Hello, drivers! Hope you are all having a great weekend and are hopefully enjoying the demo of Karting Superstars! We are so excited to share that the game will release on [b]Early Access this September 13th[/b]. We are very excited to work with this community during Early Access to make Karting Superstars the absolute best it can be. For those interested in our design intentions and vision, we wanted to share some of the detailed novelties found on Karting Superstars. Here are a few of the biggest aspects we’ve focused on so far: - A new perspective: Karting Superstars is a third person camera game. We’ve retained the fantastic pacing, close competition and close connection to the vehicles that we created in Circuit Superstars, but now with a much closer view of the action and increased sense of speed. This paired up with karting makes for a completely new experience that we’re very excited to bring to the hands of racers. This new perspective also means we’ve adjusted the physics significantly, and expanded the racetracks to complete painting the picture of where they are located, and changed up the way our audio works. - A new art direction, with beautifully crafted karts and drivers to take your customized looks to new heights. - Improved rendering: We’re pushing the artistic vision we’ve had for the world of motorsport to create more beautiful and present worlds you love to be on. - Animated drivers: of course, karting needs more than floating heads, so we’ve focused on making a fantastic looking system for the drivers to animate with the kart, and we can’t wait to expand on it with new mechanics that take advantage of this new feature, such as ‘Human DRS’ which we haven’t yet added to the game. - Expanded liveries: with drivers on top of the karts, this also means that your livery is now composed of the kart + your race suit! We hope you enjoy making beautiful combinations that take advantage of the new possibilities, and now all karts, race suits and helmets support up to four colours. - AI: we’re improving the way the AI races, making them more aware of other drivers as well as the track limits. These two make up for a much more fair and exciting racing experience. We’re going to have for the first time in our games the possibility to customize the driver difficulty directly, from a range of 0 all the way up to 120. We don’t think humans can beat past 105, but feel free to try! - Adaptive AI: Also known as rubberbanding, we’ve added it, but we want you to choose how much you want it! We think it can enhance the racing experience for many novice and experts alike, so we hope you try it out and find what you prefer on your own. - Custom AI drivers: A way to mod the drivers and create your own fantasy races. This is done via modifying a file included with the game, which means you can share those files or obtain them from other players. We can’t wait to see what you create with this since it is the first time we add a modding possibility to our games. - Kartcade: A new single player format that includes challenges during races for an added layer of excitement. Challenges get refilled once you complete each one, so you can try and complete as many on each race as you can. Once the race finishes, your race result, challenges and difficulty get compounded to estimate your Karcade score, which helps you unlock new customization items. - Free camera in replays: We know many players love to take pictures in the games they play, so we’ve worked on making sure you have ways to capture the action in the way you envision. We still can improve this since it doesn’t have photographic control for field of view or depth of field but we’re happy that we’ve taken this first step to making it a possibility. - Rolling starts: Direct engine Go-Karts need rolling starts in order to portray them properly, and the excitement and tension felt in the moments before a race is something we’re very excited to have players experience! Our [url=https://discord.com/invite/circuitsuperstars]Discord[/url] is a great place to share your thoughts. Join us there for more discussion. Thank you for reading! Love, OFG Team Connect with us: [url=https://www.tiktok.com/@originalfiregames]TikTok[/url] [url=https://twitter.com/Originalfireg]Twitter[/url] [url=https://www.instagram.com/originalfiregames]Instagram[/url] [url=http://discord.gg/circuitsuperstars]Discord [/url]