iRacing has released 2024 Season 2 Hotfix 1!

See the Release Notes below, or on the iRacing Forums here:
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/57375/2024-season-2-hotfix-1-release-notes-2024-03-06-01#latest


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This Hotfix Release contains a few critical fixes for the 2024 Season 2 Release. This includes the issue where rain-ready cars were unable to transition from Practice to Race, and the issue where rain-ready cars were unable to switch tire compounds in Fixed Setup events. Grab a change of socks while we’re down, and then come back and continue to enjoy the rain!


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Race Servers
Fixed a critical issue where drivers would crash out of the Simulation when transitioning from a Practice Server to a Race Server if a rain-ready car was in use.

Cars
Fixed a critical issue where rain-ready cars were not allowed to change tire compounds during Fixed Setup events.
Fixed an issue where some opponent cars could appear to wheelie as the downforce acting on them changed.

Tires
Fixed an issue with tire compound checkboxes not matching the correct status during a pitstop.
Fixed an issue where tire compounds would not appear correct after a driver change.

Graphics
Fixed a display issue with some types of trees when SSR was enabled.


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Dallara F3
iRacing setups have been updated.

Dallara iR-01
iRacing setups have been updated.

Super Formula Lights
iRacing setups have been updated.

Super Formula SF23
iRacing setups have been updated.


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Algarve International Circuit
Fixed a visual issue with tirewraps.

Lanier National Speedway
(Asphalt) - Track surface parameters have been updated slightly.

Millbridge Speedway
Entrance fence banners have been added.

Oran Park Raceway
(South) - Fixed a surface type issue with pit lane, fixed a track surface bump at Turn 7, and track marshals have appeared to continue to monitor the situation.

Slinger Speedway
Fixed an issue where some light poles would disappear at low detail levels.

发布：4个种族的机械兽技能

Release: Mechanical Beast Skills for 4 Races

We're happy to announce that "Little Learning Machines" is officially launching out of Early Access! A big thank you to our incredible community for your invaluable feedback and support throughout this journey. You have helped shape the game into what it is today - a whimsical world of AI companionship and discovery. As we step into this new chapter, we're excited to bring more features, challenges, and magical moments.

Thank you so much for following alongside us on this journey, your support has been an essential part of this adventure! Enjoy the adventures with your new AI Companions! 🤖 ❤️ 🧠

- The Little Learning Machines Team

• Localization for Simplified Chinese, German, and Korean has been added

• Maps for Soccer Sands and Azure Abyss have been updated.
  
• Menu display issues caused by incorrect fonts have been fixed.

• Rapidly changing languages will cause issues in Reward phrasing in the Training Cloud
  
• Resetting the Animo’s brain during the tutorial will render the Animo unlikely to pass the tutorial quests (don’t do this, please! 😢).
  
• The achievement “Artifical Archeologist” may unexpectedly unlock.
  
• Under certain circumstances, the tooltip length will remain at its max size and not wrap the text correctly.
  
• Under certain circumstances, during the second quest of the tutorial, the dialogue will use older, unlocalized text for all langauges.

• Fixed cloud rendering being glitched on some machines
  
• Localization: BLOCK_TUTORIAL capacitor

Default graphics for Steam Deck

We've made adaptations to the game for Steam Deck devices.

• Native launch without Proton
  
• Text readability on Steam Deck
  
• The ability to play without using the touchscreen
  
• Launching the Event List, Smartphone, Map, and other features using gamepad buttons
  
• Map and in-game screen navigation using the joysticks

Let's get into it.

• Added more craft sprites.
  
• Implemented the Item Limit, adjustable in Gameplay Settings.

• Decreased the burn time of incense and slightly decreased the chance it spawns a spider.
  
• Slightly increased the fragility of the glass jar.
  
• Funny cosmetic cheats are now enabled by default and do not disable saving.
  
• Stopped the handle indicators from growing infinitely.
  
• Replaced the sell lever with a much more satisfying rope.

• The water spout lever is no longer invisible.
  
• Implemented more safe-guards against creating saves with no file name, which crashes the game.
  
• Crafts of lower quality won't show up as phantom objects anymore.
  
• Eliminated what was hopefully the last of the flashbang text.
  
• Holding carbon when it melts shouldn't crash your game anymore.
  
• Moved the shop crate to the left a bit so it stops merging with the scale on spawn.
  
• Shop crates will now try to spawn above existing items to prevent merging with existing objects when spawned.

• Reworked area in front of Pop Pop's House with updated enemy spawners and a clean water source
  
  
• Slight subtlety pass on item pickup UI, research UI, and shop policy UI
  
• Slightly raised visibility of night time
  
• Pitch black night time moved to midnight instead of 10:30PM for a shorter low visibility period of night
  
• Raised ambient light during sunset and sunrise for better visibility when the sun and moon are not out yet
  
• Improved sunset and sunrise sun/moon blends
  
• Increased default range for light LODs in villages so that it's less likely for them to pop in
  
• Added crosshair hitmarker animations

• Reduced lag from breaking containers
  
• Removed some unused code from shop policy UI

• Fixed shooting limbs of NPCs (such as the Apex) not granting ranged XP
  
• Fixed mastery XP (such as ranged) not updating when opening the ESC menu
  
• Fixed lights sometimes not turning on in villages when it turns to night
  
• Fixed exception with police system targeting an AI that was already despawned
  
• Fixed exception with employee skill tree instance
  
• Fixed Bellstalker not dropping items on death
  
• Bellstalker disappears much earlier now on death

:)

Updates and Fixes:

• I have fixed the scale of the MP5.
  
• We have added a new MP5 SD model to the game.
  
• I have fixed the drone's Heads-Up Display (HUD) upon death.

Note:
We have managed to narrow down almost all the mist bugs on launch day, and I salute everyone who rushed to open a ticket to help me make this happen.
I am confident that Direct Contact will be a favorite game among its fans. Please continue to open the tickets.