Overview
With Dirt 5 in the works, and Dirt Rally 2.0 already released, I still thought I’d show the original some love with some good mods.
Notice
I never created any of these mods nor do I create these mods, I am just trying to show other people that these mods exist. So support the original creators of these mods. I either got these mods from Race Department or other sources. If ANY of these mods break your save game, which it shouldn’t, it is not my fault.
Introduction
Last guide I made about Dirt 3 mods, I got over 9,000 views and 139 favorites, and since I own a copy of Dirt Rally, why don’t I make another guide for it too?
Dirt Rally still has a good modding community to this day, so let’s see what they have done.
Skin Mods, and a convenient way to install them
Skin mods are one of the best mods you can get. The ability to have a custom livery that wouldn’t have been in vanilla is a great thing to see, especially when theirs a lot of them to download.
You can get a good amount at RaceDepartment, but if I listed every single one, we would be here forever, so I’ll just leave the links below.
Race Department[www.racedepartment.com]
Rallygamer’s Skins[www.rallygamer.com]
And to install them, I would recommend Dirt Rally Mod Manager, it’s like Content Manager, but for skins.
Dirt Rally Mod Manager[www.racedepartment.com]
Visual Mods
Visuals make a game look good, and with mods, you could make it look even better.
Reshade
Reshade is a post-processing injector that can make games look amazing. If you want to know more, here’s the description from their website.
“ReShade is a generic post-processing injector for games and video software developed by crosire. Imagine your favorite game with ambient occlusion, real depth of field effects, color correction, and more … ReShade exposes an automated and generic way to access both frame color and depth information (latter is automatically disabled during multiplayer to prevent exploitation) and all the tools to make it happen.
The possibilities are endless! Add advanced depth-edge-detection-driven SMAA antialiasing, screen-space ambient occlusion, depth of field effects, chromatic aberration, dynamic film grain, automatic saturation and color correction, cross processing, multi-pass blurring … you name it.”
Reshade[reshade.me]
No Yellow Filter
This mod is self-explanatory, it aims to remove the yellow filter the game sometimes has, giving it a clear tone that it needs. Note that in the video, they are using an outdated Reshade.
No Yellow Filter[www.racedepartment.com]
DiRTier Mod
As the creator said, the aim is to make cars dirtier, and dirtier quickly.
DiRTier Mod[www.racedepartment.com]
Particles+
Particles+ aims to improve the particle effects in Dirt Rally by adding more emitters in specific conditions. It is still a WIP.
Particles+[www.racedepartment.com]
Weather Improvements
This mod changes some textures with the weather in some stages, but not all of them.
Weather Improvements[www.racedepartment.com]
Ultra+
This mod is a small mod that tries to push the ultra settings even higher, trying its best to bring your computer to its knees with good visuals.
Ultra+[www.racedepartment.com]
Sébastien Ogier Helmet
This mod brings Sébastien Ogier’s helmet into the game, if you’re a fan of the driver, I would download this.
Sébastien Ogier Helmet[www.racedepartment.com]
WRC 2016 Sponsors
This mod replaces the sponsors with ones from the WRC 2016 season.
WRC 2016 Sponsors[www.rallygamer.com]
Camera / FOV Mods
The cockpit is the powerhouse for every input you make to the car, and the place you actually sit in. And the in-game camera is the real reason you can even see.
More Car Movement
This mod aims to add more motion to the first person camera, and to make it a bit more realistic.
More Car Movement[www.racedepartment.com]
Enhanced Camera Control
This mod adds way more control over your cockpit camera, even having different views, and to change your FOV as well!
Enhanced Camera Control[www.racedepartment.com]
ROCKET Head Cam
This is another mod that also tries to alter the motion of the head and body. The mod is still a WIP, and at the time of making this guide, their is only 1 review.
ROCKET Head Cam[www.racedepartment.com]
Heli Cam
This mod adds a helicopter-like view to your camera selection in replay mode.
RX Racing Atmosphere
This mod aims to capture the vibe of rallycross racing via the angles.
Sound Mods
The sound of a car engine is music to a car persons ears. I didn’t manage to find much universal sound mods. They are more sound mods in RaceDepartment though.
Anti-Lag
This mod adds back the anti-lag that was in a earlier version of Dirt Rally but got cut in the final release.
Anti-Lag[www.racedepartment.com]
50+ sound files for Dirt Rally
This mod grabs some sounds from Dirt 3 and brings them back to Rally.
50+ Sounds[www.racedepartment.com]
Physics Mods
Physics are the most important part of a sim racing game, and usually determines if a game is good or not.
RFPE Physics
This mod aims to make the physics of Dirt Rally more realistic, actually corresponding to their real life counterparts.
RFPE Physics[www.racedepartment.com]
HRDCR Damage Model
This mod aims to make damage way more punishable, so you have to try your best to stay on the road.
HRDCR Damage[www.racedepartment.com]
Car Mods
If you ever wanted to use one car on one track, this is for you.
ACAT
This mod unlocks all cars for use on any track, and this works with multiplayer.
ACAT[www.racedepartment.com]
Citroen DS3 Rally Edition
This mod actually replaces the Mini Countryman with the DS3 Rally Edition.
Citroen DS3 Rally Edition[www.rallygamer.com]
UI Mods
The UI is where you see all your data, and the data you need most.
WRC 2016 On Screen Display
This mod adds WRC colors and a WRC Logo to the tach.
WRC UI[www.rallygamer.com]
WRC 2016 Pace Notes
This mod simplifies the original pace notes by having 5 colors instead of 10.
WRC Pace Notes[www.rallygamer.com]
Custom OSD
This mod changes the rev bar from white to orange and red, and the shift light to orange.
Custom OSD[www.rallygamer.com]
Custom Car Tiles
This mod lets you add custom car tiles, and this can be useful if you have custom skins. This requires Special K.
Custom Car Tiles[www.racedepartment.com]
Special K[github.com]
[link]Other Nice Mods
These mods are so unique that they have their own place.
DRTelemetry
This mod adds telemetery data from Dirt Rally into OBS, and is really good for streaming!
DRTelemetry[www.racedepartment.com]
DiRTy Pacenotes
This mod lets you make your own customized pace notes for Rally and Rally 2.0, and their are 2 co-drivers with the mod.
DiRTy Pacenotes[www.racedepartment.com]
The End
Well that’s all of the mods I covered, and I want to say, thanks for your support on my Dirt 3 guide 4 years ago, without that, I would have probably not made this guide.
And not only that, this talented community is the reason that these mods exist, so give them your best support and download some mods!
Again, thank you guys for reading my guides, and thank you to the modding community!
If you want to support me, you can join my group, which I just created, a GTR2 Guide could be on the way!
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