Good day everyone, 1.5.0.4 has been released, this contains mainly improvements to the sound effects, adds a minimap and fixes some bugs.

This is the last of the 1.5.x release cycle patches.
The next update will be a major 1.6 update with completely overhauled UI, additional race events with unique rewards and tracks, multiplayer rankings, and the ghost car PvP challenge.


Changes/Improvements

• Overhauled a lot of the sound effects in the game including UI, Nitro and many other sounds
  
• Truck engine sounds are now pitched lower to be less intrusive
  
• First race in career mode has been changed to a 3 lap, 20 second challenge to accustomise players to the racing feel
  
• Added a minimap
  
• Added slightly improved controller support for the menus, pressing 'A' on the controller will take you to the next screen, pressing 'B' will be the same as pressing the back button.
  
• Improved truck reset now points your truck in the right racing direction
  
• Player's truck is now shown on the main menu (complete menu overhaul coming soon)
  
• Improved the look of player labels in multiplayer
  
  Bug Fixes
  
• Fixed sounds not starting/stopping correctly
  
• Fixed some barriers not reacting to truck sliding correctly
  
• Fixed 'Wrong Way' dialog showing when going over some 4-way crossings
  
• Customise screen now only rotates your truck when you actually drag inside it
  
  

Today's patch has a load of small improvements and bug fixes

Improvements

• Upgrade screen now has brand new category icons
  
• Obstacle course now always uses the Chase Camera
  
• Improved AI trucks driving around hairpins and sharp turns
  
• Zoomed out camera on Broadcast camera view a bit so player can see better ahead of them.
  
• Set steering sensitivity to maximum setting by default
  
• Increased engine pitch slightly to make it sound more exciting
  
• Tweaked vehicle gear ratios to improve acceleration and improve overall racing excitement.
  
• Tweaked lighting in each scene
  
• Made earlier races in career mode slightly easier
  
• Removed auto matching multiplayer popup in main menu and race as it had too many issues.
  
• Added a wrong way warning dialog when racing
  
• Removed dialogue that appeared just before a race started as this was annoying some players
  
• Improved visual feedback a little when driving over a pickup
  
• Made pickup colliders bigger
  
• Removed texts from loading dialog
  
  Bugs
  
• Fixed issue where a player could not advance into the Nashville race in career mode.
  
• Fixed game not running in full screen in some cases when window option unchecked in startup dialog.
  
• Fixed issue with engine audio cutting out
  
• Fixed loading dialog not disappearing sometimes during race
  
• Fixed layout issues for screens with 19:9 aspect ratio
  
• Fixed an issue where trucks were spawning inside the hill after a reset
  
  

SuperTrucks Offroad was launched on Steam with zero marketing. The goal was always to launch the game globally on desktop, web and mobile at once, with a complete PR marketing campaign to have the most players in the game at one time, and to grow the multiplayer base.

Fortunately from the Steam launch alone, enough has been learnt in the last 18 months about the shortcomings of the game and where it could be improved upon, thanks to valuable feedback from the community and player reviews.

The game will launch globally towards the end of August. A specialist game PR company has been hired to promote/launch the game, and the game will be promoted upon many other channels and many YouTube channels.

Here is a list of features that will be added to the game for global release...

• Achievements
  
• 10 Exhibition race tournaments in career mode with unique tracks so career mode will take much longer to complete.
  
• Career mode locked by level (so players need to compete in either exhibition race events or multiplayer/ghost car challenge to up their level)
  
• Hardcore career mode (tougher AI, 8 trucks per race)
  
• Level Up Rewards
  
• Daily Login Rewards
  
• Complete Main Menu Redesign
  
• Pre Race and Race Results dialogs redesign
  
• Settings menu redesign with more options
  
• Epic and Legendary customise items and crates
  
• Loads of Multiplayer Improvements and multiplayer only rewards and tracks
  
• Tiered monthly multiplayer leagues that offer epic/legendary truck cosmetic items to the top players each month
  
• A ghost car challenge system where you can bet in-game currency and challenge a player to beat your best lap time on a specific track.
  
• Tiered monthly ghost car challenge leagues that offer epic/legendary truck cosmetic items to the top players each month
  
• Tons of other small improvements
  
• After global launch, the addition of other vehicle classes such as Buggies and Rally Cross vehicles will be added with unique handling, in addition an alternate vehicle physics system may be implemented.

Patch 1.5.0.2 Notes

• Improved truck tyre collisions with barrier. Truck tyres now collide with barriers more realistically and player should no longer get stuck in barrier.
  
• Reworked Post Processing Effects, game now looks much better on Ultra quality setting
  
• Changed top-down camera to more of a top-down view, and broadcast to a similar camera but with slower rotation.
  
• Reduced player truck speed overall and fine tuned AI racing speed.
  
• Fixed a bug where a truck could miss a checkpoint because it was auto-reset.
  
• Fixed lap time format when showing leaderboard before race
  
• Auto-reset/flip starting speed reduced to 15
  
• Further suspension tweaks to prevent trucks from having awkward landings in some places.
  
• Updated missing localised texts for all non-English languages.
  
