Kategorie: News

GENERAL:

• AI performance optimizations.
• Fix for track shown at nighttime for a split second when loading into any session.
• Fixed double saving of temporary replays with multithreading enabled.
• Fixed issues with shared memory status.

GAMEPLAY:

• Added car customization. Pick and customize the design of your personal car.
  NOTE: custom cars can be used in Quick Race, Custom Race Weekend and Multiplayer game modes.
  Disclaimer: customization possibilities may vary on a per car basis due to licensing restrictions.
  We will continue to add customizeable livery templates in future updates.
• Added single-make option to Quick Race and Custom Race Weekend game modes.
  Possibility to use official liveries and custom-liveried grids.
  NOTE: single-make race with official liveries requires an official car to be selected.
• AI update to avoid divebombing in slow chicanes.
• Porsche AI tweaks to mitigate their tendency to dominate sessions.
• AI now use aggressive setup at high levels.
• AI cars will not enter the pits because of weather or damage if less than 5 minutes are remaining in a session.
• Fixed AI aggression setting not producing expected behaviour.
• General AI behaviour and movement improvements.
  NOTE: different aggro levels should result in a bigger difference now.
• Engine now shuts down at the end of the pit stop if the player restarts it during the pitstop as a counter-exploit measure.
• Session days are now set up as in real life in championship events.
• Fixed replay time multiplier resetting on highlights switching.
• Automatic highlights now spread across the entire race duration more consistently.
• Fixed marshal flags during single player replay.
• Fixed potentially wrong car setup values in saved games.
• Increased maximum number of highlights (20->30).
• Penalty system changed back to pre-pitlane decision.
  NOTE: serving a penalty must be checked in the MFD before entering the pitlane. Serving any pending penalty is always auto-selected by default.
• Driver stint does not reset when serving a penalty – if “serve penalty” is selected before entering the pitlane.
• End of race in Quick Race does not require the opponents to complete the race – race finish is declared when the player presses ESC to return to the garage after crossing the line.
  NOTE: to see the complete results, the player must stay on track until all opponents cross the finish line. Other game modes are unaffected.
• Added tyre sets option to Custom Race Weekend (as well as Custom Championship rounds).
• Fixed some bugs with penalty procedure and saved games.
• Fixed Racelogic=digital display time during replay (better with new replays).
• Optimized replay tyre matrix memory occupation, changed replay version (backwards compatible).
• Fixed replay maximum time.
• Added 1 hour and 15 minutes to maximum time in replay options.
• Added auto highlights replay only for the player car and added its menu item, tweaked highlights length.
• Removed time-based replacement of highlights and added an overtake highlight replacement system based on position.
• Fixed saving/loading auto save replay options.
• Avoid camera spline movements during paused replay.
• Longer pre-action time for accident/overtake highlights.
• Fixed pit alarm sound during slow-mo/paused/sped-up replays.
• Kevin Siggy Rebernak, winner of the McLaren Shadow Grand Final, added as a selectable Mclaren Shadow driver.
• Added pit exit blue flag for all types of sessions.
• Driver stint max total time is no longer based on race event but on race length divided by driver count across relevant game modes.
• Added black-orange flag for the player car for heavy suspension damage.
  NOTE: also shown for lights damage (during the night and sessions that are declared wet where lights are a requirement).
• Penalty system for black-orange flags (damage and lights off).
  The player has 3 laps to pit for repair or turn on lights when the flag is shown, ignoring the flag will result in a DQ.
• Fixed incorrect FOV used by some TV Cams from the 2nd activation.
• Pitlane open is triggered when the leader completes sector 1 after a race start.

GAMEPLAY:

• Fixed inconsistency between AI and player car speed under pit limiter.
• Pit limiter speed limit now closer to 50kph.
• Stricter pit limiter tolerance against speeding.

UI/HUD:

• Fixed realtime leaderboard gap for close-range cases.
• HUD: margins can now be adjusted to up to half the maximum available screen resolution.
• HUD: countdown widget moved lower so as to not obscure virtual mirror.
• HUD options: separated session info from lap time info widgets.
• HUD options: floating point value rounding fixes for scale.
• MFD: remember last selected panel through sessions/menu-rebuilding.
• Pit page in MP: 2 second mandatory delay for drive button enabling – server-set delay applied on top of that.
• Pit page in MP: controller navigation tweaks for easier navigation to/from the chat widget.
• Pit page: proper hiding of the event schedule when there is only one session available.
• Replay UI: better handling of time slider mouse control, time indicator now updates while being dragged, possible fix for slider lock-up while using the free camera.
• Replay UI: fixed play/pause affecting replay speed.
• Fixed wind direction widget.

