The Art of Rally Australia DLC is available today for PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Nintendo Switch users will have to wait until December. The DLC costs $8.99 and features 6 new stages, 1 free roam area, 4 new vehicles and 2 songs.
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The team also released a new 1.5.0 update providing plenty of improvements and fixes. Check out the patch notes below.
Improvements
- Performance improvements for long sessions and when multi-tasking (e.g. alt+tab)
- Stability improvements for vegetation renderer indirect
- Framerate is no longer capped at 230 fps
- Custom rallies can now have up to 12 stages
- Windows on some houses and boats now glow at night
- Unlocked songs remain unlocked after resetting collectibles
- Last visited free roam stage is remembered
- Various improvements to ghost selection
- Added “total time” to stage post-finish menu in multiple stage rallies
- Career and custom rally overall results now support times longer than 1 hour (single stage results still cap at 59.59.999)
- Free roam views are easier to activate and can be activated by holding the button while passing through the trigger area
- Added extra checks for unlocking freeroam stages and some achievements
- Improved controller button glyphs position in enter/exit View prompts
Fixes
- Prevented tires from clipping through road on some stages
- Prevented various bugs that could be triggered by a terminal damage crash
- Fixed various issues with saving and loading rally progress and car condition
- Various fixes to ghost selection in menus and leaderboard interaction
- Fixed a bug where some ghosts show the wrong vehicle (may not apply retroactively to existing ghosts)
- Retired AI now remains retired even after resuming saved rally
- Best time in post-finish menu shows correct locally saved best time when offline or when privacy policy is declined
- Recover car near finish gates no longer triggers multiple time penalties
- Skidmarks are cleared when entering free roam views and when recovering car
- Fixed issues with vehicle placement in free roam views
- Fixed il gorilla e1 wheel texture issues when changing liveries
- Fixed issues with wheel texture on some ghosts (e.g. le 504, the fujin, little monkey)
- Camera effects no longer remain active outside photo mode during a replay
- Controller vibration stops after restarting stage or recovering car
- Player selected audio settings are reapplied after disconnecting headphones / earbuds
- Fixed a bug causing screenshot names to use a 12-hour format in rare cases
- Fixed guardrail collider in farschewiler
- Fixed reset zone and prop issues in lake nakuru
- Fixed house texture issues in norway and kenya
- Reduced water foam under bridges on some stages
- Fixed rare leaderboard UI issue in post-finish menu
- Fixed rare terminal damage UI issue in post-finish menu
- Fixed issues with fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean (incl. rendering on Steam Deck)
- Retired leaderboard entries can no longer be used as custom ghosts
- Rich presence fixes for Steam and Discord
- Dynamic resolution option removed for Vulkan, as it’s not supported
- Vegetation renderer indirect option removed for Vulkan, as it’s not supported
