Hey, Golden Lap enjoyers!

ℹ️ After learning that some of you were having trouble with the Cinderella Story achievement, we decided to revise the requirements. Going forward, to unlock the achievement, your team must finish a season at least 5 places higher in the team standings than they were in the previous season. If you already have the achievement, don't worry, it will remain unlocked.

⚠️ A quick reminder for modders: Before publishing your mod or reporting bugs, please resolve any errors and warnings to ensure a smoother experience for everyone. In the recent updates, we've made several improvements to debug, so if your mod is already published, it's still worth checking it with the latest build.

✨ Over the past month, your incredible feedback has helped us resolve a ton of major issues in Golden Lap. We truly appreciate your support - thank you so much! 💖

You can check out all new fixes and improvements below:


Gameplay Improvements

• changed requirements for the Cinderella Story achievement to "Finish a season at least 5 places higher in the team standings than in the previous season"

UI Improvements

• added a pause menu button ⚙️ to Quali and Race
  
• tyre bar in tuning panel now blinks before the first send out in Quali
  
• clarified in Quali tutorial that you need to tune before sending out the car
  
• improved tooltip text for sabotage and report fraud when the spy action is not available
  
• quit dialog in Quali and Race now mentions that you'll lose Quali / Race progress
  
• updated in-game feedback form

Localization Improvements

• fixed various localization issues in all languages

Mod Improvements

• decade set in mods can now be in the range 1000-9990
  
• decade set in mods is now rounded down to be divisible by 10
  
• updated starting resources suggested by debug when first season team members are set up
  
• added a new debug check for duplicate team member names

Bug Fixes

• drives no longer lose a lap when a red flag happens while there are cars in pit lane
  
• game speed is now correctly restored after player cars exit the pit in Race
  
• Tuning Master and Power Hungry traits now correctly increase points range when tuning
  
• fixed game softlock when Windows language pack is set to Turkish
  
• the game window can now be resized on Mac when using windowed mode
  
• fixed game slowing down and stuttering when a red flag happens during the final lap in a Race
  
• fixed loud engine sound at the start of Quali and Race
  
• music no longer plays multiple times and overlaps in Season Dashboard
  
• engineer tooltip in tuning panel now shows the correct skill names
  
• fixed various UI issues with the UI of the spy features
  
• fixed issues with end of the decade screen

Inspired by thrilling events from the 70s, the spy feature lets you send a spy to another team to sabotage the opponent or steal their best parts. But be careful - if your spy is caught, you’ll face penalties!

In addition to the new features, we've made significant balance changes and enhancements. We've limited part building to one per race weekend, ramped up the aggression of AI drivers, and increased the chance of team members "partying too hard" the night before a race.

ℹ️ The Spy Update levels the playing field, helps underdog teams compete, makes late game more competitive, and provides opportunities to spend your extra budget or playfully disrupt other teams.

🎁 To mark the occasion, we're celebrating this major release with a special sale! Enjoy 20% off Golden Lap until March 20th.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2052040/Golden_Lap/


Spy Update

• the player and the AI can send a spy to another team (costs $10 per spy, up to 1 spy per weekend, up to 2 spies per season)
  
• the spy can copy a part design (gets you a free part)
  
• the spy can sabotage a part (failure results in a penalty)
  
• the spy can report a part with a copied design (results in a penalty for the team that stole the design)

Gameplay Improvements

• you can now build only one part per race weekend (the change will apply in a new career or after you complete one race weekend in your current career)
  
• AI will use high engine mode more often
  
• AI will occasionally push the car past its limits
  
• you can tune the car in Quali during red flag (send out is still after the red flag ends)
  
• increased chance of getting the Partied Too Hard trait in Quali or Race
  
• you can now cancel a pit order in Quali

UI Improvements

• long driver and team names are handled gracefully
  
• all retiring team members who participated in current or previous seasons will be included in the retiring members summary at the end of the season
  
• added a Points column in race results screen
  
• updated icons for track traits
  
• added a link to the Golden Lap Booklet in main menu > extras

Localization Improvements

• improved localizations for German, French and Turkish
  
• resolved issues with localization text not fitting in buttons or tooltips

Mod Improvements

• mod debug now checks the number of free drivers in the mod and returns a warning if there are too few
  
