Wreckfest

General:

Physics improvements, more realistic geometry dynamics.
Implemented joint-based steering rack implementation.
Improved visual damage accuracy and realism, cars now deform more like they're made of sheet metal instead of paper or plastic.
Implemented ambient occlusion maps for vehicles.
Resurrected ambient shadow for vehicles, now affected by visual damage.
Resurrected low frequency ambient occlusion for scenes.
Running Steam client is no longer needed for dedicated servers.
Again reduced dedicated server CPU load on empty servers.
Improved tire adhesion audio, now reacts to different tyre conditions.
Implemented basic anti-hacking measures: The game now detects in case there are modified or additional files in sensitive data folders, excluding art. In case modded content is is detected leaderboards are disabled. Multiplayer requires that the server and clients have the same modified files.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you're persistently receiving an error message about data mismatch and can't pinpoint the culprit, please delete the whole 'data' folder and verify data integrity via Steam.

Gameplay:

Added a new game mode: Sprint Cup, consisting of 3 heats of 2 lap races.
Added basic part durability mechanic: parts now wear with use, lowering performance.
AI opponents are now picked based on player's car class.
Added a set of new AI opponents with different cars.
Enabled ABS & TCS helpers in multiplayer.
Fixed team race lap position points awarding.
Improve lost tire and damage tracking in replay.
Improved gamepad controls.

Upgrading:

Implemented a new (placeholder) upgrading menu.
Added a whole host of new vehicle parts.
Implemented a placeholder marketplace.

User Interface:

Improved chat functionality.
Added an alert when a multiplayer event is about to start.
Implemented more accurate option sliders when using a controller.

Tracks:

Added a new race track: Mixed 1.
Added a new race track: Tarmac 2.
Added a new derby track: Lawn Mower Derby.
Improved replay cameras on all tracks.
Improved AI behaviour on all tracks.
Added sunset weather.

Vehicles:

Added a new vehicle: Lawn Mower with rag doll driver.
Updated tyre model.
Improved vehicle setups.

Added Mixed 2, a new rally-cross type track.
Optimized dedicated server CPU usage.
Improved visual damage scaling with network lag.
Improved tyre model and suspension setups.
Tweaked gamepad and keyboard controller.
Added effect level-of-detail models to improve performance.
Laps are no longer count when driving in the center of Speedway 2 Inner Oval.
Improved Racing 2 environment and art.
Added additional sound effects to user interface.
Added two new tabs to options (Graphics and Gameplay) with settings split from the previous Display tab.
Added volume sliders for garage ambient sounds and interface sound effects.
Grass setting now affects density too, and all quality levels perform faster.
Optimized shadow quality settings and added one more level.
Fixed a bug in the particle quality setting.
Made low quality cubemap slightly faster.
Made some more settings changeable on-the-fly.

General:

Implemented an experimental version of part repairing and crew mechanics.
Note that in order to be able to repair you first need to recruit a crew by clicking the small crew button above the car's icon and then assign your newly-recruited crew to the car.
Added a new work-in-progress tarmac track.
Improved all suspension setups.
Added Racing and Rally tyres in addition to Standard ones.
Improved off-road surfaces, now they are either more slippery or slow down.
Improved clutch logic so it's now easier to get the car moving again after spinning out.
Improved gamepad controller.
Fixed frequent crashing when joining servers with lawn mowers.
Improved vehicle paint-job changing speed.
Improved game start-up time after system boot.
Fixed graphics settings resetting after system boot.
Excluded paint-job related files from data modification check.
Implemented new grass.
Alpha-to-coverage multisampling for foliage is now always enabled.
Removed festive stuff.


Server:

Added basic event rotation functionality for dedicated server.
Added an ability to log dedicated server's messages to a file.
Further reduced idle dedicated server CPU usage.
Dedicated server configuration is from now on read from server_config.cfg file which is not clobbered by Steam updates. The file is seeded from the old initial_server_config.cfg file.

CHANGELOG:

Initial Steam Workshop support. Subscribed mods will appear in the in-game mod manager after they’ve been downloaded. See tools/Readme.txt for guidance on how to upload your mod to Steam Workshop.
Track modding support. All custom track data is stored in the mod’s data/track folder. See mods/example/track for two example tracks (minimal and a more complete one) as well as tools/track_modding.doc for additional info on how to create your own.
Improved Mixed 1 track art and added a reverse variant.
Improved Sandpit 2 geometry and added more gameplay props.
Added a reverse variant for Mixed 2.
Fixed server browser crashing with custom tracks.
Retuned car-to-car collisions.
AI is now faster in tight curves.
Player starting car is now C class.
Improved Bag Editor with little bits here and there.
AI names can now be customized by editing data/property/career/ai_names.txt (UTF-8).

In addition to Sandpit 3 the update also adds a Figure 8 layout for Speedway 8

Vehicles now have chassis health and armor, the latter being visualized with the previously used sector triangles. Think of them as outer panels of the car: the better the condition of the armor the more incoming damage it absorbs, and when the armor condition drops to zero (black), all damage will go directly to lower chassis health. From now on the vehicle is only totaled when chassis health drops to zero. To help you better pick targets the health bars are also now visualized next to the player name in HUD. In future, we will extend the system so that various components such as the suspension of the car can fail.

-Added a new track Sandpit 3 with two layouts (short and long) in both normal and reverse variants.
-Added a new Figure 8 layout for Speedway 2.
-Implemented the basics of the new damage system.
-Health bars are now displayed in the HUD.
-The vehicle with more speed and mass now has more advantage in collisions, paving way for a more tactical gameplay.
-Improved Sandpit 2 and Mixed 1 level art.
-Fixed Sandpit 2 checkpoints.
-Improved AI racing line in a number of tracks.
-Improved AI start/racing logic.
-Reduced AI aggression towards the player.
-It’s now slightly more difficult to bump the AI off the track.
-Improved clutter loading speed.
-Improved gamepad controller.
-Improved reflection and vehicle paint shader.
-Fixed a bug with the game being unable to start if more than ten mods have been enabled at some point.
-Weathers are now scanned similar to tracks, vehicles and parts, so multiple weather mods can co-exist.
-BagEditor now shows files under Art folder too.