The first planned big update is live and ahead of schedule! With this new version, you can now rewind time during single-player races. To keep things square, this feature is blocked during multi-player and leaderboard runs.
For the time being, you have unlimited rewinds available, but I’m deciding if there will be some specific number of flashbacks per race. If you want to share your view, join the Discord server and have a chat with the community!
Small updates recap
Between the big, planned updates, there will be some smaller ones. Here is a summary of these updates since the release in Early Access:
AI difficulty now goes up to 120%
When AI is above 100%, they will take curves more aggressively, attacking the kerbs and using inertia better in tighter turns. Their top speed remains unchanged, so the fight is fair.
While hotlapping for the leaderboards, you start a few hundred meters behind so you reach the start line at full speed
Added a new GT car
Made grass more forgiving
Improved visibility. Camera zooms out 10% more at full speed.
Camera shake can now be turned off in the options menu
Added lights to Jeddah
Corrected CTD bugs in car selection screen and two other instances
UI adjustments for Spanish
Fixed portraits not showing up in multiplayer races
In random split-screen races, Player 2's car model was sometimes used by AI
Under certain conditions rain could appear while doing timetrials
Corrected accelerator, it was working as analogue when using a controller, 0% or 100%
Fix AI not reversing when getting stuck into a wall
Wunstorf: Adjusted AI
Wunstorf: Adjusted track layout
COTA: graphical pass and improved object placement around track
COTA: removed possible shortcut
What comes next?
Work on the track editor is advancing at full speed (without super clipping). I have things working, you can create tracks with basic decorations, and you can upload and download them from the Workshop.
The focus on the coming weeks is to improve the UI, to make the process as easy as possible. I’m also planning to redo some under the hood systems so that everything is as flexible as possible. That will allow me to add new features without breaking compatibility.