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The 2021 Spring Release – BeamNG.drive v0.22
Let's begin things with the highly anticipated and legendary Wendover! Produced from 1987 to 1995 by American automaker Bruckell and sold under their luxury marquee Soliad, the Wendover is the epitome of late 1980s technology and styling. Sharing much of its underpinnings with the smaller LeGran, the larger, sleeker coupe body allows for a powerful transverse-mounted V8 engine to be fitted in place of the factory standard V6. The LeGran's 4 cylinder engines can also be fitted, and all engine options have superchargers available to boost power. The Wendover features advanced mono-leaf rear suspension, allowing for the installation of a rear differential to transform the vehicle into a snappy, responsive handling machine.
Nestled in the luxurious, comfortable interior is the latest and greatest high-tech digital dashboard; the Wendover Information System, or WIS. Futuristic gauges and easy-to-read display can keep the driver constantly aware of everything they might need to know. The Wendover received a face lift in 1992, adding flip-up headlights, even sleeker, more modern styling and a lightly updated interior. Unable to recapture the initial popularity brought on by Bruckell's deal with the Belasco 400 to make the Wendover its official pace car, production stopped in 1995.
Despite its odd weight and size, the Wendover is considered by many to be an excellent performance car given the right modifications, and has been used for everything from track racing, rallies, hillclimb time trials or even demolition derbies. We hope you run the storied Wendover through this entire gamut of activities, and much more!
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Aside from the latest addition of the Wendover, we even have a new Walking Mode to try out! With this mode, we've enhanced the feeling of being an actual, living driver in the game. Through the first-person perspective, you can hop out of a vehicle and traverse the environment at eye level, with movement speed changing depending on your surroundings and terrain. Simply hop from car to car in a parking lot for a whole different perspective.
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Alongside this, we've added Vehicle Triggers that you can take advantage of in several camera modes. These small but specific sequences can be activated on a vehicle. It could be as simple as adjusting a pickup truck's trunk after loading it with materials, or guiding the ramp of a maintenance vehicle down to the ground. Triggers are fully configurable on each vehicle, but please keep in mind that only a few vehicles feature them at the moment.
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While we're on the topic of increased immersion, we are happy to announce the addition of Vehicle Pooling for traffic. Once this feature is enabled, the variety of vehicles you encounter will be far greater. please note that this is still a work in progress, and we will continue to update this feature throughout development.
Last but not least, the Bruckell Legran Remaster is finally rolling in! Featuring new facelift variants, a remastered 3D model, highly improved interior, and loads of different configurations for various play styles. Whether it's a plain sedan or a police cruiser, there's lots to take on with the Bruckell Legran Remastered.
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There's still plenty more to discover in 0.22. Many further fixes, optimizations, and improvements were implemented for game audio, physics, engine, World Editor, and more. Check out the full patch notes here.
Minor Update v0.21.4 Released
With today's hotfix we are bringing several small fixes for reported issues and improvements for the official translations.
UI
Console
Misc
Minor Update v0.21.3 Released
We’ve got a big batch of small changes coming your way! Let’s go over the fixes for tire vibrations, vehicle improvements, translations, and more.
Vehicles
AI
Physics
Game Engine
Scenarios
UI
Full list of changes can be found in the official Dev blog.
Minor Update v0.21.2 Released
Today we prepared another small batch of fixes related to the release of v0.21. Most notably, the issue with Force Feedback has been addressed. Unfortunately, this is linked to the Remote Control App fix, which had to be reverted. We will investigate and restore functionality of the Remote Control App in a future hotfix.
Smaller fixes have been implemented to reported issues with UI, vehicles, and audio. Full list of changes can be found in the official Dev blog.
Minor Update v0.21.1 Released
Today's minor update is bringing a number of fixes to issues related to the release of v0.21.
Replay system and game closing should behave normally now. We also fixed issues with several vehicles and levels; introduced improvements to the Smart Recovery system, World Editor, and game localization.
