EA and Codemasters have introduced that EA SPORTS WRC Season 2 can be coming to all platforms this week by way of a free replace.
The brand new replace will add a model new rally location within the type of the inaugural Central European Rally. The rally contains 12 levels throughout Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic and can be obtainable in all sport modes, together with Profession mode, and throughout numerous climate circumstances, daytime, and seasonal climates.
Central European Rally Route Checklist:
- Rouské – (32.36 km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Lukoveček – (32.34 km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Raztoka – (15.40 km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Žabárna – (15.42 km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Provodovice – (16.99 km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Chvalčov – (16.94 km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Vítová – (8.77 km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Brusné – (8.77km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Libosváry – (14.73 km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Rusava – (14.64 km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Osíčko – (8.94 km) – Tarmac = 100%
- Botarell – (8.65 km) – Tarmac = 100%
Moreover, gamers can unlock new content material within the Rally Go, together with Free, VIP (Paid for), and EA Play objects. Additionally, you will be capable of re-live iconic occasions in rally historical past with 60 new Moments dropping in-game every day. Eight of those Moments can be EA Play unique. Shortly after the 2024 WRC season will get underway at Rally Monte Carlo on January 25, Moments primarily based on the occasions of the rally can be recreated in-game, that includes 2023 season vehicles and drivers.
As anticipated, the replace (V1.4.0) contains a number of enhancements and bug fixes throughout many areas of the sport, together with total efficiency optimizations, stutter discount, exploits removals, and extra. Try the changelog under for all the main points.
EA SPORTS WRC Season 2 can be launched on 14th December at 11:00 UTC. The brand new Rally Go can be obtainable on the nineteenth of December for Xbox Collection X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
Changelog V1.4.0:
New Content material
- Added Central European Rally as a driveable location, free to all gamers.
- Added 15 Rally Go Season 2 beauty objects, within the VIP tier.
- Added 10 Rally Go Season 2 beauty objects, within the Free tier.
- Added 5 Rally Go Season 2 beauty objects, within the EA Play tier.
- Added a brand new Season of Moments, with a brand new problem going reside every single day (~60 in complete).
Key Fixes & Enhancements
- Made a lot of efficiency optimizations throughout the sport, to additional enhance framerate.
- Carried out a lot of extra PSO shader caches throughout all vehicles to assist scale back stuttering.
- Carried out a lot of extra PSO shader caches associated to trackside collisions, to assist scale back stuttering.
- Carried out a lot of extra PSO shader caches associated to spray and kick-up, to assist scale back stuttering.
- Fastened a difficulty the place GPU utilization was unusually excessive on Major Menu screens.
- Fastened a difficulty that may trigger a stutter in Fast Play Multiplayer every time any person joins or leaves a foyer.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the digicam would judder on location reveal screens.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the digicam would judder on location stage begin and end screens when panning across the automotive.
- Resolved an exploit the place gamers might beforehand get free repairs and tyre adjustments by quitting an in-progress Membership Championship Occasion.
- Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits throughout a number of levels and areas.
- Made a lot of usability enhancements to the Livery Editor, together with the flexibility to reflect decals.
- Fastened a difficulty the place saved tuning setups would turn into corrupted if the identical title or save slot was used on a number of vehicles.
- Fastened a difficulty the place all tuning setup sliders would change to minimal values after loading a saved setup.
- Added “Guide Auto Choose” to the Transmission Help settings, permitting gamers with H-Sample and Sequential shifters to routinely swap relying on the automotive used.
Crash Fixes
- Fastened a difficulty in Profession that induced the sport to crash when the Benefactor relationship exceeded 100%.
- Fastened a difficulty on Xbox by which altering Graphics settings would trigger the sport to crash.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Multiplayer by which altering AI issue would trigger the sport to crash.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Multiplayer by which the sport would crash if the host of the foyer would begin an occasion.
Accessibility
- Fastened a difficulty the place Movement Blur would re-set to On after the sport has been rebooted.
