R3E has been updated

[Sonat Ozturk]

08-10-2014

What’s New (Summary)

New Features
- Test Drive. Test any car for free.
- Time of Day. Choose different time of day settings from sunrise to sunset to change the mood of your session.
- Wheel Range in Car Setup. The game now automatically detects and sets the ideal wheel range for a car based on your wheel and its settings in the driver. This can also be manually changed in car setup.

New Content:
- WTCC Seat Leon
- WTCC Chevrolet Cruze
- WTCC Lada Granta
- WTCC BMW E90 320
- WTCC Honda Civic


Game
- Fixed an issue where the grid positions were not based on qualifying performance of the drivers when doing Single Race without Qualifying.
- Fixed an issue where the player would get stuck with an “Already in a competition” message when entering a competition, backing out of it from car/livery selection menu and then trying to enter another competition.
- Fixed an issue where user could not change the value in brake vibration under FFB settings.
- Fixed an issue where during rolling start on Zandvoort, AI would finish their first lap when crossing the start line.
- Added code to automatically set wheel range and steering lock if the steering wheel supports it.
- Added steering setup screen under Car setup.
- Added so the user can override default wheel range and steering lock on a per car basis.
- Enabled Car setup for everyone (goes directly to steering setup if in novice or amateur)
- Removed steering lock from Control Set (Since it's now stored per car if the user override the default value).
- Decreased font size on car setup steeppers if the text doesn't fit
- Fixed issue with timing screen scroll position
- Fixed issue with steering wheel spinning by itself in race monitor.
- Updated localisation.
- Fixed so that the default control sets now show up in the menus if 1 of the devices that it's using have been connected.


Multiplayer
- Added livery id checks when clients join MP servers as opposed to just checking whether the user owns the content or not.

AI & Audio & Physics & Controllers & Camera
- Increased AI type grip on all cars.
- Tweaked AI speed in Hungaroring.
- Tweaked Suzuka Get Real AI speed.
- Corrected front right spring strength and spring rates of Audi R8 Lms Ultra GTM.

Art
- Updated Monza with new road shader, optimizations for performance and ffb.
- Updated Hungaroring with new road shader, optimizations for performance and ffb.
- Updated Suzuka with new road shader, optimizations for performance and ffb.


Portal
- Removed Dashboard.
- Newsfeed is now under My Profile.
- Changed the look and feel of the portal store page and portal menus.
- Added News & deals section.
- Implemented Test Drive.
- Implemented Time of day support.
- Various optimizations in the backend.
- Fixed so that the big livery image is properly centered.
- Made the default livery clickable again for a larger image.
- Fixed a scaling issue on images that appeared in favourite cars.
- Fixed alignment issues on popups about required content to join an event.
- Added Resend Activation Email Functionality when user tries to login with an account that is not yet activated.

 

[James Cook]

Agree, a bit too harsh at times...especially when I seem to get bumped off track.

I got a drive-through for taking to the run-off area to avoid a spun car in front of me.

 

[Sean Kenney]

I got a drive-through for taking to the run-off area to avoid a spun car in front of me.

lol.

I know that sort of stuff is hard to code, I am sure it will improve.

 

[James Cook]

lol.

I know that sort of stuff is hard to code, I am sure it will improve.

I appreciate that. Hopefully we get different levels of cut-track rules available for offline racing.

 

[Sonat Ozturk]

Yes, you will get 3 levels of cut-track rules to choose from in SP. Currently we're running what we call "standard" which is not great. In the future you'll be able to select between arcade/casual/expert.

Or maybe even more as we might revise the cut-track rules some time soon.

 

[maxel]

I noticed that the engine sound of the Honda Civic WTCC is a bit louder on the left than on the right side.(using Stereo Headphones)
And sometimes while driving, the volume on the right side goes up for a moment. It is kind of confusing.Not sure if the problem is on my side, has anyone experienced the same and can confirm this?

 

[Emilio]

Need to test it... I'll let you know! ;-)

 

[Niall Fitzpatrick]

I noticed that the engine sound of the Honda Civic WTCC is a bit louder on the left than on the right side.(using Stereo Headphones)
And sometimes while driving, the volume on the right side goes up for a moment. It is kind of confusing.Not sure if the problem is on my side, has anyone experienced the same and can confirm this?

Yep I've noticed that too and thought it was my computer. Seems its not just me then

 

[Bryan O'Connor]

Have they fixed the Logitech wheels yet? PITA with no ffb. My driving is bad enough as it is

 

[Ernie]

Have they fixed the Logitech wheels yet? PITA with no ffb. My driving is bad enough as it is

AFAIK there is a chance that a hotfix for Logitech wheels will released today.

 

[maxel]

Yep I've noticed that too and thought it was my computer. Seems its not just me then

Ok there seems to be something wrong then. I checked it again today and it happens when i'm off throttle slowing down at lower revs the engine sound gets louder on the right side for a second.

 

[Emilio]

I tested out yesterday but I don't have this issue... weird!

 

[theravenousbeast]

I got a drive-through for taking to the run-off area to avoid a spun car in front of me.

Try braking to an almost complete halt when taking to the run-off to avoid stuff. Do it so that you lose just about a second of time. I've never gotten a DT when doing so.

 

[Peter]

https://www.facebook.com/Sector3studio

- Fixed a force feedback loss issue with Logitech steering wheels.
- Fixed rearview camera clipping on Honda Civic by changing ride height.
- Tweaked Honda civic default car setup to compensate the ride height change.
- Corrected rideheight on WTCC cars.
- Tweaked AI on Hungaroring.
- Added WTCC 2013 driver avatars.
- Fixed an issue with update profile functionality that was causing login processing error for some users.
- Fixed an issue where user was not returning to the individual content after exiting test drive.
- Fixed an issue with leaderboard updater sometimes skipping updated leaderboard entries.