Handling, Physics & Vehicle Tuning Update

Input smoothing, slick tire boost, and improved terrain slope handling.

Physics, Vehicles & Controls

• Improved vehicle handling on banks and slopes.
• Retuned vehicle setups across all classes and planets.
• Most setups now use static ride height around 35% for more available compression distance, with ride heights lowered to compensate.
• Added input/steering smoothing for controller and keyboard.
• Added steering linearity, smoothing, and speed-based steering reduction.
• Speed-based steering reduction is active now. Sliders for these settings will be added to the Controls screen soon.
• Slick tires are now substantially grippier on rock. This required input smoothing, physics improvements, and setup changes to make them drivable. Feedback welcome!
• Added stator-style torque converter behavior, reducing bogging down while rolling backwards or turned around.
• Added engine rotational inertia behavior.
• Paddle tires now have more grip.
• Reduced UTV gyro behavior again so it feels less floaty.
• Adjusted tuning limits for some classes, especially Mining.
• Exo4 temporarily uses a fixed Center Differential setup: 50/50 split, power stiffness 1, coast stiffness 0.3. UI to be added.
• Exo4 also received a lowered center of mass and a slight track width increase.

Custom Stages

• You can now race or copy a selected custom stage code directly from the custom stage UI.
• Improved approach/start-zone visualization.
• Approach start gate phase is now included in test mode.
• Fixed saved custom stages not appearing in the stage list.

Visuals

• Visual and environment polish across planets, including better sky, fog, and reflection behavior.
• Improved grazing reflections.
• Updated Fusang ground materials and visuals to make terrain easier to read.
• Added more rock ground on Fusang.
• Dhool dense fog weather now has slightly longer visibility.
• Toned down extreme meteor showers slightly.
• Fixed broken-off wheels using the wrong collider or visual mesh in some cases.
• Reduced Dhool volumetric headlight intensity across stages. This likely still needs tuning on other planets too.

Rally & Event Flow

• Fixed a possible issue where rally runs were not saving.
• Fixed a service UI hang during async rallies.
• Fixed the abandon event button breaking during async rallies.
• Fixed RCS alarms persisting after restarting.
• Fixed countdown drones sometimes appearing in front of the player after stages.
• Moved the first training spawn away from rough terrain.
• Polished training flow, including a cleaner first training spawn.