AI
Audio
- Fastened a difficulty the place engine audio from the Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 HYBRID would sound distorted in some situations.
- Fastened a difficulty the place Bass Discount Frequency might solely be set to 400hz, as a substitute of 500hz as meant.
Builder
- Fastened a difficulty the place some Builder vehicles wouldn’t shift into 2nd gear.
- Fastened a difficulty the place engine audio from WRC Builder vehicles utilizing the Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 HYBRID engine would sound distorted in some situations.
- Fastened a difficulty the place some physique elements on Builder vehicles would seem invisible whereas driving.
Profession
- Added Central European Rally to FIA World Rally Championship Profession calendar.
- Added Central European Rally non-championship occasions all through the Profession calendar.
- Fastened a difficulty that induced the sport to crash when the Benefactor relationship exceeded 100%.
- Fastened a difficulty the place floor degradation was not being appropriately utilized all through Profession.
- Fastened a difficulty with the Chief Engineer Perks display screen by which perks would stay highlighted when now not chosen.
- Fastened a difficulty the place driver and co-driver character pictures weren’t showing on Finish-of-Season abstract screens.
- Fastened a difficulty the place Splits and Notes tabs weren’t obtainable on outcomes screens after receiving Terminal Harm.
- Eliminated Championship recaps from the Finish-of-Season abstract for Championships by which the participant didn’t take part.
Vehicles
- Ford Escort MK2 – Fastened a difficulty the place the inside and exterior windscreen parts have been misaligned.
- Hillman Avenger – Fastened a difficulty the place mudflaps have been unexpectedly showing beneath the automotive physique.
- Lancia Delta HF Integrale – Fastened a difficulty the place the dashboard would produce a distracting solar reflection.
- Lancia Delta S4 – Fastened a difficulty the place the dashboard would produce a distracting solar reflection.
- MINI Countryman Rally Version – Fastened a show challenge that offered the automotive within the automobile choose display screen as a 5-speed sequential as a substitute of a 6-speed.
- Peugeot 205 GTI – Fastened a difficulty the place the service space reflections would seem on the windshield whereas driving.
- Peugeot 207 S2000 – Fastened a lot of livery points with the official livery.
- Škoda Fabia Rally2 Evo – Fastened a lot of points on Livery 6 (Keferböck).
- SUBARU Impreza 2001 – Fastened a difficulty with the inside cockpit mannequin.
- Fastened a difficulty on WRC vehicles by which hybrid deployment would at all times revert to Cautious between levels.
- Fastened a difficulty on WRC vehicles by which hybrid deployment would cancel when the throttle was launched under the enhance threshold level, as a substitute of when throttle enter reaches 0%.
- Fastened a difficulty on all vehicles the place the exhaust flare would pop and seem for too lengthy after each gear change.
- Fastened a difficulty on all vehicles the place engine injury results weren’t displaying appropriately whereas driving.
- Fastened a difficulty on all vehicles the place the HUD’s odometer would rely up in kilometers as a substitute of miles when set to Imperial.
Championship Mode
- Added Central European Rally to FIA World Rally Championship calendar.
- Fastened a difficulty the place Splits and Notes tabs weren’t obtainable on outcomes screens after receiving Terminal Harm.
Golf equipment
- Resolved an exploit the place gamers might beforehand get free repairs and tire adjustments by quitting an in-progress Membership Championship Occasion.
- Modified stage end process in order that gamers should now drive to the marshal at cease management after crossing the end line.
- Fastened a difficulty the place a saved Championship Template wouldn’t recommend the customized Championship title the participant had created.
Co-Driver
- Croatia – Fastened a difficulty the place distance calls have been being delivered on the mistaken time.
- Finland – Fastened a difficulty the place distance calls have been being delivered on the mistaken time.
- Mediterraneo – Lowered complexity of co-driver calls by particular turns to enhance pace-note timings forward of harmful corners.
- Mexico – Fastened a difficulty the place distance calls have been being delivered on the mistaken time.
