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RBR is the king and will remain king for a while. ACR is incredible but the barrier to entry for mods to compete with the quality of the official stages is extremely high. I'm not sure we'll ever see as prolific a modding scene in ACR.
Who knows? RBR and ACR are both excellent. I'm just waiting for the ACR team to fix the throttle model as it's abysmal with RWD cars.
The realism and detail of the stages in ACR is like nothing I've seen elsewhere. Every other game is just flat and like a ribbon. I guess that's laser scanning for you!
I can't personally say I noticed too much trouble with the throttle model in RWD (then again, I mostly main the Stratos and 037), what is it you think about it? Not saying you're wrong, just curious
I also main the Stratos. It seems to be the best behaved out of all the RWD cars. The Alfa is abysmal though, which is a bummer because I love those old Alfas. It's like the throttle response is exponential or something. It really feels like its all or nothing with a very tiny midrange. The Alfa on snow in Monte Carlo is undriveable because the throttle is so unpredictable. It should be easier to control the throttle compared to the Stratos but its the opposite.
Niels Heusinkveld has had a few good chats about it on his youtube channel, if you'd like to hear someone with credentials speak about it.
Have you tried Dirt Rally 2? It's not without its faults, but imo, its still the best rally game out there.
I have, it was my go to before EA WRC came along. Honestly? Its not that its a bad game, but it leans more into the arcadey style of sim racing physics and that's fine, but it's not really my vibe.
Its a shame because some of the engine sounds from that game were the best of all time still to this day, imo. Not to mention having Welsh and Scottish stages! I miss those.
ACR is a moving target at the moment for evaluation. They released 0.5 recently, but today they released 0.5.1 and it's a big enough change in physics that they wiped all the leaderboards again like 2 weeks after the last wipe. People are saying that tarmac times are a lot faster, but gravel times are a lot slower thanks to the change, which is interesting (I think it is down to them changing coefficients for rolling resistance and the ratio of traction to bulldozing effect?)
At any rate, it's great to see them continue to refine and tweak further! Also—and in my mind this is almost more important than all that other stuff—they added filtering for online races! So now you can search by stage name, country, or host name instead of just randomly scrolling down the list trying to find one that fits your current desires.
Having said all that, yes RBR could potentially be king for years to come still. It all depends on if ACR allows 3rd part stages and cars or not. If so, then people will start publishing and converting stages for ACR instead of RBR most likely whereas if not… well, it is hard to argue with literally hundreds of stages like RBR has, not to mention a price of free (or donationware if you want to support the stage makers) if you really want to drive a lot of rally…