Tournament Update: Wasteland Wreckers!

HIGHLIGHTS

• New tournament: Wasteland Wreckers

• New free tournament reward vehicle: Battle Bus

• Engine upgrades for many special vehicles

• Handling improvements for special vehicles

• Stability and quality of life enhancements

We're pleased to announce the availability of a new tournament!

After the thrilling high-speed pursuits of the out-going Getaway Heat, it's time to change gears and start shelling some serious hits again! This time we're inviting you to join us on derelict Rockfield Roughspot on which you're going to be the main star of a gladiator battle and face off with badass wrecking crew. For that, a new tool of destruction is waiting for you: Battle Bus! Armored to the teeth and equipped with a massive plow, this thing will demolish absolutely everything in its path. Your mission: destroy the oncoming marauders, wreck your way to the top of the rankings and claim your own Battle Bus. The monthly events are no slouch either, challenging you to cause as much chaos as possible using the Bandit Ripper on selected tracks. Who will be the toughest wrecker this time around? Time to find out!

Apart from the new tournament, this release also contains numerous other neat additions. First of all, we've added engine upgrades for many special vehicles as well as tweaked their handling, so if up until now you've thought something like School Bus is too slow and boring for you make sure to check it out now! We've also expanded the AI Sets, so now it's possible to, for example, arrange a custom event against a random mix of normal cars and special vehicles. It might get crazy yes, so please don't tell us we didn't warn you. Other things worth cherry-picking from the release notes is fixes to player inventory handling, removing bogus duplicates and making sure player can doesn't appear ineligible for no reason, damage from wheel hub collisions now yielding score to the attacker, leaderboard update improvements, and more. We invite you to review the summary of items fixed or improved below for full details.

Happy wrecking!

RELEASE NOTES

Game version

PC: 1.266722

SYSTEM

• Fixed a rare case in which game might have crashed during race start.

• Duplicate upgrades are now removed from the player inventory when detected.

• Vehicle ambient occlusion now looks more correct, and is more prominent as well.

TOURNAMENT

• New tournament season: Wasteland Wreckers.

• New free tournament reward vehicle: Battle Bus.

• Leaderboards are now updated in a more timely manner in the results screen.

• In the event details, “Updating...” notification is now displayed while leaderboards are being updated.

USER INTERFACE

• Added a warning notification when trying to install a part that is incompatible with one or more already installed parts.

• HUD no longer contains overlapping bogus elements when starting a custom event after playing a tournament event.

MULTIPLAYER

• Player vehicle no longer occasionally appears “ineligible” for no reason after attempting to change the paint.

• A failed join attempt is now correctly aborted and the game no longer goes into infinite lockup.

• Event rotation no longer gets stuck when moderator, admin or host has an ineligible car selected when loading the next event.

• Server no longer loads a wrong event after too many tracks are enabled on the server.

• Event list is no longer truncated after a certain number of events is displayed.

GAMEPLAY

• Damage from wheel hub collisions is now correctly attributed to the attacker, eliminating the issue in which no score was awarded to the player.

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