Turkey Update Is Live! Soundtrack, Tyre Repair Kits, Licence Plates, Key Rebinding
Hello everyone, today marks the release of the Turkey update which acts as our final destination for map content in Jalopy. It’s been quite a journey and we are now towards the final stretch for full release. Greg is already working on the next content update and is looking at The Uncle, achievements, wheel input etc.
The Turkey update has been in the Testing branch for a little while and I’d like to take this time to thank everyone who was involved! You guys are awesome and have really helped us by reporting bugs in the forum or directly via Greg’s tumblr blog (http://minskworks.tumblr.com/)
So what’s in the update? There’s a massive change log at the bottom of this announcement which details all the changes that happened between the last public release and the Turkey update. We believe this is probably our largest update of bug fixes to date and hope we’ve eliminated quite a few issues. We’ll highlight some of the major changes below:
Turkey map
The biggest addition to this update is the addition of Turkey. To celebrate the launch of this we created a new trailer which shows a portion of the Turkey route
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv15ALcU320
The Official Jalopy Sound Track
Jeremy Warmsley has been outputting some tremendous music for Jalopy and we feel that he has captured the games tone perfectly. Two new tracks are a part of this update and can be listened to in game right now!
There are currently no plans to produce any additional music, so we felt it was the right time to release the full sound track on Steam.
The soundtrack in game has an audio effect which makes it sound as though it's coming from the old speakers of a Laika 601 Deluxe. The soundtrack however has crisp high quality effects which do not have any audio effects applied to them. We are considering updating the soundtrack in the future to include additional tracks which replicate the laika 601 Deluxe's audio effects. let us know if this is something you want included as an update to the soundtrack!
Track listing below:
01 Meinen Laika
02 Lange Reise
03 Dresdner Automobilclub
04 Harmonikatalas
05 Krugovi
06 Dunaújváros Daytripping
07 Let's Go For A Drive
07 Plazhen Tants
09 Kalkan
10 Balkan Girl I Love You!
11 Yuva Hatıraları
12 Anthem Zu Lieben
Tyre Repair Kits
Tyres can now be repaired with the new Tyre repair kit. They are cheaper than purchasing a replacement tyre and easy to use. Just unscrew the tyre from the axel and use the tyre repair kit directly onto the tyre while it is still attatched to the
The price of tyres based on their compound has also been balanced.
Licence Plates
The game will now generate a random Licence plate for your Laika 601 Deluxe. These License Plates adhere to the real world licencing rules in the DDR. What this means is that if you can decipher your licence plate you will be able to find out a little bit of history of your trusty Laika. Share your discoveries in the forum!
Additionally, Abandoned cars will also spawn with a random licence plate, this feature may be expanded upon in the future but we'll keep you posted.
Drive Back Home
With this update players are now able to drive back towards home, allowing them to drive all the way back to the Uncle who will be patiently waiting for them at the abandoned Laika Garage which you call home.
Car handling improved
A number of changes have been made to the car handling which should improve the quality of both keyboard and mouse as well as controller users
Key Bindings
We have also added new options for rebinding keys which you can adjust within the options menu
There are a few more things that have been added and refined, but you can check out the full change Log list below:
Build 0.811
- Fixed issue with shops banning the wrong goods in the mornings
- Fixed Bullbar dirt mesh issue
- Fixed issue with Yugoslavia border window rotating incorrectly
- Added the ability to drive back through countries, creating the full game loop as intended
- Built return route borders
- Added return border logic
- Re-did the banned goods signage art
- Removed a mesh combine utility to bring memory down
- Can now open the passenger window
- Fixed issue with German route where puddles and AI would spawn too low creating a host of issues
- Fixed collisions and rendering issues with German roads and terrain
- Fixed Tree placement due to a rendering issue within Germany
- Rebuilt Germany to accomodate driving home
- Rebuilt CSFR to accomodate driving home
- Fixed CSFR collisions and rendering issues for roads and terrain
- Added road signs to CSFR Routes
- Fixed some rock rendering issues in CSFR routes
- Rebuild Hungary to accomodate driving home
- Rebuilt Hungary to fix ground rendering issues
- Added signage to Hungary
- Lowered Yugo ocean audio max distance
- Rebuilt Yugo to accomodate driving home
- Added signage to Yugo levels
- Fixed a missing dirt road collider in Bulgaria
- Fixed incorrect texture assigned in a Bulgarian road
- Fixed a misslabeled road from 'Default' to 'Ground' in Bulgaria (would have caused excess damage)
- Rebuilt Bulgaria to accomodate driving home
– Rebuilt Bulgaria to fix rendering issues
- Rebuilt Turk routes to fix rendering issues
- Added Turkey
- Added Istanbul
- Fixed floor label and tag issue for a house in Bulgaria
- Fixed rendering issues for Bulgarian HUB
- Fixed rendering issues for Bulgarian housing
- rewrote how street collisions are generated for hubs
- Fixed rendering issues for Hungarian housing
- Fixed rendering and collision issues for Hungarian HUB
- Fixed rendering and collision issues for Yugoslavia HUB
- Fixed rendering issue for Yugoslavian housing
– Fixed rendering issues for CSFR Hub
- Fixed rendering issues with German Hub
- Added cloth audio to Passport
- Replaced pickup audio for wallet to cloth
- Fixed issue with car keys not working in the ignition if the player tries to use wallet or passport on empty ignition
- Prevented weird issue with players being able to start the ignition without keys going into the ignition
- Fixed issue with text box tail rendering pink
- Fixed issue with missing UI prompts during tutorial
- Added error audio to trying to put items into a full boot
- Prevented keys, passport & wallet from being put into the boot
- Fixed transparent glow shader issue caused by the render rework
- Uncle will tell you where the keys are on first entering the car
- Engine components now correctly glow their drop off points when removed from the engine
- Upped wet weather tyre grip levels for off-road and slicks
