Beta update: v0.43.0
It's been a while since the last cumulative beta update, and I took 1 week off BRS development, so things were going a little slow.
Nevertheless, I'm started working on perfecting the most important part of the game - the handling.
To simplify things, there will not be Arcade and Sim steering modes anymore, just the regular handling aimed for maximum satisfaction.
Here's the full list of what changed in development version:
(Reminder beta key owners can switch to "development" in BETAS to receive each minor update).
v0.43.0
- Keep only one steering mode
- Reimplement steering in a way that it would allow car pushing and spinning
- Add car coasting when throttle is released
v0.42.3
- Upgrade Unity to 2019.2.8f1
- Revert car handling to what it was in v0.41.0 (will reimplement more carefully)
v0.42.2
- Reduce car slowdown when it's coasting
- Reduce brake strength
- Fix starting the race directly from Time Attack leaderboard would ignore selected steering type when writing new score
- Fix couple mode dropdowns that had broken controller navigation
- Use actual car speed value (was inflated before)
v0.42.1
- Reduce drift inertia by 3x in Arcade mode
- Tune some car parameters to better fit new driving physics model
v0.42.0
- KNOWN ISSUE: AI can't drive well (especially in Sim mode)
- Reimplement arcade and sim steering physics
- Make cars push each other
- Each rear wheel's grip will have higher effect on traction
- Add inertia drifting
- Generate wider tracks in Campaign for easier difficulty levels
- Add "Randomize" button to paint job view
- Fix race condition that sometimes left trees touching the track
v0.41.0
- Make Tatsuya Nitchibotsu model 10% smaller
- Make Mud Western model 10% bigger
- Make Nitro sound more muffled
- Fix a bug when wrong steering type scores could be loaded when starting a Time Attack race directly from a leaderboard
- Change some less exciting engine sounds into better ones
- Add fluctuation to car RPM so that it would never go flat at same value
- Fix position of tooltip for some cases when controler is used
- Fix dropdown items navigation with controller
- Fix some dropdown scrollbars having wrong sprite
- Adjust AI racer braking behavior on snow / gravel tracks
- Reduce max track distances in newly created Campaigns
- Add "Regenerate" and "Save" buttons to Campaign track cards (back side)
- Add confirmation dialog for retrying the race
v0.40.6
- Fix Helicopter shadow sometimes disappearing in menu demo
- Make Helicopter more quiet
- Make opponent cars quieter in races
- Rework Settings > Video menu to have more options
- Fix some potential issues with FPS limit and VSync
- Affect Rain and Snow particles by Particle Density video setting
- Make reporting button available in Loading screens
- Reimplement how race mode is selected (to fix race condition that is causing Dannad's issue)
v0.40.5
- Improve Discord Rich Presence
- Add FPS meter and Auto Optimizer debugger (Toggle with F5 in a race)
- Another attempt to fix Dannad's Daily Challenge issue
- Improve UI navigation in Campaign dashboard
v0.40.4
- Add Discord Rich Presence
- Show custom paint jobs and avatars before built-in ones
- Attept to fix Daily Challenge issue that happens for Dannad
- Remove some obsolete achievements
- Make Achievements more readable on smaller screen sizes
v0.40.3
- Make open tracks much shorter
- Fix crash when pausing in pedestrian mode
- Add crash handling for issues that could happen when track is being loaded
- Add FPS Cap option to "Settings" > "Video" (available when VSync is turned off)
- Add Particle Density option to "Settings" > "Video" for tuning performance
- Add more paint jobs