Content Update #8

NEW CONTENT

• New American 60s RWD: Bullet.

• New American 80s RWD: Jackal.

• New Scrapyard Waypoint Race route.

• New Savolax Sandpit Waypoint Race route.

• New Random Waypoint Mode & Free Order Waypoint Mode

  Note that AI can't navigate the Random waypoint order so they're removed in single player.

• New Suicide Race route for Savolax Sandpit Short Circuit.

• New Suicide Race routes for Speedway Oval and Figure 8.

• New Suicide Race routes for UK Banger Dirt Oval and Figure 8.

• A set of new challenge events.

PLAYER PROGRESS

• Added the first version of player progress tracking playstyles with badges you can level up.

GAMEPLAY

• Reduced Normal Damage intensity.

• Added drifting and airtime score events.

• Scoring is now fairer (you can score as a defender as long as you do damage).

• Fixed wrong way indicator incorrectly triggering on the Speedway Figure 8 track.

• Leaderboards now have separate class based boards too.

TUNING

• New Quick Tune mode to tune any tuning part quickly with just one slider.

• It's now possible to download anyone's shared tune from the leaderboards.

• Each tuning modifier now has an accompanying help description.

• Tuning screen now shows simulated performance stats.

• All tuning value ranges now make more sense.

• Correct metric/imperial units are now used for all values.

VEHICLES

• Buffed Half A Crusader to make the tailend feel less heavy.

• Added missing clutch upgrades for Stahlwagen, Valken, and Half A Crusader.

• Revised the School Bus engine to make it a properly turbocharged diesel.

• Tachometer now works more like an authentic "lazy" analog tachometer.

AI

• Fixed AI cars not dodging other cars correctly in multiplayer.

CRAP-IT

• Share Designs with other Players by exchanging the loose files from your savegame location.

  Note: Sharing will be made more convenient in the future.

• Added a massive amount of new stickers, sprayed on texts and Banger style number decals.

• Decal manipulation tools now include SKEW tool for skewing single decals.

• Decal manipulation tools now have a FINE-TUNE toggle for finer adjusting.

• It's now possible to reorder decals and decal groups via the Options menu.

• Improved input handling (on gamepad, press left stick for panning and zooming).

• Improved decal add/copy/paste/mirror robustness so decals appear where intended.

• Various user experience improvements to make editing less of a hassle.

INTERFACE

• Added minimap. Can be toggled on/off in the Settings menu.

  You can also adjust the minimap zoom factor in the Settings menu.

• Compass can be now enabled/disabled in the Settings menu.

• Finished cars now show a little checkered flag in the car tag.

• Improved UI for Tuning, Crap-It, Challenge Select and Loading Screens.

• Various other assorted user interface improvements.

ONLINE

• More robust online client synchronization, improving multiplayer collisions.

• Improved client prediction accuracy.

• Cars in the post-race screen no longer appear smoking and in flames.

• Quitting from a lobby now takes back to Server Browser if the server was directly connected to.

INPUT & FORCE-FEEDBACK

• Increased force feedback update frequency.

• Added high frequency road detail to force feedback.

• Added engine, gearbox and road noise effects to force feedback.

• Reduced force feedback jitter.

• Introduced vibration intensity for force feedback, adjusts road detail and effects.

• Increased dynamic damping range from 100% to 200%, old default 40% is now 100%.

• Improved force feedback damping logic, reducing oscillations around center while improving sense of steering rack friction.

• Implemented gyroscopic precession steering forces when driving over bumps and rolling the car.

• Rewrote low force boost logic for gear and belt driven wheels, it now saturates signal much more giving close to full possible cornering effort more often.

• Fixed wheels and controllers with more than 32 buttons; all buttons up to 128 now work.

• Fixed a range of controller binding issues, including bindings that could stop responding.

SYSTEM

• Improved game stability and performance.

• Replay system now writes in smaller chunks, fixing the frame hitch when crossing the finish line.

• Minor optimization of the collision system (car deformation work spread across worker threads).

AUDIO

• Fixed missing ground & rock wall surface collision sounds in desert waypoint race.

• Fixed issue where checkpoint sound effect would not play in online multiplayer waypoint races.

• Added ground surface collision sounds for the Driver ragdoll.

• Added tire impact sounds for wooden ramps.

• Added tire contact sounds for metal crosshatch / grille surfaces.

• Implemented tech support for race track -specific audio content banks.

• Audio mem improvement: Large-sized audio assets are streamed from disk rather than loaded to memory.

• Audio mem improvement: Sounds of animated track objects (crane etc.) are loaded to memory only when any are used on a track.

• Schoolbus: Implemented turbocharger on the stock inline 6 diesel engine.

• In-game audio settings change: Non-diegetic waypoint race checkpoint sound effect is now part of "Other Effects" volume slider group rather than "UI".

• Cockpit view: Fixed mix config issue where exhaust backfire got attenuated in excess.