- Reworked tyres so they grip better at lower speeds, this should stop the drifting and sliding issues and make the driving feel better overall
– Fixed rendering issues with Puddles and pot holes indtroduced when changing the renderer
- Fixed rendering issues with AI drivers introduced when changing the renderer
- Fixed issue with pause menu and map conflict where it could resume input whilst in pause menu
- Added Turkey main menu backdrop
- Added Turkish tradable goods
- Added thicker roof collisions to Motel to try and stop it raining indoors
- Changed 3 instances of "COFFEE PARTS" in newspapers to "COFFEE GOODS"
- Map will now force FOV to normal when picking it up in zoomed mode
- Fixed issue with starting tyres being awful in the rain
- Fixed environmental issues with Ger3-3_03
- Had to replace Uncle's jacket effect with different screen space texture (effect still remains)
- Increased Uncle walk speed
- Fixed collision issue with GER 2-2_03 - Fixed Laika Building ground rendering issues
- Prevented car sliding when stationary
- Fixed up some mesh alignment issues in CSFR
- riding through grass and dirt audio now slows correctly during pause menu
- Global Fog now changes colour based on time of day Build 0.812
- Petrol stations now spawn goods correctly - Petrol stations now spawn correctly when driving towards home
- Yugo, Bul, Turk floating signs at petrol station fixed
- Fixed Border crossing for driving towards home
- Fixed text issue for Bul Petrol Station Build 0.813
- Deadzone for pad input lowered from 0.5 to 0.25
- Pad input now needs to be enabled from either the pause menu or main menu (Hoping this fixes the virtual input conflicts some players are having)
- Increased UI pad control sensitivity from 5 to 8
- Fixed Ger Bridge barrier collisions
- Fixed invisible wall in Ger segment
- Fixed Ger Roundabout placements on return routes
- No longer heavy rains in Germany
- Lower chance for light rain in Germany
– Can now sleep at home
- fixed various sleeping auto save issues
- Fixed uncle sitting when driving off from home
- Fixed drive back precipitation & road conditions not generating according to correct country
- Changed how days are handled with sleeping, days now pass and are tracked throughout your journey Build 0.814
- Fixed road outside starting area tunnel applying damage to car
- Fixed exploit where players could drop the jack before tyre iron had finishing tightening tyre bolt, making the tyre iron stuck in player's hands
- Prevented return routes being selectable in home area
- Map destination pins for return routes now deactivate correctly when closing the map
- Ammended Scrapyard gates to prevent players from getting out of environment
- Fixed soft lock related to changing tyres
- Fixed issue where driving to a destination, sleeping, then attempting to drive back from the map would soft lock the game
- Fixed issue of being unable to drop items when using a repair kit till expenditure
- New Game should now reset days passed info
- Fixed a bunch of audio issues relating to the ignition of the car
- Fuel-o-meter now displays fuel level when the ignition is turned on, rather than the handbrake being released
- New audio for car ignition, and car engine off
- Fixed issue with engine off audio not playing when tapping the ignition
- Fixed issue with fuel level going below 0.0 causing issues with refueling - Splutter audio now plays when trying to start a car with no fuel
- Fixed fuel used by using ignition not working
- Various new Engine audios
- Engine sound changes now based on damage and fuel mix
- Fixed up some collision issues at Bulgarian
- Turkey border
- Balcony buildings should no longer spawn as such that their balcony will clip through the road in Bulgarian HUB
- Fixed environmental seam at Bulgaria
- Turkey border
- Fixed issue with route connection spawings
- Fixed environemental seams for Turkey 1-1 routes
- Fixed AI spawning incorrectly in Turkey
- Fixed Connector not spawing for Turkey routes to Istanbul Build 0.815
- Fixed Turkey Gate
- Fixed floating abandonned car goods
- Abandonned car now has 95% chance to spawn atleast one goodie (up from 50%)& 25% chance to spawn 2 goodies (up from 12.5%)
- Fixed some long standing abandonned car loot spawning issues, including a possible save corruption issue (This includes the x-files floating bucket issue) Build 0.816
- Balanced tyre prices to 20 for soft, 25 medium and 30 for hard (previously 50 for all)
- Lessened fog during Heavy Rain and Light rain
- Crowbar & Car Jack always spawn in shops
- Crowbar & Car Jack now available at Petrol Stations (Removed on accident when redesigning the petrol station)
- Bucket and Sponge now available at all markets"
Build 0.817
- Options menu font changed
- Options menu darkened, now more readable
- Added Credits
- Can no longer spam close main menu book
- USER MANUAL CHANGEs - Changed engine Maint page to use text mesh pro - Added Tyre Changes Page - Added Basic Operation with details on Refueling, maintenance & lubrication - Added Cleaning Page - Added Credits Page - Rebuilt Dashboard components page to fit visual style
- Fixed issued with CSFR return routes spawning incorrectly
- Sign contents now 'brighter' & more readable
- Fixed pad input saving
- Fixed road collision missing in Yugo HUB
Build 0.818
- Changed out font of Petrol stations, motels and markets to support Cyrillic alphabet - This may or may not have solved a crash for Dx9 users when entering Yugo motel -
Fixed issue with sleeping at Bul when travelling from Turkey where the player wouldn't wake up
- Fixed missing collisions for Bul Hub middle crash barrier
- Fixed another instance of Z-fighting on the wallet
- Fixed issue with being able to spawn turkish routes while waking up at Turkey
- Added missing windows at Dresden border checkpoint
- Fixed trigger zone on return to Dresden border checkpoint
- Fixed trigger zones for border checkpoint at Letenye
- Reduced Sea audio max distance and fall off
- Greatly reduced the distance of waterfall audio in yugoslavia
- Fixed floating sale signs in Hungary Petrol station
- Fixed issue with gate locking in players if they tried to pick up more than 3 items in the shop
- Fixed issue with driving home from Hungary misplacing routes
- Fixed another issue with days passed text
- Fixed issue with maps routes not reloading after sleeping from driving towards home
- Fixed text showing continue on when it was showing the head back screen - Reduced sea splash audios in Yugo routes
- Player now has exceptionally long reach when asked to pass the papers at border crossings (This is to prevent ever getting stuck at a border crossing)
