Patch Notes 20/9/2023 (Build 12227691)

New Star GP

New Star GP is a fast and exciting arcade motorsport game with crisp retro visuals. Play career mode and work your way through decades of racing while upgrading your car and your support team... or chase high scores in championship mode on your own or in split-screen with up to three friends!

*IMPROVED: Significant optimisations to in-race code and rendering to wring the most out of your playing device *IMPROVED: Track abrasion settings. We’ve updated the track abrasion settings in PRO DIFFICULTY only, reducing the durability of soft and hard tyres to better differentiate between pit strategies. *IMPROVED: Tyre wear upgrade now has a more significant effect *IMPROVED: New values for Time Trial and Checkpoint events in PRO DIFFICULTY making those events more challenging and more in line with the rest of the events in PRO DIFFICULTY. *IMPROVED: Reduced level of boost in PRO DIFFICULTY only to about half its previous effect. *FIXED: The wrong times were being reported at the end of Elimination events. *FIXED: When deleting a save slot, the selected save slot now stays selected. *FIXED: Removed the problem with wet tyres overly wearing during rain showers. *FIXED: Triggering a rewind during a tutorial message caused the game to enter a state from which it could not progress. *FIXED: Incorrect button icons being displayed on Steam Deck for resetting a car pointing in the wrong direction. *FIXED: No more pesky keyboard prompts on Steam Deck. *FIXED: Unlocked perk slots now show correct unlocked colouring. *FIXED: Braking SFX no longer ducks the game music. *FIXED: Player car bouncing and skewing sideways when leaving the pits for the second time. *FIXED: No icon being displayed on the CONTINUE button of the “not using staff perks” phone message. *FIXED: It was possible to get invites to rival races in decades that were not accessible in-game. *FIXED: When racing in CHAMPIONSHIP MODE, the track maps have been scaled so they no longer obscure split times. *FIXED: Personal best UI animation now timed correctly. *FIXED: Completing or cancelling a championship now correctly resets progress.