Vienna, AUSTRIA / Helsinki, FINLAND, December 17th, 2019 - Vroom-Vroom-Vroom! Celebrate Christmas early with Wreckfest's holiday update as well as the new car pack DLC.

The holiday update contains the following additions. See http://n.thq.com/ou2l30q2jDt for the detailed patch notes.
• Two new free tracks
• Multiplayer event voting
• Player-hosted public servers
• Car customization in lobby
... and more!

The Modified Monsters Car Pack brings you a collection of five backyard built vehicles with a mix that will make you go hog-wild! Strike fear with the crazy monster truck, or head into battle in a fully loaded military pickup! Burn rubber like a pro with the dragster, or try the hilarious mini racing car for size! And finally, try taking the pig car out for a spin - enjoy the roast! The Modified Monsters Car Pack is out today.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1135432/

Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNPLrEgiDwE

The Modified Monsters Car Pack is part of the Season Pass, which is including 20 new cars, 20 special roof decorations and additional car customizations like armor, rims and more. This new content will be released step by step, along with free content updates.

Season Pass Store Link
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131170/

Enjoy
Your THQ Nordic Team

• Two new tracks: Hellride & Vale Falls Circuit
  
• Event voting in multiplayer
  
• Player hosted public servers
  
• Car customization in multiplayer lobby
  
• Visualization for cars that just have been reset
  
• Ragdoll can now be reset after driver was ejected
  
• Support for DLC Modified Monsters Car Pack
  
• Various stability & performance improvements

Game version

• PC: 1.254741

CONTENT

• Added two new tracks: Hellride & Vale Falls Circuit
  
• Added support for DLC Modified Monsters Car Pack

MULTIPLAYER

• It's now possible to change (and purchase) vehicle upgrades and paint job directly in the lobby.
  
• Implemented track voting. If voting is enabled, clients vote on the next event after they're back in the lobby after event results, choosing from previous event again, or one of two other events from the current rotation.
  
• Improved prediction precision of suspension geometry and steering, enhancing gameplay experience especially with high latency.
  
• Voting can be enabled and disabled in the server config (please see the example config for more information).
  
• A dedicated server can be now excluded from being joined by users entering Quick Match by using "exclude_from_quickplay=1" server setting.
  
• Client is no longer kicked out of multiplayer when connection to Steam is lost.

GAMEPLAY

• Ragdolling no longer results in the player being wrecked; instead, the ragdoll can be reset back into the vehicle by using the reset button. As a consequence, the player will be only actually wrecked after the vehicle health drops to zero. Note that this also applies to the AI Players.
  
• A vehicle that has just been reset is now visualized in ghost mode.
  
• Limousine car is now slightly weaker.
  
• Chase camera now avoid clipping into vehicles and zooms closer whenever a vehicle is right behind the player to make sure the view is not obstructed.
  
• Camera no longer snaps into a position due to a bottom collision to the car.
  
• Transitioning into and out of camera look-around mode is now seamless.
  
• Improved "Intense" damage mode so that now the attacker takes less damage, as designed.
  
• Backfire pop now works on AI and remote cars as well.
  
• The wheels from Steel & Wheels DLC now have correct physical properties including mass.
  
• The window bars from Steel & Wheel DLC are now correctly hidden when using the cockpit camera.
  
• Roadslayer window mesh now has the correct weight.
  
• Improved suspension geometry of a number of vehicles.
  
• Improved Sofa Car handling.
  
• (PC) Leaderboards have been reset.

USER INTERFACE

• Reset button key is now correctly hidden while holding reset button.
  
• High ping warning message is no longer stuck on the screen after leaving multiplayer.
  
• Quit prompt is now correct cleared after the event starts in case it was open in lobby.
  
• Added a slight delay to the end of the Last Man Standing so that's it not as abrupt.

AUDIO

• Mixdown improvements and other tweaks.
  
• Post-race experience bar audio effect is now correctly stopped when user skips the screen.

SYSTEM

• Various stability and performance improvements.
  
• The game no longer sporadically crashes to "Out of Index Buffer Memory" during multiplayer.
  
• The game no longer crashes when equipping "Racing Wing" on the Warwagon while trunk lid has been removed by another upgrade.
  
• The game no longer crashes to "Could not open file for writing: save/settings.conf" when settings file is invalid.
  
