Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday’s TDU fans! This letter is a short one, but that won’t stop us from making sure our community gets a cool Christmas car reveal! Let’s go over everything you need to know before 2025 comes to an end!
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Season 5 Update 1 Details
Season 5 Update 2 Details
Season 6 Vehicles
Pagani Huayra Roadster
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series
Lamborghini Temerario
Online Store
Where To Find It
Screenshots
Networking Improvements
Overview
Test Drive Community Week Winners
Livery Vote
Race Vote
Community Spotlight Winner - December
Winners
How To Enter
The next Season 5 update is planned to release within the first two weeks of January. We will have more news on this release date early next year to confirm. There may be a missed live event during the release schedule of the update.
As usual, the maintenance for the release date will be announced in the Patch Notes post which will arrive a day or two before the release of the update.
Make sure to stay tuned for all the details on Update 1 by following us on social media!
The Season 5 update after Update 1 is planned to release in February. As usual, we’ll have more details on this in the next Solar Club Letter.
Season 6 is bringing brand new vehicles to TDUSC, and it's time we recapped what we have revealed so far, and tease a little more…
Pagani returns to TDU! Season 6 will be the first season to bring Pagani to TDUSC, but it will not be the last. The iconic Pagani V12 sound is currently under development and our sound design team are really excited to show this off!
The Pagani also has a new type of aero system. The active aero works as intended, but when turning the vehicle, the active aero should apply more angle to the left or right side of the vehicle. This new system is what we are currently developing, but it may not be ready at the launch of Season 6, which if it isn’t, players can expect this to be fully working in a later update.
Oh, we can’t forget to mention, this car will be available in the dealership!
The king of Mercedes-Benz makes its debut in Season 6. This vehicle will be exclusive to the online store, but will feature additional licenced items in its bundle. We hope you’re ready to experience the aggressive V8 howl from this vehicle in Season 6!
Merry Christmas! We were originally just going to tease this car, but its unique angles make it very easy to guess, so here it is in its full form! One of the newest Lamborghini’s arrives in TDUSC during Season 6 as a part of the Solar Pass! This vehicle also boasts many manufacturer options, in fact, the most ever. You can customise the car with the following options:
7 different manufacturer rims
29 different manufacturer interior colour options
39 different manufacturer exterior paint options (with some paint options allowing for carbon parts package, carbon roof package, or matte paint options)
For now, enjoy the beautiful photos of this car!
As we finalise the Online Store, let’s see what it looks like!
The store can be found when opening the settings menu and navigating to the ‘Store’ tab. Here you’ll be able to buy everything using the Diamonds currency.
Let’s take a look at what the store looks like. Keep in mind, the pricing and items that are seen may not be final.
Bundles
Rotational Store
Permanent Store
Free Diamonds
Networking is a big part of TDUSC, and we know it isn’t perfect which creates a frustrating experience for our players, so let’s discuss what’s next for improvements.
The network team is hard at work on many projects regarding TDUSC. The most important one of course is cross region, but there are other things such as 8 player groups, Official Racing Center and the matchmaking playlist it will have, improving the instancing and matchmaking, and more!
To discuss this in more detail, here is Guillaume to discuss it all!
“We’re working on a lot of things to improve the online experience—specifically making sure players actually run into each other more in free-roam. We know that right now, even on populated servers, it feels empty. It’s an algorithmic issue that we are completely overhauling. It’s a major project that will take several months, but we’re confident it will lead to something great. This step forward will allow us to tackle cross-region play.
In parallel, we’re still working on the Racing Center, the matchmaking rework, the 8-player groups, solar pass & live event enhancement and improving general server stability for a smoother experience.
It's also important to note that every feature in TDU Solar Crown relies on online systems. As a result, the online team is working across the board, since they are affected by every single deployment and feature update! They are doing their best everyday to provide you the best experience.
Send them love!”
- Guillaume Guinet / TDUSC Game Director
In Season 6, we are creating a community week live event! In the last letter, we had users submit and vote for their favourite fan made livery and races for us to add to the live event. That said, here are the winners!
Congrats to faucheureuse for winning the livery vote! They gave their Bugatti Veyron a nice Sharps style livery which you can see below!
We also want to give a huge shoutout to SylFR as our honourable mention with their amazing livery designs!
There were many races that players submitted for this event. Here are the 5 races which we will be choosing for the live event!
Zworg’s ‘Crown Jewel Garnet’
Flaw’s ‘Joyaux De La Couronne’
MrToadfun’s ‘Meeting Is At the Other Dealership’
Watch Man’s ‘Ap Lei Chau Special’
Takamisakari’s ‘Rollercoaster’
We had to make some tough choices here as we used both the vote system and the understanding of developing the races sent with both development time and AI racer capability in mind. We will have more news on the arrival of these live event at a later date. Thank you to everyone who participated!
Yup! It’s time to announce the winners for the month of December!
First, the winner of the Alpine community photo goes to The Horizon Vault from Reddit! Congrats, and you win the exclusive Alpine clothing!
There have been some amazing pictures sent in for this month's Community Spotlight, but here are the top 3 voted photos for the month of October!
Discord member Shmoogan wins this month's Community Spotlight with their amazing photography of the Alpine A110! Congrats, and your reward is 600 diamonds and Alpine clothing!
Now this is a bit weird, but we have a 3 way tie, so we’ll disturbed these winners as one! Congrats to Axis-, SylFR, and Night Raven for your photos! You all win 300 diamonds each and Alpine clothing!
Congrats again to the winners!
First, join our Discord which can be found at Discord.gg/TestDrive. Once you join our Discord, you’ll see a channel called ‘community-spotlight’. Here, you can send the best pictures you've taken in TDUSC! You aren't limited to cars, too. Feel free to send pictures of your liveries, cars, sceneries, garage, etc. The community will vote for the best photo to be featured in-game and win some prizes!
Here are the rules:
Pictures must be high quality and not edited outside of the game or taken with tools that are not native to TDUSC's in-game photo mode
Only 1 picture is allowed in a post
You are only allowed one post per month; however, you can delete your post and make a new one to replace it.
The top 3 voted posts in the month will win prizes
The most voted picture in the month will be selected to showcase in the in-game news section in TDUSC
The thread will be wiped on the release of every Solar Club Letter
Users can only win once every 2 months (including podium spots 1st, 2nd, 3rd)
Note: Posting in this channel means you allow your picture to be used by Nacon/KT for promotional use.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays TDU fans! We are getting close to the next chapter of TDUSC in 2026, and we can’t wait for the road ahead. Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far, see you again soon!
The TDU Team