EA Sports WRC Patch 2.1.6 Available Today - Patch Notes

EA Sports WRC patch 2.16 is available today on all platforms, improving the onboarding experience for first-time players following the game’s addition to Game Pass and the EA Play List, while also introducing a new “Visual Only” damage difficulty setting.

The new “Visual Only” damage option disables mechanical damage across Career, Championship, Clubs, Quick Play Solo and Quick Play Multiplayer. With this setting, tires won’t suffer punctures (though tire wear remains) and players won’t experience Terminal Damage from crashes or entering unrecoverable zones. The Normal and Hardcore Damage Difficulty settings remain unchanged, with “Hardcore Damage” now renamed to “Damage Difficulty” across all game modes.

The Play Experience menu has been adjusted for new players, with rebalanced pre-selected assists for the Experienced option and clearer on-screen indicators for the settings enabled in each of the three options. Players can fully customize their assists and settings once they move past this screen. Experienced players will now be directed to the Rally School before beginning their rally journey.

For additional details, check out the latest blog and the patch notes below.

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