Hey Racers,
After much anticipation, Custom Games have arrived! So get your engines revving, tyres pumping and games updating... This is what's in store:
🔧 Custom Games 🔧
Host games up to 8 players, in private or public custom games! Choose up to 12 levels, with specific pick ups, cores and bot settings! Did I mention you can choose to spectate too? 👀
🏆 Ranked Improvements 🏆
No more losing points for winning! We've reverted back to New Skill, allowing you to rise the ranks faster! Ranked players will face off in 5 levels instead of 3, and to prevent foul play, homing missiles will no longer appear in ranked. Plus we've fixed that pesky bug causing you to lose rank points when you were clearly the best player. 🕷️
❄️ Frost Beam ❄️
Ever wanted to freeze your opponents? Well now you can, with this new pick up! Shoot a Frost Beam in front of you causing opponents to skid across the tracks and lose control! 🧊
🚀 Air Strike 🚀
Prepare for mayhem with our new Air Strike pick up! Fire an aerial strike at an opponent, homing in on them, creating an explosion area of effect as it hits the ground! 💥
🪝 Grapple Hook 🪝
There's a new core! Grapple Hook latches your car onto your ball, slowing your ball as your car propels towards it! 🪢
🦈 Shark Event 🦈
We've got some new missions for you to sink your teeth into... The Shark Event (Part 1) is now live! You have a few weeks to collect the first half of this jawesome set of items! 🌊
🏪 Shop and Garage Updates 🏪
You can now purchase random chests in the shop, featuring past rewards from seasons 1 and 2! The garage also displays how many items you have left to collect! Most importantly, car bodies are back in the shop and available to purchase! 🪙
⛳ New Levels ⛳
There are 4 new space levels to try out! But better than that, the community design, Big L, has been added! Be sure to join our discord and enter our community competitions to have your designs added to the game! 🖌️
Check out our full patch notes!
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Highlights:
- Custom Games are upon us! With spectator functionality!
- New pick ups have been added: Frost Beam and Air Strike!
- The Sleet and Shark events are here!
- Grapple Hook core has been added!
- Ranked system has been changed to New Skill.
- Random rewards have been added, to obtain past rewards.
- Core balancing for Double Dash, Hyper Glide, Quick Flip and Trail Blazer!
- Leaderboards have been reset across all game modes.
- Various performance and optimisation improvements.
New Features:
- Custom games have been added to the game mode selection screen!
- Players can spectate custom games.
- Frost Beam pick up has been added. Shoot a line of ice along the track, hindering opponents movement control!
- Air Strike pick up has been added, an auto following aerial bomb, used to halt opponents in the area of effect!
- Shark event has been added in two parts!
- Sleet event has been added in two parts!
- Grapple Hook is here, an active core that pulls your car to your ball!
- Random reward chests have been added to the shop and mission rewards.
- 5 new levels: Big L, Hubble Bubble, Moonraker, Outer Wrench and U Bend.
- 7 new shop items.
- New missions have been added for Teef and Sleet car bodies.
Updated Features:
- Car max speed has been increased.
- Boost acceleration has been increased.
- Balls now roll further on all surfaces.
- Increased the ball pull strength on the flag's beam.
- Boost ring colliders have been improved.
- Double Dash has increased cooldown and internal cooldown. First dash power has been reduced.
- Quick Flip cooldown has been increased to 3 seconds.
- Trail Blazer acceleration speed has been increased.
- Hyper Glider speed has been increased.
- Leaderboards have been reset.
- Emojis have been reordered and replaced.
- Updated spectators watching icon.
- Reverted back from Rank Points to New Skill in Ranked.
- Players are now awarded avatars when they move up a rank bracket.
- Ranked levels increased from 3 to 5 per game.
- Removed homing missiles from ranked.
- Updated target crosshair for pick ups.
- Added New Skill loss prevention for a win.
- Updated lighting in lobby scene.
- Updated car chassis.
- Assembler, Rotary, Trey, Visage, Windwave and X-Tail have all had visual updates.
- Wheel materials have been updated.
- Updated emissive colours on shields.
- Updated boost effect particles on some effects.
- Updated grass effects on space levels.
- Summary screen has been updated with new progress bars, badges and scoreboards.
- Rank badges now show on profiles in lobby.
- Updated bot names.
- Finish icons have been updated.
- Black Abyss and Blue Dot have updated icons.
- Durable wheels emissive has been updated.
- Garage has been updated with new icons and total items in category display.
- Shop layout has been updated.
- Game mode selection screen shows games played for casual games.
- Season 2 leaderboards have been added.
- Friend panel has been updated.
- Friend code length has been reduced.
- Adventure panel now prioritises incomplete adventures.
- Adventure panel dot colour has been updated.
- Text on currency rewards has been updated.
- Opened chest icon has been updated.
- Insufficient funds pop up has been updated.
- Players can no longer trigger pick-ups or cores until they’re usable after going out of bounds or pressing the reset button.