- Pacifico – Fastened a difficulty the place distance calls have been being delivered on the mistaken time.
Enter Gadgets
- Added “Guide Auto Choose” to the Transmission Help settings, permitting gamers with H-Sample and Sequential shifters to routinely swap relying on the automotive used.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the Assists menu wouldn’t warn H-Sample gamers of lacking gear bindings when “Guide H-Sample” is chosen as Transmission Kind.
- Fastened a difficulty the place deadzones weren’t being utilized appropriately in-game.
- Fastened a difficulty the place secondary handbrake enter bindings weren’t being acknowledged in-game.
- Fastened a difficulty the place secondary gadgets wouldn’t produce vibration when related by way of USB versus connecting by way of wheelbase.
- Fastened a difficulty that induced sure enter gadgets to require recalibration after the sport had been rebooted.
- Fastened a difficulty on PS5 that induced DualSense controllers to proceed vibrating after Vibration and suggestions was disabled.
Graphics & Efficiency
- Made a lot of efficiency optimizations throughout the sport, to additional enhance framerate.
- Made a lot of efficiency optimisations throughout Kenya, along with the final fixes talked about on this replace.
- Made a lot of efficiency optimisations throughout Oceania, along with the final fixes talked about on this replace.
- Made a lot of visible and efficiency enhancements to timber and foliage.
- Made enhancements to water spray results when driving on moist asphalt.
- Made enhancements to moist grime and moist grass kick-up results in all areas.
- Carried out a lot of extra PSO shader caches throughout all vehicles to assist scale back stuttering.
- Carried out a lot of extra PSO shader caches associated to trackside collisions, to assist scale back stuttering.
- Carried out a lot of extra PSO shader caches associated to spray and kick-up, to assist scale back stuttering.
- Added a framerate limiter to Major Menu screens to optimize efficiency and decrease load on PC {hardware} elements.
- Fastened a difficulty the place Fanatec and placement occasion plates would seem stretched when utilizing NVIDIA GTX 10 collection GPUs.
- Fastened a difficulty the place automobile headlights have been lively by default throughout the day, affecting framerate.
- Fastened a difficulty the place automobile reflections have been extra adversely affecting framerate than anticipated.
- Fastened a difficulty the place GPU utilization was unusually excessive on Major Menu screens.
- Fastened a difficulty on the console that induced uncommon efficiency on Major Menu screens.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the digicam would judder on location reveal screens.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the digicam would judder on location stage begin and end screens when panning across the automotive.
- Fastened a difficulty the place some visible collision results would fade out too shortly.
- Fastened a difficulty that may trigger snow and gravel kick-ups to not seem whereas spectating a Fast Play Multiplayer Occasion.
- Fastened a difficulty that may trigger a stutter in Fast Play Multiplayer every time any person joins or leaves a foyer.
- Fastened a difficulty that may trigger a stutter in Fast Play Multiplayer every time a Steam buddy standing modified whereas in a big foyer.
Livery Editor
- Added the flexibility to reflect decals from the left/right-hand aspect of the automotive to the alternative aspect.
- Added the flexibility to reflect decals throughout the symmetrical midpoint of the entrance, roof, and rear areas of the automotive.
- Added the flexibility to duplicate an current decal.
- Added the flexibility to alter a decal form whereas retaining beforehand set dimension, place, rotation, and coloration
- Fastened a difficulty the place framerate would drop to under 10 fps when utilizing the Livery Editor on NVIDIA 10 collection GPUs.
- Fastened a difficulty that induced all liveries created earlier than the v1.2.0 replace to seem damaged.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the digicam would drift upward when making use of decals to the left-hand aspect of the automotive.
- Fastened a lot of UI points associated to saving designs.
- BMW M1 Procar Rally – Fastened a difficulty the place decals couldn’t be positioned on the automotive’s roof.
- Lancia 037 Evo 2 – Fastened a difficulty the place decals couldn’t be positioned on the automotive’s roof.
