Welcome to the first patch for Car D Game since launch, Thanks to everyone who has given the game a try. I will continue to refine the game and I hope to get much more feedback as we move forward together.
Here's what has changed in this patch.
Driving model rework:
- Acceleration, Engine power and buff cards have been scaled back quite a bit. It became apparent that often players were able to access far more speed/power than their cars could properly manage putting down. This is going to need endless tweaking.
- Drift initiation and control effects no longer fight each other
- Traction limit card and parts now have a greater impact on your car's movement
- Suspension/traction limit also assists straight line traction
- Handbrake is added as a marker card that bleeds a bit of speed to initiate a drift
- Marker accelerate cards have been added on some parts allowing you to finish a corner then roll onto the power as you come onto the straight or whatever other use y'all find for it
Cards and Economy:
- Per race caps and cooldowns are now communicated more clearly on the bottom of cards
- Streak reward cards are now free
- New driver skill: crash course, allows you to see past a crash on the prediction line
- Patience and turbo surge now properly show their actual buffed total values in green on the card text
- Pre-sequenced shift up now properly named up shift and can no longer try to shift into impossible gears
Maps & campaign:
- Added eight new maps to fill in sparse rungs in the difficulty progression for the campaign including 3 new level 1 maps
- Finish line hitbox now much more accurate. looking at you skid paddock
- Some maps have moved tiers based on median time on leaderboard
- Ghosts now carry the full build info and have a link to the steam profile of the users you faced
- Improved post race screen, details much easier to understand ( in my opinion )
Interface & QoL:
- Markers can now be dragged along the prediction line
- Markers can now be stacked on each other
- Nudge buttons now even smaller increments
- Sub-part tooltips now cleaner
Thanks for checking out Car D Game, I hope you all and more will continue to support this game :)