Friday, we introduced you to the Power Core system and gave a brief overview of the Active Power Cores that will be available to unlock when Turbo Golf Racing launches on August 4th. If you’ve not read that post yet, you can check it out here.
So let’s dive straight into the Passive Cores; all of which will be available for players to unlock on day one.
Passive Power Cores:
Passive Power Cores are ‘always on’ and you don’t need to worry about activating them mid-race. You can equip up to two Passive Cores in the available Power Core Sockets (one in each).
Passive Cores
[table] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Big Ball Increases the size of your ball - If you’re struggling with a regular-sized ball, GO LARGE! [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Curve Ball Adds more spin to your ball, making it travel with more of a curve – The perfect Power Core for tackling those tricky corners. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Small Ball Decreases the size of your ball – If you’re finding that a regular-sized ball is a bit to much to handle, drop down a size. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Spring Ball Increases the bounciness of your ball – This is the Power Core for players that like to bounce their ball down the fairway. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Straight and Steady Removes spin from your ball, making it travel straighter – If you find your shots are heading off-target, pop this Power Core in a socket. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Double Dash Allows the car to dash twice whilst airborne – The perfect Power Core for those who like to travel by air. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Hot Head Increases boost power, but depletes your boost bar faster – If Daft Punk made a Power Core it would be this one; use it to make it HARDER for opponents, BETTER for you as your car will be FASTER. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Sand Master Car will not be slowed by bunkers – If you find yourself always in the bunker and not on the fairway, use this Passive Power Core so you can maintain your speed in the sand. [/td] [/tr] [/table]
Experimenting with the different Power Cores is an important gameplay tactic to ensure you have the advantage on the course. With the right combination, you’ll be able to play to your strengths as a racer and sprint towards the finish flag. Which combination of Active and Passive Cores are you eyeing up?
More Power Cores will be added to Turbo Golf Racing in the future as free content updates, alongside new Seasons, cosmetic items, and even full courses.
See you on the starting line, Team Hugecalf
An Introduction to Power Cores Part 1
What’s up racers?
We can’t believe that Turbo Golf Racing is literally less than a week away from launching! The excitement here at Hugecalf is at maximum overdrive and we can’t wait to join you in-game on August 4th.
Ahead of next week’s launch, we wanted to give you a brief overview of the game’s Power Core system. It’s a key component to getting a competitive edge on your opponents on the fairway, as this allows you to customise your vehicle to suit your playstyle.
Types of Power Core:
There are two types of Power Core: Passive and Active. As the name suggests, Passive Cores are ‘always on’ and you don’t need to worry about activating them mid-race. Active Cores on the other hand need to be triggered during a race with a simple button press, and have a short cooldown before they can be used again.
Power Core Sockets:
Each vehicle is equipped with two Power Core Sockets that give players the freedom to mix-and-match Power Cores to suit their playstyle. The Power Socket permits the use of either Passive or Active Power Cores, while the Passive Socket will only accept Passive Power Cores.
Unlocking Power Cores:
Power Cores are unlocked by completing various challenges in-game. For example, to unlock the Hot Head Power Core, you must complete five online matches.
Active Power Cores:
Today, we’re going to cover just the three Active Power Cores and we’ll have a separate post tomorrow looking at the Passive Power Cores.
Active Cores
[table] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Magnet Magnetises the ball towards your car – The perfect Power Core for when you accidently overshoot the hole[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Quick Flip Performs a quick flip or roll to gain speed – Use this Power Core to avoid a rocket attack or to get a bit of a speed boost [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][/td] [td]Shock Creates a short-range shockwave which pushes your ball away from your car – Need to clear the rough in a hurry? This is the Power Core for you![/td] [/tr] [/table] Experimenting with different combinations of Power Cores is an important gameplay tactic to ensure you have the advantage on the course. With the right combination, you’ll be able to play to your strengths as a racer and sprint towards the finish flag.
More Power Cores will be added to Turbo Golf Racing in the future as free content updates, alongside new Seasons, cosmetic items, and even full courses.
In Sunday's post we’ll be looking at the Passive Power Cores.
