Listen, its fun, once the stutters chill and everything just WORKS, its a masterpiece in the making and content wise, it's Dirt Rally 3.0. The builder is fun (I wish it had more parts) and the livery editor is okay (just wish there was a mirror mode so I didn't have to make educated guesses where things were on the other side). The stages are incredible and the pace notes have been the best pace notes ive had in games, im actually confident going into stages now. Its all there, it really is.

Except the performance...

Codies...its been almost a month boys, I know switching away from your precious Ego Engine to the Unreal Engine isn't exactly the smoothest transition to make, but a 5950X and a 3080 shouldn't be struggling to maintain 80-90 fps on medium settings. And the stutters, my god the stutters, I crashed out of Codemasters own club event on the first turn because of a stutter. I know they'll figure it out in the end and when they do, ill be there. But right now...its a struggle to really invest time into this. Im not saying don't buy it, but...maybe wait for that sale.