Shortly after the release of Grand Prix Legends the sim racing community looked forward to another title that promised to offer a similar insight into historic racing. Trans-Am Racing ’68-’72 ultimately never released, a victim of a publishers shady dealings, but as a part of my research I uncovered a VHS of a never-released trailer for the game. Watch the trailer and read about what sim racing missed out on.
Asobo, known today as the Microsoft Flight Simulator developer, created groundbreaking technology for large scale maps that was intended to be used in a high quality rally raid title. It was never released and ended up as FUEL, a post-apocalyptic open-world racing game. What happened?
Kunos today deployed v1.7.5 as a hotfix update to their v1.7 update. This one has a couple of minor tweaks and another mysterious largely un-explained physics update.
v1.7.5 Changelog:
GRAPHICS:
– Over-car labels: removed contact shadow and reflection influence and added lighting-dependent dimmer.
– Tweaks to night brightness, volumetric fog and wet material properties of new British tracks.PHYSICS:
– Improved implementation of aerodynamic added mass effect. (It’s complicated).UI:
– Added active BOP group indicator on garage screen.
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