EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B

Re:EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B by giobox on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:11PM (#25420010)

Lift off oversteer can be done in FWD cars too - its just another variation on a clutch kick/handbrake/sharp steering input/whatever to lose traction to start the slide. I think we can likely all agree the finer points of managing oversteer is a little beyond scope of this discussion!

Chances of you driving anything today without ESC/DSC/etc (whatever your manufacturer labeled it) on really rare too unless you decided to turn it off, especially if it's only driving the rears. ESC is incredibly effective even on 20 year old cars.

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Re:EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B by core-questions on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:35PM (#25420402)

Can't even turn that stuff off on a lot of cars, the button only partially disables it; some cars need a cheat code to fully disable, some simply can't. I wanted to boot my CX-5 around in a snowy parking lot but it kept deciding things like "ignore throttle input entirely and don't spin the wheels" when spinning all four madly is all I wanted to do.

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