Artistic rally game Art of Rally gets its first major update which adds the title’s first new location Kenya along with new vehicles. Ever since it was announced, fans were eagerly awaiting the new update for the title and now the update has arrived just in time with the title’s console launch. To give you new ways to slide around Kenya, the new update brings 4 brand-new rally cars to the game as well themed around the new location.
Kenya features 6 new stages including Mount Kenya, Karura, Homa Bay, Ndere Island, Lake Baringo, Lake Nakuru, and 1 new freeroam location Mara Simba. The four new vehicles added to the title include The Gazelle in the Group 4 category and The King of Africa, Das 559, and The Hyena in the Group B category. Check out the new update in action in the new trailer below:
Along with the new content, the game has also received an update, which brings many changes to the game. Some of the major ones include that the game now has DirectX 11 and 12 launch options for the Steam and GoG versions. The developer is also teasing a tropical location as its next update however no additional detail is known at this point. Below, you will find the detailed changelog for the new update:
Features
- 6 new rally stages in Kenya: mount kenya, karura, homa bay, ndere island, lake baringo, lake nakuru
- 1 new freeroam location
- 4 new cars: gazelle, the king of Africa, das 559, the hyena
- added dx12 in the game launch options
Improvements
- changed road marker behavior to not get react with the car after being hit
- dynamic resolution scaling when running the game in DX12, which has shown performance improvements
- changed car group trailers codec for better compatibility across different operating systems
- added an error message when accessing online events having not accepted the privacy policy
- prevent online events from being hidden on connection error
- added progress bar to the videoplayer
Fixes
- fixed RALLY letters updating incorrectly on the freeroam loading screen
- fixed floating house in Sardinia4
- fixed AI driver using Group S car in Group B
- fixed a bug where pressing the skip song button during the splash screen would play a song at full volume even when volume was set to 0%
- fixed online events ranking text not responding to dark mode
- fixed bug where driving around the finish line could get the player reset to a position beyond the finish line
- fixed a section of road in mount asama that incorrectly treated the car as if it was off road
- fixed stage time on stage over screen reading as zero on terminal damage
- fixed cozzie sr71 drawing drawing incorrect transmission particles (was set to AWD, should have been RWD)
- fixed guard rail collider on mount asama
- fixed freeze at end of stage
- fixed ghosts to correctly spawn
- fixed a bug where car cleaning would (visually) become undone on a quick restart
- fixed offline times not being taken into account for post stage best time
- fixed a bug where the post stage restart button could be pressed infinitely
- fixed road markers not responding to slow collisions with car
Make sure that you check out our review of Art of Rally as well in which we loved the challenging gameplay and beautiful artistic design of the game.
Are you jumping back in Art of Rally to try out the new Kenya update? Let us know in the comments section below.
