What’s New

The 0.19.0 release of CSR3 is here!

Android

  • Car Credits: have a fresh new look

  • Daily Challenges: completion reward has been reworked and rebalanced

  • New Collection Sets: own all the cars in a set to earn rewards

  • UI Responsiveness: improvements that make the experience smoother

  • Other Fixes: to reduce crashes and squash bugs

iOS

  • Car Credits: have a fresh new look

  • Daily Challenges: completion reward has been reworked and rebalanced

  • New Collection Sets: own all the cars in a set to earn rewards

  • UI Responsiveness: improvements that make the experience smoother

  • Other Fixes: to reduce crashes and squash bugs

Release Notes

Extreme Difficulty

  • Prevent players entering extreme races

  • Addition of upgrades button to event panel

  • Better communicate to players why the race is extreme/why I am losing

  • Navigate players to areas of the game that improve their chances of winning

New NPC Cars

  • 7 new npc cars added and assigned to the AI in appropriate races

 

Car Credits

  • Improved top level information and readability of car credits

  • Players can see the new Car Credit/Visuals in the screens listed below (In all instances where Car Credits appear right now in the game)

    • Event Panel Rewards 

    • Race Pass Reward Tracks 

    • Daily Login Bonus 

    • Daily Challenges 

    • Campaign Map Screen 

    • Full-screen Reward sequences 

    • Gacha Rewards 

    • Race Rewards

    • Marketplace 

    • Navigation Screens 

    • Gacha Preview Screens

    • IAP bundles Preview screens 

    • Flyover Toasters

Audio

  • Aston Martin V12 delivery (fix to revving curve)

  • New video flow music fix (start/stop more robust)

  • Utopia audio added (based off of Bugatti Chiron W16)

  • Rain in Tokyo 

  • Trains fix and remix (these will sound better in LA + Tokyo tracks)

  • iOS session changes (better handling of audio playback when playing audio from other apps)

  • Perfect shift, perfect brake, you win text over finish line sfx updates

  • Redline duels now plays front end/garage music on entry (e.g. after a win)

Additional ladders

  • 'Pro' version of each focus ladder after player finishes base focus ladder

Updated Ladder UX and UI

  • Ladder races new panel with ascending races rather than horizontal

Rebrand of Reg Races

  • Reg races changed to 'cash grab' in all instances in the game

  • Tabs removed from cash grab event panel and replaced with automatic scaling of rewards based on CL

Base Collections

  • Rewards pop-up added to each set 

  • Updated Art assets to sets

  • Change in logic of set panels 

  • Added sections to Manufacturer screen, highlighting "Focus class" section

  • Added counter to each brick on Manufacturer screen 

 

Car Visuals

  • Addition of 3 new manufacturers 

    • Buick

    • Mazda

    • RWB

  • Updated customisation ordering and categorisation on all cars

  • Upgraded car visual asset

  • Orange Peel tile value has been updated on all paints and carbon fiber

Drive Assist Program (Guardrails)

  • Coded Guardrails to make it harder to lose

  • DAP (Guardrails) should be enabled in the following races:

    • Race Training 1-4

    • LA Qualifier Series 1 Races 1-6

    • Every first Reg Race

Environment improvements

  • Tokyo - Rain and visual wet surface set up, plus associated VFX

  • Med Coast - Visual Improvements to Rough Tarmac and Cobble textures

  • LA – Changed physics surfaces on all LA routes to Tarmac

  • LA - 'Summit' Route shortened

  • LA - 'Skyway' Route lengthened

  • LA – Updated Lighting Grade

  • All Routes – Updated graphics

  • All Routes – Updated optimisations

  • All Routes - Updated Porsche prop car

  • All Routes – Updated track lighting bakes

  • Bug fixes

  • Graphic fixes

 

Known Issues

Connectivity issues 

  • Player network that has a Reliability/Stability under 50-30% can run into issues 

E.g.

  • Infinite loading screens

  • Error loop at the end of a race

  • Retry button on network errors not resuming the game

  • Race intro becoming stuck

  • Infinite downloading process during bootflow

Server Issue

  • User cannot claim 1st Race pass reward if second reward is claimed 1st