• you can now disable driver deaths
  
• you can now set the career decade to start in a year between 1900 and 9989

Bug Fixes

• fixed an issue where AI drivers with puncture won't pit sometimes
  
• fixed various issues with car speed and position in standings during yellow and red flags
  
• fixed issues with sponsor challenges not clearing in certain cases
  
• fixed issues with music and ambient sfx not playing in certain cases
  
• weather overlay and effects now load correctly in career dashboard and preseason
  
• sponsor challenge summary after a race now shows the correct sponsor logo (instead of STOPPE)
  
• fixed sfx for cars passing near pit lane on Schwarzwaldring
  
• fixed issues with performance values of newly build parts seen in pre-season

Hello, Golden Lap enjoyers!

We’ve got fantastic news for you this week! The next major update is finally here!


Inspired by thrilling events from the 70s, the spy feature lets you send a spy to another team between race weekends. Your spy can then sabotage one of your opponent's parts or copy a design to get you a powerful part for free.

But be careful! If your spy is caught or your stolen part is reported as fraudulent, you’ll face penalties!

Both players and AI can send spies. You can deploy a spy once per race weekend and up to twice per season. Sending a spy costs $10 of your team’s budget.

Along with the new features, we're making other noteworthy balance changes and enhancements, including ramping up the aggression of AI drivers and limiting the building of parts to one per race weekend.

The Spy Update levels the playing field, helping underdog teams compete, making late game more competitive, and providing opportunities to spend your budget late in the game or playfully disrupt other teams.

ℹ️ These changes will significantly alter the game’s balance. To ensure everything is top-notch in the main releases, we'll start by sharing the Spy Update on the public beta branch.

✨ Your input is essential for refining the new features, so please try the Spy Update, complete a few seasons, and let us know what you love and what you'd like to see changed. We greatly value your feedback! 🙏

⚠️ As always, remember to backup your save data before trying the beta builds. If you experience a game-breaking bug, please avoid using the in-game report form. Instead, collect your save files and the error logs and send them directly to us by email or on Discord (for the file locations, see the How to Report a Bug post).


Spy Update

• the player and the AI can send a spy to another team (cost is $10 per spy, up to 1 spy per weekend, up to 2 spies per season)
  
• the spy can copy a part design (gets you a free part)
  
• the spy can sabotage a part (failure results in a penalty)
  
• the spy can report a fraudulent part (results in a penalty)

Gameplay Improvements

• you can now build only one part race weekend (the change will apply in a new career or after you complete one race weekend in your current career)
  
• AI will use high engine mode more often
  
• AI will occasionally push the car past its limits
  
• you can tune the car in Quali during red flag (send out is still after the red flag ends)

UI Improvements

• long driver and team names are handled gracefully
  
• retiring team members who participated in previous seasons, but were not hired in the current season, will be included in the retiring members summary at the end of the season
  
• added a Points column in race results screen

Mod Improvements

• mod debug now checks the number of free drivers in the mod and returns a warning if there are too few

Bug Fixes

• fixed an issue where AI drivers with puncture won't pit sometimes
  
• fixed various issues with car speed and position in standings during yellow and red flags
  
• fixed issues with sponsor challenges not clearing in certain cases

To access the public beta build:

1. right click on Golden Lap in your Library
   
2. select Properties
   
3. go to the Betas tab and then select the public-beta branch (screenshot below)
   
4. wait for the update to finish
   
5. verify the installation

📢 Hey, everyone! 2025 just started, and we already have an exciting surprise for you!


🌄 Explore the world in the golden age of offroading. Drive iconic vehicles from the 60s to 80s by yourself or with friends through challenging trails and beautiful scenery.

📸 And just like in art of rally, you'll be able to grab stills of your favourite landscapes with the built-in photo mode.

An amazing adventure is ahead! You never know what you may discover just over the hill!

over the hill is developed together with our friends at Strelka Games[strelkagames.com]!

Check out the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFi39URiesI

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2929250/over_the_hill/

Website:
https://funselektor.com/overthehill

Happy New Year, Motorsport Fans! 🥳 We hope you had wonderful holidays! ✨

To kick off 2025, we've prepared a neat little update for you. This hotfix (build version 250109_b2843fa9 on Windows and 250113_b2843fa9 on Mac) resolves issues causing the spinning wheel loading animation to get stuck on screen when you load a saved career with mods. With this update, any save data affected by this issue should now load seamlessly.

