Wreckfest

cars are now less prone to being thrown sky-high after landing a jump, rollovers are more forceful, and so on. AI also offers a much more rewarding racing experience now, thanks to being given more situational awareness and heaps of badass attitude. Controllers and driving assists have also been improved

reworked Gravel track with cleaner geometry, more rolling terrain and generally just better gameplay. While not yet polished, the reworked track also gives you a first look at our new environment set called Fields that will also be used for some other tracks. It represents a US Mid-Western environment will rolling hills, open fields and some urban structures.

banger version our trusted American 2 sedan, aptly nicknamed Rammer! Rammer is a special kind of car because it features an alternative handling model for you to try. ... currently implementing visual upgrades (rims, derby parts, cool stuff like that!)

CONTENT

Replaced Gravel track with a new, improved version with cleaner geometry, more rolling terrain and generally just a lot better gameplay. While not yet polished, the reworked track also gives you a first look at our new environment set called Fields that will also be used for some other tracks. It represents a US Mid-Western environment will rollling hills, fields and some urban structures. All in all, we think it will be a perfect match for bringing our kind of high-action racing stateside!
Replaced the main route of Tarmac 3 with a shorter, rallycross inspired route.
Added a new American 2 banger variant.

ART

Improved art Speedway 2.
Improved art on Sandpit 2.
Improved art on Mixed 1.
Added more trackside objects to many tracks.
Implemented animated spectators among static ones.
Added spectators to many tracks previously missing them.
Implemented more vibrant post-processing.

DESIGN/PHYSICS

Improved gamepad controller: the steering rate now fluctuates significantly less in different driving situations, and it’s now easier to countersteer even when Speed Sensitivity is applied (by default, 75% for both gamepad and keyboard). We recommend that you start by resetting your in-game advanced controller settings and tweak from there.
Tweaked keyboard controller for more responsiveness. Likewise, it’s recommended that advanced controller settings are reset.
Stability Control assist now correctly detects vehicle slide angle, making cars less vulnerable to over-correcting when counter-steering, a sympton that often resulted in the car spinning in the opposite direction or rocketing out of track. Note that as a result you may need to adjust your Stability Control strength, so please play around with the setting.
Improved Traction Control assist for reduced bog-down effect.
Far Chase Camera is now higher and further away.
Light dynamic objects like traffic cones no longer cause damage to the car.
It’s now easier to shatter small wooden structures, making it easier to get back into action after spinning out and stalling behind them.
Steering wheel no longer gets dislocated when the car has deformed (it too can deform, however).
Improved surface dynamics, so rollovers are now more violent with less sliding around when the car is on its roof or side.
The car no longer bottoms out as easily on heavy landings, something that earlier on resulted in the car being bounced into air due to collision penetration.
The car no longer drifts around in garage and elsewhere (may still occur on angled surfaces).
Arm-cos and other heavy trackside barriers are now less prone spin the car around in light contacts.
High-speed crashes involving cars with a significant speed difference are now more violent.
Tweaked gameplay damage to encourage more tactical gameplay: health damage from being hit is lower with 100% armor sector and higher with 0% armor sector, so you need to eyeball the opponent in order to hit them where it hurts (and of course try to protect the damaged sections of your own car).
AI is now less likely to cause harm to the player in light contacts.
AI is more aggressively trying to overtake.
AI no longer keeps pushing on after bumping into another car but depending on the situation eases throttle and/or applies brakes.
AI now reacts in a couple of different ways when bumped into, depending on the strength of the impact.
AI now yields a more appropriate challenge dynamically for various levels of players.
Player can now choose AI class from pre-made sets.

TECHNICAL

Server no longer crashes when a race event comes up after a derby.
Optimized foliage and clutter shaders, improving performance.
Optimized culling, improving performance.
Fixed horizon draw order.

Additional notes for content creators:

Some very old textures were removed or moved around, so in case you’ve used any of our textures in your creations please check them for missing textures (purple assets).
The game no longer crashes when no bend is detected for AI logic, an issue with certain custom oval tracks that had very long sweeping bends.
You can now create a custom AI set for your modded vehicles and/or a cup mod that the user can pick (located in property/career/ai_sets).
All camera modifications will need to be updated, otherwise your users won’t have the new Chase Camera Far.

As always, thanks for your support, don’t forget to give feedback and happy wrecking!

CONTENT

Added a new banger variant of European 1 hot hatch.
Improved the model of the European 1 race variant.
Redesigned the livery style we’re going with, and the results can be seen on the reworked European 1 skins.
Added a new Mixed 5 track with two routes + a special free route in which the player can choose which route to take. Naturally both routes count towards laps, with the first one being longer but faster and the second one shorter but slower. Note that for now the replay cameras can somewhat glitchy on the free route variant.
Started reworking Sandpit1 (heavy wip for now).

ART

Improved track art on Racing 2, implemented new curbs, added more race track decorations and various props.
Improved track art on Gravel 1, made the track narrower in places, added more details and props..

DESIGN/PHYSICS

Updated the suspension setups of all vehicles for a more realistic portrayal of rear-wheel drive cars so that cars are significantly more balanced when cornering. Now it’s also easier to break the rear free without the car going into the understeer mode like previously. The bahaviour of the cars is also visually more convincing now.
Improved the chase camera(s) to give a better impression of sliding and going over bumps.
Improved engine torque mappings for a better response so it’s easier to modulate throttle when sliding.
Implemented the new tire model for the rest of the vehicles (AM2 II used it already). Alternate tires have been deprecated.
Improved gearbox ratios for all vehicles to better suit the tracks and the kind of racing in our game.
Reduced the handbrake power of European 2 and European 2 (II) since it was too snappy, causing the car to spin instantly.
As a result of the above changes the handling of the most cars will feel significantly different – We think this handling model suits the game better and makes it more fun, but of course we’d love to hear what you think!!

TECHNICAL

Vehicles no longer clip in collisions or sink into the terrain mesh when on their roof.
Landing glitch (bouncing upon landing) is now almost completely eliminated without kludgey workarounds. Very heavy landings will still cause a bit of damage but it’s something we will try to eliminate in future.
In multiplayer, starting grid is now sorted in reverse order based on leaderboard times. What this means is that the better your global time on the track’s leaderboard is the further back the grid you have to start. The green OK text next to the player name means that the time has been fetched successfully.
AI cars no longer stop at their tracks at start when someone in front hits the brakes.
AI cars now slow down due to colliding with a car in front even when the car in front is being lapped or driving outside the track.
Brake, Throttle and Steering Saturation settings now work correctly. In case the brakes or the throttle seems too snappy now, try increasing saturation slightly but be aware that too much saturation causes the input to never reach close enough to 100%. Likewise, if you prefer even snappier response try reducing saturation.
Gamepad/keyboard controller steering limiter now has more evolved logic into it, making it easier to turn the wheels just enough but not too much while cornering. Speed Sensitivity default is still the same as before (75%) but if you prefer a more precise control over the car something like 60-65% will work wonders.
Fixed checkpoint issues on various tracks.
Removed the animated blimp since it was buggy and causing instability.

Hello fellow racers and wreckers!

We are working on the next update like there is no tomorrow. In fact, this new update is by far the largest one we have ever created. We are going to release it before Christmas, and we are more than happy to share with you that the update will contain:

Many new cars, including front-wheel drive cars for the first time
Preview of the upcoming series based career mode
Polished tracks with all-new variants
New, enhanced HUD
Paint job customization
Better AI with adjustable difficulty
Improved vehicle physics and manual clutch
Mechanical vehicle damage
And a lot more

Stay tuned for more info on this huge update!