- Fixed Sturuvo banned signs showing through environment
- Notice board can now be closed with esc or zoom
- Fixed pressing esc or zoon not closing credits
Build 0.819
- Fixed the spawning issues with Bulgaria and yugo
Build 0820
- Added remappable key inputs –
Input UI now updates correctly in the dialogue prompts, environmental UI, Steering UI and User Manual UI
- Added confirm option for selecting return home, restart and save and quit from the pause menu
- Art change for pause menu - Added reset to default option for remappable key inputs
- Returning home now adds a day correctly - Returning home now displays the correct town
- Fixed colour issue not changing on signs with more than 1 destination
- Fixed issue with drive back routes 2 & 3 in Hungary spawning a CSFR route at the end on distances of 420km
- Fixed incorrect signage in Turkey (Outside gas station)
- Fixed incorrect signage in Bulgaria (outside gas station)
- Fixed glowing bushes in Turkey
- Fixed road not spawning in Yugoslavia if you drive back from there
- Fixed driving towards berling days passed text not showing correct town the player is sleeping in - Fixed issue with page 4 of user manual being out of position
- Fixed issue with Medium off-road tyres being saved as road tyres
- Increased shop cash amount range from 50 - 500 to 200 – 600
- Added a tutorial prompt to tell players to drop items during door installation
- Changed naming conventions of Metallic paints to Pearlescent Tints
- Increased day cycle from 18 minutes to 23 minutes
- Built framework for indent radio audio
- Fixed Tool Rack spanner repairing tyres
- Added Tyre Repair Kits
- Notepad now gives descriptions for Tyre repair kits & engine repair kits (this system is intended to replace price markers on all items eventually)
- Added Turkey music tracks
- Can now repair the passenger door through the Extras components in the Laika Dealership manual
Build 0822
-Removed old pricing solution for Newspapers and paper cups, replaced with notepad functionality
- Fixed missing windows on Motels
- Fixed carpet visual issues on Motels
- Removed old pricing solution for all tradable goods and replaced with notepad functionality
- Changed design of speech bubble
- Replaced speech bubble tail with character name
Build 08232
-Various reports fixed from the google doc
- Fixed decals not appearing on passanger door replacement
- Fixed door spawning after purchasing it when it should be fitted to car
- Fixed other items not spawning after purchasing replacement door
- Fixed various text & spelling issues
- Fixed terrain missmatch between Turkey routes and Bulgaria border (most prominent on driving back)
- Fixed country code saying Istanbul when sleeping in Bulgaria after driving from Turkey
- Fixed Day UI not updating correctly in the Map
- Border Gate now closes behind player to prevent OoE
- Made fixed door mesh read/write enabled to stop it glitching out in-game
- Fixed border guards closing boot on search if you drove into checkpoint with it open
- Fixed falling through environment in Hungary (Letenye)
- Fixed missing comma in border guard text
- Fixed missing notice board on menu start
- Various reports fixed from the google doc
- Fixed decals not appearing on passanger door replacement
- Fixed door spawning after purchasing it when it should be fitted to car
- Fixed other items not spawning after purchasing replacement door
- Fixed various text & spelling issues
- Fixed terrain missmatch between Turkey routes and Bulgaria border (most prominent on driving back)
- Fixed country code saying Istanbul when sleeping in Bulgaria after driving from Turkey
- Fixed Day UI not updating correctly in the Map
- Border Gate now closes behind player to prevent OoE
- Made fixed door mesh read/write enabled to stop it glitching out in-game
- Fixed border guards closing boot on search if you drove into checkpoint with it open
- Fixed falling through environment in Hungary (Letenye)
- Fixed missing comma in border guard text
- Fixed missing notice board on menu start
Build 0824
- Fixed pad inputs for interacting broken by the remappable keyboard changes
- Moved pad input over to the new handling solution
- Fixed reset keybindings not working
- Fixed Decal & Upgrade ghosts remaining on the car when selling them
Build 0825
- Fixed a bug that prevented abandon cars from spawning loot
- Players now have a random license plate assigned to them upon first boot, these license plates are true to real world DDR license plate design and tell a backstory about your Laika
- Abandonned cars now have random license plate assigned to them. As above, these license plates are true to real world DDR plate design and tell a story of that broken down car.
- Fixed mouse input not working with pad input enabled - Removed some debug items at the home garage
As usual, if you come across any issues, do let us know!
Turkey Update Out on 9th June!
Hi everyone,
Just popping in to let everybody know that we can now confirm the public release date for the Turkey update: 9th June 2017.
Watch out for a much more detailed announcement next week, detailing all of the Turkey update’s features!
The Turkey Testing Branch Is Live!
Hello everyone! Today we have some great news for you, we’re going to be releasing a testing branch for the Turkey update. We intend to release the Turkey update in May but of course, no matter how much testing we put into the build, it cannot replicate the thousands of hours that the community can produce! So, we’re bound to miss a few things!
If you want to help us find those last few bugs then we’d greatly appreciate it. I’m going to tidy up the Steam Forums and introduce a new sub forum called the Turkey Bug Forum where players can report and post any issues that they have found with the testing branch.
Here is the link to the Testing forum for Jalopy... You must Own Jalopy to see and post in this forum:
At the bottom of this announcement will be directions on how to access this testing branch.
With this update, the gates to Turkey will open. I’ve decided not to post any screenshots of this particular map region, we’ll share some more details in due course along with a new trailer and music once we reach public release.
Additionally, this is the first iteration of travelling back home via driving. Previously you could only return home with a fast travel system, but now you will be able to select a route by clicking “Head back” on the map. You will still need to complete a route and stay in a hotel at each town, but you can now spend some time within the areas you enjoy driving and spend that time scavenging for loot and upgrading your car.
