Posted January 13, 2023 by Oskiek
#update
The long awaited Alpha 0.2 version is finally here! It features plenty of changes and improvements, which all make the game more playable, more beautiful and more fun! Here are some of the most important changes (full list at the end of the post).
The UI rework also brought translations! Now you can play the game in one of a few languages. Special thanks to my friends, who did the translations :)
Languages included are:
If you want to translate the game to your language, feel free to contact me!
In this version of the game, hosting a multiplayer game was made much easier! Now the game will automatically open ports (if possible), so your friends can easily join you. After you're done playing, the ports will be closed again.
But not only that, now you can invite your friends to play with you via Discord! When you start the game, in Discord you'll see an option to send an invite to your friends. It looks something like this:
Remember how weird was the car behavior in the previous version? How easy it was to roll it over? Now it's no longer a thing!
In this update, the car is much more stable. Besides, it will no longer try to turn the opposite direction, if you were turning already! This allows introducing yet another great feature, that is...
Now you can drift your Dacia (totally legally) by holding handbrake! You may ask "but how come? Didn't handbrake just stop the car?". You'd be correct, it DID, but no longer does. In this version, brakes have been reworked, to more closely resemble their real-life counterparts. Additionally, grip system was added to the game - now depending on what surface are you driving on, your car will behave differently. On snow it will slide more, on clean asphalt it will handle like a dream.
The physics rework also allowed to introduce gearbox! Now you can choose between 3 various gearbox modes:
This version also features new admin settings window. There you can easily start various game modes or modify some of their rules etc. (for example, change Carball match duration or team names).
You can also change the environment settings like weather or time. Wait, what? Weather and time?
You can modify the weather and time of the day! You can either have clear or snowy weather, and play during the day or during the night! More settings will be coming in future updates!
If you've watched the Dacia Driving Simulator Carball Tournament November 2022 (ik, that's a long name), quite likely you've noticed the scoreboard. It has made it's way into the game! Now the score is displayed in a much better and more organized way.
An important change is also the ball cam being fixed! In the previous versions, it could glitch out and get weird. This is no longer the case, now it will focus at the ball and let you play in peace!
Last improvement to Carball is the ball trail being colored! The color of the trail depends on which team has hit the ball last.
Yes, now you don't have to randomly click around your screen to do stuff, restart the game to get back to menu or use Alt+F4 to exit.
Now everything has been organized into a nice and simple pause menu, available under the ESC key.
Note: pause doesn't actually stop the game, since it's multiplayer, and you cannot really pause a multiplayer game.
As you've read, this update changes a lot. I hope you'll like the changes and enjoy playing the new version!
Here's the full list of changes:
For the next update, I plan to focus more on the content, for example adding new textures or maps to drive around.
When will it come out though? I don't want to give any promise. A lot is planned, so stay tuned!