Revhead News

Dear Revheads!

We are listening, hence we decided to push the sleeping feature up on our list!
We are introducing Motel as the starting point of your journey. If you are tired and want to skip the time, just drop by to your apartment in the Motel and click on sleep icon. Home will have more features soon, think about this as a starting point of a group of few new features.

However, this game is about cars, so we have added a car, a model that many of you were waiting!

Introducing Kanji and Kanji SE, a sport car from the 70's. These cars comes with an L4 and L6 engines and with different wheel bases. SE version is lot stronger, wider, cooler, but as always, you can turn around any car and make it to your favourite racing beast. While these cars might not have the most powerful engines, but these are one of the lightest cars we have with a very good aerodynamics, which makes them the ultimate racers.

But what all if you don't like the way of driving? So we re-balanced our physics models and we are happy to show you our new driving physics, which is better then ever! Tire pressures has a lot more importance then ever before, so make sure you lower or raise your tires pressure, when it is about grip!
If you like burning tires and drifting, you're gonna like this update!

Many of you "complained" about too easy street races and using it as farming. Since street race - just like the challenge - is a quick short race, where you need all your attention, we've decided to remove the restart functionality from it. You have only 1 shoot to make it right! Be aware if you put your car on the deal!

We also improved the game performance and gained some extra FPS on lower ends, added several new items, differentials and fixed bugs.

• Better car handling, due to re-balanced tire model, suspensions, brakes and many more.
  
• improved tire models, pressure calculation
  
• improved performance for lower end systems (especially in racing and mechanic mode)
  
• Home with sleeping (motel)
  
• Two new sport cars from 80's, new engines and parts
  
• Added euroa differentials in range of 1.2-2 ratios
  
• Color coded Differentials shows which diff is better for a job. RED = stiff differential, YELLOW = mediuma, BLACK = soft. Use stiffer differentials on high torque engines to prevent too easy wheel spin in corners. You want more drift? Use a softer one!
  
• Improved updaters, with backup of your game saves (in case an update would brake it, you can revert)
  
• No more restart for a street race of challenge allowed
  
• Added sound for spinning tires on dirt
  
• Updated lap times to fit to our new physics
  
• Fixed aerodynamics calculations
  
• Fixed store issues, when you might end up with loosing your stuff
  
• Fixed lights on Imalona
  
• Updated localization (Spanish is coming!)
  
• Update several 3D car parts and models
  
• Bugfixes
  

NOTE!
Due to the changes in physics models and parts, you might need to re-balance your own setup. As a basic guide, you can follow these:

• Lower tires pressure if cars slides too much, usually pressure should be between the middle and lower end of green zone
  
• Too much oversteer => lower rear tires and/or rise front
  
• Too much understeer => lower front tires and/or rise rear
  
• Can't get any grip, use wider tires! Heavy and fast cars should have 265+
  
• Use stiff (RED or YELLOW) differentials if wheels spins too easy in corners
  
• Use the right type of tires!! Dont race with slick on dirt...
  
• Change sway-bars (antiroll bars) to adjust "bouncing" effect at punch start in corners
  
• Change you suspensions if your car bouncing too much on a track
  
• Your car is strange in corners and straight as soon you accelerate or turn? Check your tires, sounds as a flat tires!
  

PATCH 1:

• tweak AI brake distance calculation, which resulted much faster lap-times, more challenges in race, the best NPCs drive very close to gold times
  
• tweak several lap-time limits
  
• fix a store bug, related to saved items list
  
• fix gutta lights at night, so you can see the road well
  

PATCH 2:

• tweak AI overtaking
  
• tweak several lap gold-time limits (lower them, slightly below the best AI)
  
• set each NPC car's tire pressure properly, so they won't slide all over the track
  
• add green colour code for locked differentials
  
• tire noise's volume is adjusted by pressure. Lower pressure make more noise, so you can not only feel but hear the differences
  

PATCH 3:


This patch was mainly dedicated to performance and AI issues with some few modifications.