It's worth noting that there is now a Notice board that appears when launching the game. This is to communicate any changes that some players may not have seen us talk about in the announcements or discussion posts. Right now, there's an important note on how Pad inputs work. They are disabled by default because they seem to cause some control conflict issues when turned on with some PC Set ups. However, if you want to play with a Pad, just enter the options menu and toggle it to on!
There have also been a lot of fixes and additions that might go unnoticed but definitely just as important! The full changelog is below:
Build 0.811
- Fixed issue with shops banning the wrong goods in the mornings
- Fixed Bullbar dirt mesh issue
- Fixed issue with Yugoslavia border window rotating incorrectly
- Added the ability to drive back through countries, creating the full game loop as intended
- Built return route borders
- Added return border logic
- Re-did the banned goods signage art
- Removed a mesh combine utility to bring memory down
- Can now open the passenger window
- Fixed issue with German route where puddles and AI would spawn too low creating a host of issues
- Fixed collisions and rendering issues with German roads and terrain
- Fixed Tree placement due to a rendering issue within Germany
- Rebuilt Germany to accomodate driving home
- Rebuilt CSFR to accomodate driving home
- Fixed CSFR collisions and rendering issues for roads and terrain
- Added road signs to CSFR Routes
- Fixed some rock rendering issues in CSFR routes
- Rebuild Hungary to accomodate driving home
- Rebuilt Hungary to fix ground rendering issues
- Added signage to Hungary
- Lowered Yugo ocean audio max distance
- Rebuilt Yugo to accomodate driving home
- Added signage to Yugo levels
- Fixed a missing dirt road collider in Bulgaria
- Fixed incorrect texture assigned in a Bulgarian road
- Fixed a misslabeled road from 'Default' to 'Ground' in Bulgaria (would have caused excess damage)
- Rebuilt Bulgaria to accomodate driving home
– Rebuilt Bulgaria to fix rendering issues
- Rebuilt Turk routes to fix rendering issues
- Added Turkey
- Added Istanbul
- Fixed floor label and tag issue for a house in Bulgaria
- Fixed rendering issues for Bulgarian HUB
- Fixed rendering issues for Bulgarian housing
- rewrote how street collisions are generated for hubs
- Fixed rendering issues for Hungarian housing
- Fixed rendering and collision issues for Hungarian HUB
- Fixed rendering and collision issues for Yugoslavia HUB
- Fixed rendering issue for Yugoslavian housing
– Fixed rendering issues for CSFR Hub
- Fixed rendering issues with German Hub
- Added cloth audio to Passport
- Replaced pickup audio for wallet to cloth
- Fixed issue with car keys not working in the ignition if the player tries to use wallet or passport on empty ignition
- Prevented weird issue with players being able to start the ignition without keys going into the ignition
- Fixed issue with text box tail rendering pink
- Fixed issue with missing UI prompts during tutorial
- Added error audio to trying to put items into a full boot
- Prevented keys, passport & wallet from being put into the boot
- Fixed transparent glow shader issue caused by the render rework
- Uncle will tell you where the keys are on first entering the car
- Engine components now correctly glow their drop off points when removed from the engine
- Upped wet weather tyre grip levels for off-road and slicks
- Reworked tyres so they grip better at lower speeds, this should stop the drifting and sliding issues and make the driving feel better overall
– Fixed rendering issues with Puddles and pot holes indtroduced when changing the renderer
- Fixed rendering issues with AI drivers introduced when changing the renderer
- Fixed issue with pause menu and map conflict where it could resume input whilst in pause menu
- Added Turkey main menu backdrop
- Added Turkish tradable goods
- Added thicker roof collisions to Motel to try and stop it raining indoors
- Changed 3 instances of "COFFEE PARTS" in newspapers to "COFFEE GOODS"
- Map will now force FOV to normal when picking it up in zoomed mode
- Fixed issue with starting tyres being awful in the rain
- Fixed environmental issues with Ger3-3_03
- Had to replace Uncle's jacket effect with different screen space texture (effect still remains)
- Increased Uncle walk speed
- Fixed collision issue with GER 2-2_03 - Fixed Laika Building ground rendering issues
- Prevented car sliding when stationary
- Fixed up some mesh alignment issues in CSFR
- riding through grass and dirt audio now slows correctly during pause menu
- Global Fog now changes colour based on time of day Build 0.812
- Petrol stations now spawn goods correctly - Petrol stations now spawn correctly when driving towards home
- Yugo, Bul, Turk floating signs at petrol station fixed
- Fixed Border crossing for driving towards home
- Fixed text issue for Bul Petrol Station Build 0.813
- Deadzone for pad input lowered from 0.5 to 0.25
- Pad input now needs to be enabled from either the pause menu or main menu (Hoping this fixes the virtual input conflicts some players are having)
- Increased UI pad control sensitivity from 5 to 8
- Fixed Ger Bridge barrier collisions
- Fixed invisible wall in Ger segment
- Fixed Ger Roundabout placements on return routes
- No longer heavy rains in Germany
- Lower chance for light rain in Germany
– Can now sleep at home
- fixed various sleeping auto save issues
- Fixed uncle sitting when driving off from home
- Fixed drive back precipitation & road conditions not generating according to correct country
- Changed how days are handled with sleeping, days now pass and are tracked throughout your journey Build 0.814
- Fixed road outside starting area tunnel applying damage to car
- Fixed exploit where players could drop the jack before tyre iron had finishing tightening tyre bolt, making the tyre iron stuck in player's hands
- Prevented return routes being selectable in home area
- Map destination pins for return routes now deactivate correctly when closing the map
- Ammended Scrapyard gates to prevent players from getting out of environment
- Fixed soft lock related to changing tyres
- Fixed issue where driving to a destination, sleeping, then attempting to drive back from the map would soft lock the game
- Fixed issue of being unable to drop items when using a repair kit till expenditure
- New Game should now reset days passed info
- Fixed a bunch of audio issues relating to the ignition of the car
- Fuel-o-meter now displays fuel level when the ignition is turned on, rather than the handbrake being released
- New audio for car ignition, and car engine off
- Fixed issue with engine off audio not playing when tapping the ignition
