RELEASE DATE: 7 MARCH 2025

GENERAL

• Added Circuit of the Americas - GP and National layouts

• Added  Donington Park Circuit - GP and National layouts

• Added  Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo Evoluzione

• Added  Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA

• Added  Lotus Exige V6 Cup

• Added  Honda NSX-R (92R)

• Added  Maserati GT2

• Added  Mazda Miata (MX-5) NA

• Added  Porsche 911 Turbo 3.6 (964)

• The Gameplay has been altered so players can play in Career or Open mode

• Career mode will be the previous progression mode without any backend dependency on gameplay flow

• In Open mode, the dealership is an open source of cars for customizing and adding them to the player's local garage. There is no limitation to access and customization options

• Open mode also persists on locally customized and saved cars

• The "All Cars" button in Open mode car selection allows quick selection of all cars in-game, also moving them into the garage if the player would like a customized example

• Initial startup prompts the player to create a profile and select the desired mode. After that, they can switch between the modes at any time

• Please note that Special Events still require an online connection

PHYSICS

• Re-enabled fuel and battery consumption

• Re-enabled gearbox damage

• Lambo and Lancia car data fixes and tweaks

• Fixed electronics setup settings not transferring to the track

• Work on the dynamic track physics-graphics relation and updates

• Handling and setup updates to the Camaro ZL1 and ZL1 1LE variant

• Fixed gear shift audio event for automatic gearbox

UI

• Added  input filters to vehicles UI pages to listen to appropriate functions on each given page

• Fix for flickering caused by the thumbnail creation on a car purchase

• The controls page now has an input poll, solving the UI input filtering.

• Controls page cancel button

• Fixed in-session controller navigation issues

• Fixes to controller navigation and focus in showroom controls

• Localization updates for all languages

• Added soft configuration to the controls page so it responds without applying

• Car customization: reject rim design on pending design mismatch (fixing entry duplication)

• Fixed Fuji track preview images gone missing in some cases

• Video settings tooltips

• Fixed invalid laps being displayed as best lap in timetables

• Fixed a VRAM leak caused by the UI engine, causing degraded performance over time

• Fixed issues with input devices not being sent to the UI and other input-related woes

• Slider - keyboard/controller control for dual handle sliders

• Game mode – toggle-button height adjustment, start position slider visibility correction

• Forced UI confirm and cancel to On Release to simplify input binding

• Fixed the car flickering on the radar

• UI: paint shop - mismatch protection for rim selection due to unresponsive game client

• Race weekend and grid customization are enabled

• Replay gallery enabled

• New weather preset icons

• Car thumbnails updated capture scene with contact shadows and adjusted spacing

• Showroom: fixed dash display turning off when customizing rims/parts on a car

• Pitstop timer on HUD

• Implemented car setup load/save/delete

• Improvements to the radar widget

• Added black curtains on transitions

• The car controls widget has been added to the Main Menu

• Track selection maintained between game modes (when possible)

• Fixed predicted/delta finish line spikes

GAMEPLAY

• Added  Open/Career modes

• Career mode flow is now independent of the backend connection

• Added  "remove vehicle" functionality in Open Mode Garage

• New Custom Grid logic and page with car categories - ICE, EV, hybrid, and Performance Index (PI)

• Several fixes in pit limiter usage and acceleration/braking

• Fixed special event starting time going forward, with the time spent in the menu

• Removed randomization of the grid on session load

• Fixed bug in track limits causing AI opponent to drive zig-zag lines

• Improved pitlane exit spline -> ideal line transitions

• Fixed end-of-session timers

• Ideal line: changed the coloring to be more helpful for inexperienced drivers

• Fixed Suzuka East using the wrong pitlane spline

• Fixed Suzuka East track limits through T1

• Crowd density depending on the session: in order: practice, warm-up, qualify, race

• Improved OEM opponent car color randomization on the grid

• The black-orange flag now resets on restarting a session

• Adjusted timelines for BH, MP, Fuji, Suzuka according to real-life finish lines

• Improved pitbox visibility, now reflecting status with the hologram color

• Improved automatic wiper speed levels, now better adjusting to the actual amount of rain on the windshield

AI

• The Quickrace/Race Weekend UI offers improved control over the AI setup, including a range slider for the general AI skill used to select the driver opponents.

• As preparation, we introduced the "Opponents Behavior" control, replacing the "Aggressiveness" sliders from previous titles. Currently, only the default "Safe" behavior is selectable, which is the known algorithm and behavior with fairly safe settings.

