Released New Features Showcase | Menu improvements & New Settings

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  1. KW Studios

    KW Studios Official Information Developer

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    Check out this video of the new menu that is coming in the upcoming patch.


    Here is a small summary of the bigger changes that will be included in the next patch!

    Bye bye Green Orb
    The much-hated green orb has been finally completely removed from the game and the game icons! Upon starting the game, you will be sent directly into the RaceRoom Experience menu!

    New Sound Settings
    You can now adjust the volume for all the sound effects in the game. We have more sliders now so you can find your own balance. This is where to go if you want to lower the suspension squeeks effects, should you find them too high pitched and distracting.

    Visible Cars option
    In preparation for featuring bigger fields of cars, we have already implemented the visible cars feature, where you can control how many cars you want rendered around you. This is an alpha feature, which means 52 cars grids are not yet supported!

    Experience Switcher
    You can see the experience switcher at work in the video, this will allow you to switch seemlessly between Experiences from anywhere in the main menus.

    Optimisations
    We have worked hard on some back-end optimisations that will make the menu navigation much more responsive. Loading times are also shorter after this patch. Please note that the first time the track loads, it takes longer as the game needs to cache the shaders, which also means that every time visual settings are changed the cache will need to be rebuilt.
     
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  2. Dave R

    Dave R Well-Known Member

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    Everything looks so much sleeker and I love the switcher as well. I figure with the loading optimisation and the experience switcher I can run 1.5 extra races per day
     
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  3. Ocaso Dorado

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    Crossing my fingers that the loading time take less...
    :grinning:
     
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  4. Ryan Callan

    Ryan Callan Well-Known Member

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    The experience switcher looks so slick! Doubt I'll use it practically here, but might just switch it on and off for the cool of it!
     
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  5. F_FLETCHER

    F_FLETCHER Active Member

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    :hearteyes: Wow!!! When comes the patch, next week on thursday???

    I can't wait and I hope after the patch my screen is not black. ;)
     
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  6. Skybird

    Skybird Well-Known Member

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    Definitely the better way for doing menus. Good!
     
  7. Mue

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    nice
     
  8. Sean Lander

    Sean Lander Well-Known Member

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    Fantastic. I was spending more time in the menus than I was on the track!
     
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  9. Rodger Davies

    Rodger Davies Well-Known Member

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    Glad to see these being refreshed - unlike many other studios throughout gaming, Sector 3 seem open to admitting mistakes and working to constantly improve upon them, so that's much appreciated.
     
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  10. jilt

    jilt Well-Known Member

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    OMG 52 cars on the grid in an online race coming soon!

    I am going to faint now........
     
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  11. James Cook

    James Cook Well-Known Member

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    With Aline at the back....
     
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  12. D.Boon

    D.Boon Well-Known Member

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    Serious question, with a future grid expansion to 52 cars and presumably a host of other game changing improvements already in the pipe lines, are we going to see changes to the minimum system requirements required to play R3E at it's best?
     
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  13. Jona777

    Jona777 Well-Known Member

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    I dont think Miss Aline will be allowed in/get the pasword of much Dedicated servers :kissingheart:
     
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  14. ::SKRO::

    ::SKRO:: Well-Known Member

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    And don't forget to race in "close" communities where the banhammer will swiftly crush all the A. Senna wanna be pilot. FOR ODIN!
     
  15. Seb S15

    Seb S15 Well-Known Member

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    Hi Sector3 the team,
    a very good job was done it seems ...:)
    highly patch !!!
    thank you ;)
     
  16. KRi2

    KRi2 New Member

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    When connecting to a server, and after every stuff is loaded, why do i need to click? "Press any key to begin"
    Why am I not instantly in the pit?
     
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  17. le_poilu

    le_poilu Well-Known Member

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    Oh oh what a great question!