- Fixed issue with fuel level going below 0.0 causing issues with refueling - Splutter audio now plays when trying to start a car with no fuel
- Fixed fuel used by using ignition not working
- Various new Egine audios
- Engine sound changes now based on damage and fuel mix
- Fixed up some collision issues at Bulgarian
- Turkey border
- Balcony buildings should no longer spawn as such that their balcony will clip through the road in Bulgarian HUB
- Fixed environmental seam at Bulgaria
- Turkey border
- Fixed issue with route connection spawings
- Fixed environemental seams for Turkey 1-1 routes
- Fixed AI spawning incorrectly in Turkey
- Fixed Connector not spawing for Turkey routes to Istanbul Build 0.815
- Fixed Turkey Gate
- Fixed floating abandonned car goods
- Abandonned car now has 95% chance to spawn atleast one goodie (up from 50%)& 25% chance to spawn 2 goodies (up from 12.5%)
- Fixed some long standing abandonned car loot spawning issues, including a possible save corruption issue (This includes the x-files floating bucket issue) Build 0.816
- Balanced tyre prices to 20 for soft, 25 medium and 30 for hard (previously 50 for all)
- Lessened fog during Heavy Rain and Light rain
- Crowbar & Car Jack always spawn in shops
- Crowbar & Car Jack now available at Petrol Stations (Removed on accident when redesigning the petrol station)
- Bucket and Sponge now available at all markets"
Build 0.817
- Options menu font changed
- Options menu darkened, now more readable
- Added Credits
- Can no longer spam close main menu book
- USER MANUAL CHANGEs - Changed engine Maint page to use text mesh pro - Added Tyre Changes Page - Added Basic Operation with details on Refueling, maintenance & lubrication - Added Cleaning Page - Added Credits Page - Rebuilt Dashboard components page to fit visual style
- Fixed issued with CSFR return routes spawning incorrectly
- Sign contents now 'brighter' & more readable
- Fixed pad input saving
- Fixed road collision missing in Yugo HUB
Build 0.818
- Changed out font of Petrol stations, motels and markets to support Cyrillic alphabet - This may or may not have solved a crash for Dx9 users when entering Yugo motel -
Fixed issue with sleeping at Bul when travelling from Turkey where the player wouldn't wake up
- Fixed missing collisions for Bul Hub middle crash barrier
- Fixed another instance of Z-fighting on the wallet
- Fixed issue with being able to spawn turkish routes while waking up at Turkey
- Added missing windows at Dresden border checkpoint
- Fixed trigger zone on return to Dresden border checkpoint
- Fixed trigger zones for border checkpoint at Letenye
- Reduced Sea audio max distance and fall off
- Greatly reduced the distance of waterfall audio in yugoslavia
- Fixed floating sale signs in Hungary Petrol station
- Fixed issue with gate locking in players if they tried to pick up more than 3 items in the shop
- Fixed issue with driving home from Hungary misplacing routes
- Fixed another issue with days passed text
- Fixed issue with maps routes not reloading after sleeping from driving towards home
- Fixed text showing continue on when it was showing the head back screen - Reduced sea splash audios in Yugo routes
- Player now has exceptionally long reach when asked to pass the papers at border crossings (This is to prevent ever getting stuck at a border crossing)
- Fixed Sturuvo banned signs showing through environment
- Notice board can now be closed with esc or zoom
- Fixed pressing esc or zoon not closing credits
Build 0.919
- Fixed the spawning issues with Bulgaria and yugo
Instructions to access the Turkey testing branch
We have performed some tests here and have found save data from previous builds should work in the public beta. However, we recommend that you back up save data from the games folder as there could be a chance that save data may be lost. Additionally, there may be some issues that you will encounter. Do let us know if you come across anything! Details on how to install the public beta are below:
1. Right click on Jalopy in your Steam library and select properties
2. A window will open up, click beta
3. Select Public Beta from the drop down menu
4. The game should now update, but Steam may need to restart if it does not download
Jalopy Will Be At EGX Rezzed
Hello everyone,
Chris here! I'm the Product Manager at Excalibur Games. Over the last few weeks Greg has been tackling a difficult Unity issue which looks like its approaching a resolution! We're still working towards the Turkey update and hope to reveal some more news and details within the coming weeks.
Greg shares his progress and inner thoughts openly on his tumblr blog.
http://minskworks.tumblr.com/
Greg, myself and several developers that work with Excalibur will be attending a gaming show this week in the UK called EGX Rezzed. Jalopy will be playable a the show and Greg will be at the show too. Feel free to pop over and say hi if you're attending.
Some details on the EGX Rezzed show can be found below:
https://www.egx.net/rezzed
Additionally, there will be several other developers at the show exhibiting their games. Excalibur will be bringing six games to the event and these include
http://store.steampowered.com/app/524250/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/546350/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/452920/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/390870/
There will also be a new game called Floatlands which will debut at the show
www.floatlands.net
Hope to see you at the show, and if you're not there. Have a great weekend whatever you plan on doing!
8th of March Update
Hello everyone, we’ve just prepared and made live a new update for Jalopy which addresses some balancing issues for items and stops a few of you from venturing into the unfinished realm of Turkey!
Build 0738 ChangeLog
- Fixed an exploit which allowed players to get into Turkey
- Boxes now have a 75% chance improvement to not being empty
- Boxes now have an additional 50% chance to contain an additional item
- Fixed an issue with not being able to pass your papers to the border guard in Yugoslavia
- Motels now increase in price throughout your journey
As usual, if you come across any issues, get in touch with us with as much information to replicate it.
Greg is working hard on the Turkey update as we speak and in the coming weeks we hope to have more news to share
Jalopy - Update 23rd February 2017
Hello everyone,
We have a new patch for Jalopy which has just been made live. This has fixed several issues where players would fall through the floor, however there is still one route in Bulgaria which has this issue, I’m going to be searching for this issue again tomorrow morning and we hope to resolve this soon!
