HIGHLIGHTS

• New DLC: Reckless Car Pack
  
• New tournament: Wrecknado
  
• New free racing and derby track: Wrecknado
  
• New free tournament reward bundles

We're thrilled to announce a new tournament and the brand new Reckless Car Pack!

For past month, we've been having a whole lot of snowy fun during the Winter Fest tournament, but now it's time to say goodbye to wintery shenanigans and brace yourself - a storm is coming, and not just any storm but Wrecknado, a whirlwind of destruction!

The undisputed star of this tournament is the new track Wrecknado, designed for maximum mayhem and featuring high banked loops that feed the hapless racers into the vortex of destruction in the middle. Your job is to take the new DLC car Gorbie and cause as much as destruction as you can, all while racing for the victory. Awaiting the best wreckers are two new bundles in the Tournament Shop, the "Taxi Wrecker" bundle for Rammer RS and "Drag 55" for Bulldog. Let the wrecking commence!

If you've been itching to get your hands on some new rides, we also have great news for you: the latest DLC "Reckless Car Pack" is now available! This pack expands your garage with three new unique rides, and like always, we got something for everyone here: Gorbie is the offbeat community favorite that's pure fun to drive (check out the epic engine sound!) and even more fun to demolish, Blade is an 80s styled American racing car that looks way too fast even when standing still, and Stepvan is a pop culture classic with which you're going to be not only serving maximum damage but ice cream! And if you're not into ice cream, fret not, because sure enough we've got bonus paint jobs for all your utilitarian needs. This DLC pack is included in Season Pass 2 so if you're lucky enough have that, you're already good to go!

We're also actively working on improving the gameplay experience based on your feedback, and this release contains a number of additional enhancements and bug fixes. We invite you to check out the release notes below for a complete summary of items fixed or improved upon. As always, thanks for all the feedback and please keep it coming!


Game version

PC:1.270990[/b]

• Added support for the new DLC pack "Reckless Car Pack" containing three new cars: Blade, Gorbie and Stepvan.
  
• Added two new tracks: Wrecknado Racing Track and Wrecknado Demolition Arena.
  Server admins note: the internal designations for the routes are urban09_1 (Racing Track)
  and urban09_2 (Demolition Arena).

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• New tournament season: Wrecknado.
  
• New taxi cab themed reward bundle "Taxi Wrecker" for Rammer RS.
  
• New drag racing themed reward bundle "Drag 55" for Bulldog.

• Player no longer gets kicked mid-event when they start holding down throttle before the event starts.
  
• (Dedicated Server) Increased admin_steam_ids and op_steam_ids maximum parameter size to 1024 characters.

• Improved Rocket RX handling.
  
• Improved Sofa Car handling.
  
• Added the Rocket stock exhaust as an option for Rocket RX.
  
• A number of small special vehicles no longer receive unexpected amounts of damage.
  
• Improved Bumper Car performance to make it a Class C vehicle like its peers.
  
• Upgrade parts now correctly follow the deformed shape of the vehicle.
  
• Fixed Starbeast SS reversing light glitch.
  
• Raven steel mesh is now correcly visible in all LOD levels.
  
• Fixed inconsistent Hornet bumper weights.
  
• Fixed inconsistent Killerbee S bumper weights.

• Boomer/Boomer RS: Increased RPM safety limit to prevent sounds from cutting of at engine redline in some cases.
  
• Razor: Adjusted camera-view based audio filtering settings of turbocharger whine to include less high frequency content over mid-to-high engine rpm range.

HIGHLIGHTS

• New tournament: Winter Fest
  
• New free reward car: Starbeast SS
  
• Bug fixes and improvements

We're pleased to announce the availability of a new tournament!

As you know, in many parts of the world it's that magical time of the year again that the white powdery stuff covers everything into its blanket. Yes, that's snow! As some of you might remember, a few years back we did a holiday special featuring snow, and since many of you have been hoping to see something similar again, we just couldn't leave you all out cold. So, sure enough snow has covered the Valley of Bugbear once again! And what's even more fun is that this time we got snowballs too!

That's right: No winter would be complete without glistening snow, slippery roads, and of course, snowball fights! Since we're talking about Wreckfest here, the snowballs in the headlining tournament event "Snowball Run" are of pretty destructive type, and tossing one unleashes a whirlwind of vehicular destruction wrecking anything in its path. Let's see who's going to be the toughest snowball fighter! The sideshow events are keeping it in the spirit as well, with winter-themed demolition races, demolition derbies and time attacks guaranteed to offer sideways going, sheet metal tearing wintry fun. Make sure to check them all out because awaiting the top players we have a very special prize: a wicked new tournament reward car Starbeast SS, sure to strike the right chords with the fans of the Early Access version of the car.

