Phantom Racing
v0.7.3 - Leveling!
v0.7.1 Arrived with huge improvements!
Changelog
- An issue was fixed, where some people could not see each other if they are in different countries, where the "," and the "." both used differently as seperator of decimal numbers.
- The ChatBox Paddock UI was reworked
- Some Issues in Team Management, Equipment Selection have been fixed
- TeamChat was added
- Local Chat History was added
- Time trial has been added to the Create Race Menu
- Paddock Selection was added to the ChatBox in the bottom left
- An Image for the Race Arena has been added
- Some buttons in the Paddock were updated visually and now toggle the respective window instead of only opening it
Notes for this Update
The Team-Chat can be accessed in the Teamchat Tab. The Team-Chat is private to your Team. Only Staff can read the Chat to check for suspicous behavior and special support cases
The History will now be saved locally. You still receive messages when you are in the race and they will be displayed once you join back to a paddock. All Paddocks share the same Paddock Chat to allow cross-communication
Time Trials have unlimited laps, start with no timer on the beginning, is Solo only & starts on the last corner of the track
Phantom Racing Roadmap 2024
This is our Roadmap for the Year 2024.
The Things in the Pool will be added all over the year continuously without having a specific goal. Its possible that some of these things come way before the planned times, we set the deadlines so we can almost guarantee the feature on that deadline.
Race Arena Update
The Race Arena is a place where you can drive for placing on the top 3 to receive a special jacket with a duration of 2h. The Race Arena resets each hour and changes the track.
Wish you best of luck in winning one of these jackets!
v0.5.3 - Bug Fixes & new Minimap Type
Different MiniMap Types
Settings:
Rotating Type:
TopDown Type:
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Settings screen size & refresh rate text are now displayed correctly
- Minimap had sometimes colors on the road. This issue is now fixed.
- Team Invites are now able to be accepted
- Team Promote, Demote, Kick & Leave is now working correctly
- Race Invitation Popup is now properly showing up
- The Car of a player is now removed from the Race when leaving the Game or returning to the Paddock
- The Create Race Menu showed every other player in the Paddock as "Player01". This issue is now fixed and shows the correct player name
- server stability is now a bit better
- laps selection was changed from 1,3,6,12,15,20,25,30 -> 1,3,10,15,20,25,30
- laps selection dropdown menu has now an increased height so the scrollbar is invisible for people who often plays on higher amount of laps
- Race Arena preperations in the Paddock an in the Backend
Next Major Update
The next major Update will add a new Race Arena. Some parts of it can be already seen in the Paddock but are disabled until it is fully completed. More on that in a seperate Information Post.
Leaderboards are back!
We are aware of the Bugs with the Team Management where you can't accept a Team Invitation.
Hotfix 0.5.1
- Clothes will show again for other players
Migration Update v0.5.0
We was working on the Migration and some other preperations for the next big Update. Since we are forced to migrate all accounts, its better to have it up front so in the meantime you can create your account again. In this Update are mostly invisible Changes you will probably not notice. We have also added a new Board where you can see the basic controls if you are new to the game.
Whats Planned for the next big Update?
We have lots of plans for the next big Update. At the top of the priority list are the long-term features such as leveling system, divisions/rankings to see who is the real fastest driver of all. There will be also some Clothes you can buy on a Shop to not look like a complete beginner ;)
The Clothes can be bought with ingame currency, that you obtain by just driving. There will be more options to receive those currency/currencies. And last but not least are some graphic improvements. A brand new Design that will look amazing. You probably saw already some screenshots. There are more on our discord ;)
For now there is no ETA on the Update since we want to make sure that it will be amazing!
What is the "Migration"?
As a part of this Update we was forced to move to our own in-house solution to save & handle the Accounts. The previous Solution had some problems with scaling and was generally too limited. This is the last account deletion as we now have full control over accounts and can copy them over in case we want to switch later on.
But now for the good news: Your Clothes are saved! In case you won any cosmetics, you can claim them again on your new account by contacting our support on the discord.
Community Event
Everyone who creates an Account until 15.03.2023 will receive a unique Community Jacket!
It will be automatically equipped but you can equip the beginner Jacket if you prefer that by clicking on your name.
Current Progress Information #2
It's a long time ago since our last official Information on Steam. While we are still informing players on the official discord, we sometimes miss that the Steam Community should also know what is currently going on. So i will break down everything relevant.
FAQ
We are now starting a Q&A. You can ask any question you have about the project, the future and other Game related stuff. You can write your Questions in Discord in the specific Q&A Channel or directly under this Post. Multiple Questions are also allowed. In the next Week I will Post here on Steam all the Questions & Answers so you can read through it.
What are we currently working on
We are working on a very big migration for the version 0.5.0 which includes a lot of stuff like shops to buy clothes, level system to progress while driving, a huge new backend system (which requires all player accounts to be resetted) and other optimizations such as performance, UI and QoL Things. This will take some more time but its closer than you think. There is no release date yet but it could be there in a month.
Some sneak peeks:
Thanks everyone for the patience, hope to see you soon again :)
» Blu - Phantom Racing Team
Current Progress Information #1
We would like to share our current State with you so you have some insights if you are not on our Discord to stay informed about what is currently going on with the Game.
As you have seen, the first days we had deployed some hotfixes to fix some bugs that occured for some players. That mainly aimed for players with low-end Devices so we have added a menu to change the graphics a bit to make the game playable even on very low-end devices without requiring to buy a new pc.
since then there is not much happend and i am going to explain that a bit more now. We have read through all comments, reviews, feedback ingame and the feedback and bug reports on our Discord server and we see that there is currently nothing that holds players to the game, usually called "Grinding". We will aim at that point and we will make things rewarding.
So for example we have planned a free2play Cosmetic Shop where you can buy clothes that you have earned through races and proceed with your global level the more you drive. This is something we are working on in the background along some other small improvements to make the game more user-friendly. We would like to introduce some more guides directly integrated into the game. e.g. how to drive, how drifting works (just basics, you should find it out yourself ;) ) and how you can use the clothes.
Unfortunately we had not that much time to work multiple hours per day on the game. This will change in the next month so we appreciate your patience. We dont know exactly, when we can update things, since we would like to test it clearly so it doesnt add big bugs or game-breaking things.
Thanks everyone! Hope to see you soon on the Tracks :)
» Blu - Phantom Racing Team