We will be testing a new patch on our test servers very soon. This patch has undergone extensive QA on the developer's side and will be extremely stable compared to our previous patches. While we cannot guarantee a release date, I assure you that this update is going to be of significantly higher quality than in the past.

Not only that, but we are getting several special holiday events.

*Santa sleigh flying overhead in England
*Holiday paint jobs
*Lights and ornamental decorations
*Redesigned festive menu
*Holiday music for horn honking
*Explorer icons replaced with presents

Additional fixes and/or improvements:

*buggy is only available in fun modes (this is temporary)
*easy courses made more newbie friendly
*many optimization improvements
*memory leaks, fps, and networking issues solved
*load times decreased
*license tests enabled again
*pricing changes
*explorer mode only needs 2 players to start
*force feedback improvements
*camera and race start improvements
*brake now sign removed
*first checkpoint/rescue bug fixed

Some items to take special note of:

*lap times have been wiped due to the fix of several exploits and changes for car performance. This includes both personal and global lap times. We're sorry for any inconvenience this causes, but believe it to be a necessary change to the game.
*We have implemented a new Nickname feature! When you first enter the game after patching you will be prompted to create a new name for yourself. This is a semi-permanent change and will be what other racers will now see you as. I say semi-permanent because we will have a name change item for AP in the shop. Some rules for names:


*The rules that apply to account names also apply to nicknames (special characters, numbers, etc.)
*Do not try to impersonate a GM or any other Aeria representative.
*No curse words.


*continued car performance changes for balancing
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-Special thanks to our Game Sages for helping to test and verify all changes and to Gazob for spearheading the creation of the above image.

I think instead of making santa fly above us.. why not race with his sleigh ?!?! LOL make the harpoon model look like santa and his sleigh... this would be quite fun and funny at same time

Cool! Thanks for the update, been wondering about it.

any chance these items will remain with us for good?, so say i wanted to go around with a weird color and vinyl paint job from this Christmas event and wanted to race around with it in summer next year, would i still be able to have this or will be be completely removed along with this temporary patching for Christmas. not including the main patch itself.

Sounds good to me, thanks for all the hard work testing this patch for us. I am sure when it does get here that many things are going to get much better.

Merry X-Mas...

Those new additions sound realy cool. I just hope the england map will be fixed because I found 2 bugs yesterday which are easy to reproduce.

1) when racing press the repair button and I was transported to just before the finish line and went from 1st last place. Just before I got transported to the finish line I was at the bridge by the sharp left hander.

2) I was waiting for the others to finish and I decided to go in reverse slowly. But a couple of seconds later I got a message saying I was going the wrong way and I was transported to just after the finish line , losing the race.

Of course, I'm most fired up about the holiday horn honking............heh. This is cool!

Ahhh, can't wait to test it and see the end of some of our more glareing "Random Features"...WoHoo!!

Thanks, Been waiting for the patch.


And also in the future i think we need a Dukes of Hazzard Horn

Yeeehawwwww!

That horn would be cool. Would be great if it could be purchased for a few hundred RP.