The HellBox

Correct! I fell in love with the design the first time I saw it.
Though I need to point out that all of the cars in game are not direct copies of real world cars. They're inspired by certain cars, but are made to be unique

Quite close! It wasn't produced in USSR exactly, but it was produced in a communist country

Not even close! But it's RWD

NEW CAR!!!

Can you guess what was the inspiration?

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Track preview before race starts

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Settings menu
Took quite a while to implement, mostly improving UI that I have

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CPU opponents now learn from their mistakes. If they can't reach the checkpoint, they'll lower their speed and braking distance until they reach the next one

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I love the consistent pixel density on textures!

One of the worst things I've been dealing with while making the game are CPU opponents. It's been 5 months since I've started working on them and every month I come back and try to improve their speed and getting very minor gains. Managed to shaved off 8 seconds out of a 80 second lap today though

Snowflakes! In the future I plan to introduce more complex weather effects such as rain, but for now all winter maps feature snow falling from the sky

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Exactly

New car selector in beaterCore!

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As promised in the last post, I've added different types of tires for different road surfaces. Besides different grip, they also have different handling properties

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yay gambling for the whole family

Just finished implementing different surface types in beaterCore. They allow for more complex tire behaviour changes, and affect how particles are emitted.
My next plan is to add different types of tires(Off-road, racing, snow etc)

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Replay system allowed to capture a couple of nice screenshots

I've reimplemented replay system into beaterCore. I had it working 6 months ago, before I added CPU opponents, but with CPU opponents it was just lying around forgotten. Now, replays are automatically saved and can be replayed at any time from the main menu

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So far the only thing you you could to to your car in beaterCore were repairs. But I'm finally starting to work on tuning, and the first step is ability to purchase and install softer or stiffer suspension springs
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Thanks for suggestion! I don't think this kind of visualization will work for smaller components like airfilter/oil, text is a bit more obvious than symbols and doesn't require understanding of how car's drive train looks. But I'll certainly try to stylize the UI a bit more

Continuing on making car damage more noticeable to the player, I've added text warnings on the top of the screen displaying everything that's wrong with player's car

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I think the general shape is pretty close, it's just missing the details like shoelaces and tongue. Also textures can hide bad geometry quite well, specially on smaller objects.
Poly count seems a bit high for a shoe

Just finished implementing terrain texture picker in the level editor

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One of the problems I've encountered during play testing the game was misunderstanding of the vehicle damage system. Testers had troubles understanding why their cars broke down, so I'm experimenting with adding on-screen tips on what parts of the car get damaged

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Tire marks showcase
Best part? They're batch rendered!

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New car shadows
And if you look closely - tire marks! They're WIP and I'm not showing them fully until they're done, so make sure to follow the progress

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Actually, one small change - made the building a little smaller. It looks a bit less out of place like that

I think I'm finished with dealer location rework for now.
I wouldn't call it good but it's a lot better than it was before

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WIP dealer rework

New car previews in car selector. It's WIP but looks a lot better than blank squares xD

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Ended up making powertrain visualization and separated information for gearbox and engine

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