DiRT Rally, which had a surprise announcement followed by an Early Access release followed on the same day a few days ago, has already gotten its first patch. The patch fine tunes and fixes up a number of problems that players have reported with the title so far.
The game is currently in Steam Early Access- meaning it is in active development, and in a pre-beta stage. This means that problems such as the ones highlighted by players are expected in this case. The dialog between players and developers in Early Access is supposed to be the entire point, so that the final product lives up to expectations, as long as the developer actually responds to concerns. Happily, Codemasters has done just that.
Here is a copy of their patch notes:
Audio Fix – We had a word with the co-driver about his attitude and he should now be talking to you if he wasn’t before.
Audio Fix – Resolved several instances of your co-driver speaking French for non French players (he’s been taking lessons and wanted to practice).
Online Fix – Fixed the Daily Online events so you will now be correctly rewarded for completing the event.
Championship Fix – Resolved instances of incorrect weather combinations being generated during later championship events… We blame global warming.
Known issues we’re working on
Error 41 – We’re looking into this one, and will update as soon as I have more info. As it is something we need to discuss with Valve.
dirtgame.com not loading – this seems to be an issue with Firefox users, we’re looking into it but for now any other browser should work.
FFB – The team are looking at your feedback on this now and we’ll have some settings for you to try out later today.
If you are having any of the problems below can you please take a read of this post and send your dxdiags to dirtgame(at)codemasters(dot)com. We’re still trying to get to the bottom of them and the more info we can collect about your system the quicker we can get to fix.
Game Hangs
Input lag on some setups
Benchmark test doesn’t run correctly
Can’t full screen on mobile Nvidia cards
Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage and information of the game.