Compatibility Notes

Open Beta Patch 1 Changelog

Campaign Mode

• [p]Added Headquarters Level - You can now grow your company's headquarters to increase various capacities in terms juggling more engineering projects, R&D, marketing, and handling logistics. All for a monthly cost and upgrade cost, and with the downside of becoming less nimble. [/p][/*]
• [p]Added Headquarters AddOns - HQ Addons give your company various benefits like baseline R&D, quicker engineering, or reduced material costs. All for a cost: build cost, running cost, and taking up precious logistics points.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added Company Logistics - Your company has a certain capacity to handle the logistics of running factories. Factories and HQ addons use logistics points to run. The more factories and addons you have, the less supply chain efficiency you get. Upgrading your HQ gives you more logistics points to use.[/p][/*]
• [p]Implemented the ability to sell factories from the factory manager[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved functionality and layout of the campaign top bar[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved main hub UI with more direct access to important information[/p][/*]
• [p]New car project UI flow to make it more straightforward and intuitive[/p][/*]
• [p]Added tutorial texts throughout the new car project flow[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved display of tech levels and tech data on R&D screen[/p][/*]
• [p]Added new car body unlock design "tech" which is driven by the design studio HQ AddOn[/p][/*]
• [p]Added a financial transactions list panel to finances tab[/p][/*]
• [p]Expanded and improved regulations overview panel[/p][/*]
• [p]Removed R&D lab costs, now part of the HQ costs[/p][/*]
• [p]Changed default alignment of engineering projects to always start right away[/p][/*]
• [p]Removed minimum shifts sliders from factories, now always minimum 0.5[/p][/*]
• [p]Increased effective factory sizes in terms of efficiency making multiple trims[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved logic for engine production alignment with car production[/p][/*]
• [p]New and improved campaign settings in advanced campaign setup[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved difficulty score multiplier scaling with starting year[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved and rebalanced market volatility options for campaign setup[/p][/*]
• [p]Tweaked economic class designation of various demographics[/p][/*]
• [p]Doubled the effective strength of marketing on awareness[/p][/*]
• [p]Significantly increased competitor awareness for their company size[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed negative techpool campaign settings not working for engines[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed outsourcing factories to not have higher pricing with more variants[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tech not unlocking on the right month when facelifting[/p][/*]
• [p]Updated and improved campaign welcome texts[/p][/*]

Gameplay Changes

• [p]Tweaked bonus drivability factor from electric variable power steering[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved how affordability is affected by car running costs[/p][/*]
• [p]Tweaked comfort base values for suspension types to make it less design dependent[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed fuel availability penalty calculations for lower octane fuels[/p][/*]
• [p]Changed how low-stat penalties work in desirability calculations, now use market stat averages[/p][/*]
• [p]Added various stat dependencies to both wheels and driver assists quality sliders[/p][/*]
• [p]Increased springs material costs, ET, and PU to balance their new quality progression[/p][/*]
• [p]Tweaked (lowered) strength of body type effect on practicality[/p][/*]
• [p]Increased safety gain with positive chassis quality[/p][/*]
• [p]Increased chassis quality and suspension quality effect on comfort stat[/p][/*]
• [p]Increased effect of qualities (chassis, suspension, brakes, driver assists) on sportiness[/p][/*]
• [p]Implement New Demographic "Offroad Sport", got rid of "Delivery"[/p][/*]
• [p]Added aero quality, undertray, and active aero dependency to comfort stat[/p][/*]
• [p]Implemented body type bonuses and penalties for various stats[/p][/*]

Engine Art & Car Bodies

• [p]Added new bodies grm_caravel_75[/p][/*]
• [p]Added two families of van/truck bodies, unlock in '66 and '86[/p][/*]
• [p]Added new carburetor visual models[/p][/*]
• [p]Added 9 new tail light families[/p][/*]
• [p]A massive amount of fixes and improvements to exhaust headers[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed piping issues with compound turbo pipes intersecting with the engine[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed various issues with 72_eu family of bodies[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed submerged text on intake manifold twin V 60deg[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed numerous car bodies with missing camera bounds[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed weird piping on twincharged V16[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed various belt configurations, avoid running through themselves[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed intake not despawning selecting variable intake and twin charger[/p][/*]
• [p]Tweaked lighting to reduce bloom on white objects in various design rooms[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed V12 twincharged setup issues with intersecting pipes[/p][/*]

General Fixes & Improvements

• [p]Fixed 'calling static mesh on static mesh component but mobility is static' error on play[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed sandbox new car/engine prompt ignoring selected company[/p][/*]
• [p]Added fixture depth for 2D fixtures[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a memory leak and resulting crash[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed engine orientation changes not resulting in exhaust headers changing meshes[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed being able to access car if engine doesn't fit after adjusting stroke / bore[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed gearbox location not updating after changing engine size[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed thumbnail generation for small cars with more appropriate FoV choice[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed fixtures teleporting when opening car from main menu to photoscene[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed engine designer not resetting properly after leaving[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed AWD Viscous, OnDemand, Helical all have same engineering time & weights[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Advanced Boost twincharging supercharger not working correctly[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed superchargers not having production units or material costs[/p][/*]
• [p]Added a keybind option for part familiarity mode hotkey[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed quality comparison tooltip sometimes choosing the wrong engine family[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed non-mirrored extra wheel fixtures showing mirrored on initial load of car[/p][/*]
• [p]Added standard parameters to car clay paint, like car paint[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed error caused by missing HQ data to in sandbox code[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed issues with track sim acceleration calculations[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed issue with start / finish line and sector time line offsets on Narnilla track[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed test track simulation speed not going below 1 properly[/p][/*]

UI Improvements

• [p]Made all engineering times in tooltips and calculations consider familiarity[/p][/*]
• [p]Added display in demographics tooltip for body type penalties[/p][/*]
• [p]Added running costs breakdown to detailed stats[/p][/*]
• [p]Added rename prompt for cloning engines / cars[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed wrong icons being used for demographic special stats[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed R&D UI to be able to better handle negative techpool[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved clarity of car and engine manager UI[/p][/*]
• [p]Combined chassis type and chassis material into one section for clarity[/p][/*]

Car & Engine AI

• [p]Much improved, higher desirability competitor cars[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved AI to pick better engine configurations and capacities[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved car generation AI's optimization of car handling algorithm[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed car generation AI not applying tech pool to engine variants[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed brake pad choice not working right in AI car generation[/p][/*]

BeamNG Exporter

• [p]Fixed distant fixtures causing wide chassis in Beam[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed softbody export having no proper collision between cars[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved how the weight distribution slider impacts beam exports[/p][/*]

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