- Lancia Stratos – Fastened a difficulty the place decals couldn’t be positioned on the automotive’s roof.
- MG Metro 6R4 – Fastened a difficulty the place decals couldn’t be positioned on the again of the automotive.
- Opel Corsa S2000 – Fastened a difficulty the place a niche was showing between the windscreen and the dashboard.
- Peugeot 309 GTI – Fastened a difficulty with projection depth when making use of decals.
- Renault Twingo II – Fastened a difficulty the place decals couldn’t be positioned on the again of the automotive.
- Volkswagen Golf GTI – Fastened a difficulty with projection depth when making use of decals.
Places
- Resolved a lot of exploits the place gamers might probably acquire a bonus by deliberately resetting the automotive at particular factors.
- Chile – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Arauco.
- Chile – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Bio Bío.
- Chile – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Coronel.
- Chile – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Florida.
- Chile – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Lota.
- Chile – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Yumbel.
- Croatia – Fastened a difficulty the place gamers might probably collide with invisible objects all through the levels.
- Croatia – Fastened a lot of minor environmental object points.
- Estonia – Fastened a lot of minor points the place abrupt seams have been seen throughout some roadside edges.
- Estonia – Fastened a difficulty in Fast Play Multiplayer by which cameras would transfer erratically when the stage is revealed.
- Finland – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Lahdenkyla.
- Finland – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Leutsu.
- Finland – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Maahi.
- Finland – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Saakoski.
- Japan – Resolved a corner-cutting exploit at Lake Mikawa.
- Japan – Resolved a corner-cutting exploit at Oninotaira.
- Japan – Fastened a difficulty the place some logs and rocks have been lacking collision bins.
- Mexico – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at El Chocolate.
- Mexico – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Guanajuatito.
- Mexico – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Ortega.
- Mexico – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Otates.
- Monte Carlo – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at La Bâtie-Neuve – Saint-Léger-les-Mélèzes.
- Monte Carlo – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Les Borels.
- Monte Carlo – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Ravin de Coste Belle.
- Monte Carlo – Resolved a lot of corner-cutting exploits at Saint-Léger-les-Mélèzes – La Bâtie-Neuve.
- Portugal – Fastened a difficulty the place gamers might fall by a gap within the driveable panorama.
Moments
- Added new Archive tab for Season 1 Moments.
- Fastened a difficulty the place floor degradation was not being utilized to Moments.
- Fastened a difficulty within the service space the place automobile renders wouldn’t seem on sure UI screens.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the stage timer wouldn’t cease when crossing the end line.
Choices & Settings
- Added an choice to restrict framerate all through Major Menu screens on PC.
- Fastened a difficulty on Xbox by which altering Graphics settings would trigger the sport to crash.
- Fastened a difficulty on PC by which the Vibration tab was mistakenly showing when utilizing a DUALSHOCK or DualSense controller.
Picture Mode
- Fastened a difficulty the place the Picture Mode digicam would shift place after the participant enabled the movement blur course of.
Fast Play
- Resolved an exploit with Fast Play Multiplayer by which the lead driver of a Regularity Rally might set off the Stage Finish Timer too early for all different gamers.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Multiplayer by which altering AI issue would trigger the sport to crash.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Multiplayer by which the sport would crash if the host of the foyer would begin an occasion.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Multiplayer the place gamers would get kicked out of personal classes as a substitute of returning to the foyer.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Multiplayer by which accepting an invitation throughout an Occasion podium sequence would trigger vehicles to vanish from the service space.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Multiplayer by which loading a Championship would incorrectly show gamers’ microphone icons.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Multiplayer by which a penalty time was incorrectly offered to the participant on the stage outcomes display screen.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Solo that may trigger framerates to drop when viewing Stage Outcomes with numerous entries current.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Solo by which Splits and Notes tabs weren’t obtainable on outcomes screens after receiving Terminal Harm.