• Fixed AI cars being teleported to the pit at the end of the session

• Fixed a bug where the AI could be dragged into the pit exit zones

• Fixed offset bug on pitlane spline, causing AI drivers to not center the pitlane

• AI drivers have improved wall awareness in pitlanes now

• AI cars will not ignore cars standing (i.e. on the grid)

• Fixed cooldown for AI behind the player

• Pitlane spline exits are now merged into the ideal line at runtime, reducing violent steering

• Pitlane spline entries are now forked from the ideal line at runtime, reducing violent steering

• Increased precision, especially for the tendency to cut corners

• Updated all car and track base information and fine-tuning

• Fix for immobilized AI cars when restarting the session

• Fixed AI cars taking too long as the race starts

• Fixed AI cars braking too late for the pit entry

• Fixed AI cars revving through pit stops

• Improved AI race start behavior

• Improved braking calculation

GRAPHICS

ENHANCEMENTS

• Returned all current weather settings for all tracks, resulting in a less foggy overall look, better horizons, and dawns

• Tree material enhancements

• Mirrors rendering now shows opponents' shadow decals

• Car dirt effects enabled

• Fuji visual updates

• Brands Hatch visual updates

• Suzuka visual updates

• Mt Panorama visual updates

• Tweaked the visual ride height of several cars

• Adjusted VW Golf 8 rim offsets

• Global VRAM optimization

• Updated Ferrari 296 GTB and Audi RS 3 dash display

• Adjusted simple car mirror capture areas

• Light stage now auto-opens popup lights

• Wiper vignette effect is now a gradual effect per rain intensity

• Enhanced Filmic AA options - improves visuals for objects with sky backgrounds, such as trees and wires

• Texture streaming priority (to prioritize certain environment textures, such as Fuji Mountain, to always load first)

• Sun shadowing on directional shadows and smooth fog-based volumetric booster

• Auto-disabling of the mirror in multi-mode now respects which side the driver is on (with the center-positioned driver, no mirror is disabled by default)

• V-sync now ignores the gameplay frame limiter

• Switching to VR or triple screen mode no longer disables DLSS

• Improved shadow culling heuristic at dawn and sunset

• Removed the ideal line from the mirror rendering

• Removed jittering from non-MSAA filmic pass

• Dash display, emissive, auto-adjustment to take into consideration overcast conditions

• Column-mounted shifter paddles are  hidden when the steering wheel is hidden

• Tweaked visual tyre flex effect

VR

• Added VR TV camera set

• Mirror capture mode now defaults to "dynamic" in VR

• Runtime changes of video settings

• Enhanced reflections

• Added DLSS 

• New grass type (global)

• Fixed black glitch at the horizon

• Idle-screensaver sequence disabled in VR

TRIPLE RENDERING

• Fixed clustering issues caused by the addition of the "mono view on triple" feature

• Added DLSS capabilities

• Reworked world matrix calculations to resolve positional issues

• Fixed volumetrics day-night transition

• Fixed shadows popping

• Fixed marshall animation

• Fixed black glitch at the horizon

OPTIMIZATIONS

• Optimized z-prepass

• Optimized mirrors and cubemap rendering

• Optimized loading times 

• Reduced VRAM usage after loading

• Optimized global illumination memory footprint

• Optimized tiled culling

• UI platform and VRAM usage optimizations

• Main menu UI textures are now compressed and sometimes shrunk, 10x texture memory save

• Dash display textures now compressed, approximately 50% texture memory save

FIXES

• Fix for diagonal line on the UI pages in VR and triples

• Fix for marshals occasionally becoming frozen

• Fixed blurred shader functions (tyre, rim, disc) not working in reverse

• Fixed stuttering during gameplay

• Fixed undercar fake shadow disappearing above a certain number of opponents

• Fixed the previous car's reflection image visible on disabled mirrors

• Fixed the dancing clouds issue

• Fixed sss denoise unshadowing factor

• Fixed hero shadow resolution with experimental shadow

• Fixed replay shadow for focused car

• Fix the rims jittering with DLSS

• Fix for dynamic thumbnail inconsistency depending on sky type in the source showroom scene

• Car and windshield dirt and damage states are reset on return to pits - bodywork dirt resets only on session restart

• Fixed for internal raindrops going sideways on rear windows

• TV cameras are now paused when the game or the replay are paused

• Fixed AMD glitches

• Improved the shadow of drivable internal cameras 

AUDIO

• Fixed the ABS indicator sound on the Lancia

• Restored the old default audio device when the audio has fallback to another device

• Removed ramp volumes on the audio changing options

• Improved backfire logic

• General fixes on volume and distance

• Bodywork is muted when teleporting

• Fading on scene loaded, and player teleport

• New sounds for Lancia Delta HF Integrale EVO II

• Doppler effect for some audio events

• Increased volume distance for turbo sound on exterior cameras

• Better distance scale and audio positioning for opponents

• Opponent volume for turbo and backfire