• Tons of performance improvements, smoother rendering, better FPS
  
• tweak AI corner speed calculation, resulting faster NPC lap times, better races
  
• tweak MY reverse lap times (get the same as normal, since AI does the same times)
  
• fix tire noise's at low speed
  
• tweak Buthanbang and Wanja weight distribution to gain more advantage and compensate weight (better acceleration, better for drag)
  

Have Fun!

Happy Lunar New Year everyone!

In the next update we going to introduce our new car: Kanji

She will be added in two body variants.

The base version is equipped with a 4 cylinder inline engine but the Special Edition has got a more powerful L6 to move its wide chassis more agile.

Dear Players, Revheads!

This is a special time of the year, so we made a special update for You. This time we bring you several features that was requested by You and as always we added some we had on our agenda.

The game now allows the player to buy extra garages, where you can store more, much more cars. To make this even better -and as many of you were requested as well- we added walking with male and female selectable characters.

We also added a new muscle car Camira and worked hard on our controllers to make our car handling and physics better.

We also received FPS problems due to the lighting was introduced in Update 15, so we did a big optimisation to gain more FPS in lower end systems.
Set your quality settings lower to get less light effects and gain more fps and set your resolution lower or higher based on your computer.

To make it even more exiting for this special time of the year, we have added 2 more localised versions: German and French.

And the cream on top of this: during the holiday season, the game is now available for:


We want to THANKS to all the beta testers that helped us to find bugs, optimise game and provide us useful feedbacks! THANKS, you all ROCKS!

• Car physics revised and many improvements, which is resulting better handling
  
• New default for controller setup to match with new handling
  
• Keyboard and Joystick controls separated in the options page, so you can setup them individually
  
• Different Keyboard and Joystick defaults for easier start
  
• Gamma as name changed to under/oversteering since it is closer to what it means as global settings for all cars
  
• Player can now buy garages to store up to 33 cars total
  
• Walking with selectable player (male/female). Existing profiles will use male characters, new profiles allows you to select female as well.
  
• New muscle hatchback coupe: Camira, with stock L6 and V6 engines and new parts
  
• Sport airfilters and new Rims (240R20 220R19)
  
• Anti-Rollbars revised and set to real values, also they affect more changes in the handling of the car (ie make a car over or understeering)
  
• Burnout for those who likes to burn tires :)
  
• Damaged lights will first flashing before get broken to indicate problems
  
• Damage system reviewed, cars can receive a lot more damage, watch out of for the trees and road signs!
  
• Road signs are much stronger now
  
• Improved AI to avoid obvious crashes and wrong take over procedures
  
• Optimisation for lower end systems, use quality settings to reduce lights
  
• Windowed mode for lower end system or player who like that frame
  
• Job can be continued if you did not finished properly (no more why is not finished, just ask Charlie if you don't know what you missed)
  
• Bugfix: several localization issues
  
• Bugfix: fixed several jobs, where you cannot finish it properly
  
• Bugfix: HP power now fixed for race modes
  
• Bugfix: getting Revhead skill
  
• Bugfix: catalog details, like mass is updated/fixed
  
• Bugfix: follow camera updated, since it was misleading many drivers. It indicated that the car back is sliding/jumping, while it was a bug in the camera only.
  
• and many more fixes, smaller tweaks which would make you bored to read through...
  
• New German localization
  
• New French localization
  

Happy XMas!

It has been almost 9 months since we released Revhead on Steam. The game was updated 15 times, added more contents, new features, new tracks, cars, races, better game balance and bug fixes. We made a Roadmap to show to you our plan at the beginning and we did our best to make most of them reality this year.

We followed up our players, we took every line you wrote seriously and implemented most of the requests or changes you wish for.

Thank You all, who trusted us and supported us on our way making revhead better and better.

2017 was a really busy year for us. If you think we deserve a vote and you enjoy playing with Revhead, please vote for our game on IndieDB:

http://www.indiedb.com/games/widget/ioty/revhead?year=2017

Aslo, if you like us on Steam, please nominate our game on Steam, too.
Visit our store page to nominate us to any of the category you think we deserve!

Thank You!