• Various other small improvements and some bug fixes

Patch Notes

• Fixed some suspension landing issues and implemented suspension upgrades slightly differently. The more upgraded your suspension now, tighter the body roll will be. Overall vehicle handling has been improved.
  
• Truck reset now moves player back to the middle of the track. If the player is auto-reset, they maintain a decent speed instead of no longer stopping completely.
  
• Added a 30% chance of getting a customise item from a cash crate. Gold crates now have 2 customise item chances at 30% each.
  
• Improved appearance and added effects to customise cards when winning them in a crate.
  
• Fixed the fake blob shadow not appearing under trucks on Low Graphics Quality setting.
  
• Fixed Reddit link not working on main menu

The big update is out!

Thank you all for being so patient. Please download the update and give your feedback on the new track artwork and the new AI system.

Along with the new artwork and AI have been loads of bug fixes and other small improvements.

Release Notes

Brand new environments
The race track artwork has been completely re-done from scratch, and uses the latest graphics enhancements such as PBR (Physically Based Rendering) to make the game look even more realistic.

Improved truck cosmetics
The truck body paint and tyres now used improved shaders and look much better in-game. The truck customise screen has also been greatly improved.

You can now also move/rotate the truck around in the customise screen.

In-game multiplayer notifications to get more matches
Many players complained that they had troubles matching people in multiplayer games.

If you are in the main menu, or in a single player race, and somebody in your region opens the game, you will both get a 'Game found' notification. You have 5 seconds to press ENTER to join this game. If both of you do not press ENTER within the 5 seconds, the notification will disappear and you will not see another notification in that race.

If you both press ENTER, you will be taken into a multiplayer race.

Currently multiplayer matching will match you with anybody within 10 levels of your player level.

The matching will only occur if both players have completed the tutorial. So make sure the multiplayer buttton on the main menu is enabled.


Multiplayer sync improvements
Multiplayer sync has received a complete overhaul, synchronisation of opponents trucks is now much smoother and more accurate than it was previously.

Longer content path
Previously players were completing the game too quickly, so the upgrade path is now more lengthy and costly, and players will need to race in multiplayer and daily challenge races to increase their income in order to beat the higher level AI opponents in career mode. Remember to drag 4 unique cards into empty upgrade slots to get your free upgrades.

Brand new AI system
The brand new AI system is complete and the new system has more realistic trucks to challenge you in career mode!

Too many bug fixes and other small improvements to mention.

Hello all offroaders!

I am so sorry for the delays in releasing the update. Fortunately I have the next few weeks off work and I can focus full time now on making the final changes and getting them released.

The update will be released on Tuesday 30 April

EDIT : Sorry for the delay in release once again, I picked up some small bugs in testing before release, just need to fix those, they keep popping up :(

I want you to have a bug free experience!

Hello all,

Here's a quick update on the big 1.5 release coming soon and to highlight some of the new features, when the release is live a full list of features will be provided.

The bulk of the work has been done, the new tracks are done, and the new AI system has been implemented! Right now the final polish, bug fixes and most importantly the fine-tuning of upgrades and AI trucks is being finalised.

Improved environments
The race track artwork has been completely re-done from scratch, and uses the latest graphics enhancements such as PBR (Physically Based Rendering) to make the game look even more realistic.

Improved truck cosmetics
The truck body paint and tyres now used improved shaders and look much better in-game. The truck customise screen has also been greatly improved.

Auto-matching for Multiplayer
Many players complained that they had troubles matching people in multiplayer games.

We have implemented an 'auto-matchmaking' feature for multiplayer, which will automatically connect you to race against other players in your region if you have the 'auto-matchmake' setting turned on. So during single player mode, you will get a small notification to join a multiplayer race, when you click on the ok button, you will be moved into that race!

No more sitting on the multiplayer matching screen waiting for someone to join!

Multiplayer sync improvements
Multiplayer sync has received a complete overhaul, synchronisation of opponents trucks is now much smoother and more accurate than it was previously.

Longer content path
Previously players were completing the game too quickly, so the upgrade path is now more lengthy and costly, and players will need to race in multiplayer and daily challenge races to augment their income in order to beat the higher level AI opponents in career mode. Players will now need all 4 parts to upgrade a specific section of the truck , and will need to enter multiplayer or daily challenge races to get these parts.

Brand new AI system
The brand new AI system is complete and the new system has much more intelligent AI trucks than before.

Coming in the 1.5.1 update (roughly 2-3 weeks after the 1.5 Update)

An asynchronous challenge system with virtual cash betting.
Challenge another player to a race time on a specific track, and try set a race time they can't beat!

Place a bet in virtual cash, select an opponent, race your lap and they will receive the challenge and will race against your ghost car. The player who wins the challenge wins the virtual currency bet!

The update will be taking a few more days, thank you so much for your patience!

Hello all,

I've been busy on the big 1.5 update, which will be the games biggest yet.

This post on our website contains more info as well as a preview video of the new artwork and AI system in action...

This is a small bug fix release, as well as an adjustment to chase camera view.

• Fixed an issue with the sound not starting in game
  
• Removed the barrier sound that played before a race started
  
• Changed 'Chase' camera view to act more like a chase camera and sit behind the vehicle.
  
• Fixed a bug on pause menu when viewing How To Play menu