- Players can continue some game inputs after scoring for longer.
- Updated mission rewards.
- Updated Learning The Basics mission order and target amounts.
- Updated homing missile mission amounts.
- Mastery missions are no longer achievable in solo.
- Reworded mission terminology.
- Players who skip the tutorial now have Sticky and Big Ball equipped.
- Players can now rotate camera around cars in starting car selection screen.
- Updated star times for space levels.
- Improved bot performance in Dust Bowl and space levels.
- Updated Oil Jack animation.
Level Updates:
- Updated out of bounds material colour in space levels.
- Updated hole colour in space levels.
- Updated waterfall placement in King’s March.
- Updated obstacles in Cloud Playground, King’s March and Par 5.
- Updated bunkers in Anointed One, Ball Falls, Cloud Playground, Elevator 7, Enter The Serpent, Jungle Run and Sun Disc Dash.
- Updated rough in All or Wall, Corner Madness, Enter The Serpent and Uphill Battle.
- Updated trees in A Walk In The Woods, All or Wall, Arch Parkway, Ball Falls, Bottom’s Up, City Gates, Elevator 7, Factory Showdown, Mountain Hideout, Nice Drive and Uphill Battle.
- Updated rocks in Anointed One, Arch Parkway, Broken Pretzel, Bunker Balls, Claw Canyon, Downtown Blitz, Factory Showdown and Rainbow Race.
- Updated boost rings in Aqueduct Attack, Ball Falls, Bottom’s Up, Bunker Balls, City Gates, Claw Canyon, Electric Avenue, Elevator 7, Endurance, Factory Showdown, Mineout, Round The Bend, Sun Disc Dash, Trees Please, Twin Kingdoms and Twisted Gardens.
- Updated pick ups in Downtown Blitz, Elevator7, Hyper Flight Corner, Nice Drive, Precision Decisions, Rocket Ramp and Waverace.
- Updated boost pads in All or Wall, Anointed One, Corner Madness, Endurance, Factory Showdown, Inner City Circuit, Rainbow Race, Mountain Hideout, Nice Drive, Spots and Shots and Uphill Battle.
- Updated tunnels in Bottom’s Up, City Gates, Endurance, Factory Showdown, Hyper Flight Corner, Mineout, Mushroom City, Precision Decisions, Rocket Ramp, Satellite Sprint, Terminal 19 and Twisted Gardens.
- Updated barriers in Eye In The Sky, Sky Bridge and Twisted Gardens.
- Updated ramps in All or Wall, Claw Canyon, Cloud Playground, Downtown Blitz, Round The Bend and Twisted Gardens.
- Updated drops in Elevator 7 and Rocket Ramp.
- Reduced height variance in Round The Bend.
- Removed spin in tunnel of Mushroom City.
- Updated dome texture in Rocky Ring Road.
- Updated pyramid in Sun Disc Dash.
- Updated snake head in Enter The Serpent.
- Updated starting ramp in Overdrive HQ.
- Updated glass material across space levels.
Bug Fixes:
- Various performance and optimisation improvements.
- Various decal and finish improvements.
- Improved blurry objects on Xbox consoles.
- Addressed issue bots being given times when players and bots DNF.
- Addressed issue with Ice Lock not freezing momentum on hole.
- Addressed issue where players are stuck on match loading screen.
- Addressed reset issues in Dust Bowl, Factory Showdown, Mushroom City, The Snake, Twisted Gardens, Twisted Ranch and Vortex.
- Fixed out of bounds in Rocky Ring Road, Spots and Shots, Sun Disc Dash and Twisted Gardens.
- Addressed shadowing issues on Mineout and Twin Kingdoms.
- Fixed collider issue in Twin Kingdoms.
- Addressed issue with tunnel in Mushroom City.
- Addressed issues when spectating in Kings March.
- Addressed skip in Spots and Shots.
- Improved screen displays for wide monitors.
- Addressed bug showing mission UI in matches.
- Addressed inconsistent rank badges within matches.
- Addressed ordering issues on scoreboard.
- Addressed issue with TechJet shield pistons.
- Addressed issue with grass textures.
- Addressed play online games mission issue.
- Addressed issues with sounds when spectating.
- Updated starting car colours to match selectable colours.
- Addressed visual and sound effects continuing for cars after they have scored.
- Addressed navigation issues on adventures panel.
- Addressed issue with music volume on Xbox start up.
- Addressed 0 Rank Points bug when playing against bots.
- Addressed jumpiness when spectating, car movement will now appear smoother.
- Corrected atmosphere colours on planets in space theme.
- Addressed random core pick up sound effect bug.
- Addressed bug completing timed missions.
- Fixed issue showing emojis in loading screens.
- Addressed bug claiming rewards multiple times.
- Spectator now prioritises players over bots.
- Addressed issue causing repeated reward claiming after a match. Happy Racing!
Team Hugecalf 🐮
