WINTER UPDATE

Hello everyone! This update comes with a lot of new content and features to make your experience richer and smoother overall, give more possibilities in the track conception both via the new assets and via modding 🙂



Here are the highlights of this update:

[h2]❄ The arctic biome is here![/h2]
A whole new biome is coming to TrackMasters, inspired by the landscape of greenland and the arctic pole in general! It features alternative visuals for every track element, two new musics and a few never-seen-before features like snow particles or northern lights depending on the time of day!



[h2]👻 Play against your ghost![/h2]
In addition to storing leaderboards and best times in the tracks, TrackMasters now stores a ghost for you to play against! On each track, you can play against the best finish time as if it was here racing with you 🚗



[h2]ːmissingː Mod it! Add everything you want![/h2]
This update features the new ModPack system, with the included mod packer and an example mod that you can start tampering with immediatly! You can now add any new cosmetic track element to the game as your heart commands, and play with other people who have the same mods as you. Modpacks can also be used to replace or add new musics, sounds, languages, et caetera!



[h2]Other changes[/h2]
A lot of other improvements have been made in almost every area of the game! Here comes a more detailed list of these changes:

- A new track element, a giant fan that pushes players upwards, has been added to the game!
- The different track editor catalogs have been redesigned and work more smoothly overall
- The track downloading, aswell as the file browser, are much more stable and show progress bars
- Tracks can now be rotated entirely, and you can preview your track's image at any time 🎥
- The network stability regarding joining/leaving games has been very much improved, same goes for the endgame lobby
- Online leaderboards for every track can now be found on the official website! https://trackmasters.louve.systems/
- Optimization and visual fixes have been applied on the track rendering, which should remove the white lines between track elements that appeared from time to time!
- Headlights! 🚗🔦 The cars now feature headlights at night
- The game comes with a Lego Stunt Rally™ track converter, that should be able to convert any track from LSR to TrackMasters 🧱
- The handling of the Rustic and the Racer have been enhanced a little bit, and the Rustic is now slightly faster
- Various bugs regarding the leaderboard, the track editor, have been fixed 👏


TrackMasters will receive more minor update in the future aswell as occasional fixes, but it's unlikely future huge all-in-one major updates like these will happen. They're too much work and stress for me, and I prefer to add content to the game little by little over time rather than to plan huge seasonal updates 😰

I hope you enjoy this new update and all the additional content that comes with it ♥
Even though this update could not come as soon as I wanted it to, I still wish you a merry winter and a happy spring!
I'm grateful for every player, every track, every race that gets to happen on TrackMasters and I'll beat records myself when I find the time...so you better watch out! 😎

If you're not part of the community yet, come join us at https://discord.gg/y7zKv3N !