Formula Bwoah
Revamped the Crew UI menu along with other optimizations
- Added option to change FPS in the settings menu
- Revamped the Crew UI Menu for better readability
- Fixed lag spike when the vehicles collided
- Added UI effects in the main menu
- Added a few vehicle effects
- Game Optimizations
Changes:
- Reduced lobby summary duration from 10 secs to 5 secs
- Made changes to Third Person Cam far
More Robost Lobby along with a new Series
- Series 3 has been added in the duel 1v1 mode with Rain
- New Series 3 crew cards
Improvements:
- The waiting lobby now gives more details regarding the ongoing race. ie: The current lap of the user, etc
- The waiting lobby shows if the player is new to the lobby or was already a part of the previous/ongoing race
Changes:
- The required trophies to progress from Series 1 to 2 has been reduced to 60 trophies from 300 trophies.
Bug Fixes:
- Rejoining a lobby sometimes resulted in the player name showing up twice or not showing up at all
- Engine mode consume speed changed the tire wear too in the Lobby settings
Time Trial mode has been added as a new standalone mode
- Added time trial mode that features 4 different tracks to compete in each week
- Engine mode consumption speed has been added in the party lobby
Changes:
- Manager mode has been removed from duel mode to reduce player segregation. It now only exists in the party lobby.
- Public and Private lobbies have been merged to reduce player segregation
- Users in duel mode now match with an AI if a user is not found for 300 seconds instead of 60
- #community-events channel has its own button in the Game Modes menu screen.
Bug Fixes:
- Assist button did not appear if a user played a game in the manager mode followed by player mode
Increase in Tire Life and Bug Fixes for the Manager Mode
- The Tire Life for the default Soft Tires has been increased from 1.5 Laps to 2 Laps
- The Tire Life for the default Medium Tires has been increased from 2 Laps to 3 Laps
- The Tire Life for the default Hard Tires has been increased from 3 Laps to 4 Laps
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed bug where the player got stuck when pitting for new tires
- Fixed issue where the AI difficulty was set to 100% even when the parameters were set to 150%
Improvements:
- Improved the dynamic AI in duel mode
- The AI player that the user is battling against now has a golden color name
Added Manager Mode and Removed Pay to Win elements from the game
- Manager Mode: A new mode that allows the player to focus less on driving and more on the strategic elements of the game
- Manager Mode has been added to the 1v1 duel mode and the public and private party lobby
Improvements:
- Chest Crew boxes cannot be bought from real money anymore. The only way to get them is by playing the game.
- Made some tweaks to the AI racing line
Changes:
- Series 1 of 1v1 mode starts with 4 laps instead of 8 laps
- Reverted back to the old Engine mode consume and refill speed
Improved visuals along with tutorial bug fixes
- Added option to enable real-time shadows in the settings menu
- Improved the flow of the tutorial
Changes:
- Added rewards button on the Main menu screen
- Increased the size of the confetti and humans in the crowd
- Tweaked camera angles for all 3 camera types
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed issue where the tutorial was completely broken after the previous update
New Persistent lobbies with tweakable parameters (Equal Cars, Total Laps, etc)
- Tweakable Lobby Parameters: User can now choose the track he wants to race in along with the ability to tweak other parameters like Tire deg percentage, AI Difficulty, Qualifying time, Race laps, etc.
- Persistent Lobby: The game now remembers the lobby code and redirects the user to the lobby after the race ends. As a result the user does not have to generate a new lobby code every time.
- Private and Public lobby: The user can now choose whether he wants to race on a public lobby or create their own private lobby
Changes:
- Reverted back to the previous vehicle physics system where turning too much did not slow down the vehicle.
- Friendly Mode is now replaced by Public lobby
- The vehicle gets a lot slower when going through grass.
- Temporarily removed Track Oval and Track England from the Duel Mode.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed issue where the car showed "Tires are dead" as soon as the race started
Added 1v1 Mode (Trophy Road) along with additional game tweaks
- Added 1v1 mode: The game matches you with an opponent and you compete for trophies and coins.
- The players win percentage and win streak now gets displayed on the matchmaking screen
- Added Skid marks and Drift sound
- The Race start countdown timer is now replaced with a lights out screen
Improvements:
- The sound of the vehicle mutes when a message popup is shown on the tutorial
- Made more improvements to the tutorial
Changes:
- Tweaked the Topdown Camera angle
- Made changes to the AI difficulty
- Increased the vehicle turn sensitivity when going at high speeds
- Tweaked the tire life of all the tires
- Reduced the sound of the in game music
Reduced the speed penalty when taking sharp turns and better sense of speed
- Reduced the speed penalty when taking a sharp turn
- Reduced the max duration a tire lasts when in cloudy weather
- Weather now affects the acceleration and not just the top speed
New Features:
- Added camera shake when going at fast speeds
- Added speed-based color effects
- Added "Camera Effects" toggle in the settings menu
AI improvements and tweaks to the vehicle handling
- AI grid is more spread out
- AI takes more time to leave the pitstop during Quali to reduce traffic
- AI does not pit when there's only one lap remaining
Changes:
- Vehicle turn sensitivity is now dependent on the speed as well. So higher speed results in low turn sensitivity and vice versa.
- Reduced the speed penalty when taking sharper turns