If you like driving in the rain, you’re in for a treat.
Sony’s flagship PlayStation 4 racer, Driveclub, gets a large free update today, adding five new tracks and one game mode (multiplayer time trial) along with improved weather visuals, changes to A.I. behavior. Despite a fairly disastrous start, U.K. developer Evolution Studios is sticking to its promise to continue supporting the game. It still has no news on the cut-down PlayStation Plus edition that’s supposed to be free to everyone subscribing to Sony’s online gaming service, though.
Today’s patch is 3.33 GB in total, and it adds tracks set in Japan along with a host of tweaks and improvements.
The update is rolling out worldwide, according to Evolution Studios. If you’re not automatically prompted to update, choose “Check for Update” from the PS4 Dynamic Menu. You can press the “Options” button on the Driveclub tile to get there.
The full details of the update are below, as shared by Evolution Studios on its Facebook page:
New content
- Adds a new online game mode: Multiplayer Time Trial
- Adds five new tracks in Japan, offering 11 variants in total:
- Nakasendo, Japan (two variants)
- Lake Shoji, Japan (two variants)
- Asagiri Hills Racetrack (three variants)
- Takahagi Hills (two variants)
- Goshodaira (two variants)
Gameplay Improvements
- Improvements to the weather visuals, including rainbows and heat haze!
- Makes changes to Drift Mode, to prevent backing up to score more points.
- Makes changes to A.I. drafting behaviour.
- Makes changes to the impact of world collisions whilst driving on a straight, to reduce the amount of drag and speed lost from impact.
- Adds a new option to Event Settings to race without crowd, track infrastructure and corner flags.
- Adds the option to browse and register for Multiplayer events via the Social Hub.
- Windscreen wiper speeds have been changed.
- A bug causing A.I. car wing mirrors to show a flase reflection has now been fixed.
- Disables overscan compensation when playing via Remote Play.
- Adds a link to the PlayStation Store to the Driveclub Home menu.
- Also includes a number of minor bug fixes, performance improvements and usability tweaks.
Photomode Improvements
- Adds the option to reset damage and remove dirt when taking a photo.
- Adds the option to permanently hide camera movement controls when accessing Photo Mode.
- Players can now access Photo Mode while using a steering wheel via R3.
- Players can now move the camera while OSD is disabled in photo mode.