art of rally News

• added new cars: le gorde, la regina, the pebble v1, la hepta, the pebble v2, la super montaine,
  
• la longana
  
• livery mods can be added into the game files and shown in-game
  
• added ghosts to time-attack and custom rally
  
• leaderboards for the previous 5 online events can be viewed in the online events leaderboards now (main menu only)
  
• added new screenshot button in photo mode
  
• populate the polaroids in the main menu with images taken by the player using the new screenshot tool
  
• added ability to rotate cars in car chooser menu
  
• added option to toggle the game running in the background
  
• added option for instanced and indirect rendering for vegetation in advanced graphics settings. (if you can’t see the vegetation and you’re on ost/linux, change it to instanced)
  
• added an "extras" screen with funselektor links in the main menu
  
• added new menu items in the main menu (heritage update and mods)
  

• updated the input plugin
  
• adjusted all car colliders so that they don't clip through the ground on hard impacts
  
• car physics bodies are way less bouncy which should help on jump landings and reduce weird behaviour
  
• added a ui popup in menus to display what song is currently playing
  
• reduced build size by removing unused textures and increasing compression on textures and sfx
  

• fix for bug where input would freeze on end of stage screen after returning from replay
  
• fix for bug where countdown timer would not show if stage was reset during countdown
  
• fix bug where controller vibration could continue during stage over screen
  
• fix for potential crash when retiring from career after completing a stage
  
• fix for potential crash when relating to the particle system during replays
  
• fix for potential crash when replays are restart
  
• fix for bug where the car physics remain frozen when restarting a stage during a waypoint reset
  
• fix for potential crash when using autofocus in photomode
  
• fix bug where screen fade would hitch if stage reset was called during a waypoint reset
  
• fix bug where quick stage restart would happen instantly on button down in time attack
  
• fix bug where the timer wheel ui would be hidden after using quick stage restart
  
• fix bug where stage times had rounding issues.
  
• fix bug where screenshake would happen after a stage restart or offroad reset
  
• fix a bug where pausing as you hit the finish line would trigger an out of bounds reset
  
• fix some explosive hay bales in hockweiler
  
• fix bug where car momentum could carry over after a stage reset
  
• fix bug where skidmarks were not cleared immediately on car recovery
  
• car dirtyness in replays is saved per-frame, so when rewinding it still has the correct dirtyness. this fixed a bug where the car would get dirtier when rewinding.
  
• fixed the car slowing down when going on the ice on the kvannkjosen stage for some playerst
  
• fix bug where restart race ui didn't disappear immediately
  
• fix bug where prop repositioning occasionally didn't happen on stage restart
  
• fix bug where music stopped working until introduction sequence was watched again
  

As quite easily one of the best games this year, art of rally is a really fun top-down racer and it's going to be expanding quite a bit with the next update.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/art-of-rally-to-get-a-sizable-update-on-december-14-with-new-vehicles