Besides, we're always actively working on improving the gameplay experience based on the feedback, and thus this release contains a number of additional enhancements and bug fixes. We invite you to check out the release notes below for a complete summary of items fixed or improved upon. As always, thanks for all the feedback!


Game version

PC: 1.269477[/b]

• New tournament season: Winter Fest.
  
• New free tournament reward car: Starbeast SS.
  
• The DLC promotional screen is only shown once per session for each respective DLC.

• Fixed an issue which caused DualShock and DualSense controllers to not function correctly.

• Improved Speedie handling and engine to make it more competitive.
  
• Small special vehicles no longer take excessive damage even from small shunts.
  
• Rammer and Roadcutter AI Player setups are now more appropriate for their respective classes.
  
• The rear spoiler of the Nexus RS "BB Racing" bundle is now parented correctly to the trunk lid.
  
• Exhausts no longer get distorted after deforming.
  
• Roof decorations no longer deform wildly.
  
• Fixed Boomer RS taillight cover glitch.

• Rebel Rat engine audio now plays correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue with Stellar where clicks in sound would occur when idling in neutral gear.
  
• Cockpit view audio now includes more low and mid range frequencies.
  
• Audience sound effects are no longer played during loading screens.
  
• In the settings, the "Interface Sound Effects" now changes volume of UI sounds independent from the "Effects" volume.
  
• In the settings, the "Ambiance" volume control now affects all track-side sound sources.

Have fun!

We just released a hotfix, updating the game to 1.268578.

This hotfix resolves the recent controller related issues, enhances the Racing Heroes Car Pack cars and improves various other aspects of the title. Please check below for a summary of items fixed or improved upon in this release.


Game version

PC: 1.268578

• Fixed numerous controller devices not being detected.
  
• Fixed stuttering with certain controller devices.
  
• Fixed game crashing when entering certain career events.
  
• Fixed numerous glitches with Racing Heroes Car Pack cars.
  
• Improved Speedie suspension, differential and engine.
  
• Added "Saucer" wheels for Speedie.
  
• Short track width tires for Speedie are now narrower.
  
• Restored missing modding tools.

Thanks for your support everyone, and good luck!

HIGHLIGHTS

• New DLC: Racing Heroes Car Pack
  
• New tournament: Racing Heroes
  
• New free track: Eagles Peak Motorpark
  
• New free tournament reward bundles

We're pleased to announce the availability of a new tournament!

In keeping with the spirit of the new car pack, this tournament is all about racing! In the headline event, we're tasking you to chase the opponents on the new Eagles Motorpark using the Stellar from the car pack. The better your position the more score you earn per each meter traveled, plus you get bonus score for each lap as long you keep up a good pace. In the weekly events, you're challenged to clock the best possible lap time on the new track, as well as try out some heavy-hitting demolition action on the derby stadium layout of the track. Don't forget to check out the new reward bundles for Boomer and Nexus, available in the tournament shop!

In case you're looking for new rides, we also have a new Car Pack out! The pack includes three new cars: Raven is a true battle beast of a car that packs plenty of grunt and shreds opposition with raw power, Speedie is a peppery little car that punches above its weight, and Stellar is a legendary rally missile that is at home on both twisty gravel and tarmac.

For a long time now, the front-wheel drive cars have been the unappreciated underdogs of the Wreckfest roster but that's going to change now! The celebrate the addition of another front-wheel drive car, we've improved the handling of the existing ones as well so they're decidedly more fun to pilot now. You don't have to take our word for it, though, instead take them out for a spin yourself!

In other news, we have exciting news for the owners of Direct Drive wheels! We've added a solution to make the game recognize them as steering wheels, so you can finally enjoy Wreckfest with all the glory of unparalleled force feedback effects provided by your wheel! We are providing definitions for certain SimuCube and Leo Bodnar devices straight out of the box, but it's also very easy to configure your own device.