• The game no longer crashes upon launching when certain input devices are plugged in.
  
• Implemented wheel hub collisions.

Happy Holidays from the entire team of Bugbear!

Metal (poster) meets carbon and rust. Wreck cars, but not walls: Save your wall from damages with Displate’s magnet mounting system:

Get your Wreckfest Metal Posters here

Dear Wreckfest community,
a long road is behind us, years of Early Access, the time, we from THQ Nordic got involved into that project and took over, the final and great release last year. We are very proud of Wreckfest and the work with Bugbear and it is not over yet. The Season Pass just came out this year, updates are getting released to improve the game even further and we are happy adding more and more content to this fantastic jewel, Wreckfest is nowadays.

We would be honored and thankful if you consider Wreckfest as a nominee for the "Labor of Love" award for the 2019 Steam awards.

Thank you for your help and support
Your THQ Nordic Team

Wreckfest Steel & Wheels pack out today

Vienna, AUSTRIA / Helsinki, FINLAND, November 26th, 2019 - Turn your cars into true beasts of steel with this heavy armor pack! Get your car ready for all-out demolition derby battles with heavy bumpers, side protectors, and roll cages. Or add some wrecking style with wild exhausts, spoilers, and wheels. The Steel & Wheels pack comes with over 30 armor and customization items and is out today.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1135438/Wreckfest__Steel__Wheels_Pack/

Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlHheXTAxHs

The Steel & Wheels pack is part of the Season Pass, which is including 20 new cars, 20 special roof decorations and additional car customizations like armor, rims and more. This new content will be released step by step, along with free content updates.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131170/Wreckfest__Season_Pass/

Enjoy
Your THQ Nordic Team

Dear all,

The latest update is now available, containing following improvements:

• Optimized mesh particle performance.
  
• Added leaderboards for the two new tracks in the Fall Update.

• Added upgrade tier icons for armor and visual upgrade parts as well.
  
• Improved icons of the upgrade parts and replaced inconsistent ones.
  
• In career, changed "Stars" to "Bonus Targets" for consistency reasons.
  
• Health bar no longer shows full health when the player has two points of health left.
  
• Proper button icons are now shown in the user interface when using keyboard and mouse.

• Loaner cars are now available in custom events as well.
  
• Added new racing and demolition derby loaner cars.
  
• Both Sofa Car and Harvester can be loaned now too.
  
• Visual props no longer get detached from the slightest nudge.
  
• Motorhome suspension no longer glitches out after taking damage.
  
• In career, "Sandpit Showdown" now has the correct number of events.

• Input lag reduced.
  
• The player intended by the user is now correctly selected when opening the context menu.
  
• Chat (event log) no longer stops working intermittently.

Happy wrecking!

Wreckfest Backwood Bangers Pack available!

Wreckfest Backwood Bangers Pack out today

Ready, set, go! The Season Pass keeps on smashing with its third DLC

Vienna, AUSTRIA / Helsinki, FINLAND - The Backwood Bangers Car Pack is out featuring three new vehicles: the Outlaw, the Hornet, and the dirtiest, shittiest racer ever: the Honey Pot.

Steam store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1135431/Wreckfest__Backwoods_Bangers_Car_Pack/
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUL3BHpyLgQ

Outlaw: This Hot Rod from the 1930s combines american muscle with agility, so it's a great allrounder!
Hornet: This 1980s Euro Coupé stands well against the American muscle cars and is a formidable weapon of choice even for derbies!
Honey Pot: Make sure to sit REALLY tight whenever this thing goes upside down!

The Backwood Bangers Car Pack is part of the Season Pass, which is including 20 new cars, 20 special roof decorations and additional car customizations like armor, rims and more. This new content will be released step by step, along with free content updates.

Season Pass Store Link
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131170/Wreckfest__Season_Pass/

Enjoy!
Cheers
Your THQ Nordic Team

It has come to our attention that a number of users who have special characters in their username have been unable to run the game due to receiving an error message stating that the game is unable to create "settings.conf" file. We just pushed out a small (well, a minuscule) hotfix to address this issue. The game version of the updated build is 0.252066 (printed in the window title).

In case you're still receiving the same error message, please make sure to whitelist the game in your antivirus application and check that you have proper user permissions to My Documents (should be by default).

