EA SPORTS™ WRC

EA SPORTS™ WRC

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General Tips, Sensitivity Settings for Controller
By Osigurach
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
This is perhaps the most important side to rally. Sending it into every corner expecting grip is a sure fire way to end up in the bushes.
Very important factor in rally titles are:

- Throttle control: This doesn't just go for acceleration, but deceleration too. Being steady and trying to feel and find the grip is your best course of action (e.g. Noticing when Force Feedback changes, or when the front/rear start slipping or understeering).

In a high speed section especially, you may be tempted to lift off throttle and coast, thinking that will be the safe solution.
But that allows inertia to take your car where it wants to go. Staying on throttle ensures that the car is going DOWN the road where you want it, and let the tires physically dig into the surface, as opposed to rolling over the surface.

- Braking: Use the brakes way more than you think you should. On loose surface you want to use the brakes to control the cars weight, which will influence oversteer and understeer and allow you to better position yourself for an upcoming turn.

Adjusting controller sensitivity can greatly improve handling and responsiveness as well.

Most of these settings that I'm sharing can very between players but feel free to give them a try, especially in the sensitivity settings.
   
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Steering Sensitivity and Linearity
The "meat" of car control. We're going with 100 sensitivity and 0 linearity, as that way the turning will be instantaneous with the analog stick, providing control where it's required.

- Steering Sensitivity: Adjusts how much the car turns in response to stick movement.
- Steering Linearity: Controls how input scales—higher values create a slower initial response with more aggressive turning at the extremes.

Default steering sensitivity is 50, which I consider to be very slow.

Note that saturation and deadzone are default as I don't personally find the need to fiddle with them.

Vibration and feedback is up to personal liking, you can increase it or decrease it but it's very useful as the game provides "feedback" based on what the car is doing, especially on loose surfaces.


Game Preferences
If you would like to see more out of the hood camera, increase the FOV.
It will help you judge the corners easily.

Assists
Brightness
What are brightness settings doing here? Putting the lack of HDR settings on my end aside:

- Having issues during night stages where it's hard to tell what's ahead? Increase or max out the brightness.
- Headlights are completely broken and it's night stage? Max out the brightness.

Higher brightness allows you to see better in front, due to the way the lighting works in EA WRC.