants to sit there and watch the other one race for 30 mins.. But the game auto save system or whatever it is slightly breaks it.. It will keep your tyre wear, so a place around Italy, even getting of the line and round the first few corners you've already added a good 5% tyre wear.. When you restart it keeps that tyre wear.. Had so many races where its fucked it so bad we've had to pit lap 1 for new tyres due to too many restarts.

Oh really, I can't say I've even noticed that but now you mention it, would explain a lot why some races seem like tyre wear has got to a ridiculous stage.

What percentage do you go with? I think me and my brother go full qualifying and then 25% race so you have to pit and you get the chance of the safety car etc still. We also have a silly 3 lap one if we've not got time etc

Or wait till you race in Russia, AI 100% of the time crashes on the right sweeping corner off the line

Dirt 4 arrived today, brilliant game so far. It's basically Dirt 3 & Dirt Rally combined with the option to create your own team from scratch. Anyone else getting it?

I did the Russian race this morning and the safety car came out after a 3 car smash on that bend

How you finding Dirt4 @bmg033?? Do they have the arena/compound like on Dirt 2? was always fun playing multiplayer around that area

I'm loving it so far, even managed to get to #1 on a few leaderboards . The only criticisms I'd have of it so far is that there could be more events in career mode and more locations to race at. There are only 5 different rally locations in total. Rallycross isn't stupidly hard like it was in Dirt Rally anymore, although that doesn't stop one of the AI cars from randomly breaking the world record lap time by about 2 seconds while finishing last overall. As for the arena/compound, there is a joyride mode with loads of challenges but I don't think you can do it in multiplayer.

Also i've done a bit of F1 2016 online and what the hell is up with ultimate difficulty? I get that its supposed to be the hardest in the game but how am I going to beat an AI car that is getting a lap time of 59 seconds at Brazil

Quali or race?

Blizzard Mountain is brilliant.

Did you buy the expansions via the xbox store @VP.? I've wanted blizzard mountain since it came out but wasn't paying the full price and didn't even know they had a hot wheels expansion pack.

Does anyone drive with a wheel? Ive got Thrustmaster Ferrari 458 Spider Racing Wheel however find it so hard to set it up correctly, always seem to oversteer massively.

Have only tried Hot Wheels and won't move on until completed, it looks great and some of the track idea's are quite amazing but it can get a bit samey driving around a orange/blue track continuously.

Once i've finished both expansions I'll definitely be getting DIRT 4.