Solar Club Letter: January 2026

It’s time we improved the communication and transparency in our letters by discussing more bug reports, more developer quotes, and letting you know what we’re working on in detail!

Season 5 introduces a one time 5 month length Season as we wanted time to improve the game with various game performance stabilisation improvements, bug fixes on the current Season 5 features, and more. Update 1 was the first result of this, as we tackled many fixes on Poker, map issues, and more from community reports, and we aren’t stopping there. In this letter, we’ll discuss the details of Update 2, Season 6, and give you some transparency on what we are working on. Let’s get into it!

What’s In the Letter?

• Season 5 Update 2

  • Release Date

  • Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Stabilisation, Performance & Optimisation

• Season 6 Details

  • Confirmed Features So Far

• What Are We Working On?

  • Network Improvements

  • Visual Steering Animation Improvements

  • Steering Wheel Input Fixes

  • Vehicle Fixes

  • Sound Fixes

  • Quality Assurance

  • Solar Testers

• Community Spotlight Winners - January

  • Winners

  • How To Submit (New Challenges)

  • January Theme

• Next Communications

  • News From the Pits

  • February Solar Club Letter

⏭️ Season 5 Update 2 Details

The next Season 5 update is bringing more bug fixes and improvements to TDUSC, here’s everything to learn about the update so far.

Release Date

The update is planned to release within the first half of February. As usual, we’ll be communicating the exact release date of this update within the first week of February.

As for the maintenance, it will be mentioned in the Patch Notes, which will arrive a day or two before the release of the update, but expect the usual server maintenance at 9:30am CET and the maintenance will last up to 6:00pm CET. We will keep you updated on our progress during the day too, which we’ve trialed with our last update release, and the community seemed to love it!

Make sure to stay tuned for all the details on Update 2 by following us on social media!

Bug Fixes & Improvements

Similar to Update 1 we’ve done a lot of work on the bugs reported by the community, and we aren’t stopping that with Update 2. You’ll find bug fixes and improvements arriving in the update, from vehicle reports, to graphical issues, Taxi mission issues, Poker, crashes, networking, and so much more! For now, here are some ones we’d like to point out:

• Fixed and improved the Alyss Hot Head and other event call outs - Alyss wasn’t working properly when you heard her tell you that there is a new event happening. Now, a proper notification window will appear, by selecting the appreciate button, your map will open and highlight the event on the map!

• Fixed traffic lights not working in Causeway Bay - There were some permanent yellow lights located on both Hong Kong Island and Ibiza. We unfortunately only branched the Hong Kong Island traffic light fixes for Season 5’s Update 2, but you can expect the lights on Ibiza to be fixed for Season 6!

• Bugatti Chiron active aero improved wing animation - We’ve fixed the Bugatti Chiron’s wing animation. They'll now be configured in the Chiron’s Autobahn mode (so the wing no longer rises at 50kmph). Thanks to our vehicle artist KT Theo for this!

• CosmeticLamborghini Miura headlight animation/This is a big one we’ve seen reported from the community a lot, and we’ve fixed this for Update 2. The Miura will now have the