- Our planned release date for the race update will be this Satuday on October 9th . This has been one of the longest ones in making so far, so let’s get into it and take a look at what we’ve been doing all this time! First of all, a lot of new race tracks are getting added. You’ve seen teasers of the drag race and the start areas for the upcoming races here so far, but in total there are 6 new tracks getting added. This is what their layouts will look like: 1. Stunt Park Race . An entirely new circuit that goes all the way through the stunt park. It goes across various jumps, ramps and half loops:
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. 2. Island Circuit . The classic route across the outer edges of the island, for high-speed races with laps:
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. 3. Around the World . The longest race in the game. This spans several kilometers and covers enormous parts of the map, for the ultimate race going start to end:
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. 4. Mountain Circuit . A brand new track that takes place where the old mountain road used to be. This has been turned into an oval-like track that you can race laps on:
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. 5. Ocean Sprint . This takes you down the mountain, all the way across the ocean and back. First to make it back to the start wins:
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. 6. Drag race . Goes from start to finish on the Runway, with 4 different length variants to choose from. Ranging from quarter mile to the entire length of the runway: (PS, The water and hill effects are just in the render) (edited)
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. Significant map adjustments are also getting added to support some of these tracks. Including the larger/reworked mountain-top road and the new layout for stunt park. This is what they will look like in the update:
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. A major new feature that gets added this update is Race Classes . This will be a rating tied to each car which determines how good it it is at racing, accounting for factors like top speed, acceleration, handling and braking. The rating will be on a scale from 0 to 100 and it determines what class the car is in. With this, you can vote to restrict a race to a certain class (Like if you don’t want X cars to be used), and you’ll be able to use an entirely new selection of cars: (Below examples are before upgrades are applied)
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. We’ve also completely reworked the menu that you use for entering races. It’ll be a full-screen interface with camera/music effects overviewing the track, as well directional paths on the ground in-game to see where you need to go. There’s some new options and an updated process for starting the races which works like this: 1. When you enter the race you get to vote on settings just like before, such as how many laps to use and the maximum allowed race class 2. You will also be able to vote on which track to use in case multiple are available. Like with the 4 runway lengths for the Drag Race. 3. If you want more players, you can invite anyone in the server directly to join the race (If they allow invites in the settings) 4. When enough people are ready, everyone gets to select their car based on the race class that was chosen, and then the race starts
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. As you can see in the above image, there will also be credit prizes to win. These increase based on how many players join, but there’s not just going to be that in terms of prize rewards. Every now and then the server is going to host a large “Race Competition”: - Race competitions have extra large prize rewards with both money and credits. The prize for 1st place will be even bigger than the energy core escape reward. - Everyone who chooses to join gets a reward, but it will be higher based on the final placement - The server determines what settings to use, and restricts the race class depending on the available cars among the server - A race competition will happen every other competition event (One regular competition and then a race competition) That should sum up the contents of this update pretty well! We’re not turning Car Crushers 2 into a racing game by any means, but this is meant to give new and fresh things you can do with your cars while you’re not crushing them. It will be a brand new way to earn money and credits and there’s ton of upgradability options to customize your vehicles for the different race classes. On the topic of vehicles, stay tuned for the new vehicles which will be revealed here later!