Solar Club Letter: April 2026

Season 6’s mid-season update is scheduled for May 6! This update brings more Detective Missions with a difficulty improvement to all of them, a new vehicle, bug fixes, and more! Patch Notes are now available below.

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We also want to discuss the two biggest pain points of TDUSC, that being optimisation and networking. We’ll detail our next steps, what we are working on, and other topics related to both. That said, let’s talk about the update!

What’s In the Letter?

• Season 6 Update 1

  • Release Date

  • Detective Mission Improvements

  • Dodge Viper SRT Coupe Freedom Rush Edition

  • Upcoming Fixes

• Network

  • Current Work

  • What’s Next

• Optimisation

  • What’s Next

• Improving Live Events

• Community Spotlight

  • Winners

  • How To Enter

  • May Theme

⏭️ Season 6 Update 1

Season 6’s mid-season update arrives early next month with more content, features, quality of life improvements, and more! Let’s take a look at this in more detail.

Release Date

The update is planned to release on May 6, 2026. If this date changes, we’ll be sure to let you know.

As for the maintenance, it will be mentioned in the Patch Notes, which will arrive on May 6, 2026. Expect the server maintenance at 9:30am CET and last up to 6:00pm CET. As usual, we will keep you updated on our progress during the day too.

Detective Mission Improvements

Detective Missions first arrived in Season 6 with 15 to be found through Ibiza and Hong Kong Island. In the mid-season update, we have added another 15 while improving the immersion and difficulty of all of them. That said, let’s talk about all of these improvements in detail!

First, we’ve improved the spawning of these events. Since there are 30 missions total, 20 on Hong Kong Island, and 10 on Ibiza, you’ll be able to see a more varied amount of mission difficulties available each rotation. We also decreased the time it takes for them to respawn upon completion.

Next, we heard your complaints regarding the wiretapping UI so we decreased the opacity of it to provide a cleaner look while still allowing players to understand what the task is. We also moved the wiretapping UI to the top of the screen.

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One thing you might notice is that there are some new UI elements in Detective Missions as seen on the left side of the screen. This is what enhances the difficulty and immersion of these missions; and it’s also why we moved the wiretapping UI to the center top portion of the screen!

Now what happens is the AI is more aware of the player and what they do in the world based on two mechanics; sight and sound. Throughout each mission, the target will not react to your maneuvers in the world, depending on if they can see and/or hear you or not.

With this new system, there are also now stages to the mission ending. As you keep making mistakes, you’ll increase your target’s awareness, and they’ll be more sensitive to future mistakes too!

Honking your horn, revving, driving in the wrong lane, drifting, and many other scenarios will affect your detection. This will be a lot easier to understand with the gameplay video on YouTube now! Check it out!

To discuss the improvements and details to Detective Missions, here is what our Lead UI Developer has to say!

“To enhance the immersion of your investigations, we are introducing two new indicators: visual and auditory detection. Located near the minimap, these icons