WRC4 WRC 4 The Game

Bram Hengeveld · Jun 2, 2009

On the iOpener website there is a very interesting article about an upcoming World Rally Championship simulator:

World Rally Championship's next game: Racing live against rally heroes

The next generation WRC computer game will allow players to 'compete' in live rallies", states ISC chairman Neil Duncanson in the April version of SportBusiness International magazine. ISC, the global promoter of the World Rally Championship (WRC), mentions WRC's ultimate goal as building up an online gaming world championship alongside the real thing.
ISC and the computer gaming industry believe the next step in gaming is this 'live' competition between gamers and real drivers, made possible through iOpener's patented technology.
ISC CEO Simon Long says: "Now we are a global promoter, we want this to be multi-platform, multi-publisher, multi-territory."
For Long and Duncanson the new game is part of WRC's broader efforts to appeal new fans beyond the hardcore enthusiastics. FIA's chairman Max Mosley has said the virtual champion will be honoured at the WRC's annual end-of-season awards ceremony in Monaco.

Source: iOpener Media

Last April we already brought you the first news about iOpener Media's beta testers recruitment for their Real Time Racing project.

The news about this technology where virtual racers can compete against the real drivers on the track in real time is now spreading amoung the simracing communities.

iOpener is still looking for the worlds best simracers to join their beta test program that's about to start soon. If you are interested in joining then you can sign up on the RTR website

Tommi-TAG · Oct 20, 2012

Hello, Lee.
Thanks for hosting my Mod and your kind credit to me.
Recently I knew this new WRC 3 section. And I'd like to post my Mods by myself from the next time.
Thanks for your time and kind support

Best regards

Tommi

Andrew Hayes · Oct 20, 2012

MJRL said:
Try to use 2 channels in windows audio devices.
For the G27 same here, but almost all rally cars have , and not H gear shift.

so basically id have to map 3rd gear to up and 4th to down don’t know if i can live with that

at the mo im using the paddles to shift and i mapped the 4th gear to handbrake

Tommi-TAG · Oct 20, 2012

Thanks for nice screenshots, Lee

!
Here are my screenshots of Ken Block's car converted from WRC 2
I really enjoy driving this car

V8HoldenFan · Oct 20, 2012

Hi.

J van E · Oct 20, 2012

You're welcome.

J van E · Oct 20, 2012

Ondrej Kapal said:
What I consider as a big disappointment is that the SSs are trough one big track, just different sections. But there are very hard ones, i.e. over 6 minutes long in Rally de Portugal (you wont find anything like that in Dirt).

Yes, the more I play the game, the more this annoys me... Such a shame... Driving a 'full rally' (six stages) just isn't fun when you constantly pass the same scenery...

With the six available Y-shaped tracks, which all have 3 legs, you pass every leg FOUR times...! That's way too often for rally imho.
With the oval tracks it depends a little on where they plotted the stages, but you always pass specific spots at least three times, quite often four. When I look at the maps of my guide I can only see two very short parts (few hundred meters possibly?) in France and Spain that are passed only twice...

The 'funny' thing is that 1. Milestone said a main important part of making WRC 3 better was providing more stages and 2. they have a quote in one of the loading screens that says something like 'On a racetrack you pass 1 corner a 1000 times while in a rally you pass 1000 corners 1 time.' Or something like that. Well, to me rallying in WRC 3 way too often feels like rallying on a racetrack... In fact, a lot of the stages cover just as much distance as ONE lap in a Formula 1 race does...!!! It just takes you longer in WRC 3 because of all the corners and the far lower average speed.

Boy, I would pay a LOT for ONE rally with some 25 UNIQUE stages... Just like in real life...

Tom · Oct 20, 2012

Doohie said:
Come on guys...how childish to remove that link !!
Are you afraid you'll lose some readers on this forum,you know that this does not happen.
It is simply intended as news.
Have you might never read another newspaper...
However you still have even made use above youtube videos from that site,
many were happy with that..thanks to me honestly.

As I told you through PM, consider yourself warned. We do not accept adveritising on RD and telling me our reasons are "bullshit" after I explained them to you isn't the kind of behaviour we'd like to see.

Tom

Lee Ross · Oct 20, 2012

Nice guys, keep them coming!

Lee Ross · Oct 20, 2012

Tommi-TAG said:
Hello, Lee.
Thanks for hosting my Mod and your kind credit to me.
Recently I knew this new WRC 3 section. And I'd like to post my Mods by myself from the next time.
Thanks for your time and kind support

Best regards

Tommi

Sure mate not a prob. I wasn't aware if you were a member here or not so posted it. Scorz from NG btw

Kai Lohmann · Oct 20, 2012

Appie Kuipers said:
I only have a problem with the P/button on my G25, it does not work for your Mod! Thanks.
It only stops the game.