Major additions include some changes to the loot system and additionally added guests to the Motel. But predominately a lot of time spent towards fixing some bugs!
If you come across any issues, do let us know via the forum or email us at support@excalibur-publishing.com
Build 0.736
- Fixed Yugoslavia road collision issue
Build 0.735
- Fixed up some AI issues in Germany
- Fixed issue with money in German Motels
Build 0.734
- Changed string from "can effect" to "The lower the condition of a component will affect how lucky you are in finding a replacement for that component."
- Crates can now spawn a random amount of goods (can be as low as 0)
- Price of Motels now increases throughout each country
- Motel price sign text now localised for that country
- Added Guests to Motel Rooms
- Guests can be interacted with by knocking on guest doors
- Added loose cash which can be distributed by guests wishing not to be disturbed
- Restored Mouse UI
- Fixed falling through the environment!
Build 0.733
- Reimported Keyboard UI references
- Reimported Faucet assets - Fixed GetTriangleStrips reference that may have been causing crashes
- Fixed texture issues with Market pillar
- Fixed cable reference issue with Markets
- Fixed cable reference issue with Petrol Stations
Build 0.732
- Fixed AI Speed around corners
- Fixed exploit with being able to climb out of the starting area
- Unable to reproduce the falling through environment issues at this current time. Could be a build issue or fixed in previous build, need further testing and more reproduction details to continue
- Fixed a load corruption issue due to the tyres on the car
- Added save corruption notification when it occurs (at start of game)
- Fixed issue with black screen on changing video options –
Fixed load resolution issue on video options
- Fixed hub loading issue that was causing players to start from the start again without their car keys
- Temporariliy removed Bulgarian font as it was causing a memory crash
Bulgaria Update Out Now! Tyres, New Cashier System, New Music and 33% off
Hello everyone,
Jalopy has just received a brand new update which brings with it some adjustments to tyre wear, new tyre types, more music tracks Bulgaria to explore and a selection of other changes and fixes. For just a brief look at some of the changes, you can watch the trailer for the Bulgaria route here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNqvW88vtwE
Those of you who want to know more about the changes, I’ll go into a lttle more detail below:
New Tyre System
Previously, players would need to just replace their tyres when they burst. Now, we have a selection of different conditions which affect tyre traction. If you’re driving in pouring rain, you’re going to want wet tyres, if you fancy off roading, you’re probably going to want to fit some off road tyres.
The tyres can be purchased from petrol stations and the Autershop at the end of each route and come in several variants including soft, medium and hard compound.
Soft Compound: Tyres wear at a faster rate but have an increased level of grip
Medium Compound: Tyres wear at an average rate and have an average level of grip
Hard compound: Tyres wear at a slower rate but they have a decreased level grip
Remember, your Laika 601 Deluxe can store two tyres in the trunk, but you can hold additional tyres with the officially licensed roof rack which can be found inside Laika Dealerships.
New Music
Jeremy has been at it again and has created two more tracks for Jalopy!
New Cashier system
When selling goods, you now may be alerted by the cashier that they can’t afford to buy what you are selling. When choosing a route, the cashiers on the route will spawn with a certain number of finances available to them, up to 300. We have seen some playthroughs where a lucky spawn for a crate of wine will give players a massive influx of cash which makes upgrading your car much more satisfying.
Bear in mind though, that while the cashier may not be able to afford the goods you want to sell with cash, you may be able to exchange it for any items in the shop. Make sure to place the goods you want to trade it for onto the counter first before placing the goods you want to sell.
Bulgaria
This is the penultimate location for Jalopy. It features large off road areas, winding roads and flooded off road tracks.
Greg is now at work on the Turkey route, which will be the final destination in Jalopy. Once that’s been added we will start looking at several other features including driving back home. More details will be shared in the coming weeks
To celebrate the new Bulgaria update, we have also put the game into a 33% off discount on Steam.
As always, thank you for the support, if you experience any issues, let us know in the forums or email us at support@excalibur-publishing.com
A full change Log is below
0.73
- Top speed and acceleration now capped correctly when pushing the car while engine is running
0.72
- Fixed wet tyre grip not being used in wet weather
0.71
- Fixed scale issues
– Fixed Letenye falling through environment issue
- Further increased tyre grips to better reflect legacy tyres
- fixed cursor menu issue
- skip tutorial added into main menu
0.653
- Halved the dry time for tyres after driving through puddles
- Increased all tyre grip values by 50%
- Can no longer repair tyres with repair kits
- damage to tyres caused by potholes now calculated at 25% of the previous implementation
- Fixed various initialisation reference issues which may have been causing crashes
- game now saves when using bed to sleep
- increased likelyhood for 1, 2 and 3 tyres to spawn on abandoned cars
- Always atleast 2 onroad tyres in shops and markets now Build 0.7
- Added new naming conventions to tool rack spanners
- Added two new music tracks by Jeremy
- Fixed continue game crash -Important fix means the large number of players experiencing the game crashing on loading the game after selecting continue from the main menu - Lowered how much RAM Jalopy requires
- Fixed various memory leaks - Optimised mesh data to be less demanding on Memory –
Added garbage collection on scene load - Moved radio music to stream from disc, rather than the compressed version hogging a lot of RAM
- Compressed music
- Dramatically shortened a 16 min long static looping audio... –
Fixed issue with windscreen damage not correcting when changing engine components
- Lowered the volume of the radio static
0.61
- Added Bulgaria
- Added Road Conditions
- Added Pot Holes
- Added oil spills
- Changed notepad font
- Fixed spray paint not working on roof
- Fixed being unable to interact with sun guard & ceiling light
- Shops now have a cash limit between 100 - 300
- Cashiers now animate to acknowledge your presence
- Cashiers now talk when out of cash
-Cashiers now talk when they don't want to buy something from you
-Completed all newspaper events (CSFR - Turkey)
- Fixed exploit where sold items falling out of the shop
- Fixed up the notepad UI
- Changed puddles to projectors rather than mesh
- Increased Heavy Rain Puddle size
- Optimised puddle loading
- Can now pick up items dropped into puddles
- Economy state now only generates at the start of your journey (Germany) and is saved & loaded throughout your journey. This is to prevent exploiting shops where now...
