I have a wired one, it has a battery compartment for 2 AA sized batteries and it also has bluetooth/wifi functionality. Iām on windows 7 though so I only get the wired connection but itās a nice controller. Ironically, if I plug my steam link into my monitor I can play it wireless even on windows 7 because the steam link has dedicated drivers for that stuff I have the mini-usb(? horrible connector) version unfortunately, but nowadays they make em in USB-C.
The adapter you plug into your PC is actually wi-fi and not bluetooth I think. If you have a NIC with bluetooth capabilities you donāt need a dongle.
@Fraggles, could you put the time of day/road/weather conditions into the description up top as well? I am looking for what people are doing right now, but if you include it in the top post it would make it easier.
Actually I see people driving under different light conditions for this oneā¦
Iām not dictating which specific condition you have to drive in, as I mentioned earlier I often prefer the softer lighting of mornings and often find mid day light conditions very harsh and unpleasant. That said Iāve switched from morning to mid day for this map myself because there were a few passages where I couldnāt tell the road from the snow on the side.
Unless weāre doing something that is specifically meant to be a hindrance, like rain, snow or nights I see no reason to force a time selection.
Okay, that makes sense. I just figured that especially in these tracks that feature a lot of snow, different times of the day might have different amounts of ice/packed snow distribution that might actually affect the timesā¦
Somehow I made it past the Delta for this track with this time, but I sure donāt feel like I should haveā¦
Iād like some input about what you want to do about cars next. Iām thinking weāre heading to Finland for next week, probably a slightly longer track. The car situation after the 80s got a bit weird and I donāt know what the segments mean, so let me know what you want us to do next.
80ās
Group A
Group B
F2 kit car
R4
0voters
Feel free to also motivate your choice that I might understand the inherent differences here.
80ās would be the next logical step since all of them are more powerful RWD again but that also makes them even harder to control.
In order to make it more attractive to more people, Iād say we try out 4WD cars (Group A, R4) or FWD (F2 kit car) to make things a little easier.
Group B are absolute monsters and should only be tried out if you want a speedy, violent death or support the destruction of our forests.
Completely agree with you, hence Iād suggest we start with the F2 and then later go to whateverās easier between Group A and R4 and then the other one.
Read the follow up explanations, make perfect sense, voted afterā¦ Initially I was just going to say letās go with 80s, but higher power and violent cliff jumping really doesnāt work. I need to get into my head that DiRT Rally is not a typical platformer.
I nearly forgot to enter this week. I canāt seem to open the chrono rally (probably finished after last weeks?) so I did my time on a custom event. Thereās slippery white stuff everywhere making this really hard.
My vote goes to group A . Has two iconic rally cars ( you could say i āgrew upā with these ) and also has 4WD which should makes thing a little bit more accesible for everyone to enjoy.
This week unfortunately petered out a bit in exhaustion from wading around in too much snow, the road conditions this time was certainly taking itās toll but more than that I think the cars were probably not too well suited to the task at hand. Still @Vandem managed to impress with both perseverance and swiftness clearing the track in an astonishing 2:40.626 almost 10s before @doomy in second place.
This one took a lot out of everyone and you all did admirably under the circumstances.
Week 41
Bjƶrklangen
Pos
Name
Vehicle
Time
1
Vandem
Opel Kadette
02:40.626
2
Doomy
Opel Kadette
02:50.109
3
DontBeSilly
Fiat Abarth
02:51.859
4
Pylinaer
Fiat Abarth
02:57.976
5
M00
Opel Kadette
02:59.456
6
Frag-ile
Opel Kadette
03:03.056
7
NME1
Fiat Abarth
03:10.992
8
YQMaoski
Fiat Abarth
03:11.725
We will not be traveling too far for week 42, just a short hop across the Baltic sea taking us to Finland.
Land of the thousand lakes, all of which weāll try to stay out of, though that will be easier said than done because the place is about as even as a washing board. Finland features some pretty lengthy tracks that are largely straight with very few sharp corners instead thereās big jumps and crests all over the place. The trick will be to remember which jumps are safe to speed through and which ones will throw you into the woods or someoneās front yard.
Weāll be leaving the 70ās cars in whichever snowdrift you last saw them in and get ourselves some new rides for this one.
The 90ās group A selection of cars have a few nice quality of life improvements like 4 wheel drive, which could probably have come in real handy last week. Weāve got ourselves another Ford this time, the American car is of course still the heaviest one and it comes with just plain too many gears. Will anyone ever even use 7th gear on anything but a highway?
I think this might be Subaruās first foray into rally cars and the fact that I know the name Impreza suggests it was probably pretty successful, despite itās mere 5 gears. Lancia makes another appearance and this time finally manage to put out the highest power to weight ratio, if that helps will remain to be seen.
If anyone new fancies joining up, this week would be a great time to do it as these cars are far more pleasant to drive than our previous machines.
So Iād like to extend a warm welcome to everyone for week 42 of the Chrono Rally League.
Only did the following:
Crash into a sign on the first jump
Crash into a sign because I didnāt hear the RIGHT SQUARE
Bust my coolant on said sign (and managed to finish the race)
Spun out not once, but THREE times
Side swiped a tree (that caused one of the three spins)
Iāll upload a video when it finishes, I havenāt properly set the settings so it might be kinda choppy.
Video:
So eeehā¦ funny thing HƤmelahti was actually not the track I was thinking of using this week, it should have been OksjƤrvi or Oksala, the 8km tracks. Seems I used the wrong SS when I created the graphics and then used that info when I wrote things up. This is fine too though.
Iām not sure yet but I donāt think I like the Subaru, it either sounds like a coffee percolator or a squealing pig, but itās the first car I think Iāve driven that actually has a speedometer on the dash. I think I enjoyed the Lancia a bit more, Iāll have a few more runs with them both before deciding.
The first big jump has a trick to it, thereās 2 big pines visible over the crest, aim for the left one and youāll be fine, so much as glance at the right one and:
Thatās still with one car reset and a couple of visits to the forest, but without any really big collisions and managed to keep all my tires with me.
The not-visualized wheel is just a rim, once again, sparking all overā¦
@Fraggles, I donāt mind this track at all, I just canāt practice it as much, which is fine. I actually think the Subaru handles pretty well, and I feel most stable sitting in the coffee peculator, since I know itās actively leaking coolant, gasoline, or engine oil anywayā¦
I have the mini-usb(? horrible connector) version unfortunately, but nowadays they make em in USB-C.
