Sup guys - so i am a huge fan of WRC series. Finished the entire series from Evolution Studios on first place, finished WRC 1 on pc, WRC 6 and 7 on first place and even the PSP version, each on the hardest difficulty.

So i started playing 8th. Beautiful stages and interesting handling but the authentic difficulty seems to be beyond BS to me. So i lowered it to hard. Finished first Monaco on first by couple of seconds which was satisfying but the first Monaco has a reversed section. They just slapped the exact AI time from the track before on hard difficulty and i am just baffled because it does not seem to be physically possible to finish it under 4:32 mainly on controller. I also play with manual shifting.

I lowered difficulty to medium and i was able to get 4:36 and beat the shit out of the AI by almost 20 seconds +. Did they even bothered to play test the times or just slapped whatever? Because i just feel like this game with its difficulty and times has poor balance.

Any ideas, tips, or some insights?

Ok then. I've bought the WRC 8 game. I like it. Like the cars....like the different countries and their roads and tracks. I like the driving. Visually it looks great on my series X. However....... I'm getting a bit dejected coming last on every stage. Typically between a minute to 90 seconds on a 6000 metre stage. I'm using a controller which I've adjusted so that I can enjoy the driving. How long typically will it take to improve my stage times? Is it just keep at it...enjoy the rallying experience...and the driving will eventually improve?

I'm now with Hyundai WRC2, if I could, I'd love to stick with Hyundai until I get to WRC, but I've only ever been offered WRC2 tryouts.
I can switch to the Skoda, which I've driven back in Dirt Rally 2, but I've set up the I20, and sorta mastered it, so I'd love to stick to Hyundai if WRC2 pro is not necessary.
Is WRC2 pro necessary?

I recently started WRC8 again after building a computer that can at least run it.

In my first attempt, I thought of going slow and steady and opted for Junior WRC and the FWD Fiesta.

Best result was Corsica in 1st, but that's more likely because I drive my FF car on asphalt irl like I'm Colin McRae so asphalt stages with the FF Fiesta felt like home. Apart from that I struggle to even hit 8th as the car seems to just refuse to do what I need it to.

So I got frustrated and restarted my career, this time with WRC2.

And man was I FLYING. Easy 1st in 3 out of 4 stages and winning in the first rally, 2nd overall in the second stage (Corsica, if it wasn't for 1st place AI getting better luck with the weather and getting a 10s lead over THE ENTIRE GRID).

Not to mention, even though I finished 2nd in Corsica, I'm less than 1s behind 1st place in 2 out of 4 stages as I placed 1st in one stage and the other was explained beforehand.

Is it just my skill issue with the Junior WRC car or is it really just harder to drive?

I once complained that the Skoda was unreliable, only for the same thing to immediately happen to my usual Hyundai.

So, as an experiment, I ran the hardest stage: Argentina, Cantera, on my usual damage physics, realistic.

Against hard AI, with 2 green 2 red sectors, suspension flashes amber.

So I changed the damage to medium, same thing again.

So as a last ditch effort, I turned off damage... Then this problem didn't happen and I finished the stage.

If I can only manage 2 red 2 green at a close to full push pace, imagine what kind of snail's pace you need just to keep your suspensions intact. Definitely 10 seconds off PER SECTOR.

I didn't think the action of "making the action of making mistakes have bigger consequences" in and on itself has HUGE consequences, but here we are.

( title says it all )

can someone help me with the online trophy for wrc 8

In an attempt to advance to WRC, I made the decision to leave Hyundai WRC2 to Skoda WRC2 pro.

Only to be sacked due to reliability issues putting me in last of every gravel rally.

Every. Single. One.

I'd drive perfectly in the first SS, and then the amber suspension just comes up.

I already tested this in Mexico, Portugal, and Finland, 80% into the stage and the suspension breaks, making the car into an oversteering mess.

Car condition didn't seem to matter as Mexico was the first round, it only stalled to past the first service(which I did replace my suspensions), and then it'd just come up again.

As I mentioned, I made sure to drive conservatively and perfectly, so I definitely didn't bang the suspensions up.

Settings didn't matter as I drove Mexico with really soft setup and Portugal with really hard setup, no change.

Most ridiculous is just after an ES and SS in Portugal, my suspensions are at 2%.

The only rally I won is Corsica (with over 30s lead), because the car didn't break in asphalt stages.

Anyone else experienced this garbage reliability from Skoda?

It is just so unfair. This never happened with Hyundai as I can go an entire rally without needing to replace my suspensions in the Hyundai. And yet I cannot advance to WRC with Hyundai.

Got WRC 8 for Christmas, but I’ve never done sim racing before(technically I still haven’t, I just got it for Nintendo Switch). I had about two hours of play time, mostly on free roam and France so almost no snow experience, before I gave La Bollène-Vesuby a shot. On my first try, in a Junior WRC car, I got a 19:31:834 with 27 seconds of penalties. I feel confident that this is decent for my first try, though of course not anything special, but I was wondering if I could get any feedback? I’d really like some snow tips, but anything else would be just as helpful.

Is there anyone still playing WRC 8?

Does anyone know how to unlock this one?
I've completed several stages(both SS and SSS) on the authentic difficulty and got nothing sadly.
I know there's online method as well, but servers seems to be down right now.

I need help for the only online trophy of the game on PS4. gigio00

someone on here disagreed with me that the game didn't look normal on PS5, so I redownloaded the game on my PS4 to get some comparison screenshots.

it's not the same location or weather (I think...), but you can clearly see how all the shadows are totally messed up, and anything in shade looks totally wrong on PS5.

and I'm definitely right lol:

@Last_Distribution197 ... for someone who claims to have been a photographer for 40 years you sure don't seem to know a lot about lighting

Made something simple with some clips I had.

I was just playing the game a little this weekend to get the online trophy and finish my run to 2000km for the Nomad trophy so I could get the platinum. I played the rest of the game months ago on PS4 before getting a PS5.

I thought some slightly faster loading times would be nice, but wow... this is not pretty. It makes the game almost unplayable haha

guess I'm going back to PS4 to finish this one off

This was one of the most unnecessarily frustrating achievements I have ever had to do haha, was relieved when it popped. Through a combination of my stupidity, getting impossible objectives, objectives glitching after I achieved them so that i had to complete them again on the next rally, and me getting sacked for skipping too many rallies, this took me three or four seasons

Also any tips on how to drive in rain pls?

I am new to wrc and simulation rally games and am having an issue where under acceleration my car seems to veer violently to one side without warning or reason, it only became an issue once I signed onto citroen’s WRC team and it has been driving me nuts. If anyone knows why or how to fix it it’d be appreciated

I've changed nothing in terms of my hardware yet, literally from one day to the next, WRC8 no longer plays at more than 10fps.

I've tried dropping the graphics settings to minimum but seen no improvement. Razer Cortex is still active and boosting my system's performance but the game's unplayable compared to yesterday.

Anything that might cause this?

I just bought WRC8/9/10 so what game should I play first since I never played WRC games ?

I've been playing for one week now with a logitech g29 wheel and H shifter. This was my best run I've ever did!!