Zoom Bugbear Eintertainment hat dem Ende April eingeführten Turniermodus mit der nun veröffentlichten Version 1.260562 einige Anpassungen und die neue Turniersaison Time Attack, bei der es ganz auf Tempo und Geschicklichkeit ankommt, spendiert. Die Anzahl an FP (Fame Points) wurde ebenso wie der Preis von im Turnier-Shop angebotenen Gegenständen angepasst."Das Ziel des Turniermodus besteht darin, etwas Spaßiges und Belohnendes im Spiel zu bieten und nicht das Gefühl zu vermitteln, endlos nach Punkten jagen zu müssen", versprechen die Wreckfest-Entwickler.
Wie ein Blick in das Änderungsprotokoll zeigt, hat man zudem der Programmstabilität und allgemeinen Performance einiges an Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet und konsequent an der Korrektur von Fehlern gearbeitet. Nach eigener Aussage konnten bedeutende Verbesserungen im Umgang mit den Spielstandsdaten und der Steam Cloud-Integration erzielt werden.
Wreckfest - V1.260562-Changelog:
SYSTEM STABILITY
-Game no longer constantly crashes when trying to enter the "Destroy All Supervans!" career event.
-Game no longer infrequently crashes when proceeding from the results screen in the tournament mode.
-In multiplayer, game no longer crashes when the host leaves the game and the client is in the Paint Menu.
-Reward paints no longer vanish from the player inventory when changing paint.
TOURNAMENT MODE
-Playing a tournament event now rewards the player with experience.
-Reduced the score multiplier decrease rate during tournament mode "Score Streak" events.
-Reduced the AI Players aggression during tournament mode "Score Streak" events.
-Tournament event information is displayed quicker after entering tournament mode.
GAMEPLAY
-Improved Panther RS suspension setups.
-Improved Boomer suspension setups.
-AI Harvester is no longer faster than player harvester.
MULTIPLAYER
-Next track in the event rotation is now selected in tiebreaker situations (instead of it being skipped like previously).
-It's now possible to define 96 user roles on a dedicated server (not actual players, but known users with specific roles such as 'moderator' and so forth).
-Idle detection now works again so players idling in a multiplayer event will be kicked after a period of inactivity.
AUDIO
-Killerping: Fix sound pitch mismatch between on- / offload states near max rpm.
-Adjusted lawnmower engine sound for louder offload volume.
-Mixdown adjustments for driver contact sounds.
-Audio asset size optimizations for driver contact sounds.
-Driver body-to-ground contact sounds now change according to vehicle road surface.
-Tighter volume roll-off based on camera distance (max. audible range 20 meters / ~65.6 feet).
-Added distance based playback prioritization to driver contact sounds.
-Added triggering delay randomization to increase variety with driver contact sound sequences.
SAVE SYSTEM
-Improved Steam Cloud integration. Note that from now on the save data is located in "[STEAM INSTALL FOLDER]/userdata/[STEAMID]/228380" with the old data in the "Documents" folder being copied over after launching the title for the first time after updating. Appropriate prompts are shown to the user whenever a save data mismatch is detected between local and cloud data.
-Improved corrupt save data detection by adding a size check and filtering out files with broken headers in order to prevent corrupted save data being uploaded to Steam Cloud and possibly preventing the game from launching. Whenever corrupt data is detected, the user is shown an appropriate prompt.