Speed Rivals News

🏞️ New Diorama:
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🚗 New Car Added

A new car joins the Speed Rivals garage, ready to be raced on official circuits and community-made tracks.
As always, it’s fully integrated into leaderboards, time trials, and competitions.

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🛠️ Track Builder & Editor Improvements

This update includes a large number of fixes and improvements focused on stability, usability, and precision:
• Improved piece connections and final segment joins
• Fixed issues with banking, peraltes, and loops
• Better mesh smoothing to avoid shading and visual errors
• More reliable connectors and initial placement logic
• Improved circuit positioning and editing modes
• Pagination and navigation improvements in the local & Workshop circuit explorer
• Faster piece modifier adjustments and better input handling
• Multiple fixes to prevent loss of control while editing or testing circuits

Overall, building circuits is now more stable, more predictable, and more enjoyable.

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🔧 Quality of Life & Stability

Dozens of internal fixes and refinements have been applied to ensure:
• Fewer editor edge cases
• Better behavior when creating, editing, deleting, and replaying circuits
• Improved consistency across different types of tracks

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This update lays the groundwork for more environments, more cars, and more community content coming next.

As always, thank you for building, racing, and sharing your tracks with us.
See you on the rails 🏁

[p]A few weeks ago, we officially presented Speed Rivals at ForoSlot, the biggest slot-racing convention in Spain.
Thousands of fans stopped by our booth, played the game, and competed in the Kobe Cup across six circuits inspired by real tracks and classic slot racing.

Toyota Kobe Motor – Our main sponsor, whose support made this event possible.
They even brought a real Toyota Yaris Rally5 to the venue, which became one of the highlights of the fair.

PCComponentes – For providing all the gaming PCs used at the event so players could enjoy Speed Rivals in perfect conditions.



[h2]What’s Next[/h2]

We collected tons of live feedback and we’re already implementing improvements for the upcoming months.
ForoSlot was an incredible milestone for our small team — thank you all for being part of this journey.

🔥 More updates coming soon!



If you’d like to see a quick recap video, check it out here

This is a small but important update focused on fixing save issues and race stability, plus a couple of new cars as a thank you for your patience.

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Car unlocks not saving – Fixed an issue where unlocked cars were not being saved correctly between sessions.
  
• Editor circuits load / test – Fixed an error when loading or test-driving existing editor circuits from the Workshop or the Local Browser.
  
• Loss of control in race – Fixed a bug that could leave the player without control during a race.
  
• Black screen / double start lights – Fixed a start-race issue that could cause a black screen, duplicated start lights, or rendering glitches when the race began.
  

[h2]New Content[/h2]

• Added 2 new cars: C15 and The Hommer.
  

[h2]Compensation for v0.7.2 Players[/h2]

• As compensation for the problems with car unlocks in version 0.7.2, everyone who played 0.7.2 now has all cars unlocked in v0.7.3b.
  

Thanks a lot for your feedback and bug reports – they help us track down issues faster. 🏁

Start your engines!

Speed Rivals launches in Early Access tomorrow at 18:00 UTC.
Build crazy slot-car style tracks, race alone or with friends and fight for the best times on the leaderboards.

What’s coming with Early Access?

• Track editor: build, save and share your own circuits.
  
• Arcade races with different cars and difficulty levels.
  
• Online leaderboards to compete with the community.
  
• Continuous updates and new content during Early Access.
  

Meet us in person (optional anecdote)
This weekend we’ll also be showing Speed Rivals in Madrid at a Toyota stand in Mirador de Cuatro Vientos, where visitors will be able to try the game and give us feedback.

How you can support us

• Add Speed Rivals to your wishlist.
  
• Jump in tomorrow when Early Access goes live at 18:00 UTC.
  
• Share your best clips, tracks and feedback with us on the community hub.
  

See you on the rails! 🏁

Play the final demo for free and join our 21-day community tournament.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3719310/Speed_Rivals_Demo/

Format

• Free to enter in the Demo.
  
• 4 circuits total: 3 standard + Cheste (exclusive to this event).
  
• Duration: 21 days (Nov 4–24).
  
• Rankings use the in-game Leaderboards for this event.
  

Prizes

• 1st place: €10 Steam Wallet
• 2nd place: €5 Steam Wallet

How to participate

• Open the Demo and select the Special Tournament.
  
• Set a valid time during the event window.
  
• Check standings in-game; we’ll also post periodic updates in the forum under Community Competitions.
  

Notes

• One account = one driver. No cheats, exploits, or unauthorized mods.
  
• Winners will be contacted on Steam once results are verified.
  
• Prize eligibility: prize recipients must be following Speed Rivals on Steam.
  
• Prize delivery: to receive the Steam gift, winners must add us as friends on Steam and wait 3 days (Steam requirement) before we can send the gift.
  

Good luck and have fun!