To do so, please follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the tools folder in the game's installation folder.
2. Run the provided "DeviceOut" tool, preferably piping the output to an text file ("DeviceOut.exe >output.txt").
3. Open the output, find the GUID of your steering wheel and copy it on the clipboard.
4. Open "customWheels.json" in the game's installation folder.
5. Paste the GUID of your device on top of the GUID of the "EXAMPLE" definition and change the name into something you want.
6. Save the file, and you're done!

What's even better is that you can adjust the force feedback effects to your liking. To do so, all you need to do is to use the provided BagEditor to open data/vehicles/shared/physics/forcefeedback_dd.vffb and then tweak the various parameters available. This file can be shared between users so make sure to share your favorite settings with other users for example on Steam Workshop. Unless of course the settings are your secret weapon on the track! Many thanks to Granite Devices, the creators of SimuCube, and Devin, a long-standing and respected member of our community, for assistance.

As always, we're also actively working on improving the gameplay experience based on the feedback so this this release contains numerous other improvements and additions as well. We invite you to check out the complete summary of items fixed or improved below.


Game version

PC:1.268454[/b]

• Added support for the DLC pack "Racing Heroes Car Pack" containing three new cars: Raven, Speedie, and Stellar.
  
• Added a new free track: Eagles Peak Motorpark with both forward and reverse layouts as well as a derby stadium.
  (Server admins note: the internal designations for the routes are fields13_1, fields13_1_rev and fields13_2.)

• New tournament season: Racing Heroes.
  
• New racing themed reward bundle "Rockfield" for Boomer RS.
  
• New racing themed reward bundle "BB Racing" for Nexus.
  
• Experience is now correctly awarded from "Rampage Rush" racing events.

• (PC) Fixed a controller related crash that sometimes occurred.
  
• Fixed a bug which sometimes caused reward liveries to be lost when changing liveries.
  
• Implemented support for custom wheel controllers.

• Improved handling of the front-wheel drive cars.
  
• Restored Muddigger old grille upgrades.
  
• Roadcutter roof bar no longer clips the roof.
  
• Wildking upright back pipes no longer clip the racing wing.
  
• Improved Rebelrat marauder rammer and combar crusher bumper placement.
  
• Firefly now shifts up correctly when using automatic gearing.
  
• Supervan suspension no longer glitches out in hard collisions.
  
• Sofa Car now receives damage correctly.

• It's no longer possible to purchase upgrades for special vehicle loaners
  (these upgrades are removed when exiting lobby, resulting in the player just losing credits).
  
• Fixed overlap in the player list.

• Modding / BagEdit (Player): Added configuration option for vehicle specific throttle on/off events.
  
• Boomer / Boomer RS (Player): Adjusted intake noise texture loudness to more closely follow engine load state.
  
• Bumper Car / Hellvester (AI): Optimized CPU load by baking static audio effects directly to assets.
  
• Pocket Rocket (Player): Fixed issue where echoing was introduced to idle exhaust texture.
  
• Rocket, Rocket RX, DLC#7 vehicles (AI): Fixed incorrect engine sound distance prioritization.
  
• Race: Adjusted distance prioritization of player engine sounds for correct sorting near maximum distance.
  
• Race: Fixed audio mix automation issue where gearstick sounds would not play in chase cam view.
  
• Race: Adjusted sensitivity and physics tracking of tire sounds, to address premature activation of heavy tarmac skids etc.
  
• Race: Added unique distance attenuation curve for tire sounds, for more pronounced pass-by effect with track-side camera views in replay mode.
  
• Race: Reduced dynamic loudness range of AI vehicles, effectively increasing perceived volume level in most game situations.

Happy racing!

The years have passed, millions of cars were wrecked – it was a Fest! Wreckfest has been updated and improved constantly, new content was added and you, the players, are racing like hell! Thanks to you, it’s “Labor of Love” – please vote for Wreckfest at the Steam Game Awards 2020.

Thank you for your support!

A number of frustrating niggles were found in the previous Wasteland Wreckers update, and since we would prefer to keep the game in tip-top shape for you we broke out our virtual brooms and showed bugs the door. While at it, we also threw in a couple of other improvements for the good measure. Please check below for a summary of items fixed or improved upon in this release.


Game version

PC: 1.267195

• A number of career special events can be now started correctly.
  
• Fixed a bug which caused tournament damage settings break after tuning the car in the pre-race screen.
  This specific bug made Score Streak and Rampage Rush events very tricky.
  
• Fixed misleading HUD info in the Wreck Hell and Ripper Raid events.
  
• Installing Bullet fender cuts now correctly removes front flares.
  
