Wreckfest | Winterfest Update Now Available

[Paul Jeffrey]

Bugbear Entertainment have released a new build of Wreckfest - adding the Winter Fest Tournament, a new car and some game fixes - yay!

• Winter Fest now available.
• Starbeast SS car added.
• Various game fixes.

Yes all you fanciers of closer than close contact, build update time for Wreckfest is upon us again - and this time around we've got a nice new tournament and a fresh car with which to enjoy all the track action.

With this new early January build the development team behind the criminally underrated Wreckfest title have deployed a nice mix of new content and game improvements, with some very pleasing fixes deployed around both the audio and gameplay features such as damage occurrences and other more minor improvements and fixes.

Check out the update notes below!

Update Notes:

PC:1.269477
PS4: 1.90
XB1: 1.9.0.0

TOURNAMENT

• New tournament season: Winter Fest.
• New free tournament reward car: Starbeast SS.
• The DLC promotional screen is only shown once per session for each respective DLC.

SYSTEM

• (PC) Fixed an issue which caused DualShock and DualSense controllers to not function correctly.
• (XB1) Online features now work correctly after disconnecting the controller before the initial interactive screen.
• (PS4) Game no longer freezes after signing out of PlayStation™Network while in a multiplayer lobby.

GAMEPLAY

• Improved Speedie handling and engine to make it more competitive.
• Small special vehicles no longer take excessive damage even from small shunts.
• Rammer and Roadcutter AI Player setups are now more appropriate for their respective classes.
• The rear spoiler of the Nexus RS "BB Racing" bundle is now parented correctly to the trunk lid.
• Exhausts no longer get distorted after deforming.
• Roof decorations no longer deform wildly.
• Fixed Boomer RS taillight cover glitch.

AUDIO

• Rebel Rat engine audio now plays correctly.
• Fixed an issue with Stellar where clicks in sound would occur when idling in neutral gear.
• Cockpit view audio now includes more low and mid range frequencies.
• Audience sound effects are no longer played during loading screens.
• In the settings, the "Interface Sound Effects" now changes volume of UI sounds independent from the "Effects" volume.
• In the settings, the "Ambiance" volume control now affects all track-side sound sources.

Original Source: Bugbear Entertainment

Wreckfest is available now - get off the AC Spa public lobby, go get the game and actually and crash into someone who wants contact!

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[RasmusP]

Yeah I think it needs to detect the wheel to show the correct config...

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

@RasmusP

720 degrees in logi-profiler. It all feels spot on.

 

[Robin_NL]

I just bought Wreckfest last saturday and I LOVE it. Wat a blast.

The Winter Tournaments with snow tracks: Are they available as a mod or something?
To use in the Custom races?

Cheers Robin

 

[ShredatorFIN]

I just bought Wreckfest last saturday and I LOVE it. Wat a blast.

The Winter Tournaments with snow tracks: Are they available as a mod or something?
To use in the Custom races?

Cheers Robin

It was official mod by developer Janne Suur-Näkki, used to work in all tracks. But for some reason they pulled it from Steam Workshop. Now it made a re-appearance in Tournament Mode. But the mod is gone

I don't understand why they just don't allow it in Custom races as permament condition change, Summer/winter toggle, similarly to Time of day. I've tried to request the feature on forums and Discord multiple times, getting no reaction

If it's good enough for Tournament mode, it's good enough for Custom races. Afaik, it's a fairly simple texture replacement and grip reduction, so it would work in all tracks. The mod used to.

Dunno, the snow tracks feel more like "sim" and man-handling the cars becomes actually really interesting. Almost as if in the main game there's slightly too much grip. Almost as if that's the main thing that tends to make it feel "simcade", the amount of grip. Not the other physics so much, they are quite ok actually

 

[Robin_NL]

It was official mod by developer Janne Suur-Näkki, used to work in all tracks. But for some reason they pulled it from Steam Workshop. Now it made a re-appearance in Tournament Mode. But the mod is gone

I don't understand why they just don't allow it in Custom races as permament condition change, Summer/winter toggle, similarly to Time of day. I've tried to request the feature on forums and Discord multiple times, getting no reaction

If it's good enough for Tournament mode, it's good enough for Custom races. Afaik, it's a fairly simple texture replacement and grip reduction, so it would work in all tracks. The mod used to.

Dunno, the snow tracks feel more like "sim" and man-handling the cars becomes actually really interesting. Almost as if in the main game there's slightly too much grip. Almost as if that's the main thing that tends to make it feel "simcade", the amount of grip. Not the other physics so much, they are quite ok actually

Thanks for the info man. Greatly appreciated. And all what you are a stating: A big +1.
And yes the snow track is more sim to me. I'd just like a bit less grip on the normal tracks.
Braking distances are also 'too short'. But I love this simcade. It's so addictive.

Cheers
Robin

 

[Robin_NL]

@ShredatorFIN in Steam Wreckfest workshop I found a snow track mod by F-Bomb and it seems to work. 5 tracks/different layouts.


Less grip and traction but the 'official' snow tracks in Tournaments are more slippy and more snowy (visually) than these modded ones. You will find the tracks separately all the way to the right in the track selection.

There is also a short snow track modded bij Jokis(?) overthere.

We just need LESS grip and traction.

Boulder Bank Main Route. Feeling like Vatanen

Cheers
Robin