Next Fest Day Update and Future Plans

📢 Hey fellow offroaders!

First, we want to say thank you for the overwhelming response to the demo’s release. 🙏 Seeing so many of you enjoy your time in the wilderness means the world to us. ✨

We also want to address the most common concern so far: performance.

This demo is the biggest test we’ve had for the game, across many different combinations of GPUs, CPUs, resolutions, and settings. Your feedback and reports are helping us find the biggest issues and make improvements.

As a self-published and self-funded small indie studio, we’re still actively building the game, adding features, and creating new content. Because the game is still changing, the final optimization pass will happen once the major systems and content are in place.

That said, we are taking performance seriously. We’re hiring extra help to support optimization, and we’ll keep improving the game as we move toward launch.

In the meantime, we have some tentative changes in the beta branch of the demo, they should hopefully help improve the performance for some of our players, but we need your feedback. To access the beta branch, open the game properties settings, and head over to the “Game Versions & Betas” tab.

We also recommend making sure that your GPU drivers are up to date, as some players have reported improved performance after doing so.

See you off the road! 🚙✨

Changelog

QoL Improvements

• When completing an area, the fog of war is now completely revealed

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the host would sometimes become unable to release the winch

• Fixed an issue where the host would sometimes not be able to access the merchant or interact with scenic points

• Fixed an issue that caused the server list to continuously focus the first server when it refreshed

• Fixed an issue that prevented the player from fast-traveling to a cabin if a pinpoint was placed on top of it

• Removed invisible colliders near the waterfalls in Emerald Lake

• Fixed an issue where the end of demo video would not display correctly on Steam Deck

• Fixed an issue where the end of demo video would display incorrectly on ultrawide resolutions

• Minor localization fixes for: Russian, Chinese