• Fixed clipping issues with Razor customization parts and added missing fender flares.
  
• Installing RoadSlayer GT large rear spoiler now removes the stock spoiler completely.
  
• Removed duplicate Sofa Car tailpipe.
  
• Improved Big Rig AI competitiveness.
  
• Improved Killerbee S AI competitiveness.
  
• Added "Random Large Special" AI Set.

Thanks for your support everyone, and happy racing!

HIGHLIGHTS

• New tournament: Wasteland Wreckers
  
• New free tournament reward vehicle: Battle Bus
  
• Engine upgrades for many special vehicles
  
• Handling improvements for special vehicles
  
• Stability and quality of life enhancements

We're pleased to announce the availability of a new tournament!

After the thrilling high-speed pursuits of the out-going Getaway Heat, it's time to change gears and start shelling some serious hits again! This time we're inviting you to join us on derelict Rockfield Roughspot on which you're going to be the main star of a gladiator battle and face off with badass wrecking crew. For that, a new tool of destruction is waiting for you: Battle Bus! Armored to the teeth and equipped with a massive plow, this thing will demolish absolutely everything in its path. Your mission: destroy the oncoming marauders, wreck your way to the top of the rankings and claim your own Battle Bus. The monthly events are no slouch either, challenging you to cause as much chaos as possible using the Bandit Ripper on selected tracks. Who will be the toughest wrecker this time around? Time to find out!

Apart from the new tournament, this release also contains numerous other neat additions. First of all, we've added engine upgrades for many special vehicles as well as tweaked their handling, so if up until now you've thought something like School Bus is too slow and boring for you make sure to check it out now! We've also expanded the AI Sets, so now it's possible to, for example, arrange a custom event against a random mix of normal cars and special vehicles. It might get crazy yes, so please don't tell us we didn't warn you. Other things worth cherry-picking from the release notes is fixes to player inventory handling, removing bogus duplicates and making sure player can doesn't appear ineligible for no reason, damage from wheel hub collisions now yielding score to the attacker, leaderboard update improvements, and more. We invite you to review the summary of items fixed or improved below for full details.

Happy wrecking!


Game version

PC:1.266722[/b]

• Fixed a rare case in which game might have crashed during race start.
  
• Duplicate upgrades are now removed from the player inventory when detected.
  
• Vehicle ambient occlusion now looks more correct, and is more prominent as well.

• New tournament season: Wasteland Wreckers.
  
• New free tournament reward vehicle: Battle Bus.
  
• Leaderboards are now updated in a more timely manner in the results screen.
  
• In the event details, “Updating...” notification is now displayed while leaderboards are being updated.

• Added a warning notification when trying to install a part that is incompatible with one or more already installed parts.
  
• HUD no longer contains overlapping bogus elements when starting a custom event after playing a tournament event.

• Player vehicle no longer occasionally appears “ineligible” for no reason after attempting to change the paint.
  
• A failed join attempt is now correctly aborted and the game no longer goes into infinite lockup.
  
• Event rotation no longer gets stuck when moderator, admin or host has an ineligible car selected when loading the next event.
  
• Server no longer loads a wrong event after too many tracks are enabled on the server.
  
• Event list is no longer truncated after a certain number of events is displayed.

• Damage from wheel hub collisions is now correctly attributed to the attacker, eliminating the issue in which no score was awarded to the player.
  
• Steel armcos are now more realistic in the sense that they are less sticky, yet they slow down more to prevent wallriding.
  
• Improved the handling of Bugzilla, Lawnmower, School Bus, Sofa Car and Supervan.
  
• Improved Sweeper, Bullet, KillerPig AI Player handling so they do a better job at staying on the track.
  
• Added Class B and Class A engine upgrades for Doubledecker, Lawnmower, Schoolbus, Sofa Car, Supervan.
  
• Added Class C and Class B engine upgrades for Bugzilla.
  
• Added more AI Player paint schemes for Bandit, Bandit Ripper, Buggy, DragSlayer, KillerPig, Rammer RS, and WarDigger.
  
• Added "Random Small Special" AI Set for custom events, containing only small special vehicles.
  
• Added "Random" AI Set for custom events, containing all vehicles including special.
  Please note that some of the existing AI Sets were renamed for consistency.
  
• Fixed a number of AI Players not appearing in Class A events even though they should have.
  
• Fixed a case in which a number of AI Players might have had textures missing during a career event.
  
• Improved KillerPig cockpit and chase cameras.
  
