DiRT Rally: Pikes Peak screenshots revealed

Codemasters has revealed the first screenshots and details on Pikes Peak, a new Hillclimb rally environment coming soon to DiRT Rally.

Available in a free content update later this month, Pikes Peak promises to offer a brand new challenge over the game’s three existing locations, with the course’s extreme altitude affecting the player’s engine power and aerodynamics.

“It’s such a different challenge tearing up the hill with no co-driver giving you instructions,” chief game designer Paul Coleman wrote in a post on the game’s website. “You really have to learn the route and there is plenty to learn. From a simulation angle we’ve improved the way we model the Aerodynamics. The Hillclimb cars have some extreme wing setups and this extra component of the simulation has given us plenty to layer back into the rally cars you are already driving, we’ll be getting on the case with that as soon as we can. 

“Another key element of Pikes Peak is the change in altitude. The difference in air pressure has a huge impact on the power the engine can produce and how much downforce is created by those big wings. Power loss with altitude is something we already simulate (you may have noticed a difference in car performance between Wales and Greece) but in Pikes Peak you actually get to feel the power drop as you climb.”

More information on DiRT Rally’s new Hillclimb mode will be revealed next week.

DiRT Rally launched on PC last month with regular free content updates planned to roll out throughout the Early Access period.

Pikes Peak will be first up, with a new rally environment set in Germany’s Panzerplatte following in June. Updates introducing a new PVP multiplayer mode and Rallycross are also scheduled to release later this year.

Source: dirtgame.com