You can build cars on your PC, but do you know when the world's first car was built?
Here are some fun facts...
👉 It had a small one-cylinder four-stroke engine 👉 The vehicle's top speed was 16 km per hour 👉 Build by German engineer Karl Friedrich Benz 👉 A replica of the model is exhibited in the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart
Our good ol' Charlie installed a turbocharger on a car he just finished building and he offered to take us on a wild ride!
As we got in the car Charlie cheerfully shouted:
"Buckle up, bundle up!"
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It's time again for an update! This time we were focusing on car handling, controllers and physics, while we've also moved forward with adding new beds for another UTE, Wanja!
Handling: It's been a long ride since we've started and finally now we can enjoy driving as we've designed years ago! We have updated our tire models and fixed some "outdated" code. As a result the game has much better controls, even on keyboard! From now on, controlled drifting is not only a wish, but reality!
New tire gauges We have noticed during beta testing, that many of our users did not understand tire's heat factors, simply because you cannot see it. You have to be a real racer to understand and feel what is going on without any help, so we decided to add tire gauges. These new gauges helps to show each tire's operating temperatures and you can get them in multiple format for small gauges to built into tachometer as well. We want to keep it simple and keep the "era" of the game, so don't expect digital temperatures or pressures, instead some leds to show the temperature level of each tires.
Wanja has removable bed Our plan is to make most of the UTE's bed removable, this time we have added this feature to Wanja UTE.
List of changes:
Improved car handling, better controller support
Improved tire model, better weight delivery, tires with more load has more traction and more wear
Added High angle 45deg steering to support drifting (EUROA)
Added tire gauges to help understand when tires are overheated or under-heated (EUROA)
Added support for 21:9 resolutions
Walea and Jingu rectangle instruments background has been replaced to accommodate rounded instruments as well
Fixed camber / caster calculation
Fixed some audio glitch on scene load and
Fixed clutch issues using H-Shifter vs restart race or new scene load
Fixed H-Shifter vs stage pipe issues, when car halted at start of race
Fixed restart of race, which now reset time, reset all components, including tire pressures, temp, etc.
Fixed skid-marks zfight
Fixed disappearing cargo box on scene load
Fixed Narnoo hub vs brake selection during garage work
Fixed Zfight on Narnoo's frame
Localization update
Several smaller bugfixes
Enjoy!
Patch 1
Date: 18-11-2020 Version: 1.4.7417
Fixed Cargo Box visibility (when UTE cover is mounted)
Fixed Narnoo UTE body collider to avoid issues on carlift
Fixed surface pikes of Gutta Oval's inner lane to avoid car flipping issues
Patch 2
Date: 25-11-2020 Version: 1.4.7434
Fixed Restoration, where it could never be finished due to km limits
Fixed "floating" characters on race tracks
Fixed Restart vs racing points. (restart won't reduce existing race points)
Performance: In the next few months, we are going to roll out several performance and graphics updates. As the first results of this progress, we have gained 2x-3x faster game! (Previously some our test rig was able to reach only 50-55 fps, now it's running on 160fps without any issues.) Also as part of this progress, we have changed many of our materials on the cars. Rust, dirt, paintworks are replaced with a better and much faster one. In the previous releases, when your parking was full, or when you started a race, you have to wait long seconds to get each car loaded. Now it is almost instant! Also, as the first few small steps, we have replaced our main avatars (Charlie, Player male and female) for better looking models. (more to come..) If you still have any issue with performance, try VSync on/off, or lower you resolution first. The game should run fine in full HD, but if your rig is weak, start with going for a lower resolution first, then use less drawing distance and quality settings.
New body parts We are introducing beds for UTEs. First, we have made 2 new beds and made it possible to remove the old one, so you have 4 options now: no bed, standard bed, T-Bed and Flat Bad.
Driving avatars Finally, our NPC and drivers sit inside the cars and driving! A feature, that we all waited long time to have it! It makes the game more fun and more realistic as well.
As always, we were looking at problems, bugs, balance problmes and fixed most of the issues you have reported in the last 2 months. Keep this habits, and send us your problems - we will fix it!
Restoration & Wrecks One of the annoying unbalanced part was the restoration and wrecks. We worked again on this part to make it worth to fix a car. If you just fix it, but left some used parts, it will pay back your money, but don't expect much profit. However, if you fix the car properly and you wont left any used or worst parts in the car, you can gain significant profit! Also, many of you reported that wrecks does not worth to buy, because they are most cases totally wasted money. you cannot fix the engine and hardly can salvage any working parts. Not anymore! It is still random, but we are degrading significantly less parts and the chance that you get some real values are much higher. It is worth to try, even if you might get a few which is a total lost! (Even when it looks like nothing worth on it, if you restore it, you will gain profit!)
Custom boxes Another feature were requested by our players: custom boxes! Now you can create and name a box for your own and keep your treasures in it. Automatically created boxes will be removed after they are empty, the custom boxes will stay as long you delete them.
List of changes:
Performance update, the game can run ~3x faster than before
Enabled metal on Mac
Faster and smoother physics, better drivability
Introducing new beds for Jingu and Narnoo UTE
Driving avatars
New avatar models (Charlie, male and female player)
New materials, much faster to load and looks better too
New tail lights for Jingu / Narnoo ute, which can be attached on the frame (so you can have lights when you don't have a bed)
Tweaked AI, much better starting which makes them a drag killer! Watch out for some revheads on gutta drag! It's not that easy to win against them anymore!
Introducing custom boxes, you can create and name one for yourself
Introducing FoV in cockpit camera
Introducing FPS target, which can be set in the visual options up to 180 FPS
Add sound to rim when no tire
New defaults for gamepads/joysticks (Try it out, steering sensitivity:6, understeering:4, deadzone:14) for smoother driving
Tweaked some of the parts degradation, which was to fast. (battery, lights, horn, sparks, fuesbox)
Fixed restoration. If you finish it, you get a real profit, no matter if you started with a high millage used or a wrecked car.
Wrecks has values again! It might required a small fortune to fix a wreck, but you can and it will worth! Also, we have tweaked the amount of random damage, to keep those engines and cars alive. (it is still random!)
Fix condition text, which were sometimes misleading and stated broken, but it was still repairable (used or bad, but not broken).
Fix engine halt issues when using H-Shifter
Fixed some tire pressure bug in garage, which caused to lost tire pressure setup if the front and rear was not the same.
Fixed some newspaper items, car configs
Localization fixes
Bugfixes
and somehow we've also made up some time to sleep and eat... :P
Enjoy!
Patch 1 Date: 28-09-2020 Version: 1.4.7182
Fixed Empty Notepad issues
Fixed random black materials
Fixed player position in Buthanbang to avoid head coming over the roof
Fixed Kanji steeringwheel / hand positions
Fixed Jingu's cockpit back view
Patch 2 Date: 29-09-2020 Version: 1.4.7198
fixed duplicated car issue (partially broken save) (narnoo bed bug by 10k)
fixed updater from v11 to v12 (narnoo bed bug by 10K)
fixed shopping while firstcar mission is active
fixed car parking vs refuelling (you would lost petrol if park and exit game)
tweaked BB cockpit positions
fixed bad translation for hard top flat (need update on each language, base english changed)
Patch 3 Date: 30-09-2020 Version: 1.4.7204
Fixed no clutch issues
updated localization
Patch 4 Date: 3-10-2020 Version: 1.4.7220
Fixed bed paint after remounting it
Fixed Jingu bed model
Fixed empty notepad when bed was removed in garage