• Improved Bandit Ripper chase camera.
  
• Fixed glitchy Hellvester visual damage.
  
• Increased ragdoll eject threshold slightly for normal damage (takes more force to eject the ragdoll).

• Fixed a case in which it was possible to miss the checkpoint in the hairpin on Pinehills Short.
  
• On Crash Canyon and Rockspot Roughfield, the vehicle is no longer reset on top of the embankments.

• DragSlayer, Honey Pot, Bugzilla, Pocket Rocket and Wardigger (AI vehicles): Fixed misconfiguration of real-time doppler effect automation.
  
• DragSlayer: Fixed broken audio assets.
  
• Harvester, School Bus, Venom & Wardigger (Player vehicles): Increased RPM safety limit to prevent sound from randomly cutting off upon partial loss of wheel contact or when redlining the engine while vehicle momentum is increased by exterior forces.

We're actively working on improving the gameplay experience based on the feedback. Please find below a summary of items fixed or improved upon in this release.



Xbox: 1.6.0.2
PS4: 1.62
PC: 1.265410

SYSTEM

• Game no longer sporadically freezes when changing upgrades in the garage.
  
• Game should no longer crash to "Out of Vertex Buffer Memory" during event loading.
  
• Game no longer gets stuck in infinite loading when changing upgrades while car creation is active in background for another player or bot.

TOURNAMENT

• It’s no longer possible to cheat extra time in the “Checkpoint Chase” monthly event.
  
• It's now possible to tune Razor in the tournament event even when not owning the DLC.
  
• Added missing wheels to the Speedemon tournament reward bundle.
  
• Tournament shop items are now correctly marked as exclusive.
  
• Improved "Razed" tournament reward livery.

GAMEPLAY/VEHICLES

• Improved wheel hub vs dynamic object collisions.
  
• Added a new "Bangers" AI Set containing banger racing cars.
  
• DLC banger racing cars now also appear in the career banger racing events.
  
• Dominator, Nexus RX and Boomer no longer appear as ineligible in lobby for seemingly no reason.
  
• Added missing Class A AI Players for Grand Duke, Little Trasher, Wildking, Sweeper, Buller, Cardinal and Razor.
  
• Schoolbus reward paint is now correctly received from "Diesel & Destruction" career event.
  
• The career Big Rig event “The Convoy” is now easier.
  
• Novice AI Difficulty is now slightly easier.
  
• Improved Rocket RX AI.
  
• Fixed Hammerhead fuel lid geometry.
  
• Fixed Cardinal fuel lid joint angle.
  
• Improved Hellvester visual damage.
  
• Improved Supervan collision.
  
• Fixed Bullet grid grille material.
  
• Fixed Bullet double rails clipping with the door.
  
• Fixed Bullet exhaust clipping with certain hood upgrades.
  
• Fixed Bullet, Cardinal and Razor name shown in the purchase confirmation popups.
  
• Fixed Rocket RX hood texturing, seat scale and fender pivots.
  
• Fixed Cardinal missing seat.
  
• Fixed flickering wheel lod of Speedbird tournament reward wheels.

TRACKS

• Improved Hillstreet Circuit environment art.
  
• Improved AI racing line on Boulder bank Circuit Main Route Reverse.
  
• Added missing clutter texture to the example track.
  
• Cleaned up a number of old levels.

AUDIO

• Fixed all AI vehicles that had issues with audio cutting off at redline RPM.
  
• Added new contact sounds for barrel shrapnel.

Season pass 2 is now available and gives access to four more DLCs

Vienna, AUSTRIA / Helsinki, FINLAND, September 15, 2020 - Ready, set, go! The second season of Wreckfest starts now and brings you some groovy features and changes. But see for yourself:

Season 2 trailer: https://youtu.be/-m3tAeseBNE

Season 2 lasts until March 2021 and brings you more free tracks, challenges, rewards, and DLC car packs. All four DLC car packs are included in the new season pass 2, which contains 12 cars in total and is available for $ / € 12.99 (digital only). The car packs will be released step by step. Players who buy season pass 2 between September 15 and 22 will get a 10% launch discount.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1413450/

September Tournament Update - GETAWAY HEAT
Get the ROCKET RX in the new free September Tournament! The scene is a city downtown, with high-rise buildings around the player between which the streets zig-zag.

Free for all
All players get free new tracks with every DLC release. Also, a new tournament will launch every couple of weeks until the end of season 2.

