Golden Lap News

Funselektor, the studio behind indie racing games Art of Rally, Absolute Drift, and last year's Golden Lap - all of which are very cool if you're into artsy takes on things that go vroom vroom, has just announced it and collaborator Strelka Games' next title.

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Happy New Year, Motorsport Fans! 🥳 We hope you had wonderful holidays! ✨

To kick off 2025, we've prepared a neat little update for you. This hotfix (build version 250109_b2843fa9 on Windows and 250113_b2843fa9 on Mac) resolves issues causing the spinning wheel loading animation to get stuck on screen when you load a saved career with mods. With this update, any save data affected by this issue should now load seamlessly.

If the spinning wheel loading animation is still getting stuck for you even after installing this update, please reach out to our team directly via email or on Discord, and we'll look into your issue ASAP.

Following yesterday's update, some players reported difficulties with building new parts or that parts could be built for free. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. This hotfix (build v241213_97364011) addresses and resolves these issues. We hope you have a fantastic weekend! 🎉

📢 Get ready for a massive treat! From making the AI more competitive to a major overhaul of the team-building process, there's so much to explore in this week's update!

🥳 Thanks to the feedback from our awesome community, we were able to polish all new features. Now both the main and public-beta branches will have the latest and the greatest of Golden Lap!

🎁 But don't worry if you love to be on the cutting edge! Just for you we're already cooking up a new secret feature, so stay tuned for the next beta update!


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ℹ️ As always, if any of the issues we resolved in this update are still happening for you, please contact the team via email and provide as much information about the issue as possible. We'll be happy to investigate further! For more information, see the pinned post How to Report a Bug.

[h3]Gameplay Improvements[/h3]

• a complete overhaul to the Team Member Market; teams will now pick their members based on their current position in the leaderboard (the first team picks first, the second team picks second, etc.)
  
• at the start of next season you can now secure the team members from the previous season
  
• you can now save and quit during the team member selection during pre-season
  
• AI drivers now turn engine mode Push more often and try to use up most of their fuel
  
• more improvements to overtake logic
  

[h3]Localization Improvements[/h3]

• added Turkish localization
  
• fixed issues with French and German localization
  
• small fixes and improvements across all localizations
  

[h3]Mods Improvements[/h3]

• added team BFC textures to the BaseMod (BFC was previously available in the alpha preview of Golden Lap)
  
• improved handling of drivers with the 'DecadeStartContent' value set to true
  
• you can now set the 'DecadeStartContent' value for modded engineers and crew chiefs
  
• improved AI decision making when hiring drivers for modded teams
  
• improved animations for modded teams
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• the in-game feedback form no longer remains stuck on screen in certain cases
  
• fixed the "super driver bug" (where the stats of some drivers change after restarting the game)
  
• drivers in their Last Year now retire at the end of a season even if they were not on a team
  
• fixed various issues with team member progression between seasons affectings their stats and cost
  
• fixed issues with Golden Tune sponsor challenges not being awarded in certain cases
  
• fixed Tuning Master trait working only in first race weekend of the season
  
• fixed issues with Exacting and Sloppy Crew Chief traits
  
• fixed misc issues with team member traits
  
• fixed issues with car and part building animations
  
• fixed UI issues in results screens and standings
  
• fixed various UI issues caused by team and team member names longer than 14 characters
  
• fixed wet range indicator in tire tooltip showing incorrect range in certain cases
  
• loading screen now adapts to screen size
  
• optimized error logging to avoid occasional stutter or freezes on older systems
  
• erroneous event notifications during yellow flags are no longer triggered
  
• fixed UI issues caused by applying settings and changing localization
  
• fixed issues caused by using the Back button on some screens
  

📢 This week we're continuing with the changes to the overtake functionality. In addition to more improvements during the Qualifying, this update will reduce the likelihood of extremely slow "trains" forming during the Race while still keeping overtakes challenging.

🙏 Thanks to the bug reports you sent us, we were also able to resolve some issues with the new Tune and Send Out functionality in the Qualifying. As a result, the feature is now part of the main game.

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Gameplay Improvements

• if drivers get stuck in traffic during Qualifying, they now ask the player to time next pit exit better
  
• separated Tune and Send Out actions in Qualifying, so it's easier to avoid getting stuck in traffic (to get Clean Air)
  

Localization Improvements

• fixed issues with French localization displaying other languages in some parts of the UI
  

Bug Fixes

• fixed various issues with overtakes in Qualifying and Race (cars should get stuck together less often)
  
• fixed issues where in certain cases the standings panel would display incorrect flying lap times