- Shops are open in the mornings
- Now save the layout of Hubs, so you're layout will spawn the same when loading
- Motel room you sleep in now saved and correctly loaded
- Fixed Yugoslavia crates spawning over fences
- Fixed Yugoslavia collision issue allowing players to get out of environment
- Fixed floating fences in Yugoslavia
- Added dynamic road conditioning for Bulgaria
- Reworked Tyres (details below)
- Added Wet Weather tyres
- Added Off-Road tyres
- Added soft, medium and hard tyre compounds (additional options for grip & wear rates)
- Lowered front and rear base grip levels for better car control
- Weather now effects wear rates differently depending on the compound you are using (e.g. wet weather tyres burn up quicker in the dry)
- Grip now correctly updates based on the tyre compound and terrain the tyre is driving over
- New visual effects for flat tyres of all compound types
- Can now purchase wet, off-road tyres in variety of different compounds from both the Outershop and Petrol Stations
- Petrol Stations & Outershops now have added signage
- Changed the way checks for cursor locking works which should hopefully fix the issues some players are having with their cursor not locking to centre
- Flat tyre now has a rolling audio to make it more apparent when you're driving with a flat
- Skidding audio now has some levels of dynamic adjustments to make it sound more tolerable
- Added new off-road rolling audio
0.641
- Prevented skid smoke generating on grass
- straightened tyre alignment
- lowered skid audio
0.642
- Fixed issue with font appearing through environment in Yugoslavia
- fixed some starting scene out of environment exploits
- Fixed shader issue with Bul_0-0_03 road
- halved skidding wear rates again
- Increased all base tyre grip levels by 10%
- Shortened map strings for Bulgaria
- Fixed collision issues for Bul_0-0_08
- Fixed stop off not spawning at Bul_0-0_06
- Fixed Bulgaria petrol station font appearing through environment
0.643
- Fixed loot spawning in abandoned cars falling through environment
- Fixed page turning issue with User Manual
- Fixed tyre spawning issue with abandoned cars
- Fixed issue with Uncle repeating tutorial dialogue when using the same car jack used in the tutorial
- after completing the tutorial - Uncle no longer repeats tyre tutorial dialogue
- Actually fixed puddles preventing players from picking items out of them
- Player no longer floats away from home storage if using it while holding items
- Fixed wallet floating away in Home Storage
- Fixed issue with moving items from home or crate inventories shaking the car
- Fixed issue with items placed in crates or home inventories adding weight to the car
- Fixed incorrect value used to calculate component weights when stored in the rear of the car
- Car's Trunk / Boot weight now affects rear grip as well as rear tyre wear
- Overall car weight now affects all tyre grip, the heavier the car the more traction it will have (car weight can be viewed in the user manual)
- Fixed 0 pricing issue caused by economy generation
0.644
- Can no longer drop tyre iron while removing tyres, which was causing tyre iron to get locked in hands unusable
- Fixed issue with tyre iron bolt not unhighlighting when hovering over the tyres - will make it much clearer when removing tyres
- Fixed red tube carburetor having constant spanner UI appear
- Fixed being able to drop the car jack while loosening wheel bolts
- Fixed potholes and puddles appearing sideways over railroads in CSFR
- Fixed AI pileup issue in Hungary
- Fixed electrical audio hum not playing near Petrol Station signage
0.645
- Fixed weird issues caused by economy State & hub Layout not deleting during new game
- Stealing & saving now removes all home storage and all items stored in them. CRIME DOES NOT PAY.
- Lowered joypad dead zone from 0.5 to 0.1
- Further increased tyre grip levels and additional 20%
0.6451
- Reverted input sensitivity changes
0.6452
-implemented saving and loading of tyres
-tyres will not return to axle when taking other tyres out of the boot below!
Public Beta - Bulgaria, Tyres and More
Hello everyone,
Today, we’re releasing a new build onto the Patch test area of Jalopy. In order to access it you’ll need to select the patch area from within Steam. Details on how to do this will be at the bottom of this post. It is important to note that this patch build is being released to help us track down any issues that we may have missed from internal testing.
Once this build hits as a full release I’ll share more details with screenshots and a full breakdown and explanation of any core changes. The major changes are below:
Tyres
We've introduced new types of tires including wet and off road tyres. These each have a soft, medium or hard compound. So if your cars grip is less than expected, chances are you’re going to need to replace the tyres.
Bulgaria
Twisty roads, hills and some other features await for you in this new route. It will be much tougher than before to reach Bulgaria due to the changes mentioned previously. But I hope you’ll enjoy the route when you get there!
The full change log for all internal builds is below.
0.61
- Added Bulgaria
- Added Road Conditions
- Added Pot Holes
- Added oil spills
- Changed notepad font
- Fixed spray paint not working on roof
- Fixed being unable to interact with sun guard & ceiling light
- Shops now have a cash limit between 100 - 300
- Cashiers now animate to acknowledge your presence
- Cashiers now talk when out of cash
-Cashiers now talk when they don't want to buy something from you
-Completed all newspaper events (CSFR - Turkey)
- Fixed exploit where sold items falling out of the shop
- Fixed up the notepad UI
- Changed puddles to projectors rather than mesh
- Increased Heavy Rain Puddle size
- Optimised puddle loading
- Can now pick up items dropped into puddles
- Economy state now only generates at the start of your journey (Germany) and is saved & loaded throughout your journey. This is to prevent exploiting shops where now...
