Hello everyone! Update 0.1 is finally here. I want to sincerely apologize for the delay compared to the announced date, but this update brings significant changes to the game structure.
Here are the highlights:
You can now fully edit every circuit in the game to your liking!
Customization: Edit track characteristics entirely.
Default Support: Any circuit you choose not to modify will have a default layout assigned automatically.
A new way to follow the race.
Live Tracking: A radar map allowing you to track your drivers' positions in real-time.
Strategic Design: We chose not to integrate a visual pitlane in this view to facilitate future multiplayer implementation and to keep the focus on strategic gameplay.
Pre-season testing is now entirely configurable. You are no longer forced to hold tests in Week 1.
Schedule Freedom: Place pre-season testing any week you want. (Tip: Avoid Week 1, as teams won't have time to validate Crash Tests yet!).
Session Control: Choose the number of days, split sessions (Morning/Afternoon), and set limits on the number of participating cars.
Importance: These tests are crucial for improving your Car Understanding.
Mandatory Crash Tests: You must now validate crash tests to be allowed in races or pre-season testing. If non-compliant, you must add weight or take reliability risks.
Car Weight: Weight is now a major simulation factor. You can develop "lightness" for the current and future seasons.
Regulations: Future regulations can shift minimum weight limits (configurable range in the editor).
Developing a car is now more complex and realistic:
Car Understanding: You now have an "Understanding" percentage. Teams that don't understand their car will have a very low success rate when trying to develop new parts.
Wind Tunnel: A new facility to research and improve Car Understanding.
"Car Knowledge" Mode: During practice sessions, you can choose this option to boost your understanding of the car, though you sacrifice performance setup work for that specific race.
Added by player request! You can now enable Pre-Qualifying sessions.
Cut-Off: Choose how many teams are eliminated in pre-qualifying. These teams will not participate in Qualifying or the Race.
New Logos: Replaced AI-generated logos with handmade logos created by the community. Big thanks to kazaxpl on Discord!
Spectator Mode: Spectators can now view the active regulations.
Engine Cap (Regulations): Added an option in the editor to set a maximum performance threshold for engines. This allows you to reduce inequality between engine manufacturers.
Workshop Updates: You can now choose between publishing a new mod or updating an existing one.
More Slots: Mod slots increased from 3 to 6.
Category Limits: You can now cap stats so they never exceed a specific range fixed in the mod.
Reliability: Increased the chance of mechanical failures when reliability is low.
Stat Expansion: Performance value ranges have been widely extended for better granularity:
Speed/Reliability: 25 ➔ 100
Engine: 25 ➔ 100
Other Attributes: 50 ➔ 200
Various UI display adjustments.
Rain Chance: Fixed a bug preventing rain chance from being set to 0%.
Engines: Fixed a bug preventing the deletion of active engines.
Constructors: Fixed constructor standings issues when the point system is modified.
Academies: Fixed a bug preventing generated drivers from having an academy.
Driver Traits: You can now properly add driver characteristics.
Safety Car: Fixed timing bugs under Safety Car conditions.
Voting: Fixed the bug preventing circuit change votes after Season 1.
Messaging: Various fixes related to the mail/message system.
And many other minor fixes.