so how do I get competent at this game? there seem to be so much stuff I need to know in order to pull off moves but I have no clue how to go about it.
I would have liked a sandbox training track where you can try moves over and over again with instructions.
I'm pretty bad at the game myself, so I'm perhaps not the best person to comment, but here's what I'd recommend:
- First of all, don't try to go fast. In this game, going fast means that you will crash, especially when you're new to the game. Focus on staying on the track instead. This is especially important with RWD cars - going full throttle with those will just immediately cause you to spin out.
- For some actual theory,
this video and the
matching article are a good intro. They cover the basics pretty well. I think they also added tutorial videos to the game at some point, but I've never watched them. The most important thing to understand is probably weight balance and how that effects turning. It's really not all that complicated, even if it sounds like it is at first.
- For practising, the tracks themselves are good enough imo. Greece and Wales are 2 pretty good all around locations with plenty of technical turns to train on. There's no penalty for failure really, so you can just keep practising as long as you want to.
Pretty much my dilemma. The tutorial videos are filled with too much real-world technical fluff that makes figuring things out on a pad more difficult, and there's no environment where you can get a feel for how the handling works. The game throws you into difficult courses right from the start and expects you to just know how to play. Like you're supposed to already have played the rest of the Dirt games extensively beforehand.
Playing the previous Dirt games would actually not help you at all, since they were much more arcadey.
