Hello Arizona Champions,
Once again a new bunch of hotfixes to improve your off-road experience. This current one has focus on more improvements to the game flow and making the smoother game experience, not only in the FPS (but new polishings includes again more progress making Menu ultra-light).
There is a bunch of visual remaking to the main menu, which is your Garage, actually, home to the off-road adventures, and will have even more features in the future.
As long adding lot of extra explanation banners, over hovering at Player information, which explaining XP, AD$, tease upcoming Player levels, Ai difficulty, etc. All this makes your (and new players) AD$ experience more enriched.
So, let's get the party started:
- More main menu improvements, optimizing some FX particle shaders and reach out 7-8% FPS increase;
- Audio music slider fix in the game (in the previous build was larger than planned);
- Music settings in Audio options, has instant impact on all in-menu music; there is for different menu's different music themes and tons of other menu complex variables, so now if fully refined (before Audio music change has an impact only on in-game music's);
- Burton icon in the corner (the guy that talking in menus and describing tips for the game) was resized and moved to be in top Centre and its added explanations about
- ADriver Menu visual improvements
- Improved main menu and loading screen performances and optimizations
- Polished UI/UX
- Polished game experience: Burton voiceover tutorial and descriptions are now only one-time played and if you skip them, they will never appear (before you need to hear to fully to skip it); so this unnecessary repeating was changed and you can any time in Options reset all Tutorials;
- Visual improvement of the Instructions scene (Tips & Tricks);
- Redesign of the Garage, visual, and optimization improvements to the flags, replacing flags with one's that realistically windy animated and are more optimized, so gives a significant rise in FPS (3-7% depending on the rig). Also optimizing more particles to the garage, fine tunning them
- Mark, the 'guy in yellow sandals', your supporter:
who stayed previously next to the left fence, is now moved to the top and cheering you from above
- Fixed SMS info widget blur screen, which stays in the game before;
- Adopted SMS info appearance, so SMS info starts latter on (30-50 seconds from starts);
- Adopt music level in 'Instructions' scene in Options to fit Music level, set by the player (before its always on maximum level, and due to some streamers feedback, when you choose your music level, there will be such music everywhere no matter which scene; Menu logic's was so freaky complex, so didn't have time for that to find and fix everywhere, before, so sorry guys for previous not-smooth experience on that field. Btw similar is for all known open-issues, all to be fixed as soon I get them, list of known-issues are steadily getting lower);
- Tweaked texts for the Nitro Capacity & Nitro Power in Upgrade menu
- Player Level text is dynamic and upon getting the mouse over them, you'll see upcoming levels (from top 100 levels)
Also, hovering mouse over current player difficulty will give more explanations about them and how to change difficulty:
Also, the explanation for XP and AD$ is set on hovering mouse over those values:
Also, from a visual standpoint, the Main menu gets more upgrades, when you hovering over Play, Car, Options and other buttons, there will be a hoverable image in the right part of the screen, which visually explaining what is menu about, so will helps faster recognition and navigating through the menu's.
- Removed blurred black background bellow Main Menu buttons, due to the feedback's from the players.
- Removed 3 supporters that stand, sitting and cheering around the garage. They're a little boring and unoptimized, so the game gets a few more FPS after deleting them.
- Added player Steam name under the billboard (under 'Welcome ADriver!' text).
Finally, 'More Patches, More AD$ Rewards' specially designed program to celebrate improvements of the game, so you can test and buy more cool cars and upgrade them for free. This is a reward for all you, patient, early players, which helped to bring AD to perfection.
Introducing you AD$ Package Boosters, first of all - Chance Booster:
Called like that since you have a random chance to win some okay AD$ amount.
Many thanks for the support and giving me helpfull directions and feedback, I really appreciate that.
Greetings,
Mike
PS. You can expect soon even more substantial and advanced updates :)