Total Arcade Racing News

Hey Arcade Racers!

We have reached our major goal with Total Arcade Racing and that was to publish the game on PC, Mac, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch 🏁

We would like to thank the community for the support we've received, you've made this game better with your feedback and encouragements! Thank you all 🙏

If you would like to take the game for a spin on a console then here is where you'll find it:
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10005454 https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/total-arcade-racing/9P0RZ0WCLMFM/0010 https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/total-arcade-racing-switch/

Happy racing!

We just realized that we haven't published any news updates since v1.0.5 and we are now on v1.2.2 😱

During the last months we've added new content, released Total Arcade Racing on Xbox and started on the PlayStation port. We have also started on our next game project, Alienstein. We are still planning to add more courses and possible cars in the future but releases will be less frequent.

[h2]Latest updates[/h2]

New course - Triple Cross
A course designed by one of our players where the course loops over the main path 3 times causing a lot of crashes and action.



New course - Tropical Asphalt
A course which is 50% asphalt and 50% dirt road, which is awesome for the new Buggy car.



New car - Buggy
A new car with fast acceleration and great performance both on-road and off-road.



New championship - Crossy Cup
A new championship set in mostly urban courses.



[h2]Feedback[/h2]
Keep the feedback coming either through the Steam forums or drop by our Discord Server to have a chat with us and the community.

[h2]Detailed change log[/h2]

v1.2.2
* Improved: Reduced AI SFX when hitting wall in Car Hockey.
* Fixed bug: Car Hockey AI does not work in v1.2.1

v1.2.1
* Added new Course: Triple Cross
* Added new course: Tropical Asphalt
* Added new cup: Crossy Cup PRO
* Added new car: Buggy

* New feature: Added AI support for Car Hockey mode.
* New feature: Added AI support for Delivery mode.

* Improved: Removed parked cars in Delivery mode. Most of the time they only got in the way.
* Improved: The number of boxes in Delivery mode is now based on number of players.
* Improved: Increased the visibly of the team color in Car Hockey.
* Improved: Implemented better AI pathfinding.
* Improved: You can now select how many AI cars should be included in most game modes.
* Improved: Added new industry section to endless mode
* Improved: Increased star requirement to unlock some courses.
* Improved: Star times is shown when you complete a race in Time Trial.

* Fixed bug: Game could potentially hang when playing delivery mode.

v1.2.0
* Fixed bug: Inverted reverse setting is not stored.

v1.1.9
* New feature: Option to have "real" direction when you are reversing instead of arcade style.
* New feature: Added friends sorting mode in Hall of fame on Steam.

v1.1.8
* Fixed bug: Only the first gamepad can scroll down with the gamepad in Hall of fame. On Xbox P1 might get assigned to another gamepad which makes it impossible to scroll in the Hall of fame.

v1.1.6
* New feature: Added input sensitivity to settings.
* Fixed bug: Pressing Y button to accelerate time in Championship mode does not work on keyboard.

v1.1.5
* Improved: Added new endless section.

v1.1.2
* Fixed Bug: Cannot scroll down in Hall of fame if users score is not on the list.
* Fixed Bug: If you go back from a game without course selection then the game mode is not highlighted. If you press B then menus overlap.
* Fixed bug: The leaderboard does not scroll to the users score in game.

v1.0.9
* Added Perfect start achievement
* Added Drive in reverse achievement
* Added One start achievement
* Added Two stars achievement
* Added 10 miles achievement

* Improved: When exiting from an ongoing game you'll be directed to the same game mode on the main menu. This makes it a lot faster and easier just to change courses.
* Improved: When racing in custom game the time for the stars was always the slowest player. This has now been changed to the fastest players making it easier to unlock cars and courses even when you play together, especially with someone who isn't as good as you are.

* Fixed bug: Trying to fix Steam distance driven leaderboard which still can get a value of -2,147,483,648.
* Fixed bug: Driver license achievement only unlocks in Time Trial mode.

v1.0.8
* New feature: Steam Leaderboard support, first part of the integration which is sending scores only.
* New leaderboard: Total Distance Driven.

* Fixed bug: Stat Total Distance Driven can be returned as < zero by steam in certain cases.
* Fixed bug: Hall of fame scrolling was slow on Nintendo Switch.

v1.0.7
* New Championship Cup: Jungle Cup Pro.
* Improved: Changed "Best of the best" achievement to unlock if you win Gold medal on all championships.

* Fixed bug: Grass was rendered above track in Jungle Rumble.

v1.0.6
* New achievement: 100 Miles.
* Improved: Distance in Endless mode is in miles instead now.

Hello fellow Arcade Racers!