Price Reductions
The new Wreckfest Complete Edition replaces the previous Deluxe Edition. It contains the base game as well as season 1 & 2 and is available now for € / $ 49.99 (digital only).

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/11732/

Moreover the SKUs of the follwing products are reduced permanently:
Base game: €/$ 29.99 (was 39.99)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/228380/

Season pass 1: €/$ 14.99 (was 22.99)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131170/

New Patch
New content, tournament, bug fixes and more! Find the full patch notes here: https://thqnordic.com/article/wreckfest-season-2-update

Car Pack #7 aka the Getaway Car Pack is out today

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1135436/Wreckfest__Getaway_Car_Pack/

The first DLC of Season 2 expands your garage with a unique car chase pack! The Getaway Car Pack is now available for €/$ 3.99.
• Bullet: This classic american muscle car oozes with pure power and strength, and is a perfect getaway car
• Razor: One of the finest tuner cars, very agile and super fast on twisty tracks.
• Cardinal: This former state official car with a reinforced body is ideal for the toughest car chases!

The Getaway Car Pack is the seventh Car Pack and part of season pass 2, which includes 12 new cars, spread across four DLCs. This new content will be released step by step.

Enjoy & stay tuned!

HIGHLIGHTS

• New DLC: Getaway Car Pack
  
• New tournament: Getaway Heat
  
• New free track: Hillstreet Circuit
  
• New free tournament reward car: Rocket RX
  
• New free tournament reward bundles and paint jobs
  
• New features and other improvements

Looking back at the highlights from the first season, we've had quite a ride! We've shelled out total destruction with Doomrig, laid down rubber with Super Venom in slalom, crashed our way to the victory with bangers and stock cars, even fought the lawn with Hellvester. For us, the developer, it's been super rewarding to watch all the excitement for the new events and content, and we want to thank everyone who has tagged alongside us for the journey so far! It's been great fun creating all this and we hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have.

The first season is over now, but if you can't get enough of Wreckfest we've got some exciting news for you: Wreckfest is back, and it's bigger and badder than ever before! We just couldn't leave it at that, and we're thrilled to announce the launch of Wreckfest Season 2. In a nutshell, that means more of the good stuff you've come to expect: more free tracks, more exciting tournament challenges, more free tournament rewards, more cool DLC content such as cars, and of course, more MAYHEM!

And the best part of it? The first update of Season 2 is here RIGHT NOW.

To kick off Season 2 in style, we're launching a new tournament titled Getaway Heat, the monthly event of which will see you racing flat out through the sprawling downtown streets from checkpoint to checkpoint in one of the cars from the new DLC pack. Yes, you read that right: the new free track is an exciting city circuit, something pretty unique to Wreckfest and sure to become a smash hit in hot multiplayer matches! In the event, the better you do between each checkpoint the more time you save, but with each successive lap you're given less and less time and at the same time the taxi cabs do their best to block you from taking the perfect line. How far can you make it? As for the weekly events, this time around they are a mix of neck-to-neck demolition racing as well as white-knuckle time trials, so no matter which style is right up your ante there's something sure to strike the right chord with you. Make sure to participate, because the tournament shop has been loaded with a new sweet Rocket RX as well as rocking new bundles and paint jobs.

We're also happy to announce the availability of the first Season 2 DLC pack: Getaway Car Pack! This exciting pack expands your garage with three unique rides that are perfect for hard-boiled car chases. Bullet is a classic American muscle car that oozes with pure power and strength, and is a perfect getaway car. Razor is one of the finest tuner cars, very agile and super-fast on twisty tracks. And finally, Cardinal is a former law enforcement vehicle with a reinforced body ideal for the toughest pursuits.

In other news, we've also broke out our debuggers and have been busy squeezing bugs as well as dialing in quality of life improvements. Speaking of the latter, the ability to sort the cars in the garage and mark them as favourite is something that many have been requesting, and we're happy to let you know that we've just added that. While at it, we also added similar favourite functionality to the server browser on PC which will make browsing your favourite haunts a breeze.

We've also gone to great strides to address the issues with save data handling that some users have been still suffering from, including a possible case in which the save data was reset. We're confident that the issue has now been resolved. Our sincere apologies for anyone affected by this issue.