PHYSICS:

• Porsche 991 GT3-R EVO rear wing setup maximum value fix (0-11 range).
• Porsche 991 GT3-R EVO fix for wet front tyres.
• Better brake force when pad are cold
• Audi R8 EVO more powerful base FFB
• AMR V8 GT3 fixed fuel tank capacity (120l)

CONTROLS:

• Removed XBOX 360 gamepad preset from DirectInput device presets.
• Fixed exit game hangs with Fanatec hardware and the Fanatec app enabled.

GRAPHICS:

• Various livery updates.
• Revised foot animations in cars with three pedals.
• Wet tyre indicator added to the Porsche 991II GT3-R display.

AUDIO:

• Fixed bodywork audible in TV cameras.

MULTIPLAYER/RATINGS:

• Server has a new way to handle the limits for connections, spectators, driver swapping and car slots.
• Number of available car slots are now limited by the pit count – private servers only.
• Raised control lock time by 15 seconds when teleported to pits.
• MP server: replaced maxClients, maxClientsOverride, spectatorSlots by maxConnections and maxCarSlots.
• Updated server handbook v5.
• Server: Fixed ambientTemperature not being used for static conditions (will still vary based on sun angle).
• Server: Fixed cloud levels set to a minimum of 0.6 when rain chance is used in dynamic conditions (increasing heavy rain chances big times).

MULTIPLAYER/RATINGS:

• Fixed a bug with wrong driver name/race number in Timetables.
• Servers will now do a more reasonable track randomization (2019 tracks plus Zolder 2018).
• Prevented a potential flood of messages to the backend.

GAMEPLAY:

• Fixed #62 sprint cup entry having the wrong driver lineup.
• Entry-related fixes.
• Fixed drastic AI skill variation in FP and Q sessions creating unrealistic starting grids in race weekends.

UI/HUD:

• Fixed car selection page wrong team indication when changing driver name after selecting a livery variant.
• Localization updates.
• Race schedule now hides in compact garage view.

GRAPHICS:

• Spark emitter position tweaks.
• Various livery updates.
• Minor updates to Zandvoort and Spa.

GENERAL:

• Added Audi R8 LMS Evo.
• Added Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo.
• Added Honda NSX GT3 Evo.
• Added Aston Martin AMR V8 Vantage GT3.
• Added Porsche 911 GT3 R (991.2).
• Added McLaren 720S GT3 bonus content as part of the McLaren Shadow Project.
  NOTE: the car has its BoP set based on the 2019 season tests and is playable with the rest of the content.
• Added Zandvoort Circuit.
• Added 2019 Blancpain GT Championship entries.
• First implementation of triple screen rendering.
  NOTE: supports application with Surround mode on and off. Triple rendering properties can be adjusted in the View Settings ingame.
• Reduced FMod CPU occupation over time (mainly with external cameras and chasecam).
• Performance optimizations in cloudy, rainy and night conditions.
• Barcelona 2019 surface grip (slightly slower).
• Silverstone 2019 surface grip adjustments (around 2 seconds slower).
• Paul Ricard 2019 surface grip (around 1 second faster).
• Spa 2019 surface grip (small difference).
• Brake pressure added to shared memory.
• Fixed car model name in shared memory
• FuelEstimatedLaps added in shared memory.
• TrackStatus added to shared memory.
  NOTE: shared memory/API documentation is updated, please see the relevant topic on the support forum.

GAMEPLAY:

• Added 2019 Championship season.
• Added possibility to play with more AI opponents on tracks with large pitlanes (notably Spa).
  NOTE: grid sizes still depend on the available pit slots for each track and the Cup type selected.
  E.g.: Sprint Cup fields are still limited in size to their real-life counterpart.
• Fixed a bug when only the first session of a weekend had correct track wetness.
• Championship weekends now include 2 practice sessions.
• Fixed 3H race driver stint strategy bug.
• Fixed strategy bug for mandatory pit with irregular driver crew.
• Fixed automatic driver cycle in endurance races.
• Various fixes for replay tyre radius/wheel speed (smoke particles and disc glow were not visible in certain situations).
• Fixed valid mandatory pitstop if tyreset is not changed.
• Forced auto save replay after an MP race when the car is stopped.
• Fixed pit strategy selector update issues in the car setup page.
• Driver skills updated based on 2019 results and added skills for new drivers.
• Fixed old replay HUD shortcut overriding the new FFWD and slow motion system.
• Potential fix for SP replay autosave on quit game.
• Fixed autosave replay during the limbo page.
• Autosave replay shows a message before the saving itself.
• Potential fix for Custom Race limbo page crash.
• Pitstops are now enabled in Free Practice and Qualifying sessions.