EA Sports WRC: Stage List For Latvia & Poland Unveiled

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The 2024 season update for EA Sports WRC is not far off anymore - and now, the stage lists for the two new locations Latvia and Poland have been unveiled.

When it first launched in 2023, it was not quite clear if EA Sports WRC was intended to be an annual release or not. Almost a year later, we know that it is not a series that will see a new title every year - instead, the 2024 season update for the game is set to release on October 8.

Not only does that mean that the 2024 WRC cars, drivers and liveries will make their debut, but also two new locations that were not on the 2023 World Rally Championship calendar: Latvia and Poland. Much like the Central European Rally that was added after the game's launch last year, the two Eastern European rallies will join the list of EA Sports WRC locations.

The real-life events were run in succession this June and July, with Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Haltunen taking the victory on each occasion, marking victories number 2 and 3 for the part-time Toyota duo. While Latvia made its WRC debut, it was a comeback for Poland, which had been part of the WRC calendar in 2009 and from 2014 to 2017 before.

EA Sports WRC Latvia Stage List​

StageLengthSurface
Vecpils16.6 km65% Gravel Light Dry
25% Gravel Medium Dry
10% Gravel Heavy Dry
Kagene16.3 km65% Gravel Light Dry
25% Gravel Medium Dry
10% Gravel Heavy Dry
Mazilmaja8.5 km40% Gravel Light Dry
40% Gravel Medium Dry
20% Gravel Heavy Dry
Kirsits8.4 km40% Gravel Light Dry
40% Gravel Medium Dry
20% Gravel Heavy Dry
Baznica7.6 km95% Gravel Light Dry
5% Gravel Medium Dry
Strokacs7.6 km95% Gravel Light Dry
5% Gravel Medium Dry
Podnieki9.9 km65% Gravel Medium Dry
20% Gravel Heavy Dry
15% Gravel Light Dry
Dinsdurbe9.9 km65% Gravel Medium Dry
20% Gravel Heavy Dry
15% Gravel Light Dry
Kalvene4.9 km80% Gravel Medium Dry
20% Gravel Heavy Dry
Cerpi4.9 km80% Gravel Medium Dry
20% Gravel Heavy Dry
Krote4.9 km60% Gravel Medium Dry
20% Gravel Heavy Dry
20% Gravel Light Dry
Kaleti4.6 km55% Gravel Medium Dry
25% Gravel Heavy Dry
20% Gravel Light Dry

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EA Sports WRC Poland Stage List​

StageLengthSurface
Swietajno18.5 km65% Gravel Light Dry
25% Gravel Medium Dry
10% Tarmac Rough Dry
Jelonek18.1 km65% Gravel Light Dry
25% Gravel Medium Dry
10% Tarmac Rough Dry
Gajrowskie10.0 km60% Gravel Light Dry
20% Gravel Medium Dry
20% Tarmac Rough Dry
Pietrasze9.7 km60% Gravel Light Dry
20% Gravel Medium Dry
20% Tarmac Rough Dry
Dybowo8.5 km65% Gravel Light Dry
25% Gravel Medium Dry
10% Tarmac Rough Dry
Chelchy8.5 km65% Gravel Light Dry
25% Gravel Medium Dry
10% Tarmac Rough Dry
Mikolajki9.4 km70% Gravel Light Dry
25% Gravel Medium Dry
5% Tarmac Rough Dry
Zawada9.5 km70% Gravel Light Dry
25% Gravel Medium Dry
5% Tarmac Rough Dry
Gmina Mragowo4.4 km65% Gravel Light Dry
30% Gravel Medium Dry
5% Tarmac Rough Dry
Czerwonki4.5 km65% Gravel Light Dry
30% Gravel Medium Dry
5% Tarmac Rough Dry
Kosewo4.8 km80% Gravel Light Dry
20% Gravel Medium Dry
Probark4.6 km80% Gravel Light Dry
20% Gravel Medium Dry

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Both locations look rather fast judging from the stage route previews posted to social media, with Latvia being run exclusively on gravel and Poland throwing the occasional tarmac road in the mix. Both should be challenging events, possibly similar to Rally Estonia or even Rally Finland.

Which of the new EA Sports WRC locations are you looking forward to most? Let us know in the comments below and join the discussion in our WRC forum!
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Cosmo Marsh
Looking at the list it seems not all of the stages are 2024-spec so to speak - Vecpils definitely looks like an older layout, and if Mikolajki is the 2024 route then it's missing the arena section? (Edit: Mikolajki isn't even Mikolajki at all, it's actually closer to this stage!)

A bit of a shame if that is the case but looks like there'll be some high top speeds for sure!
 
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I am just happy that it looks like it is 2 stages split in to 2 parts, run in both directions, and not one stage split in to 10 parts :p
 
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Cosmo Marsh said:
Looking at the list it seems not all of the stages are 2024-spec so to speak - Vecpils definitely looks like an older layout, and if Mikolajki is the 2024 route then it's missing the arena section? (Edit: Mikolajki isn't even Mikolajki at all, it's actually closer to this stage!)

A bit of a shame if that is the case but looks like there'll be some high top speeds for sure!
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You are absolutely right. Mikołajki is almost 5km shorter distance. It's definitely Mrągowo.
 
