The "VR IS BACK!" Update

General

• Added launch option to run the game with either DirectX11 or DirectX12. We aren’t great at math, but assumed 12 was better than 11.
  
• Fixed frame rate dependency during wall grinding. You can now consistently grate your face there.
  
• Reduced frame rate dependency on wall bouncing.
  
• Frame rate limit is now correctly applied on game start.
  
• Adjusted field of view on third person camera modes to match its original value.
  
• Ghost barriers are no joke! We made sure one of them on Floating Falls was alive and kicking.
  
• Fixed issues with DLCs being sometimes not recognized.
  
• Crashing ship on a boss portal frame no longer teleports the ship ahead on the track.
  
• Added more friends to the credits.
  

Multiplayer

• Fixed multiplayer crash for clients when a host quits from the race while clients are viewing their race time.
  
• Players no longer get dragged into post-race track cameras right after the host has finished the race.
  
• Fixed an issue with hosts not being able to change gamemode after failing to join a lobby via matchmaking.
  

Leaderboards

• Cleaned up leaderboards from nasty cheaters.
  

UI

• Restart option in the pause menu is no longer enlarged after the first restart. We swear we didn’t click any suspicious ads!
  
• After a restart, the selected row in options in the pause menu wasn’t properly highlighted. Painted it yellow. Yellow is nice.
  
• Fullscreen mode couldn’t have been applied from options in the pause menu. Now it can.
  

Visuals

• Fixed portal particles being weirdly truncated.
  
• Silosed silos on Cairo - Calima. Now it’s siloser. Silos are nice.
  
• Reduced opaqueness of some track pieces on Europa. Transparency is less nice.
  
• Removed strange orange light flickering on the ship on almost every part of Neptune tracks. Orange is really not nice.
  
• Turned the lights on on P-AR219. Party time’s over!
  
• Lightened up pitch-black underground areas in Rotorua. Or, you now have night vision. We don’t know exactly.
  
• On some parts of the outside sections of Rotorua, sunlight was very dim. Removed local solar eclipse. Enjoy sunbathing, don’t forget the sunscreen.
  

VR

• Enabled again!
  
• Ported VR accessibility for Oculus Rift to the newest version.
  
• Fixed a glitched background that was occasionally displayed during loading screens.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the host to be unable to move during online multiplayer.
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing the lobby menu to disappear after an online race.
  

Known Issues

• Credits scroll down in non-constant speed.
  
• When playing on VR, UI elements related to opponents can be displayed twice on screen
  

General

• Improved Epic Games account linking feature. You can now manage it in the game options.
  (Note: switching versions from legacy VR Edition [vredition branch] to current update on Steam disables the link. To restore it, link the account again).
  
• Fixed rare game crashes.
  

UI

• External ship HUD is now restored correctly on retrying or restarting events after being eliminated.
  
• Re-introduced host and player count in main menu on Steam and host count only on Epic Games.
  
• You can no longer enter online menu while being offline.
  
• Position tracker on SRRL ships sometimes could’ve gone haywire after crashing on portal rims. Not anymore.
  
• Fixed minor issues with options in the pause menu.
  

Visuals

• Fixed boss portals appearing as a black, endless void. Now you can see through them.
  
• Fixed some track surface textures on Abruzzo.
  
• Improved fog behavior on Europa. Now it’s foggier!
  
• Fixed disappearing sky on PArty Rock-219’s moon. SRRL swears it’s not a hologram.
  
• Improved lighting on Rotorua.
  
• Minor lighting improvements on all other environments.
  

NEW FEATURES && IMPORTANT UPDATES

• Multiplayer mode now allows you to play with Epic Game Store users as well
  
• We updated the entire game to Unreal Engine 4.27
  
• Well, the game is also much cheaper now!
  

GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

• Adjusted a flyzone on Europe, good luck finding which one exactly
  
• Adjested a bunch of visual indicators for the kill grid
  
• Fixed an issue with EMP and your basic boost, now it's less basic
  
• We repaired the repair drone
  
• Added an option to disable the kinetic lines
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented you to change control mode in real time
  
• Fixed a respawn issue on Giant Red and something fishy with portals there
  
• Fixed about 30 bugs from the previous version
  
• Added a friend in the game credits
  

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