Other things worth noting are improvements in the collision physics so that light dynamic objects like tires can no longer throw the car off-path after hitting the wheel hub, visual parts such as spoilers no longer get detached from the light hits, Big Rig is way more fun to drive now, Motorhome now has performance engines, and whole host of other smaller vehicle related enhancements. Naturally this release contains numerous other improvements and additions as well, and we invite you to check out the complete summary of items fixed or improved below.

Bring on the carnage!


Game version

PC: 1.264871

• Added support for the DLC pack "Getaway Car Pack" containing three new cars: Bullet, Razor and Cardinal.
  
• Added a new free track: Hillstreet Circuit with both forward and reverse layouts.
  The internal designations for the routes are urban08_1 and urban08_1_rev

• New tournament season: Getaway Heat.
  
• New free tournament reward car: Rocket RX.
  
• New free tournament reward bundles and paint jobs.
  
• Score Streak events now last the correct time instead of always three minutes.

• Fixed an issue in which save data was reset. This issue seemed to affect especially save data dating back to the game launch. Our apologies for anyone affected by this issue.
  
• Fixed an issue in which the game failed to launch due to "assists.aids" being corrupted.
  
• Fixed an issue in which the game crashed to "OUT OF MEMORY" during launch.
  
• Title no longer crashes to "Out of Vertex Buffer Memory" with specific track and vehicle combinations.

• Dynamic objects such as tires no longer throw the car off-path after hitting the wheel of the car.
  
• AI is slightly less aggressive towards the player on Novice and Amateur difficulty.
  
• AI now uses Firefly also in the Class A.

• The server no longer incorrectly loads a tournament track when trying to change the track.
  
• BagEdit now supports a ban list with a maximum of 8,192 entries.

• In general, visual parts such as spoilers no longer detach from a slightest nudge.
  
• Improved Big Rig handling and bottom collisions.
  
• Added Class B and Class A engine upgrades for Motorhome, and made AI also use them.
  
• Improved Sweeper suspension setups and bottom collisions.
  
• Increased Sweeper suspension ride height and adjusted bottom collision.
  
• Sweeper exhaust geometry no longer glitches out as easily after deforming.
  
• Bumpers of Venom and Hunter Panther no longer detach too easily.
  
• Improved Hunter Panther scoop hood texturing.
  
• Improved Hunter Panther grille upgrades.
  
• Fixed Hunter Panther fender flares clipping.
  
• The front bumper of El Matador longer floats in the air.
  
• The roll cages of Raiden RS no longer cut through the interior window.
  
• Improved Hellvester visual damage. Also, the exhaust pipe no longer detaches too easily.
  
• Missing side protectors for Speedbird are now available again.
  
• Wildking exhaust stacks no longer clip with the sway bars.
  
• Improved Rocket DLC rear wing positioning.

• A number of menu transitions are smoother.
  
• In Server Browser, a server can now be added as a favorite. Favorites are always shown on top and sorted according to the selected sorting method.
  
• In Server Browser, special characters and spaces are now disregarded when sorting the servers alphabetically.
  
• In Car Selection (Garage, Custom Event, Lobby), cars can now be sorted according to their class and performance, type or region as well as alphabetically.
  
• In Car Selection, a car can now be marked as a favorite. Favorites are always shown first in the list and sorted according to the selected sorting method.
  
• In Custom Event creation, game now remembers the AI Set selected by the player, instead of always reverting to "Same As Player" set.
  
• In Elimination Race, elimination notification is now easier to see.

• Dragslayer: New engine sounds.
  
• Gatecrasher: Fixed engine pitch (tuning) misconfiguration.
  
• Killerbee & Boomer (all player models): Raised engine volume in overall mix to counter sound masking in races with 23 AI & dense start grid layout, and esp. on integrated flat-screen loudspeakers.
  
• Surround sound: Player engine sounds are now mixed to surround center channel only when using chase camera views.
  
• Surround sound: Fixed player car panning issues in bumper camera view.
  
• Surround sound: Fixed emitter position tracking of collision sounds belonging to player car object, to not have sounds fall behind/past the car at high speeds.
  
• In-Game: Fixed tire surface detection to not play sounds for incorrect material when loss of wheel contact occurs at slower rate (low speed, gentle slopes etc.).
  
• In-Game: Added unique tire sounds for wood surface.
  
• In-Game: Adjusted vehicle position tracking for less erratic audio panning when rotating chase camera around player vehicle.
  
• In-Game: AI cars are mixed louder when in close proximity of camera (distance <15 meters), to improve spatial placement and separation when overtaking or being overtaken by.