If the spinning wheel loading animation is still getting stuck for you even after installing this update, please reach out to our team directly via email or on Discord, and we'll look into your issue ASAP.

Following yesterday's update, some players reported difficulties with building new parts or that parts could be built for free. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. This hotfix (build v241213_97364011) addresses and resolves these issues. We hope you have a fantastic weekend! 🎉

📢 Get ready for a massive treat! From making the AI more competitive to a major overhaul of the team-building process, there's so much to explore in this week's update!

🥳 Thanks to the feedback from our awesome community, we were able to polish all new features. Now both the main and public-beta branches will have the latest and the greatest of Golden Lap!

🎁 But don't worry if you love to be on the cutting edge! Just for you we're already cooking up a new secret feature, so stay tuned for the next beta update!



ℹ️ As always, if any of the issues we resolved in this update are still happening for you, please contact the team via email and provide as much information about the issue as possible. We'll be happy to investigate further! For more information, see the pinned post How to Report a Bug.

• a complete overhaul to the Team Member Market; teams will now pick their members based on their current position in the leaderboard (the first team picks first, the second team picks second, etc.)
  
• at the start of next season you can now secure the team members from the previous season
  
• you can now save and quit during the team member selection during pre-season
  
• AI drivers now turn engine mode Push more often and try to use up most of their fuel
  
• more improvements to overtake logic

• added Turkish localization
  
• fixed issues with French and German localization
  
• small fixes and improvements across all localizations

• added team BFC textures to the BaseMod (BFC was previously available in the alpha preview of Golden Lap)
  
• improved handling of drivers with the 'DecadeStartContent' value set to true
  
• you can now set the 'DecadeStartContent' value for modded engineers and crew chiefs
  
• improved AI decision making when hiring drivers for modded teams
  
• improved animations for modded teams

• the in-game feedback form no longer remains stuck on screen in certain cases
  
• fixed the "super driver bug" (where the stats of some drivers change after restarting the game)
  
• drivers in their Last Year now retire at the end of a season even if they were not on a team
  
• fixed various issues with team member progression between seasons affectings their stats and cost
  
• fixed issues with Golden Tune sponsor challenges not being awarded in certain cases
  
• fixed Tuning Master trait working only in first race weekend of the season
  
• fixed issues with Exacting and Sloppy Crew Chief traits
  
• fixed misc issues with team member traits
  
• fixed issues with car and part building animations
  
• fixed UI issues in results screens and standings
  
• fixed various UI issues caused by team and team member names longer than 14 characters
  
• fixed wet range indicator in tire tooltip showing incorrect range in certain cases
  
• loading screen now adapts to screen size
  
• optimized error logging to avoid occasional stutter or freezes on older systems
  
• erroneous event notifications during yellow flags are no longer triggered
  
• fixed UI issues caused by applying settings and changing localization
  
• fixed issues caused by using the Back button on some screens

📢 This week we're continuing with the changes to the overtake functionality. In addition to more improvements during the Qualifying, this update will reduce the likelihood of extremely slow "trains" forming during the Race while still keeping overtakes challenging.

🙏 Thanks to the bug reports you sent us, we were also able to resolve some issues with the new Tune and Send Out functionality in the Qualifying. As a result, the feature is now part of the main game.


Gameplay Improvements

• if drivers get stuck in traffic during Qualifying, they now ask the player to time next pit exit better
  
• separated Tune and Send Out actions in Qualifying, so it's easier to avoid getting stuck in traffic (to get Clean Air)

Localization Improvements

• fixed issues with French localization displaying other languages in some parts of the UI

Bug Fixes

• fixed various issues with overtakes in Qualifying and Race (cars should get stuck together less often)
  
• fixed issues where in certain cases the standings panel would display incorrect flying lap times

While we're still working on the upcoming major update and fancy new features 🌟 , we noticed that many of you had drivers getting stuck together and losing a lot of time during the Qualifier. We just released a small update (build version 241129_d1a9eb788) in order to resolve the issue.

Please let us know how you like the change! We'd love to see your feedback!