Our apologies for the inconvenience!

Howdy fellas,

The weather's getting colder at least in our parts of the world, but in the cockpit it's getting warmer and warmer, if not downright hot. We're happy to let you know that the latest update of the game is out and, and we have a surprise for you: among other goodies the update brings you not only one, but two new tracks!

The first track, Drytown Desert, is a more technical, rallycross style romp that features great rolling flow as well as a couple of cool underpasses and definitely takes some proper skill to master. Then if you're more into wrecking stuff, fret not since the other new track, Rockfield Roughspot, is a rundown dirt speedway that began its life in The Very Track Pack by the ever so prolific content creator Tor Ole but now has banked corners as well as some bumps and jumps thrown in for a good measure. In the heat of the racing, this track can definitely make you feel like you're between a rock and a hard place!

And of course, that's not all. The update also features some much-requested features such as Steam Cloud support and Steam Achievements and a whole host of other neat improvements such as improved offline and online performance, third damage mode, user interface improvements and so on. Be sure to check below for the complete list of changes with comments, update your game and start wrecking!

• Added two new tracks: Drytown Desert and Rockfield Roughspot.

• Optimized loading times.
  
• Added Steam Achievements. Except for "Rocketeer" (Reach 210 Km/h (130 Mph) With Rocket), already achieved ones will unlock retrospectively upon launching the game.
  
• Added support for Steam Cloud. Note that the game's save data is now located in "Documents/My Games/wreckfest" (old save data will be copied over in the first-time launch).
  
• Improved mesh particle culling, improving framerate especially in events featuring large vehicles.
  
• Glow particles no longer appear completely white.

• Added a third damage mode that some have been requesting: "Intense". This is same as the "Realistic" mode with which the console versions launched, in other words, "Realistic" with attacker's advantage enabled.
  
• Added an AI Set for Limo.
  
• Added Big Rig and Limo to the "Special Mix" AI Set.
  
• Increased Wingman strength.
  
• Reduced Limo strength slightly.
  
• Taking the loop on "Deathloop" no longer causes damage to the car.
  
• Improved Honey Pot panel damage so that panels get detached correctly.
  
• Wheels no longer clip the fenders of Venom as easily.
  
• Wheels no longer clip the fenders of Outlaw as easily.
  
• Lawnmower and other small vehicles are no longer invincible against small to medium nudges.
  
• Improved AI raceline on various tracks.

• Added improved iconography to the garage user interface.
  
• Added new, unique icons for armor and visual upgrade parts.
  
• Added upgrade tier icons for performance parts.
  
• In career heat races, event specific loading screen is now displayed also between the heats.
  
• In custom events, the correct AI Set is now displayed after changing the vehicle.
  
• HUD can no longer appear in the main menu after being disconnected from an online session.
  
• Health bar no longer appears full when the player has 1 health point left.

• Improved local car prediction precision to reduce input lag.
  
• Increased maximum allowed prediction time for remote cars to reduce warping with high latency.
  
• In lobby, the server name no longer overlaps the track name at the top.
  
• Lobby options are no longer incorrectly grayed out in case the user is in the Tune screen when a track change occurs.
  
• Idling during an online event no longer results in the player being kicked from the server.
  
• Added back the "Add Bot" button to lobby.

• Collision effects are more crunchy now.

• In-game modding tools now work again.
  
• Modifying minimap settings (bag filetype "mise") no longer trickers anti-tamper protection.

Vienna, AUSTRIA / Helsinki, FINLAND, September 24th, 2019 - Wreckfest is not crazy enough for you? Now you can go completely nuts and get some extra laughs when using these roof decorations! Choose from 20 cool and funny items such as rockets, explosives, an inflatable unicorn, deal-with-it-glasses, various hats and much more. The decorations do work on every car. The first customization pack, the Goofy Roofs Pack, is out now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1135437/Wreckfest__Goofy_Roofs_Pack/

Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOaEjeCvTcQ

Next DLCs
Car Pack 2: October 22nd, 2019

The Goofy Roofs Pack is part of the Season Pass, which is including 20 new cars, 20 special roof decorations and additional car customizations like armor, rims and more. This new content will be released step by step, along with free content updates.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131170/Wreckfest__Season_Pass/

Cheers & Stay tuned
Your THQ Nordic Team