2024-05-05 07:52:50
(Motorsport-Total.com) – As announced a few days before, EA and Codemasters have announced on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 EA Sports WRC released the update to version 1.8.0. This means that all gamers who own a virtual reality headset supported by the game can now experience the gaming experience a little more intensively than before with the PC version.
With the PC version you can now also experience the VR implementation
But even without VR, the update is worth it, because the developers have made many revisions, most of which fall under classic bug fixing.
The complete official German-language overview of changes provides an overview of the respective areas and individual measures, so that EA Sports WRC players who have previously been bothered by certain problems can quickly find out whether these have been fixed with the current update.
EA Sports WRC – V1.8.0-Changelog:
Important fixes
-Added the “Retreat to Next Service Area” option in Clubs. Players receive a nominal amount of time for each stage they do not complete.
-Fixed a bug in Clubs that prevented players from receiving penalties for exceeding the service area repair time limit.
-Fixed an issue on PC and PS5 that could cause frame rates to drop when playing on Fanatec hardware.
12 new UDP telemetry channels have been added.
Crash fixes
-Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash on PC when pressing Alt+F4 while selecting a paint job.
Audio
-Crowd sound has been adjusted to increase excitement at the start of a stage.
Career
-Fixed an issue that caused players to be relegated to last place if they used up all available restarts.
Dare
-Citroen
Clubs
-Added “Retreat to Next Service Area” option. Players receive a nominal amount of time for each stage they do not complete.
-Fixed a bug that prevented players from receiving penalties for exceeding the service area repair time limit.
Players who fail to complete a stage (due to forfeiting or being disqualified) will now appear on the in-game club leaderboard.
-Players who fail to complete a stage (due to forfeiting or being disqualified) will now appear on the club leaderboard on Racenet.
Graphics and performance
-Fixed an issue that caused leaves to appear inside the car after driving through it.
-Snow effects have been improved.
-Chile – Made some performance optimizations to Laub to improve framerate.
-Estonia – Added more PSO shaders to reduce stuttering on PC.
-Finland – Added more PSO shaders to reduce stuttering on PC.
-Monte Carlo – Added more PSO shaders to reduce stuttering on PC.
-Sweden – Added more PSO shaders to reduce stuttering on PC.
-Kenya – Fixed some issues on various stages with extreme screen tearing.
-Mediterraneo – Some changes have been made to improve frame rates.
Input devices
-Fixed an issue on PC and PS5 that could cause frame rates to drop when playing on Fanatec hardware.
Locations
-Central Europe – Fixed an issue that caused some trees to not have collision physics.
-Central Europe – Made some minor fixes to flooring.
-Kenya – Kingono – Fixed an issue where a shakedown would not end after crossing the finish line (this issue has also been fixed on other stages of the game).
-Monte Carlo – Fixed an issue that caused gravel physics to be used instead of asphalt physics in some corners.
-Oceania – Waiwera – Fixed an issue that could cause players to collide with an invisible object.
-Oceania – Tahekeroa – Fixed an issue that could cause players to collide with an invisible object.
-Oceania – Noakes Hill – Fixed an issue that could cause players to collide with an invisible object.
-Oceania – Orewa – Fixed an issue that could cause players to collide with an invisible object.
-Sardinia – Rena Majore – Fixed a curve cutting exploit on a sharp hairpin.
-Sardinia – Monte Olia – Fixed a curve cutting exploit on a sharp hairpin.
-Sardinia – Littichedda – Fixed a curve cutting exploit on a sharp hairpin.
-Sardinia – Li Pinnenti – Fixed a curve cutting exploit on a sharp hairpin.
-Sardinia – Malti – Fixed a curve cutting exploit on a sharp hairpin.
Moments
-Fixed a UI issue that prevented lower XP amounts for achieved Moments from being highlighted.
-Fixed a UI issue in the descriptions [driver name]-Placeholder texts were displayed.
-Underdog (Stage 3) – Fixed an issue that caused the environment to sometimes not render correctly.
User interface and HUD
-Changed the behavior of the “Reset to Track” option in the pause menu to remove an exploit. Resets via the pause menu are now only possible at speeds below 10 mph.
-Fixed an issue in the Spanish version that caused the descriptions for “Community Content” and “Passenger Announcement Type” to be incorrect.
various
-The list of contributors has been updated.
#V1.8.0 #brings #Beta #improvements