EA SPORTS™ WRC - Version 2.1.6 Patch Notes

4 december 2024

Banner for the article featuring a classic Citroën C4 car and text: Version 2.1.6 Patch Notes

The latest update for EA SPORTS™ WRC is available to download from December 5, 2024. This update focuses on improvements to the onboarding experience for first-time players, and the introduction of a new “Visual Only” damage difficulty.

“Visual Only” Damage:

Image of in-game screen: Quick Play Championship Settings

We have made a number of changes to various parts of the game for first-time players, such as those arriving from EA Play and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

The key addition is that of a new Visual Only damage option. This disables mechanical damage across Career, Championship, Clubs, Quick Play Solo and Quick Play Multiplayer.

When using Visual Only damage, tyres will not receive punctures (tyre wear remains active) and players won’t receive Terminal Damage from crashes or entering unrecoverable zones on stages.

Normal and Hardcore Damage Difficulty remain as-is, with the “Harcore Damage” setting now renamed to “Damage Difficulty” across all game modes.

Updated “Play Experience” menu:

Image of in-game screen: Play Experience difficulty settings

We’ve also made a few adjustments to the Play Experience menu, which all new players see when joining the game for the first time.

In addition to rebalancing the pre-selected Assists for the Experienced option, we’ve made it clearer on-screen what settings are enabled when choosing one of the three options.

Players can freely customise their assists and settings once they progress past this screen.

Additionally, Experienced players will also be taken to the Rally School before they start their rally journey.

“Safety Mark” decals in Livery Editor:

Image of in-game screen: Decal Library

In this update we have also added 27 new decals to the Livery Editor. These are all themed around the various safety and regulatory marks that exist on real-world rally cars.

Your custom designs will now look more authentic when using these decals, similar to our officially licensed liveries on all cars in the game.

Audio

Made improvements to audio effects when the player's car collides with bodies of water, and other soft-edge objects (foliage etc.).

Livery Editor

Added 27 new decals to the Livery Editor. These primarily consist of motorsport safety-themed icons, such as fire extinguisher marks, electricity cut-off indicators, tow hook locations and more.

Locations

Japan - Lake Mikawa - Fixed an issue in which some textures appeared distorted during location reveal scenes.
Pacifico - Talao - Addressed a number of corner-cutting exploits on the "Abai" section of this stage.
Pacifico - Talanghilirair - Addressed a number of corner-cutting exploits on the "Abai" section of this stage.
Pacifico - Sungai Kunit - Addressed a number of corner-cutting exploits on the "Abai" section of this stage.
Pacifico - Sangir Balai Janggo - Addressed a number of corner-cutting exploits on the "Abai" section of this stage.
Pacifico - Abai - Addressed a number of corner-cutting exploits.
Pacifico - Moearaikoer - Addressed a number of corner-cutting exploits.

Moments

Japanese Airlines - Fixed an issue in which this Moment could not be completed.

Options & Settings

Added a new Damage Difficulty option: "Visual Only". This setting allows mechanical damage to be disabled across Career, Championship, Clubs, Quick Play Solo and Quick Play Multiplayer. Tyres will not receive punctures while this is enabled (Tyre Wear remains active). Terminal Damage will not occur from crashes or entering unrecoverable zones on stages (these now reset the car to the road). No changes have been made to the Normal and Hardcore Damage Difficulty options.
Added Assists, AI and Damage Difficulty notes to Play Experience. Play Experience is the difficulty preset menu presented to new players when they play for the very first time.
Adjusted the preset Assists applied when new players select Experienced in the Play Experience menu. Assists can be changed/customised at any time.
New players who select Experienced in the Play Experience menu will now be automatically taken to Rally School. This functionality previously existed when new players selected Beginner (and also remains active there).
Renamed the "Hardcore Damage" setting to "Damage Difficulty".

Quick Play

Fixed an issue with Quick Play Multiplayer in which Xbox players could not receive invites from players on other platforms.

VR Beta

Fixed an issue in which ambient audio was not playing during replays and other scenes.

Miscellaneous

Made a small number of minor bug fixes and improvements across the game

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