Hello Pilots,
You’ve been waiting patiently for the next set of features to come out and today we bring you a monster of a release.
We start off with two features that have been highly requested - Offline mode and a Favorite System. Yes, you can now play the sim offline when you are traveling or don’t have an internet connection. You can also now put all of your favorite tracks in a single folder, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple menus in between races to find the track you want to race.
Next, we bring you a custom bot feature and bot improvements. For the custom bot feature, you can now race against any player you want from the leaderboard. You can build a field of up to 5 pilots to race against with the new “custom” option in solo race. For the bot improvements, we bring you a default of racing against DRL Racer 4 bots. In the past, you would get matched up against drones from all classes so we wanted to make the competition more even by default.
We are still going strong here with the features as we bring you an achievement system on Steam. You now have 15 achievements that you can earn. You will earn badges based on the achievements you earn.
We also bring you a new track called the Foundry Circuit on Boston Foundry.
The monster release would not be complete without one more major feature. It is our experience points system. You will earn a level over the course of all of your flying based on the tracks you fly (Each DRL track now shows XP and you earn more XP for multiplayer races). You will also earn streak points for every day when you fly 3 DRL tracks. No experience points system would be complete without a badge system, which is reset every week. You can find more details in the sim under “About XP.” Please note that this is in beta and will be adjusted on our next release based on findings. Since we are launching on a Thursday, the weekly ranking (with badges) will reset on Monday as Monday marks the start of the new week.
Please let us know your thoughts. We always appreciate your feedback and are thankful for the engaged community we have that always pushes us further to deliver the best sim we can.
DRL Sim 3.8
Key Features:
- Offline Mode
- Steam Achievements
- Experience Points (XP) (Beta)
- Favorite System
- Custom Bot feature
- Bot competition improvements
- Tournament system UI improvements
- Performance improvements
- Leaderboard filter by controller
Bug Fixes
- Raceline improvements
- Goldberg tuning
- Metal Gate 01 issues
- Intermittent missions crashing
- Banners appearing that shouldn’t
- Tabbing in and out of sim causes system slowdown
- Audio repeating on fast restart
- Tabbing in and out of sim causes system slowdown
- Extended automatic timeout (previously set to 10 minutes) to 15 minutes when flying
- Changed default in graphics settings to “Full Screen” instead of “Exclusive”
- Fixed map voting issues
- Missions bugs
- Quest 3 Mission 14
- Quest 3 Mission 18
- Tournament system bugs
- Brackets misaligned
- Audio stuck after race
- System exceptions
- Navigation unresponsive when going to next and then back
