The game's Ostrich Racing mini-game has been expanded to a full championship with 8 races to complete, each unlocked by coming first place in the previous match. Win all 8 races to win an achievement, as well as the option to compete for fastest times in the global leaderboards.
In addition to this update, a few small other changes have been made as per usual.
Main Update Features:
- 7 New ostrich races.
- Unlockable race flow.
- Ostrich Race improvements.
- New per-track global leaderboards.
- New achievement.
Fixes:
- Fixed issue that allowed weapons to be brought onto the ostrich racing course, even though you aren't able to use them since friendly fire is disabled for NPC teammates and there are no enemies to fight.
- Small navmesh issues fixed.
- Turning on a radio in caravan/shebeen will now resume from whichever channel you were previously listening to.
- Covered up some more exposed tree roots without backfaces.
- Fixed fencing that allowed illegitimate entrance into the distant informal settlement.
- Fixed intersecting hat on one of the NPC ostrich racers.
- Fixed options page 1 'Reset To Default' setting HUD Scale to 0.
Details:
- Added new beer radio advert that can be heard upon entering the bar for the first time.
- Added new beer branding to the bar taps.
Other:
- Made music station and talk radio station relative volumes more balanced to each other.
- Added more trees in terrain quadrant 5.
- Offset animation frames for NPC ostrich racers so they are not always perfectly synced for realism.
Optimizations:
- Removed blood instantiation pool from memory in scenes that do not have any fighting. (Such as ostrich racing etc)
- Optimized ostrich animation controller and memory footprint.
- Removed an unused hat from character avatar memory resources.
Steam Page Updates:
- New box art cover that uses game screenshots for a more accurate representation of the games apperance as opposed to artwork that doesn't look exactly like the game.
- Updated Demo to use lastest media art assets in Steam.
Happy racing!