Last night I started this game and had a 4-hour long session of driving. Excuse my enthusiasm, but I can’t hold it in. This game brings me exactly what I was needing. You know the long ‘car delivery’ missions from original Test Drive Unlimited? This feels like it—go the distance and don’t total your car. The roads feel like something I would go through with my bicycle. Right now I have a tooth problem and can’t ride, and this game makes me smile like I was out there. Fighting with corners, surviving long strides through dark forest without the light (it happens if you brake it in-game). The very dumb bass kicker setup I put in my chair does incredible realistic feeling on bumpy roads. -85% for the full edition on Steam till the 31st, just saying.
I turned it into a couch co-op game by turning off the assistant driver voice and slightly changing the speed of the prompts. Me and a pal took shots each of being in the driver’s seat and the other calling out the turns, and it was fun as hell. My pal can’t play it now without me telling him to ‘f***ing gun it!’
Lol I don’t even have the game, but this kinda makes me wanna get it.
It’s definitely more fun with a friendly voice guiding you—feels like a proper team effort when you cross the finish line. The only drawback is it becomes the preferred way to play. You kind of forget to look at the prompts because that’s the co-driver’s job.
Wait, what do you mean by ‘the preferred way to play’? Like, you’re saying you can’t play it solo anymore?
Yeah, pretty much. The AI co-driver just isn’t as descriptive as I’d like. If it were me, I’d be like, ‘you’ve got a tight right turn coming up—slow down and gun it after that!’
Please hook your bass kicker to proper software which will drive it not with sound but actual car telemetry data. Trust me, it will elevate immersion to another level! And what’s cool is you can do it for free with Simhub, and yes it works with Dirt2.
I don’t know if my dumb setup can take it. I just split the audio through Voicemeeter Banana to some random old power amplifier.
It’s honestly very simple. There are a bunch of YT videos about how to do it. You would just need one of those $1 USB sound cards to output vibration data to your amp and shakers.
It’s one of the best VR games if you have a wheel and a strong stomach.
I bought both Dirt Rally 2.0 and WRC 24, which are on big sales right now. DR2 works awesome in VR; WRC not so much.
Thank you for sharing the thread! I stopped playing WRC a week after they released the VR support, and it was terrible…