Full list of changes can be found in the official Dev blog. As always, we are grateful for your feedback and reports!
The 2020 Winter Release - BeamNG v0.21
Today we're here to spill some much-needed hot news to your screens with the release of version 0.21! Featuring a complete Jungle Rock Island map renovation, bringing new locations to explore and a myriad of updated roads for that sunny winter getaway, as well as revamped vegetation and a brand-new waterfalls zone.
If a tropical paradise isn't up your alley, you'll be happy to hear that West Coast USA received an improvement pass, including multiple new locations and the addition of two new roads - City and Highway Tunnels.
The long-awaited Gavril D-Series Remaster Part 2 is finally here with updated interiors, lights, revised configurations, and several new D45 variants. This isn't all for the D-Series, however, hold on to your pedals because the D-Series Prerunner & Crawler models are now available and ready to conquer anything you throw at them (or them into).
We've also improved our tire model with new tire-ground contact physics. This has slashed long standing limitations in rolling resistance, high speed grip, and cambered tire behavior. With all tires retuned to take advantage of these changes, our vehicles are handling better than ever.
Last but not least, we've polished official localization for the languages listed below; for more information on how to provide feedback and report issues, please keep an eye on the official Discord server.
As always, we would like to thank everyone for your continuous feedback, suggestions, and bug reports! We hope you enjoy the update and wish you Happy Holidays!
Highlights
Minor Update v0.20.2 Released
Today’s minor update brings a number of fixes to the audio system, vehicles, and levels, and official translations for Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese (more info will be shared on the official forums).
As always, we are grateful for everyone’s feedback!
Vehicles
Levels
World Editor
Audio
Minor Update v0.20.1 Released
With today’s minor update we are resolving several issues related to the release of v0.20. We fixed game-breaking issues with Userfolder path that contain non-Latin characters, and made a number of improvements to vehicles, maps, UI, audio, and World Editor. As always, we would like to thank everyone for your feedback and reports!
Vehicles
Levels
Scenarios
UI
Audio
World Editor
The 2020 Summer Release – BeamNG v0.20
Today we are happy to announce that v0.20 is live! This update brings a number of long-awaited improvements as well as some surprises that we hope you will enjoy. Let’s dive into the details!
Up first we have the final phase of the Gavril Roamer Remaster. The car received a major overhaul to bring it up to the latest quality standards – most textures along with several meshes were completely redone and interiors were renovated. In addition, we are introducing a new facelift version that comes complete with its own set of parts, like wheels, lights, body panels, and more! With Roamer’s renovations complete, we will begin work on these same final improvements for the D-Series and H-Series, expect more news with the later updates.
Major changes were implemented in the vehicle loading system, which significantly reduced loading and re-loading times.
In even more exciting news, this update brings the renovation of Industrial and Port maps. We’ve completely reworked and merged the two classics together. Now an even bigger and densely populated area, it includes new textures, props, and points of interest. For those of you who love a good challenge we are introducing a new unique playground – Containerland, where the fun cannot be contained!
World Editor 2.0 received further improvements along with a new theme, improved selection and preview options, and a polish pass on UI and Camera Path tool.
And lastly, as some of you were quick to figure out from one of our teasers, we are introducing water flow and river physics simulation. The system is still WIP, and the audio component will be released in the coming updates.
Highlights
- Gavril Roamer Remaster
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For the full changelog please visit our Dev Blog.
Minor Update - Game Loading Issues
We have been receiving an increased number of reports of game loading issues recently. While we are not yet sure of the exact causes of this problem, we identified that it is related to corrupt game settings.
When you try to launch the game either through the Launcher or directly via the .exe file, the game should load normally, but due to this issue, no game window is loaded while BeamNG process is shown in your Task Manager.
With this small update, we are deploying a solution to this problem.
If you still have trouble loading the game after this update, please make sure to Clear Cache and Verify Integrity of Game Files first, and if nothing helps - contact us.