Arriving for rally fans on March 25th, 2025, we now know what's included in the last of the planned expansion packs with the EA Sports WRC Hard Chargers DLC new content confirmed. The first thing to cover will be the six new cars arriving with the paid DLC, also available as part of the +24 Season Expansion Bundle, and they will be: As an older sim racer, I'm … [Read more...]
EA Sports WRC Update 2.2.0 Extends The Rally Pass
Along with the release of the Le Maestros Content Pack paid DLC, the EA Sports WRC Update 2.2.0 extends the Rally Pass, refreshes the Livery Select interface, and adds new player nationalities to the official rally racing game. We've previously covered the Le Maestros pack, which celebrates French success in the World Rally Championship. Something that's now apparent is that … [Read more...]
EA Sports WRC Le Maestros DLC Pack Content Revealed
Arriving on January 28th, 2025, the new EA Sports WRC Le Maestros DLC Pack will celebrate the rally successes of French drivers and manufacturers, along with adding new stages for the Rallye Monte Carlo and Rally de Portugal From 2004 until 2022, the World Rally Championship was a tale of two Sebastiens, with Loeb and then Ogier winning the world championship every year … [Read more...]
EA Sports WRC Patch V1.4.1 Released
Drops in AI performance when you come back to a saved Career or Championship Event should now be fixed, along with the game crashing entirely when you load your career, with EA Sports WRC Patch V1.4.1 released. It focuses on the main issues discovered since the release of the previous v1.40 update in December 20203, which added the Central European Rally as a new location, … [Read more...]
EA Sports WRC Update V1.3 Released To Fix Launch Issues
A big number of fixes and improvements arrive with EA Sports WRC Update v1.3 released across all platforms. It should fix a number of technical issues which have somewhat marred the launch of the game, and adds User Datagram Protocol support for the PC, which supplies data to external applications including wheels, dashboards and motion platforms. It's the first official WRC … [Read more...]
EA Sports WRC Compatible Wheels List
While your wheel and pedals may work even if not mentioned below, there's an official EA Sports WRC compatible wheel list to confirm the sim racing set-ups which should work perfectly right now. This means the bindings will be in place automatically when you load the game, rather than having to set them all up manually. Fanatec, Logitech and Thrustmaster are all well … [Read more...]
EA Sports WRC Announced For November 3rd, 2023
The first officially-licensed World Rally Championship game to be developed by Codemasters has a confirmed release date, with EA Sports WRC announced for November 3rd, 2023. It uses a Dynamic Handling System, building on the system they previously used on the Colin McRae and DiRT titles, with the ability to adjust it for individual preferences. But the graphics use Unreal … [Read more...]
The EA Sports WRC Car List
As the first officially-licensed WRC title from Codemasters, you'd expect the developers to include a range of classic and iconic rally cars along with those from the current season. And you'd be right, as you can see in the EA Sports WRC Car List. At launch, the rally sim will feature 10 cars from the current WRC season, with the Rally1 WRC cars, the WRC2 field and Junior … [Read more...]