EA Sports WRC

I take notes as I play the game for things that I think deserve a mention. If something was not mentioned, it is considered "fine" and not noteworthy in any sense.

EA Sports WRC

As EA has taken over WRC-series, I'm primarly comparing this game to the WRC games by Kylotonn previously such as WRC9, 10 and Generations.

Pros

• Sound
  Great engine sounds
  
  
• Adaptive triggers
  Finally added trigger support for Dualsense controller.
  
  

Neutral

• Management system
  The management system in earlier WRC Kylotonn games not made by Codemasters was better with it easier to use calendar layout.
  
  
• Track design
  Overall it's fine, but some stages has corners where you can't turn right because it's first a hard turn left immidiatly before the right turn.
  
  
• No podium
  In earlier WRC games by Kylotonn, when you won you got awarded to a podium. There's no awards in this game so it feels more like a chore.
  
  
• Replays
  This doesn't look as good as earlier Dirt Rally games, and not as good as something like WRC10 by Kylotonn. The replay in this game only look good in hood-view and the dynamic camera system was meh.
• Punishments
  It's not as bad in this game like the Dirt Rally games, but it's not great. I set the difficulty on easier only so I could take the penality hits like corner cutting. For the most part it was a 5sec penalty which is fine, but other times 25sec, which is insane.

Cons

• Menu
  A bit too cluttered. And doesn't keep track so it resets to first race.
  
  
• Pause menu
  There's whole seconds delay before anything happens
  
  
• Regularity Rally
  It just sucks
  
  
• Screen tearing
  Mainly in the service area, there's a lot of screen tearing. And some specific stages.
  
  
• Night lights
  It looks more like a big wide light than two induvidual lights.
  
  
• Stop by Marshall
  It's a little buggy. Works fine in the earlier WRC games by Kylotonn. It doesn't trigger automatically when you stop.
  
  
• Localization
  Several locations doesn't have it's proper names as it's missing characters outside of English language. So example in Sweden, Vargåsen, it's named "Vargasen", while some other locations have proper names. It's just lazy.
• Bad environment vehicles
  Kylotonn did a better job with this with proper ambulances, country plates and liveries etc. while I don't understand; why does this game have so many pick-up trucks? makes no sense.
• Snow is medicore
  It was more fun driving in snow in the later Kylotonn games. Some places in this game just made snow feel like a hard wall and more ice-road than snow road.
• Pause during events
  If you pause during an event, you get no info about it. I would had liked to know, what race I am at, or view event status. Is this the 4 out of 5 race? Who knows during a race. It's just bad structure overall. When I started with GroupB because I couldn’t afford any car earlier, then I got started in the middle of the championship, then it’s basically impossible to win. While the leader has 50 points and I have 0, that’s very ”fair” starting point.