art of rally

Великолепный, расслабляющий таймкиллер. Не дрочите всё на максимальной сложности. 10 изольд из 10

[b] one of my favourite racing games and the first one to actually teach me something about (virtual) driving. [/b] grew up with mostly nfs, later some ridge racer or a forza horizon but never got into the more simulation oriented racing space (despite trying because racing in vr is super sick). i never grew the patience for simulated circuit racing and just didnt have the capacity to concentrate long enough to get into games like dirt rally or wrc. art of rally bridges this skill gap perfectly. [b] no codriver callouts to remember, no team to manage, no car to tune or optimize literally not a single buying/unlocking decision. just driving. [/b] this is the game i finally experienced how to steer with your pedals after hearing about it but never actually learning to do so. this is the game i finally stopped to follow the racetracks shape and carve the most optimal path through it instead. this game tought me a lot about the fundamental physics of racing i never just got by playing anything else. and its a lot of fun. the [b] learning curve [/b] is great if you start with a fitting difficulty and damage/assist setup. i started at normal difficulty and damage with a lot of anti lock beak, a lot of stability assist and automatic shifting. by increasing difficulty and damage everytime i felt confident enough i got to master ai and severe damage by group b and stayed there for the rest of the game. still with some anti lock breaking and still automatic gearbox but without the stability assist. after finishing the game i switched to manual shifting and started the camaign again in group 2 - its still alot of fun and im still learning new things. [b] this game adapts to and evolves with your skills and needs really well [/b] and thats great! by the time you run out of ai drivers to beat there is still the online leaderboard and proporo with a time 15 seconds faster than you... there are some [b] technical difficulties [/b] though. even on the highest settings you'll get occasional pop in which can be irritating, sometimes (mostly in sharp corners) you can see through the map or inside a mountain and on some maps the performance just isnt good no matter what you do - at least on my hardware. i'm still on am4 with a ryzen 5 3600 and sadly use a nvidea gpu (rtx 3060ti) which seems to be a problem with one of the two vegetation rendering methods this game uses. i dont know if its the kinda old 3200 ram or the gpu or whatever but a few maps in finnland and japan are basicly unplayable because of frametime spikes i have never experienced before in this magnitude, even on the lowest settings. oblivion remaster seems tame compared to the average fps 300, low fps 9 the steam overlay sometimes displays. the speed of the car seems to be a big factor in this, i only started really noticing after starting in group b with group s and a having even more of a problem. luckily the vast majority of tracks plays and runs really well. getting one of the stuttery maps feels a bit like having to drive with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up suspension that slightly turns right all the time because you broke it the race before, but i'd obviously prefer to not have to deal with that issue. also i read in a forum thread about a "skip song" button they wanted to add which i would desperatly need but can't find. the soundtrack ranges from good to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ great with two exeptions which just give me a headache and cause me to drive straight into a tree because i cant concentrate with it playing. my current solution is restarting the game which is not ideal. EDIT: there is a skip song button, praise the lord and all that! Just hit L1 (the one above left trigger). for whatever reason its not listed in the controls menu but after 90 hours i have finaly found it by accident. other than that, fantastic game, thank you for making this, 11/10

9 из 10 радужных винилов! обидно что аешка открывается в финале игры б*

First, this game does not support a wheel, if anyone was wondering. You could only play it with a controller or keyboard. Second, art of rally is poorly optimized. It stutters and drop frames a lot, not to mention the many texture object popup. My PC can run Dirt Rally 2.0, EA WRC, and a bunch of graphically intensive games, but it cannot run art of rally. I had to set it to potato mode to be able to play it, which isn't what I paid for. Not sure how it got so many positive reviews. I was really excited to play this game, but turns out to be a big disappointment. Just sent in a request for a refund.

Feels good to drive :)

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in this game it is not possible to perform a J-turn or to snap oversteer (controlled or otherwise). Surfing an oversteer in a powerslide is (imo) the most fun part of any drifting/racing game and the fact you can't do that is game makes cornering feel frustrating and incomplete. optimal cornering looks like f1 and not rally