Hey Everyone!
It's been a week since launch and it's been exciting seeing everyone's reaction to the game. Thanks for all of the bug reports and feedback. This is a BETA build that we are testing before setting it live for all players. If you could report your bugs and feedback in our beta thread
You'll need to opt-in to the "beta-beta" branch on steam by right-clicking "art of rally" in your game library and going to the "betas" tab.
Features
- added the ability to play the previous song and next song in the playlist when in the menus (currently triggered with shoulder buttons on controller, tab on keyboard).
- updated AI times
- AI difficulty on normal, skilled and master increased
- norway can be played in the Group 2 rallies in career now
- added dither to edge of grass rendering
- vegetation cutout shader is now toggleable in advanced graphics settings
Improvements
- resolution should (when on auto) now preserve native ratio.
- FXAA anti-aliasing uses the alpha channel now so it'll be even faster.
- high and highest quality settings use FXAA instead of SMAA anti-aliasing by default
- increased downsampling on Distance Blur
- lowered Bloom diffusion value so it's faster
- changed AO type to deferred from camera-space
- renamed the counter steer factor percentages to be from 80%-280% which 100% being no change in countersteer speed
- reduced terminal damage speed threshold by 6.66%
- Improved Vegetation rendering
Fixes
- sardinia 5 fences had the car cutout shader
- photo mode saturation in Norway during Snow & Night wasn't working
- fixed slower framerate on foggy stages
- fixed a bug where skipping the intro to career mode text too quickly could lead to a crash
- fixed initial auto settings not setting resolution correctly.
- fixed bouncy haybales on Sardinia 6
- removed achievement checking performance hit when going really fast
- fixed incorrect livery bug
- livery selection is now saved correctly in custom rallies
And if you've enjoyed the game so far it would be great if you can leave a review on Steam!