Desert Child News

Hey Racers, Happy Halloween month! We hope you've been enjoying the new updates to the game (see 1.1.0 Patch Notes). New Olympia is feeling festive this month only, so you should come see before it disappears like a ghost at the end of the month!

Bug Fixes

• The background no longer tears in certain maps
  
• All Halloween elements during races have been integrated
  

Happy Halloween from New Olympia!

Hey Racers, long time! Have you been cravin' a race or a little ramen?

Big Changes

• Added Gun Shop - You can now purchase new guns at any point while in New Olympia
  
• 3 New Podcast Episodes added to the Record Shop
  
• Halloween Update - Starting on October 1st, this update adds Halloween decorations around the city of New Olympia, and transforms all the enemies in the game to ghoulish monsters
  

Minor Changes

• Updated End-of-race summary screen to be easier to understand
  
• Records can now be sold back to the record shop to remove them from the soundtrack
  
• Updated walking animations in New Olympia
  
• Gun models are now animated in Weapon Selection Screen
  
• Weather effects have more visual variety
  
• Water glistening looks more realistic
  

Bug Fixes

• Kangaroo herding now pays out correct amount based on how many you killed
  
• Smoke from hoverbike in Act 1 Hub now flows correctly
  
• "Nice" Achievement sometimes wouldn't activate, this is fixed
  

Also previously we had implemented an unlockable weapon, Enzo's 'Soopa-doopa Laza-Bazooka', and New Game + mode with harder racers - so if you haven't seen those yet, more good reasons to come back to New Olympia!

We're excited to announce that Desert Child has been nominated for the NAVGTR Awards in the categories of:
• Game, Original Racing
• Song Collection
• Song, Original or Adapted (Mega Ran and Bag of Tricks Cat - Love is Here)

We're so proud of this and hopefully Oscar can bring home the hardware on March 13th!

More info: http://navgtr.org/archives/3566/

Hey Racers, a few more bugs were found and fixed after the 1.0.2 patch! Thanks to user jabberwok for discovering a few of these.

Patch Notes:

• Balanced Bounty Hunting job for shotgun
  
• Fixed issue in tutorial when starting a new game after recently completing special jobs like Bounty Hunting and Kangaroo Herding
  
• Fixed issue where bike would appear to "repair itself" when transitioning screens
  
• Fixed issue where MARTIC Ammo kit was still active even after removing it
  

Hi Racers! Happy 2019!

We have been gathering feedback since Desert Child has launched and we have a patch with new features and a few fixes.

Patch Notes:

• Increased difficulty for New Game +
  
• Added 1 second delay between shots for Shotgun
  
• Created controller configuration for Steam Controller
  
• Added confirmation for when player selects New Game in Pause Menu
  
• Fixed issue with monitors with high refresh rates, affecting performance
  
• Fixed memory issues
  
• Fixed 2nd player multiplayer issue
  
• Fixed volume fluctuation and loops
  
• Fixed NPC graphical issues
  
• Fixed issue on Steam where game continues to run when accessing Steam Overlay
  
• Fixed translations