You need to press pause/break not P.

Kai Lohmann · Oct 20, 2012

Andrew Hayes said:
slows the load times of the stages took it back out

Not possible , it doesnt affect any loading times!

V8HoldenFan · Oct 20, 2012

Thx Lee Ross

Lee Ross · Oct 20, 2012

First shot is nuts mate

Tommi-TAG · Oct 20, 2012

Lee Ross said:
Sure mate not a prob. I wasn't aware if you were a member here or not so posted it. Scorz from NG btw

Thanks for your reply, Lee (Scorz).
Your kind support is always a great help for me.
Much appreciated

Marc Goaderoch · Oct 20, 2012

Thank you

Tommi-TAG · Oct 21, 2012

WRC 3 Close Cockpit Camera Mod

Hello.
I've edited "Close Cockpit Camera Mod" and would like to share

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* Description *
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- Added 2 new Cockpit Camera Positions, "Close" and "Very Close".

- Including "Normal" and "Career Mode Easy Unlock Mod" versions.
( Note : "Career Mode Easy Unlock Mod" unlocks most of the Cars, Paints, Vinyls, Upgrades and Areas in "Road to Glory" of WRC 3.)

- Because of the limitation of the hex editing, I could not edit all cars at a time.
Thus, I edited the following 2 versions, "(mainly for) 2WD Classes" & "(mainly for) Other Classes" versions.

Please refer to "Close Cockpit Camera - Available Cars List.png" included in this archive.

- I found "Look to Apex" is set to "ON" as default (for some cars) in the original camera settings file.
This may be the reason why the Cockpit Camera movement is so large even with "Look to Apex" set to "OFF" in "Game Options" menu.
So, I edited it and now Cockpit Camera becomes less movement.
(As usual, you can enable "Look to Apex" in "Game Options" menu.)

Thanks to LeMic and Luigi Auriemma for Mixfile ReMixer.

Thanks to Milestone for this fantastic game.

Hope you'll have a lot of fun with this Mod

!

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* Note *
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- We can't use edited "DATA.MIX" file in online Multiplayer Mode.
So, please note this Mod is only for offline Single Player Mode.

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* Download *
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WRC 3 Close Cockpit Camera Mod.7z [MediaFire]

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* Installation *
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( 1 ) Please do not forget to make a backup of the original "DATA.MIX" file in the following directory.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Milestone\WRC3\DATA.MIX

( 2 ) Please choose "A - Normal version" or "B - Career Mode Easy Unlock Mod version" folder.

( 3 ) Open the folder and choose your favorite Cockpit Camera Position from the following.

- All Classes - Default Camera Position + Less Move
- 2WD Classes - Close Cockpit + Less Move
- 2WD Classes - Very Close Cockpit + Less Move
- Other Classes - Close Cockpit + Less Move
- Other Classes - Very Close Cockpit + Less Move

( 4 ) Open the folder and copy and paste "DATA.MIX" file to the following directory.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Milestone\WRC3\DATA.MIX

( 5 ) When you play online Multiplayer Mode, please restore "DATA.MIX" file to the original from the backup.

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* Credits *
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- Thanks to LeMic for Mixfile ReMixer.

- Thanks to Luigi Auriemma for his support to Mixfile ReMixer.
( http://aluigi.altervista.org/ )

- Thanks to Milestone for WRC 3.

Harry Platt · Oct 21, 2012

J van E said:
Yes, the more I play the game, the more this annoys me... Such a shame... Driving a 'full rally' (six stages) just isn't fun when you constantly pass the same scenery...

With the six available Y-shaped tracks, which all have 3 legs, you pass every leg FOUR times...! That's way too often for rally imho.
With the oval tracks it depends a little on where they plotted the stages, but you always pass specific spots at least three times, quite often four. When I look at the maps of my guide I can only see two very short parts (few hundred meters possibly?) in France and Spain that are passed only twice...

The 'funny' thing is that 1. Milestone said a main important part of making WRC 3 better was providing more stages and 2. they have a quote in one of the loading screens that says something like 'On a racetrack you pass 1 corner a 1000 times while in a rally you pass 1000 corners 1 time.' Or something like that. Well, to me rallying in WRC 3 way too often feels like rallying on a racetrack... In fact, a lot of the stages cover just as much distance as ONE lap in a Formula 1 race does...!!! It just takes you longer in WRC 3 because of all the corners and the far lower average speed.

Boy, I would pay a LOT for ONE rally with some 25 UNIQUE stages... Just like in real life...

Actually modern rallies are now only made up of on average 3-5 stages per day, run through twice... So there aren't actually that many stages in a rally.