The Stinger is ready to rip the competition to shreds...


Seemingly inspired by a certain insect, this FREE car was modeled by awesome community Meg.A.Byte! Here's one of the first shots of it



Such a beaut. Thanks to Meg.A.Byte and GRIP team members Alex and Tavis for bringing this thing to life. You can also see footage of it in the new trailer further down in this post.

We've also gone and solved a bunch of bugs (including HDR) and have improved flow and fixed issues on various tracks in the game. Jahtra's Rust racetrack also got a visual overhaul so have a look!

Lastly, another major improvement is to wheeled car physics. The cars should have more predictable behavior when turning over bumps/jumps, and just feel more stable overall. Give them a drive!

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Also, a special announcement from GRIP's publisher Wired Productions, complete with new trailer ;)

We've just announced the Summer of Combat campaign, sure to make the summer sizzle even hotter!

Kicking off on July 4th, with an Xbox Free Play Weekend (details below!) and then heading towards the beach with 3 months worth of new content, the Summer of Combat will bring even more explosions to GRIP!

Watch the reveal trailer now!

https://youtu.be/nYCfzoPgrZM
GRIP’s Summer of Combat will include:

New Artifex vehicle manufacturer containing 3 new Airblade and Roller vehicles (DLC)
Two free new Space tracks
New garage cosmetic packs to further customise your vehicles (DLC)
Free new Orbital Prime ‘Skate Style Park’ arena map
New retro car DLC pack
… and to be revealed new car, inspired by an 80’s classic

Powered by Unreal® Engine 4, GRIP: Combat Racing was first released in 2018. Since its launch, Developer Caged Element have released six free tracks, created battle lines with Red Vs Blue team modes and in May 2019, dropped the game changing update ‘AirBlades’ – which introduced anti-grav racers to the track for adrenaline pounding wheel-to-wing action, flipping the title on its head in a first for the genre!

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Plenty of new stuff coming to GRIP in the second half of the year. We're excited to see what our wonderful and dedicated community think of the improvements and new content.

As always, be sure to jump on our Discord server for exclusive news/media and to chat and play GRIP with other players!

https://discord.gg/grip




EDIT: More in-depth changelist is here!

- Added Terra Stinger vehicle
- Vehicle handling improvements
- Vehicle / vehicle collision improvements
- Fixed issues and improved flow of various racetracks. Jahtra - Rust has a visual change as well
- Missiles now less likely to prematurely explode
- Next map now shown in the multiplayer lobby
- Random votes added in network games for players that haven't registered a vote
- Vehicles no longer intersect the camera during a race
- Improvements to the smoothing of the cinematic camera views
- Improved HDR support, added a Nits value to the video settings
- Can now launch vehicle to avoid incoming Hydra
- Hydra no longer quite as effective at hitting targets
- Hydra now has maximum damage it can do to any particular vehicle
- Prompt now shown to explain that Trophies and Achievements cannot be attained when Easter Eggs are active
- Brightened up the Disruptor screen effect
- Improvements in the transition from human to AI bot at the end of a race

- Bug fix for NVIDIA highlights button showing on the post-event panel when appropriate
- Bug fix for gaining laps on rare occasions through resetting the vehicle
- Bug fix for custom music stalling the game when starting to play
- Bug fix for basic game setup in multiplayer games being preserved correctly when the host transitions to another player
- Bug fix for preventing the player ever using a locked vehicle
- Bug fixes for preventing incorrect data entering the leaderboards

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

Tomorrow. 10 AM BST

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

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 ;)

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

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 ;)