This is a cumulative update featuring many balance changes and fixes to how your career progresses. Characters with active story or quests will appear at The Wheel more frequently. I also did some work making the characters faces more distinct and expressive.
Handling and grip levels are closer to previous versions and much more aggressive. Events have better rewards, abilities have been rebalanced, and tire and weather stats have been adjusted to feel more disparate.
This update will not reset your saves but if you are beyond Y2 I would recommend starting a new game as several bugs tied to seasonal progression have been squashed.
Gameplay:
- Adjusted how speed affects steering and wheel jerks
- Rebalanced base surface grip levels
- Reduced XP bonus from Smarts
- Tantamort is now a Death-Race event: Sudden death from crashes and dismounts
- Adjusted slip sensitivity
- Reduced price and durability of Lino Tyres
- Adjusted max power for Bulge and Rotograve exhaust
- Jolie and Zeke now recommend tyres during Y1 weather events
- Adjusted sparkplug wear rates
- Paintjob touch-up is available at Fume's for 10 credits
- Certain days of the year will have inherent stat bonuses
- The Wheeling Fool now consistently loads characters with active storylines
--- After Y1 bar visitors are based on which clubs you've joined
- Added an additional character spot to the bar
- Fars Lomb (Y2+) now appears during weather events regardless of temperature
- Some consumables are now linked to club memberships
- Swapped TopWyx Beer and Ambru bonuses
- Adjusted consumable prices
- Player hair can be set in New Game
- Adjusted Linotread grip to be less aggressive
- Doubled the grand-prize reward for Kart Soup
Fixes & Improvements:
- Fixed a crash when trying to start Kart Soup
- Adjusted NPC race behaviour
- Fixed a crash when viewing the Calendar after a season has ended
- Fixed some dialogue mistakes and discrepancies
- Improved legibility of Event card details
- Fixed cosmic bonuses appearing as part bonuses in the ability menu
- Fixed driver obscuring view on certain karts in 1st person view
- Fixed driver becoming opaque after a crash/reset in 1st person view
- Updated Ability page UI to be clearer
- Added 'League Points' entry to player Season History
- Fixed faction points not being reset on a new season
- 1st person driver is back!
- Fixed Sora's bad hair and improved how hair is loaded
- Fixed dialogue camera sometimes not showing Qassem during conversations
- Fixed wandering camera when talking to characters
- Fixed hairstyle/colour being unaffected by randomize on New Game
- Updated ability page portraits
- Reduced the rate track smoke builds up
- Fixed a Dodi dead end
- Fixed a potential crash when trying to load profile pictures that don't exist
- Changed Dierdre's appearance back to how it was
- Fixed some spelling and grammar
- Added a new reward theme
- Made Profile DELETE button smaller and less easily clickable
- Fixed placement of post-duel camera
- Improved NPC face animations, textures, and details
- Driver hair now matches during races
- Edited and improved some dialogue for Fars, Jolie, Dierdre, and Trashman
- Fixed a bug where characters at the bar would update more than once per day
- Fixed a crash related to respawn timers
- Fixed bug where player was not able to respawn after a crash
- Fixed a crash when viewing the profile with shimmer FX disabled
- Added the ability to reset/change progress from the console