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Update notes - Jul 20 2022 - Sound of Song Festival

According to the United Nations, "a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years...

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  • UI and audio
  • Workshop
  • Gameplay
  • Fixes
  • Performance
changedSound of Song Festival The COVID really put a damper on events for the past couple years. Well, worry no more about the spread of the virus, because now, you can watch a concert from the comfort of your own car. Come on down to the desert and see the greatest show in the history of The Pointless Car Chase. As a 5 year tribute, a cover of What I've Done by Linkin Park will be performed starting at 20:00 each night.*
addedCustom Logos Have you ever wished you could stick your own picture to the side of a car? Well now you can! With added support for custom logos, you too can add your own logos to your vehicles, and even upload them to the Steam Workshop.**
addedAuto Backup Don't you just hate it when you play a game for so long, then your saves just go *poof*, never to be seen again? Well fret no more. Now, when you exit The Pointless Car Chase: Refueled, your saves will be automatically backed up to a local folder. In the case where something happens to your beloved save, you can now easily restore a previous file.
changedUpdate:
addedSound of Song Festival - Added Sound of Song Festival - Added road to concert
addedSteam Workshop - Added Steam Workshop support for logos - Added link to user's subscribed Workshop using Steam's interface - Game exit button now disables when uploading Steam Workshop items to prevent accidental closing
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The Pointless Car Chase: Refueled changes

changedSound of Song Festival The COVID really put a damper on events for the past couple years. Well, worry no more about the spread of the virus, because now, you can watch a concert from the comfort of your own car. Come on down to the desert and see the greatest show in the history of The Pointless Car Chase. As a 5 year tribute, a cover of What I've Done by Linkin Park will be performed starting at 20:00 each night.*
addedCustom Logos Have you ever wished you could stick your own picture to the side of a car? Well now you can! With added support for custom logos, you too can add your own logos to your vehicles, and even upload them to the Steam Workshop.**
addedAuto Backup Don't you just hate it when you play a game for so long, then your saves just go *poof*, never to be seen again? Well fret no more. Now, when you exit The Pointless Car Chase: Refueled, your saves will be automatically backed up to a local folder. In the case where something happens to your beloved save, you can now easily restore a previous file.
changedUpdate:
addedSound of Song Festival - Added Sound of Song Festival - Added road to concert

According to the United Nations, "a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years..." Whether you are a child below the age of 18, or an adult above the age of 18, you're never too young or old to play The Pointless Car Chase: Refueled... This is the 18th update.

A brief speech:

Sound of Song Festival The COVID really put a damper on events for the past couple years. Well, worry no more about the spread of the virus, because now, you can watch a concert from the comfort of your own car. Come on down to the desert and see the greatest show in the history of The Pointless Car Chase. As a 5 year tribute, a cover of What I've Done by Linkin Park will be performed starting at 20:00 each night.*

Custom Logos Have you ever wished you could stick your own picture to the side of a car? Well now you can! With added support for custom logos, you too can add your own logos to your vehicles, and even upload them to the Steam Workshop.**

Auto Backup Don't you just hate it when you play a game for so long, then your saves just go *poof*, never to be seen again? Well fret no more. Now, when you exit The Pointless Car Chase: Refueled, your saves will be automatically backed up to a local folder. In the case where something happens to your beloved save, you can now easily restore a previous file.

Update:

Sound of Song Festival - Added Sound of Song Festival - Added road to concert

Steam Workshop - Added Steam Workshop support for logos - Added link to user's subscribed Workshop using Steam's interface - Game exit button now disables when uploading Steam Workshop items to prevent accidental closing

Customization - Updated R.E.M. Studios logo in loading screen - Removed duplicate blank logo selection - Added R.E.M. Studios logo to logo selection

Vehicles - Added police siren randomization; Police sirens now change instead of looping - Fixed F1 first person position - Fixed camera colliding with ramp trigger - Fixed first person camera clipping through some vehicles in VR

UI - Added UI visibility toggle (up arrow) - Resized "Spawn Location" panel size - Fixed clock displaying incorrect formatting for each hour; (03:60 -> 04:00 | 23:60 -> 00:00)

World - Replaced water shader; Water looks less meh, and a little more yeh - Added mysterious object to farm - Added billboards - Retextured grasslands riverside with sand - Removed trees from grasslands riverside

Settings - Fixed volume sliders not using saved values in settings menu - Fixed garage radio volume not controlled by music volume slider

System - Added automatic save backups on game exit (saving to archive folder) - Added achievement "Sound of Song Festival" - Fixed game not launching in VR mode from Steam VR - Stopped road designer manager process running in background - Regenerated lightmaps - Adjusted ambient light levels - Removed redundant calls on destroyed vehicles - Removed unused Rigidbodies on parked house & gas station vehicles - Removed unused WheelColliders on parked house & gas station vehicles

Fineprint: *To disable concert, toggle "Disable concert" in the settings menu when concert is not playing. Game Performance, Steam Guide https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812788823

**Custom logos: Create a folder inside "..\Steam\steamapps\common\The Pointless Car Chase Refueled\Logo", and put an image file inside (.png or .jpg). The new image should then appear in the "Logo" tab of the vehicle selection. 1x1 aspect ratio works best. To upload to Steam Workshop, see below.

Uploading to Workshop, Steam Guide (See section "Logos - Summary"): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2784667549

Thank you, R.E.M. Studios, NullReferenceException

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Steam News / 21 July 2022

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