- Shops are open in the mornings
- Now save the layout of Hubs, so you're layout will spawn the same when loading
- Motel room you sleep in now saved and correctly loaded
- Fixed Yugoslavia crates spawning over fences
- Fixed Yugoslavia collision issue allowing players to get out of environment
- Fixed floating fences in Yugoslavia
- Added dynamic road conditioning for Bulgaria
- Reworked Tyres (details below)
- Added Wet Weather tyres
- Added Off-Road tyres
- Added soft, medium and hard tyre compounds (additional options for grip & wear rates)
- Lowered front and rear base grip levels for better car control
- Weather now effects wear rates differently depending on the compound you are using (e.g. wet weather tyres burn up quicker in the dry)
- Grip now correctly updates based on the tyre compound and terrain the tyre is driving over
- New visual effects for flat tyres of all compound types
- Can now purchase wet, off-road tyres in variety of different compounds from both the Outershop and Petrol Stations
- Petrol Stations & Outershops now have added signage
- Changed the way checks for cursor locking works which should hopefully fix the issues some players are having with their cursor not locking to centre
- Flat tyre now has a rolling audio to make it more apparent when you're driving with a flat
- Skidding audio now has some levels of dynamic adjustments to make it sound more tolerable
- Added new off-road rolling audio
0.641
- Prevented skid smoke generating on grass
- straightened tyre alignment
- lowered skid audio
0.642
- Fixed issue with font appearing through environment in Yugoslavia
- fixed some starting scene out of environment exploits
- Fixed shader issue with Bul_0-0_03 road
- halved skidding wear rates again
- Increased all base tyre grip levels by 10%
- Shortened map strings for Bulgaria
- Fixed collision issues for Bul_0-0_08
- Fixed stop off not spawning at Bul_0-0_06
- Fixed Bulgaria petrol station font appearing through environment
0.643
- Fixed loot spawning in abandoned cars falling through environment
- Fixed page turning issue with User Manual
- Fixed tyre spawning issue with abandoned cars
- Fixed issue with Uncle repeating tutorial dialogue when using the same car jack used in the tutorial
- after completing the tutorial - Uncle no longer repeats tyre tutorial dialogue
- Actually fixed puddles preventing players from picking items out of them
- Player no longer floats away from home storage if using it while holding items
- Fixed wallet floating away in Home Storage
- Fixed issue with moving items from home or crate inventories shaking the car
- Fixed issue with items placed in crates or home inventories adding weight to the car
- Fixed incorrect value used to calculate component weights when stored in the rear of the car
- Car's Trunk / Boot weight now affects rear grip as well as rear tyre wear
- Overall car weight now affects all tyre grip, the heavier the car the more traction it will have (car weight can be viewed in the user manual)
- Fixed 0 pricing issue caused by economy generation
0.644
- Can no longer drop tyre iron while removing tyres, which was causing tyre iron to get locked in hands unusable
- Fixed issue with tyre iron bolt not unhighlighting when hovering over the tyres - will make it much clearer when removing tyres
- Fixed red tube carburetor having constant spanner UI appear
- Fixed being able to drop the car jack while loosening wheel bolts
- Fixed potholes and puddles appearing sideways over railroads in CSFR
- Fixed AI pileup issue in Hungary
- Fixed electrical audio hum not playing near Petrol Station signage
0.645
- Fixed weird issues caused by economy State & hub Layout not deleting during new game
- Stealing & saving now removes all home storage and all items stored in them. CRIME DOES NOT PAY.
- Lowered joypad dead zone from 0.5 to 0.1
- Further increased tyre grip levels and additional 20%
0.6451
- Reverted input sensitivity changes
0.6452
-implemented saving and loading of tyres
-tyres will not return to axle when taking other tyres out of the boot below!
Accessing the Public Beta
We have performed some tests here and have found save data from previous builds should work in the public beta. However, we recommend that you back up save data from the games folder as there could be a chance that save data may be lost. Additionally, there may be some issues that you will encounter. Do let us know if you come across anything! Details on how to install the public beta are below:
1. Right click on Jalopy in your Steam library and select properties
2. A window will open up, click beta
3. Select Public Beta from the drop down menu
4. The game should now update, but Steam may need to restart if it does not download
Jalopy Build 06203 Now Live (Rolling And Pushing)
Hello everyone,
The latest build of Jalopy (Build 06203) is now live. This build contains some slight improvements to the AI performance but also a couple of new features.
The images below are from the @JalopyGame twitter account. Make sure to follow as Greg posts a few teaser images and details on this account.
If you've somehow managed to topple your car over into a full roll, you'll now be able to salvage the car by rolling it back into the upright position. Simply click on the cars frame and you'll attempt to roll it back over.
Those who became stranded due to running out of fuel or neglecting general maintenance used to have to walk to the nearest petrol station. While you'll still need to try and get to the petrol station, at least you can now bring the car with you. Hop out of the car, click and hold on the steering wheel and push!
We noticed in the last build that some users are experiencing FPS drops. If this build has not increased the FPS for you, please do the following:
Go into the options menu and decrease the AI density
If this doesn't work, contact us at support@excalibur-publishing.com with your dxdiag and details on estimated frame rates and where you experience any drops
We'll do our very best to help anyone who contacts us on this, so any further info would allow us to work towards any fixes.
Changelog 06203
<*>Doubled timestep to improve physics performance (physics now ticks at 100fps rather than 200fps)
<*>Can now roll the car by clicking on the frame
<*>Can now push the car by clicking and holding on the steering wheel while outside of the drivers seat
<*>Cleaned up the car jack so it doesn't appear floating anymore[/list
Build 06202 Now Live
Hi everyone! Another small update today which fixes just a few issues.
Changelog 06202
Enabled lower timestep of 0.005 - This should remove the stutter effect when walking and looking at the same time -
Items should no longer drop through the floor
Fixed issue with leaking fuel draining based on current frame rate rather than time
Better cursor locking for both KBM & Pad inputs - should prevent cursor straying and should always lock after pause
Raised the deadzone for pads
Fixed gamepad reverse issue
Fixed crate spawning behind fence in CSFR Build 0.201
As always, if there are any issues, do let us know via email at support@excalibur-publishing.com or post in the forums.
