art of rally News

• 6 new rally stages in Kenya: mount kenya, karura, homa bay, ndere island, lake baringo, lake nakuru
  
• 1 new freeroam location
  
• 4 new cars: gazelle, the king of africa, das 559, the hyena
  
• added dx12 in the game launch options
  

• changed road marker behavior to not get react with car after being hit
  
• dynamic resolution scaling when running the game in DX12, which has shown performance improvements
  
• changed car group trailers codec for better compatibility across different operating systems
  
• added an error message when accessing online events having not accepted the privacy policy
  
• prevent online events from being hidden on connection error
  
• added progress bar to the videoplayer
  

• fixed RALLY letters updating incorrectly on freeroam loading screen
  
• fixed floating house in Sardinia4
  
• fixed AI driver using Group S car in Group B
  
• fixed a bug where pressing the skip song button during the splash screen would play a song at full volume even when volume was set to 0%
  
• fixed online events ranking text not responding to dark mode
  
• fixed bug where driving around the finish line could get the player reset to a position beyond the finish line
  
• fixed a section of road in mount asama that incorrectly treated the car as if it was off road
  
• fixed stage time on stage over screen reading as zero on terminal damage
  
• fixed cozzie sr71 drawing drawing incorrect transmission particles (was set to AWD, should have been RWD)
  
• fixed guard rail collider on mount asama
  
• fixed freeze at end of stage
  
• fixed ghosts to correctly spawn
  
• fixed a bug where car cleaning would (visually) become undone on a quick restart
  
• fixed offline times not being taken into account for post stage best time
  
• fixed a bug where the post stage restart button could be pressed infinitely
  
• fixed road markers not responding to slow collisions with car
  

A big highlight from 2020 was art of rally, the indie racer from Funselektor Labs developer of Absolute Drift and there's a big overhaul update out now.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/06/the-polacolour-update-is-now-live-for-art-of-rally-with-a-dark-mode-ui

• huge re-design of the UI and also dark mode and UI scaling
  
• cross-platform leaderboards with downloadable ghosts of anyone you see on the leaderboard
  
• car physics body collider is less bouncy
  
• lowered the maximum torque rpm for all cars.
  
• raised the rev limit for group 2 cars and vans.
  
• updated baseline ai times
  
• rain ai times use faster times from the wet leaderboards
  
• dynamic resolution scaling when running the game in DX12 (need to use this launch option: -force-d3d12) Setting Game Launch Options Disclaimer: DX12 may not be fully stable, which is why the default is DX11
  

• optimized grass shader
  
• optimized vegetation cutout shader
  
• lighting for all times-of-day have only one light instead of multiple lights for better performance.
  
• stages now use ambient light from the skybox instead of a gradient, which gives equal or better lighting to the previous multiple directional lights and also doesn't tint the dust/smoke blue.
  
• updated localization for new terms and also fixed some existing terms
  
• road bumps have been toned down as they were throwing the car at high speeds
  
• last used cars and liveries are now saved between runs so you no longer need to cycle through and pick your favourite every time
  

• the pebble v1 now has 5 gears
  
• dirtiness should now be correctly carried over from each stage.
  
• fix hammer v3 light position
  
• fix hammer v3 red livery
  
• fog lighting doesn't cast shadows and they weren't noticeable before anyways, which gives a performance boost
  
• fixed class video compatibility issues
  
• fixed missing transmission sfx on some cars
  
• time attack last played settings now load correctly
  
• possible fix for changing song during a race causing a skip in gameplay
  
• fix bug where using photo mode after changing language mid race could lead to a crash
  
• fix for controller vibration issues with multiple controllers plugged in
  
• fix screen fades not working correctly on super wide monitors
  
• fix bug where one weather type would be applied to all stages of the same name in custom rally