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helloimhana said:
Cheating is starting to be really bad in racing now. Ppl cheat in ACC and F1 games. Finally a developer is trying to do something about it.
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By making it so that most of their potential playerbase either can't launch the game or don't want to play the game at all? Technically the amount of cheating is reduced, but it's certainly not because the anti-cheat solution is actually working...
 
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helloimhana said:
Cheating is starting to be really bad in racing now. Ppl cheat in ACC and F1 games. Finally a developer is trying to do something about it.
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EA and CM are trying to do something for community?:cautious: Are you sure about it?:sneaky:

I don't know if people are cheating in ACC or shitty and same for over decade F1 games but for sure penalty systems in most simracing games are still far from perfection. Maybe they should work on it at first instead adding another crap nobody asking for and only causing problems?

It will finish like they amazing AI in F1 2022 or 23 (who cares). They've done rubber banding and proudly said it's revolution:D
 
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Benutzername
GalloRojo said:
I cannot play since 1.9 due to the ridiculous anticheat, so I´m not interested in anything else related with EA WRC until they fix or remove it. And so many people are in my same situation. It's a shame.
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I had the same problem. Solution: Move the game to C:\, which can be done directly through Steam, if you are playing on computer.

Its totally dumb, but this Anti Cheat farce is always installed on C:\ and requires the game to be in the same directory.
 
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This is great, the
Cosmo Marsh said:
Looking at the list it seems not all of the stages are 2024-spec so to speak - Vecpils definitely looks like an older layout, and if Mikolajki is the 2024 route then it's missing the arena section? (Edit: Mikolajki isn't even Mikolajki at all, it's actually closer to this stage!)

A bit of a shame if that is the case but looks like there'll be some high top speeds for sure!
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They still real roads, they maybe changed the layouts a bit but they still took it from real roads. Kylotonn never did something near to this.
I checked some of the recces videos.

Lettlland two long Stages (the rest are shorter and reversed versions from both of them) :
Vecpils

Podnieki

Poland two long Stages
Mikolajk
From the top, it begins after the Arena and from the middle of it takes a different turn or something.

Swietajno

There're definitely some changes to the offical stages, maybe they did on purpose, I don't know. Still, the fact that they use real roads is just amazing. I can't play the older WRC games anymore, only Codemasters games or RBR.
 
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Benutzername said:
I had the same problem. Solution: Move the game to C:\, which can be done directly through Steam, if you are playing on computer.

Its totally dumb, but this Anti Cheat farce is always installed on C:\ and requires the game to be in the same directory.
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I hope it's not required to install it to C but to the drive where steam is installed, because I'm not the only one who doesn't have 100Go of free space on C, many people use a 50-100Go C for the system only, so it's easier to reinstall. I really need to put my sim rig back together to check that :)

[EDIT] I see it's really requiring to install on C, which I'll never do (100Go system only partition), how anyone sane can release something with such a stupid limitation, and still not having fixed it 2 months later?... The worse part being it's a mostly offline game, just don't upload the times if the anticheat doesn't run...
It may be possible to make it work with a junction on C to the install folder on D and changing the games install folder (maybe change it directly in steam's manifest file), but at best it will be an issue with big updates steam will refuse to do because not enough space on C, so change the install folder again, update, and change it again...
 
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Benutzername
pinkimo said:
I hope it's not required to install it to C but to the drive where steam is installed, because I'm not the only one who doesn't have 100Go of free space on C, many people use a 50-100Go C for the system only, so it's easier to reinstall. I really need to put my sim rig back together to check that :)

[EDIT] I see it's really requiring to install on C, which I'll never do (100Go system only partition), how anyone sane can release something with such a stupid limitation, and still not having fixed it 2 months later?... The worse part being it's a mostly offline game, just don't upload the times if the anticheat doesn't run...
It may be possible to make it work with a junction on C to the install folder on D and changing the games install folder (maybe change it directly in steam's manifest file), but at best it will be an issue with big updates steam will refuse to do because not enough space on C, so change the install folder again, update, and change it again...
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It's really stupid. I think I've read in the EA WRC Club section that somebody could bypass it somehow by renaming or something.

I have the system on C and Steam on a partition (E) and had to make room for the game on C, then move it over. Now I have two Steam paths, but at least its working now. I really enjoy the game, otherwise I would not have done it. What a mess.
 
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Benutzername said:
I had the same problem. Solution: Move the game to C:\, which can be done directly through Steam, if you are playing on computer.

Its totally dumb, but this Anti Cheat farce is always installed on C:\ and requires the game to be in the same directory.
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I don't have it installed on C. Maybe it just needed re-install?
 
anton_Chez
I had to install on C: after the anti cheat was introduced. But, like many have said, having 100gb taken up on my system drive is not possible. So, I did a little more reading and managed to get the game where I want it and it launches and seems to play fine. I installed the anti cheat on the games drive that the game is now on and it seems to have done the trick. I can't remember exactly how I did it, but I think you just run the anti cheat .exe from the game folder when the game is on the drive that you want it to be and it seems to have bypassed the necessity to have the game on the Windows drive.
 
A
Shame the PC-release is causing so much trouble. On Series X it's running fine and a lot of fun. Looking forward to the new content. Here's to hoping they'll include other improvements as well.
 
mesa
Benutzername said:
Its totally dumb, but this Anti Cheat farce is always installed on C:\ and requires the game to be in the same directory.
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That's not true. My games installed on an independant SSD , not on the system C: drive. I have no problem with anticheat
 

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