Dear Players,
some users have reported massive performance issues, which should now be fixed with the newest update.
We were running into an issue with a screen-space effect that was used to improve the realism of reflections but caused massive fps-drops on some systems. This took a while to be fixed, because these issues were not showing on our systems and we first needed to identify the root of the problem.
Additionally, we decided to take further measures to improve FPS for low-end machines:
-Harbour's and Volcanoe's Skybox was reworked to not feature realtime-clouds.
-Dunes and Volcanoe have seen improvements regarding the rendering of plants.
-Loft showed a lighting error which was fixed and should now be correctly displayed for every player.
-The Main-Menu was reworked to make no use of realtime area lights, since these also seemed have a disproportionate impact on lower-end systems.
-Volcano will recieve further updates to slowly bring it up to it's old glory, but we will be more careful next time, with the specs of your computers in mind!
-Dark City will recieve more updates as it's fps is still rather low
If you still experience issues, please get back to us, we really appreciate feedback!
Bots have also recieved fixes regarding their performance impact. These fixes will lead to us probably lifting the 3-bot cap in offline mode in the future, but first we will continue to monitor the performance impact these have on your systems.
Bots still have a hard time on Loft, we are aware of these issues and will fix this probably with the next update.
Bots also will recieve updates to behave in a more realistic manner - please still do not take these as a replacements for buddies to play with!
Bombastic Cars was designed as a laid-back game you can enjoy with your pals, bots will never make up for the fun you can have with real human players. Still, these glaring issues that bots currently have will be taken care of, the performance improvements were simply more important for us.
If you have any more questions, please get back to us in the forums.
GL&HF
Ben from XOAProductions