Ive just achieved 'Masters' status, on DiRT Rally 2.0 !
 

https://i.imgur.com/tr2aRQ9.jpg

Yeah, OK I'm boasting, but to me, its a hell of a fucking achievement!!!

Ive put in over 500+ hours during lockdown, bought a wheel and pedals and stand, and I finally got there !!!

Just to give you a rough idea about what it means: You race against AI cars and have to achieve an overall faster time to progress up to Masters. Masters is as far as you can go...

When you are in Masters, you have to beat the AI times as usual, HOWEVER, some of the AI times that you have to beat, are actually faster than 'Real Life' world records (On The Game Itself)...

This means I wont stay there that long, but Ive got there. Im at the top of the mountain, standing alongside the very best players in the entire world ! So yeah... Im taking a moment to show off about it!

Its been a LONG hard slog. LOT of time and practise gone into this simulation. I'm giving myself a virtual pat on the back ! Well done me :)

congrats to master status Mr. Poo!

Now go and do it in the real world!

Btw (virtual hiigh 5)!

Do you broadcast your games so others can watch? I have a buddy that's a 4 time Tetris world championship.

He quit his job and travels the world now.

Nah, I dont do that. Its just for me really. Perhaps if I chose to drive a really difficult car or something, then it might be something Id look into, but atm no. I wont be at masters for long anyway, because I can stay there if Im lucky, but most chances are that Im gonna fail at every event now, simply because the times I need to beat to stay in masters, are unrealistic.

As such, I expect to be downgraded to elite again, and then when I do an event in elite, I'll possibly get back into masters again.

Its all to do with how the ai is worked out. Based on the car you chose to drive the computer works out the absolute fasted speed it could possibly be driven at, with zero mistakes or hesitation, or even 'kissing' the side of the bank even once. Then, from that 'impossible' time, it simply deducts say 10 seconds if you are at 'Masters', or 20 seconds for 'Elite', or 30 seconds for 'Professional' etc etc, and thats the time you need to beat. Of course it 'works' these times into the events themselves, so as it doesnt appear quite so clynical, but thats basically the essense of how it works out.

So, in otherwords, I'm chuffed to fuck that I got into Masters, but cant realistically expect to stay there as the game makes it virtually impossible. I mean, you cant have a near perfect run, EVERY TIME, and even the slightest mistake means you cant reamin in masters. So its the getting there that is the big deal, not staying there :)

Congrats .. Master