Thanks to everyone who pressed F8 or told me what went wrong. The leaderboards stay closed while we settle the handling; the handling update, with the leaderboards wiped clean and reopened, is now the next version.
Loading
- Stages load much faster, a Retry most of all: on a short stage a Retry takes a couple of seconds instead of over ten.
- The loading page now shows online too, says when it is building the stage, and all its writing sits between the notebook's lines.
Playing together
- Competitive online is easy to find: on the stage select press the crew key (or click CREW) to open the crew window, choose your seats, and invite a Steam friend, bring in a local guest or take the AI co-driver.
- Walking and turning on foot as the guest is now instant on your own computer.
- The bay's rides work with a friend online: drive the kart, the mower and the forklift, spin on the office chair, or push your friend round in the trolley. Whatever you ride runs on your own computer, so it is smooth for you, and your friend sees you a moment behind.
- An online career no longer lists the host twice.
- Bug reports from a guest now arrive under the guest's own name.
The co-driver's atlas
- Your notes are now kept with your Steam account on this computer, whichever seat you sit in or whoever hosts. Notes you already made are moved over, and nothing is lost.
- The co-driver can turn the pages without looking down, so you can keep watching the road; Tab still brings the book up to read closely and write.
- At night and at dusk the atlas and the split sheet are lit only by the car's own map light, which swings over the bumps.
Options
- Look speed: how fast the mouse and the right stick turn your view.
- Always run: run on foot without holding Run.
- Change a setting that needs a fresh start (the car body or the driving side) and the Esc menu tells you to Retry.
- Retry is explained: it puts you back at the start line with the car as it was when the stage began. Your notes stay.
Career
- Cups now open on a points ladder: bronze is worth 1, silver 2 and gold 3 in the cup before. A locked cup tells you what it needs.
Stages and the bay
- Desert rocks no longer have a side missing, the mountain outcrops are no longer hollow, and the desert's dead brush stands the right way up.
- On desert Cup 2 track 5 the arrow board in the left hairpin points left.
- The AI co-driver keeps pushing until the car is back on the road.
- The bay's electrical hum stays in the building.
The MarcoBug
Marco found that the shopping trolley, rammed against the tyres and walked into, can send itself or you a very long way. It stays, and pulling it off now earns an achievement.
Keep the reports coming: F8 in game, or the Discord.