Update v0.1.2 is live! Here's what's new.
🌃 New map: NEON JUNCTION
A night city full of neon lights and 80s synthwave style. You climb from the parking garage all the way to the finish at 1000 meters:
- A parking garage and a spiral tower, the first skyscraper and the rooftops
- A multi-level highway interchange, giant billboards and a metro line
- A skyscraper under construction: a scaffold road, construction elevators and steel beams that zigzag in the crosswind
- A spiral around a tower crane, a windy road along the crane's arm and a jump to the helipad
- The final section: a spiral up to 1000 meters around a 1 km tall beacon tower
The lights on gondolas, elevators, swinging signs and trains now really light up their surroundings.
🎮 Two new minigames on the map
Bomb Tag (parking garage roof): the bomb passes from car to car like a hot potato. Get close to someone to pass it on. When the time runs out, the car holding the bomb blows up. On your own? Drive over the three lit pads to defuse it.
Sky Sumo (helipad): the floor is made of tiles. In four waves, tiles flash red and fall. Try to stay standing.
⚓ Port Babel
- The lighting was redone. Lights now show up in reflections and on cars.
- Forklifts drive their own routes around the harbor and slowly push any car in their way aside.
- Crane towers, elevator rails and lamp posts are now solid and can be hit.
- Some performance adjustments.
✨ New features and improvements
- Camera collision: when you pass through tight spaces or pipes, the camera no longer stays outside, it comes in with you. On by default. You can turn it off under Settings > Controls > Camera Collision.
- The vehicle camera now starts a little higher and further back.
- New leaderboard: the altitude you reach comes first, then your finish time. On a tie, whoever finished in fewer attempts goes ahead. Alongside the overall ranking, every map has separate tables for its normal and checkpoint modes.
- Spawn protection (ghost mode): when your car first spawns, returns to the start or goes back to a checkpoint, you can pass through other cars for a few seconds. Your car blinks during this time. Protection doesn't end while you're inside another car, it ends when you leave it.
- Engine and turbo upgrades: upgrades now also change the gear ratios, so your top speed goes up and the car doesn't sit at the rev limiter all the time. The values in the store and garage were updated to match.
- Clutch: fixed the clutch slipping on heavy trucks. It now handles 1000+ HP with ease, and the Ranch Roamer can now burn rubber with ease.
- On the altitude bar, other players now appear with their car colors and Steam profile pictures.
- The host can kick players from the pause menu during a race.
- The chat messages "X left the lobby" and "X was kicked by the host" now show the profile picture.
- Clicking the map card (image, name) in the lobby opens the game settings.
- Tire smoke looks a little more natural.
- Car previews in the garage and store open faster. (Fixed the car not appearing for some players when they first opened the Garage tab.)
Known bugs fixed.
Tell us how it feels on our Discord: https://discord.gg/DTyqeQHJ4g
See you in Neon Junction. 🚗