May 9, 2019
GRIP: Combat Racing - codemonkey


Anti-gravity racing has just landed in the GRIP universe!

Oh yes, this update brings you 15 formidable new vehicles taken from those that you already know and love and fused them together with anti-gravity technology.

Carefully engineered to be strong competition against their ground-based brethren, these vehicles offer a fantastic new racing experience exclusive to GRIP. Not quite Rollcage, not quite Wipeout, but an amazing new hybrid that will set the whole genre on fire.

Head to the garage right now and grab yourself a new ride, then hit the races and slice through the air like never before. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you, AirBlades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz5Hm-1wbqY

Also in this 1.4.0 update:
  • Two brand new race tracks added, Atlas Station and Impact, set off-planet
  • Two bangin’ new music tracks: Full Kontakt – Tornado, Xtigma – Overdrive
  • Five new community-made car skins added to the Nyvoss Mirage vehicle (winners of the competition)
  • Improved race flow, vehicle collision and AI behaviour on various race tracks, including; FIC Outpost, Lit, Transport, Rust, Yuri Industrial, Mindbender, Naptha Valley, Serpent’s Run, Haze, Spin Cycle and Sprawl
  • Improved vehicle camera control
  • HDR display support
  • Many small improvements and fixes to both game and UI (below)
store.steampowered.com/app/396900/GRIP_Combat_Racing/
General fixes and improvements
  • Added two new AirBlade focused loading screen images
  • Added updated AirBlade key art to the initial loading screen
  • Updated Main Menu scene to have different vehicles and skins
  • Added the options 'Ground', 'Air' and 'Both', allowing players to choose vehicle type
  • Added new tracks to the Game Manual
  • Added all new tracks to the Statistics panel within Game Info
  • Added the new tracks to campaign tiers
  • Reduced the amount of XP gained during Carkour to prevent exploitation
  • AI bots now use the launch ability more often
  • The visual FX for when vehicle launches are now more obvious
  • Improved terrain following for the Hydra and charged Ramraider
  • Improved the firing effectiveness of the charged Ramraider
  • Improved target tracking for the Hydra
  • Fixed AI bots not moving in View to a Kill arena
  • Fixed some UI issues with the vehicle garage
  • Fixed having no rivals for periods of time
  • Fixed the Play buttons in the audio menu to also work in-game
Multiplayer fixes and improvements
  • Winning track and settings are now displayed within an Online lobby once voting has ended
  • Added the garage option to the Online UI during voting timer
  • Fixed reset exploit whereby players could produce false race times
  • Elimination times now estimated in MP when all human players have finished
  • Prevented garage upgrade dialog from blocking MP games
  • Vehicle elimination now made more robust in MP games
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Team modes and new tracks are live!



This huge update includes:
  • 4 new tracks
  • Team modes for racing and the arena
  • An increase in player level cap from 30 to 40
  • Over 25 new car skins and 4 sets of tires to unlock
  • Colour customizable Pariah cars
  • Tons of bug fixes and track improvements (we’ll post full fix list shortly)

We can't wait to hear all your thoughts, and remember, this really is just the start! We'll be sharing details on our next content drop in the coming weeks!

Watch the trailer > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKA3bAJpVfA
GRIP: Combat Racing - Chris@CE


Which side will you choose?

We're pleased to announce that our Steam gamers will be receiving our next big update very soon!

This huge update includes:
  • 4 new tracks
  • Team modes for racing and arena
  • An increase in player level cap from 30 to 40
  • Over 25 new car skins and 4 sets of tires to unlock
  • Colour customizable Pariah cars
  • Tons of bug fixes and track improvements



The Pariah cars can now be colour customized in the garage. Here's a taste:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu3ruL1lPNe/

And here's an example of a new skin for the Terra Dominator:


We're excited to see your reaction to this new content, as it's BIG. We've got even more big content coming later, too.

Can't wait to shoot you on the track ;)
GRIP: Combat Racing - Chris@CE





We've been working hard to create some of the best GRIP tracks yet, and I think we've succeeded. There's still more time needed to finalize the racetracks update, but we thought our community would appreciate a sneak peek in the meantime.

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Check out this track showcase trailer, complete with the bangin' tune from Full Kontakt - Cyborg:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuG8tzjB0IN/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx72AvTgPmM

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Our next update will include MORE CAR SKIN UNLOCKS past level 30. We'll be bumping the max level to 40 to make room.

The unlockable car skins will be the ones used by the AI characters in the campaign, plus some proper paint for the Pariah cars, as we know you guys have been wanting some.

Plenty more to come!

As always, be sure to jump on our very active GRIP Discord to get more involved with the game and its community:
https://discord.gg/grip
GRIP: Combat Racing - Chris@CE

PNG with alpha: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xficq2bvxnlcw51/CarDesignCompMirage.png?dl=1

You guys love customizing cars in GRIP. Well, we decided to take it to the next level and allow you to inject your very own custom car design for the Nyvoss Mirage into GRIP ;)

Use this Nyvoss Mirage template to create be a completely custom paint job, like for example what we've done for the recent Streamers Connected skin. Paint any design, any colour, and even some kind of logo if you like as long as it's your own creation.

EDIT: Here's a link to a package containing the car's mesh and relevant textures in a PSD. Should make paint design creation much easier for people who are skilled in graphics software
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qsncm5sfychaw2/NyvossMirage.zip?dl=1

No eggplants or similarly inappropriate imagery, if ya get my drift.

Post your custom car on any of our social media pages and include the tag #MYGRIP

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtySXYihl6U/
https://www.facebook.com/gripvideogame/
https://twitter.com/GRIPVideoGame/status/1095321716195295232

The winner will be voted by the community. Now let's see some cool cars!

PS. Top 10 submissions get an extra Steam key for the game ;)
GRIP: Combat Racing - Chris@CE
Hey all

We've hopefully just skewered, squished and incinerated a massively frustrating bug that was disabling steering for some players.

If you were one of those people who experienced issues with the previous build, do let us know if this one now works fine!

If you're still experiencing issues, please use a different "beta" branch for GRIP on Steam called "v1.3.2". Here are the steps to do so:

In Steam, right click, go to properties
Navigate to the Betas tab
Enter this code: gripversion132
Select v1.3.2 from the dropdown
Let the game update and you should not be experiencing the input issues

We hope that none of you will need to revert back to the previous version, but there are the steps if necessary.

Apologies for the issues!

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Plenty more stuff coming. The next BIG patch includes multiple new racetracks as well as team racing and team deathmatch, plus some new garage DLC packs for each manufacturer. We're excited to unleash this stuff into GRIP.

Below are a couple nice pics in the meantime
(Photo cred: proloser)

Side note: How many of you have unlocked Hyperspeed mode? ;)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtijAnPBFrP/

If you haven't yet, be sure to ask around the Steam discussions, or join our official Discord to chat with many active users who are also passionate about the game!

DISCORD.GG/GRIP

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S'up players!

We've teamed up with Streamers Connected to bring a free skin in their colours!

Give it a download it and let us know your thoughts!

Maybe we should run a competition for you to win your very own one of a kind custom skin too? Hmmm...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1024620/Streamers_Connected_Vehicle_Skin/?curator_clanid=11705099


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