- Fastened a difficulty with Fast Play Solo by which unfastened/indifferent elements could be re-applied to a automotive after the participant reloads an in-progress occasion.
Rally Go
- Up to date Rally Go development menu with Season 2 objects.
Rally College
- Fastened a difficulty in Lesson 10 (Snow) the place seam traces would seem throughout some water textures.
Replays
- Fastened a difficulty the place headlights appeared broken in the beginning of replays.
- Fastened a difficulty the place driver and steering wheel animations weren’t taking part in in replays.
- Fastened a difficulty the place mud and kick-up was rendering in entrance of the automotive when viewing replays in gradual movement.
- Fastened a difficulty the place an abnormally excessive quantity of mud and kick-up was generated when viewing replays in gradual movement.
- Adjusted the utmost subject of view setting for replay cameras to scale back “fish-eye” impact seen from sure angles.
Setups & Car Tuning
- Fastened a difficulty the place saved tuning setups would turn into corrupted if the identical title or save slot was used on a number of vehicles.
- Fastened a difficulty the place all tuning setup sliders would change to minimal values after loading a saved setup.
- Adjusted the show values of Brake and Handbrake Drive settings to raised replicate real-world values.
- Adjusted the show values of Differential settings to raised replicate real-world values.
- Added the flexibility for some types of Differential to be adjusted in 1% increments.
Time Trial
- Fastened a difficulty the place skidmarks and ruts from a earlier Time Trial try would nonetheless seem on-stage when a participant restarted.
- Fastened a difficulty that induced vehicles to spin uncontrolled after crossing the end line when finishing a Time Trial or Shakedown.
- Fastened a difficulty the place gamers couldn’t obtain ghost knowledge within the service space.
Ultrawide & A number of Screens
- Fastened a difficulty the place gamers utilizing a number of screens would revert again to a single monitor when getting into the brightness menu.
- Fastened a difficulty the place gamers utilizing a number of screens would revert again to a single display screen when getting into Picture Mode
- Fastened a lot of points that occurred when gamers utilizing a number of screens entered Pre and Publish-Stage cutscenes.
- Fastened a difficulty that occurred when gamers utilizing a number of screens would generally encounter a “pincushion impact” when watching replays.
- Fastened a difficulty the place gamers utilizing a number of screens would revert again to a single monitor when urgent ALT+Enter to go full-screen.
Miscellaneous
- Added Barbados flag as a selectable possibility when customizing driver particulars.
- Fastened a difficulty the place all gamers would have a Hungarian flag on their Rally Passport.
- Fastened a difficulty that induced the end line break up instances to indicate as 0:00.000.
- Fastened a difficulty the place fingers wouldn’t render correctly on some roadside spectators.
- Fastened a difficulty that induced some customers taking part in below minimal PC spec to not launch the sport on Steam.
- Fastened some minor textual content and UI points throughout numerous areas of the sport.
- Made a number of minor bug fixes and enhancements throughout the sport.
Warnings & Recommendation
- If a participant is presently partway by a Profession season, the Central European Rally will seem on the following Season’s calendar.
- If a participant begins a brand new Profession save, the Central European Rally will seem within the Season 1 calendar.
- If a participant is presently partway by a Championship Mode season, Central European Rally is not going to seem on the Occasion listing.
- If a participant begins a brand new Championship Mode save, the Central European Rally will seem on the Occasion listing.
- In Championship Mode, the Central European Rally will solely seem within the top-class competitors.
- All automobile tuning setups created earlier than the v1.4.0 replace can be wiped as soon as the replace is launched. Please write down or screenshot any tuning values you need to hold, and re-make these setups after the replace.
- All customized steering wheel and controller enter bindings can be wiped as soon as the replace is launched. Please write down or screenshot any customized bindings you need to hold and re-build them after the replace.
- High Time Trial Leaderboard instances that have been beforehand set utilizing corner-cutting exploits fastened on this replace can be deleted sooner or later.
Official Webpages – www.ea.com/video games/ea-sports-wrc
