Game update2 Jun 2026Hotfix - v1.5.217Hey everyone, Bigger hotfix than usual this time, a new option, a couple of annoying bugs squashed, and some polish. Here is everything in v1.5.217. Wheel Drop Notifications are now your call There is a new toggle in Settings for the wheel drop claim popup. It is ON by default, so nothing changes unless you want it to. Turn it OFF and the claim button stops sliding in on its own. Instead, a Cla…
Hey everyone, Bigger hotfix than I planned. Iris Nebula sat down with the game for the first time and walked me through an entire first-session bug report on Discord, and NICO flagged a numpad input miss in the Steam discussions. Eleven things got fixed, all from those two threads. · Restart button actually restarts now. It was just quitting the game before, which killed Steam's playtime tracki…
Hey everyone, Two things in this hotfix. First, the km counter bug that 전투아가씨 reported in the discussions ("km bug?", Apr 23 and May 17): kilometer counter freezing at high mileage, the specific report was stuck at 67,125 km on the Bulgara. Short version of the cause, for the curious: the odometer was stored as a 32-bit float, in meters. Around 16,000 km the per-frame distance you add becomes s…
Hey everyone, If you've seen the reviews about saves disappearing after a power cut or a PC restart, this is the patch that fixes it. Two specific reviews from April 30 and a small pile of similar reports lined up on the same root cause, so I rebuilt the save backup pipeline from the ground up. What was wrong The game wrote one backup file next to the main save. A power loss at exactly the wron…
Hey everyone, This time a pure hotfix. A few of you posted on the forums this week about the game launching, showing up in the taskbar, and then... not actually being there on the desktop. A couple of others noticed FPS dropping since the last patch. Both should be fixed, both in this build. 🖥 The window comes back · If your monitor was shorter than the window the game was trying to draw (most…
Hey everyone, It’s been a while since the last update. Most of my time is going into getting Metal Thunder ready, but that doesn’t mean DriveWave has been ignored. With this update, I can finally say DriveWave is in a genuinely solid spot in terms of UX and general feel. You can actually drive the cars now. Literally. There are three tracks/maps in the game where you can take any unlocked car o…
Hey everyone, Let’s get straight to it. Hope you enjoy this update as much as I enjoyed putting it together. Symphony of Valves Cars finally know how to sing. All non-electric models now have proper engine sounds, each with its own audio profile tuned for tone, pitch, and overall feel. Electric cars are still quiet. I could add “realistic” electric audio, but nobody wants to drive around listen…
Hey everyone, This update is a bigger one. It adds full background music support, introduces the Skydeck environment, and includes a long list of improvements across UI, UX, and overall feel. New Features Meet Skydeck! The new Skydeck is a rooftop parking area with an underground party vibe. It is a place where you can display up to 38 of your favorite cars and walk around between them. Lots ca…
Hey everyone, This update addresses several issues you've reported and adds some handy improvements to make your DriveWave experience smoother. Quality of Life · Added a price filter to help you find cars within your budget (Thanks to Himitsu 🎆 ) · The game now remembers which environment you were last in and loads it on startup (Thanks to Himitsu 🎆 ) · Improved window dragging – you can now…
DriveWave — Full Launch is Here Hey everyone, Thank you all for trying the DriveWave demo during Steam Next Fest. Your feedback and support have meant a lot. It’s finally time to launch the game I made over the summer with my son as a small side project and to get myself back into the flow of making games again alongside Metal Thunder. What’s New · Full release with 25+ supported languages · De…
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