See you on the starting line, Team Hugecalf
Beta 2 Update - A final pre-release surprise :)
What's up racers?
A huge thank you to everyone who took part in the Beta 2 online playtest during Steam Next Fest. We have now taken the online matchmaking down to work on making some improvements ahead of the 4 August release date. HOWEVER! We have some very good news to share. Due to popular demand, we will keep the offline portion of the beta running for another 2 weeks.
Your feedback has been extremely valuable to us, and it will continue to guide our decisions. If you would like to share bugs or feedback from Beta 2 with us, you can do so via Discord or our feedback form: Beta Feedback Form TGR Discord
Over 37,000 people took part in the Beta 2 during the last 10 days, and over 11 million oversized golf ball collisions took place. This makes us very excited for the release.
If you enjoyed the beta, please consider Wishlisting us!
Team Hugecalf
The TGR servers are down for maintenance between 9:00 and 12:00 BST
What's up!
There will be a period of temporary downtime on the matchmaking and TGR servers so we can provide a patch.
This is to address a few exploits and some small bugs. It's also in place to help familiarise ourselves with patching in a 'live' environment. Servers will be back online by 12:00 BST, ready for the final weekend of the TGR beta! You can still play solo mode while the servers are offline.
The servers will be down from 9:00 BST - 12:00 BST.
- Fixed some level exploits - Fixed a leaderboard bug - Addressed a chat panel bug
Be back soon, Team Hugecalf
Turbo Golf Racing - Questions and Answers
Whats Up Racers?
Over the past few days we have been collecting questions from the Turbo Golf Racing Discord community. We are going to be answering them while playing some online games of Turbo Golf Racing.
Want to beat the devs at their own game? Download the Demo now and jump in to online match making for a chance to race against us.
See you on the starting line, Team Hugecalf
Turbo Golf Racing - Race the devs!
Whats up racer?
Download the demo, start your engines and race against the Turbo Golf Racing developers right now!
We will be joining the public matchmaking for the next 2 hours, starting at 9pm BST. We will also be taking your questions from the chat, Discord and doing our very best to answer them! :)
See you on the starting line, Team Hugecalf
Early Access Release Date & Steam Next Fest
What's up racers? We've got 2 pieces of exciting news for you!
BETA 2 Start your engines because Beta 2 is available to play RIGHT NOW! To get involved, simply head to the Steam page and download the demo! The Beta will run for the duration of Steam Next Fest, it will end on Monday 20th June. Don’t miss out on the chance to unlock these sweet beta items!
For a full list of changes we have made since the first beta, be sure to check out out the patch notes.
LAUNCH DATE But that's not all! Turbo Golf Racing is launching into Steam Early Access on Thursday 4th August 2022!
That's right! From 4th August 2022, you can put the pedal to the metal, tear up the fairways, and race your friends to the finish line with absolutely no restrictions.
And incase you missed it, here is the brand new trailer revealed at the Future Games Show: Summer Showcase
See you on the starting line, Team Hugecalf
Future Games Show: Summer Showcase
What’s up Racers?
We have some BIG NEWS just around the bend.
On June 11th, as part of the Future Games Show: Summer Showcase, we will be revealing the Early Access release date for Turbo Golf Racing. But that's not all, there will be another exciting surprises in store for you.
Leading up to the event, we will be hosting countdowns across our social channels. During the FGS: Summer Showcase we will be hosting a watch party on our Discord server. Be sure to join us to stay in the loop.
Let’s go! Team Hugecalf
Play the Turbo Golf Racing Beta now!
Hello everyone!
The very first Turbo Golf Racing Beta is now live! It will run from 12:00 BST 28th April - 12:00 BST 2nd of May.
How to take part: Click on the Request Access button via the store page and the product “Turbo Golf Racing Playtest” will become available in your library.
Exclusive rewards: By taking part, you will unlock exclusive beta rewards which you can keep when we enter Early Access later this year.
Feedback or suggestions: Turbo Golf Racing is made by 12 people - we’re a small team which means we can respond quickly to your feedback. With your help, we can make TGR the game that you want to play. If you have feedback or suggestions, we'd love to hear them. The best place for this is the Steam Forums or on Discord.
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