Areas
13 changes in this update

Added

4 changes
Speed
  • Wind and tyre roar that build as you go faster - a rush outside the car, a low rumble from the cockpit

  • The world streaks past when you push on, while the car stays sharp in the middle of the screen

Exhaust
  • Loud pipes crackle on a trailing throttle - stock stays quiet, the loudest ones spit the most

  • The flame shows what you heard: a short lick for a crackle, a long one for a bang

Improved

5 changes
Exhaust
  • All seven engines had their pops and bangs baked again - they snap now instead of thumping

  • Every engine cracks in its own voice, from a deep bark to a sharp snap

  • The flame sits on the tailpipe and lights up the back of the car instead of the whole street

Ghost
  • The ghost is a clean white outline of your car now, so you can read the corner through it

  • It steps out of the way when it is right under your nose and comes back as it pulls away

Fixed

4 changes
Exhaust
  • The backfires baked for each engine never played - every car used the same canned pop. Each engine sounds like itself now

  • The Tsukiyo Hachi fired its flames and smoke from the middle of the car instead of the exhaust

Ghost
  • The ghost stuttered on fast machines - it moves smoothly now

  • Its wheels spun backwards at speed

Areas
6 changes in this update

Added

2 changes
Steering wheel
  • Settings has a "steering wheel" group: the wheel itself, Force 0-200%, Clutch, and Gear lever. Until now the only way to switch a wheel on was a console command

  • The wheel row reports the live state of the link — no hub, no wheel picked, not calibrated, muted, or the wheel's name and its degrees of rotation

Improved

2 changes
Steering wheel
  • Force feedback no longer arrives in spikes: the effect is updated live instead of being stopped and restarted up to a thousand times a second, and force is interpolated across the 20 ms physics tick

Localisation
  • The upgrade dial gives up 3.8% of its size instead of clipping a long family name - DRIVETRAIN is 178 px in English and 250 in German

Fixed

2 changes
Steering wheel
  • An automatic gearbox with a wheel attached sat in neutral forever. The pedals now follow the gearbox, not the device: in automatic they work the way they do on a pad (hold the brake at a standstill for reverse, throttle to go forward again), in manual the lever picks the direction and the brake pedal stays a brake in reverse

UI
  • The name over another player's car had a grey slab behind it