Stunt Xpress Next Fest June 2024 - BIG demo update!

Next Fest June 2024 has just started! As participants, we've prepared a whopper of a demo update for this occasion!

Some of the main points:

• new languages! Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and French!

• improved difficulty balance!

• added vehicle relative steering! (keyboard & mouse players should like this one!)

• lotsa bugfixes!

Here's the full changelog:

General changes:

• New: Last resort ticket mechanic - if you have only 1 ticket left you will never drop to 0 if you every time finish all the tasks during the match

• Vehicles are now little wobbly in the garage and main menu to give them more character.

• Character limit increased to 32 (for longer names width of label will be automatically adjusted).

• Player's vehicle is now incomparably more stable while destroying objects like trees, market stalls, fruit boxes, fences etc.

• Player can now score stunts from arena's initial jump.

• Now rotation speed is slowly decreasing after crash to reduce a "fast spinning vehicle" effect.

• Removed collider from ceiling on the tutorial map.

• New music track

Tutorial and onboarding:

• New: Add quick tutorial (on the side menu) to explain in-game progression mechanics

• New: Random small quick tips on the post-match screen (to learn players about indirect mechanics and strategies).

• New: Pause menu now displays control scheme for mouse+keyboard too.

Accessibility:

• New: Setting to toggle inverted camera

• New: Experimental user setting - vehicle relative steering

• New: Experimental user setting - keeping camera always behind player's vehicle

• New: Option to switch language inside options menu (currently supported languages: en, pt, pt_BR, fr)

UI/UX:

• New: In air drop challenge parcels have now separated timer above them and arrow indicator is pointing on the plane instead.

• New: When match is very close to end there is additional indicator with sfx.

• New: Player can now see item stats in description of unlocked reward.

• New: Redesigned UI for match details screen to improve readability.

• New: Confirmation popup now appears when trying to unlock permanently item.

• AddedNewNow opening new career screen with gamepad (at the first time) will put a "Delivery!" text in the empty "player name" field.

• Improved descriptions for items

• Reversed direction for small circular timer next to arrow indicator.

• Small UI design improvements for garage, shop, options and tournament screens.

• Multiple small improvements for focus navigation and for switching between gamepad and mouse+keyboard.

• Updated graphics for tool slots backgrounds on the tournament screen.

• A "+1 per unlocked reward" label is now appearing only when "next tournament" button is focused.

• Replace 3 variations of scaffold notifications ("Scaffold!", "Left scaffold!", "Right scaffold!") with just one ("Scaffold!").

• Amount of tickets and tokens moved to the left side of the screen (right below player name).

• Fix: Pressing (B)/[ESC] doesn't close options screen.

• Fix: Rotating vehicle on the tournament screen is now fully parallel to the ground (previously it was always little bit skewed).

• Fix: Pressing "WSAD" while editing character name, removes focus from the text field.

Gameplay balance:

• Early game is now easier and quicker.

• Difficulty for tasks adjusted to make them easier in early game and harder in late game.

• Now challenge timer is unaffected by slow-mo.

• Hardest matches with mines should now be easier than before (especially on the City map).

• Initial time and bonus time for delivery challenge increased.

• Increased activation range for Stunt Lights "Roundabout" variant.

• Decreased amount of required tow truck tricks in difficult matches.

• Removed Stunt Lights "Stunt" variant from