Thanks so much for all of our playtester's efforts testing Exo Rally leading up to the demo release, we've made great progress balancing, bug fixing and tuning everything given your help! We hope you enjoyed playing it, competing on the leaderboards and hanging out on the Discord with us.

The demo will officially release on the 22nd of November - until then, we will be sharing demo keys for final testing with a handful of testers on our Discord. We continue to ask you not to share footage of the game until the 22nd on release day, thanks!

**Patch Notes 9/11/2024**
- Changed AO method, seems better at not creating ugly grid artifacts on terrain, but bit worse for grounding the rover's wheels
- Auto gear changes fixed
- More realistic scale tiling settings for terrain textures (gravel slightly too spiky in spots, oops)
- Mid steer reintroduced at half the ratio it was. Was 0.3, now 0.15.
- Moved Ackerman reference position back a touch further to try and reduce the gain from adding mid steer back in
- Sand drag improvements? Takes longer/gotta get more sideways to get srs drag happening. Hopefully less uber-yawing at high speed?
-- Plz keep a look out for the drag bug that 'power grabs' the rover on landings/at high speeds
- Menu post fx updated to match the rest of the game
- Maybe minor performance increase

Patch Notes 7/11/2024

- New advanced tire drag calculations per ground material.
-- Drag levels based on speed, suspension load, slip angle. Rover can now actually roll over in sand when sideways.
-- High speed sideways sand dig-in probably 'too instant' right now(?)
- RCS
-- Returned more to original strength levels
-- Less 'altitude based' strength
-- Can roll from roof to wheels with only tilt
-- Less extreme pitch strength
-- Hopefully 'best of both worlds'
- Rover
-- Change interaxle diff from locked to Viscous LSD. Under power diff is fully locked (1.0), while coasting/braking it's 0.2
-- Reduced axle diff coast from 0.5 to 0.2
-- Default setup brake strength reduced (was way too easy to lock)
-- Hopefully results in better off-power, under brakes turn in
- Rally AI times faster, harder to beat (for some!)
- Greatly reduced wind speed as it was hard to visualise or feel the physical effects
- Meteor particles updated
- Sand and gravel particles updated
- Driver pain trigger threshold raised so there's a bit less
- Replay camera updates, generally pulled back/zoomed out a bit more
- Meteors should fall a bit closer to the rover
- Slightly longer rev limiter cut out time, removed the custom 'limiter sound'
- Time scale/slow mo on replay controls
- Start lights go out instead of green
- Tutorials fixed
- Minor reflections improvement
- Night lighting updated so its less pitch/more ambient
- Can no longer be dropship extracted into obstacles (no collisions for now)
- Out of bounds tuning options clamped on UI