Thanks to the community we've received a couple of design suggestions for new tracks which made us super happy and here is the first Course based on that.

We hope that you will enjoy it!

Change log details:
v1.0.5
* New course: Jungle Rumble.
* Fixed bug: Stars was not updated on Steams stats passed 21 stars meaning you could never get the all star achievement.
* Fixed bug: When using game pad and navigate settings it skips Country if you navigate down from offline mode.

Hey Arcade Racers!

After 9 months in Early Access we are ready to press the boost button and let Total Arcade Racing race out of Early Access.

We cannot thank the folks enough who played the game in Early Access and provided feedback, without you the game would be very different from what we released today. Thank you all!

So what happens now? Well hopefully the launch goes smoothly but usually there are few bugs that magically appear post launch. After that it really depends on you the gamers. If you like the game and play it we will keep adding content to the game, if you don't well lets be honest then there isn't much point in adding new content.

We really hope that you enjoy the final product and it helps us a lot if you review the game.

Ladies and gentlemen start your engines and go get that #1 spot in Hall of Fame!

We've set the release date of Total Arcade Racing to 7th of May 2021. It will be released on Steam and Nintendo Switch simultaneously. On Steam it won't be that dramatic since the game is already available as Early Access so we'll pretty much just flip the switch and it will be released.

On Monday we'll be bringing the price up to the planned release tag which is 9.99$. We do this in order to have the ability to have a release discount of 30% on launch. So if you plan to buy the game then either do it before Monday or wait until the release to get the best deal.

[h2]Latest updates[/h2]
Since the last news post we've released 10 updates. Here are some of the highlights in the updates.

Support for keyboard mapping
The most frequent request we've had is the ability to remap the keyboard. Implementing remapping of keyboards isn't as easy as it sounds but we think that we did a pretty good job in our implementation.



New course - Jungle Rally
We set out to create a new biome and after playing around with various concepts we decided to create a jungle style course. On this course you'll drive on a dirt road where the offroad cars have an edge compared with the other cars that will slip around a lot more.



New course - Jungle Leap
Jumps are always fun in levels but they are pretty hard to get properly incorporated into levels. But on the jungle course they feel just right.



New course - Lost in Suburbia
The suburbia style level was a great addon and we decided to create another course with a similar concept but with a lot more track. This is probably the longest track we've done so far which covers most of the screen :)



Endless love
Endless mode has been somewhat lacking when it comes to variation and also how traffic worked. So either it was time to toss this mode all together or get it updated. We decided to keep the mode and put in a lot of effort to make it better. There is still room to improve it with more variation and tuning but we're pretty happy with the result now.

[h2]Feedback[/h2]
Keep the feedback coming either through the Steam forums or drop by our Discord Server to have a chat with us and the community.

[h2]Detailed change log[/h2]

v0.8.8
* Improved: Increased variation of endless blocks spawned.
* Improved: Added new section to endless mode.
* Improved: More variation in traffic level in Endless Mode

v0.8.7
* Improved: Added new section to endless mode.
* Improved: AI can now recover on the Jungle Leap course if it jumps too short.

v0.8.6
* Added new Course: Jungle Leap.
* Added new music track.

* Improved: CPU players pick a random country flag instead of using the players country flag.
* Improved: A low skill CPU player would hit the brakes directly after boosting. Now the CPU player will not brake after they hit the boost no matter which skill level they have.

v0.8.5
* New feature: Support for keyboard remapping.

v0.8.4
* New Course: Jungle Rally.
* Added new section to endless: Avenue suburbia style.
* Improved: Adjusted off-road performance on most cars.

v0.8.3
* Fixed bug: If you win the last pro championship and select to race next championship then you can race an AM Cup with a too good car.
* Fixed bug: Car explosions pushes other cars in championship mode. This should not happen is this mode.
* Fixed bug: Lost in Suburbia was missing in Hall of fame.

v0.8.2
* New Course: Lost in Suburbia

v0.8.1
* Improved: Increased auto steer correction range slightly.
* Fixed Bug: Fixed various bugs on Nintendo Switch.

v0.8.0
* Added new Delivery Course.
* Fixed bug: Cars should stop in Destruction Derby mode also when finished.

v0.7.9
* New feature: Added setting to force the game to use offline mode. In offline mode no score is sent or received.

* Improved: Changed boost button to X on Nintendo Switch Hand held mode to make it more accessible.
* Improved: Added Suburbia inspired section to endless mode.

* Fixed bug: On Nintendo Switch and arrow > is shown on the thumb icon on selections.
* Fixed bug: In elimination mode the player can continue driving after they've won. In Endless mode cars would also continue to drive in some cases.