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Wreckfest |OT| Current Car Game

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  • Release Date: June 14th (PC), November 20th (PlayStation 4 & Xbox One)
  • Developer: Bugbear Entertainment
  • Publisher: THQ Nordic
  • Genre: Racing
  • Platforms: PC (Steam), PlayStation 4, and Xbox One
  • Prices: 44,99€ / $44,99 / £38,99
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From the full-contact circuit racing to the demolition derbies, destructive fun is what Wreckfest is all about.
Metal bends and sparks fly in banger racing, the track-based racing mode inspired by Finnish folk racing.
With courses varying from rallycross courses to figure 8s, asphalt to gravel, the potential for danger and damage is high.
A driver making a clean getaway from the rest of the pack and a driver fighting their way to the front are both just as likely to win.
The brutal demolition derby is the perfect compliment to the racing action.
In the derby you'll have to fight with everything you've got to survive till the end of a chaotic free for all.​
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If your car isn't able to stand the punishment, maybe it's time to change things up with a new ride.
The car selection is varied, from European family cars to American muscle cars and Asian sports cars, there is a car for every driving style.
Finding cars too boring? Hop on a lawn mover for a new challenge!
If getting a new car seems too costly, there is another way to keep up with the competition. Your car can be fitted with new parts.
Finding a balance between performance and sheer destructive force is key as you fit your car with engine upgrades and
strenghten the body with rollcages, steel bumpers, and much more.

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When racing the AI becomes too dull, you can take the action online.
Find a suiltable match with the server browser, or create your own session in-game or with the dedicated server tool!
If the included content and customization options aren't enough, the PC version has mod support.
With Steam Workshop integration, downloading new cars, tracks, and liveries is easy!

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Announcement Trailer
Launch Trailer

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ACG, Rating: "Buy"
Gamestar (German), Rating: 80/100
 
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Cenauru

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I remember buying this when it was first in early access, I'm still surprised it wasn't cancelled. Only tried it again last month after a bunch of updates started rolling out again and I was impressed, I thought it had been cancelled since the devs were radio silent for a long time. Been excited for release ever since, can't wait to see what the full launch build has to offer.
 
Rivi

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The game is hella fun. Constant updates every month definitely helped.
 
toph

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Bought the PS4 version almost two years ago. Excited to finally play it.
 
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The PC version is out of early access with a 4GB patch available.

Changelog from Bugbear's blogpost:

CHANGELOG:

CONTENT

  • Added special challenge vehicles: School Bus, Harvester, Supervan and Double-Decker.
  • Added the exclusive Deluxe Edition car (backer car). The car is automatically placed into your garage.
  • Added new fun parts such as coffins, saw blades, large axes, skulls, baby prams, hot dogs, sharks, boxing gloves to decorate the vehicles with in style.
  • Added new paint jobs for vehicles and improved old ones.
  • Adjusted visual camber angles and ride heights of many vehicles to improve their appearance.
  • Adjusted performance ranges of vehicles to differentiate them from each other.
  • Adjusted names, prices and properties of many armor upgrades.
  • Added new Countryside Crop Field derby arena.
  • Resurrected the classic Speedway 2 Demolition Stadium.
  • Optimized the performance of Tarmac 2, Speedway 2 tracks.
  • Polished many of the tracks by fixing seams and holes, improving UV mapping and so forth.
  • Added color-themed curbs and barriers to a number of tracks.
  • Improved Big Stadium Figure 8 environment art.
  • Implemented backer names as AI names.
  • Adjusted a number of time-of-days to not be as dark.
  • Implemented credits.
TECHNICAL

  • Fixed particle blending glitch when hardware antialiasing is enabled on AMD GPUs.
  • MP: Host can now adjust Car Restriction in the Lobby, Options tab to choose between Max Class A/B/C/D, Host's Car.
  • MP: Setting a specific car restriction using the Dedicated Server console now works properly.
  • MP: Special vehicles can now be disabled and enabled by host in the Lobby, Options tab.
  • MP: Event settings are no longer reset when the host switches to the Lobby, Options tab.
  • MP: Event settings that require reloading of the event are now marked with an * and accompanying help text.
  • MP: Cars no longer appear falling through the ground plane when the event is changing.
  • MP: The server's current settings for Damage and Special Vehicles is now included in the lobby server info.
  • Implemented asynchronous vehicle loading to improve loading time when changing a car in the garage.
  • In Replay, Photo Mode, it's no longer possible to use the free camera to fly outside the level boundaries.
  • Game is now automatically paused after it's minimized.
  • In Replay, the timer now displays time correctly.
  • Game now detects up to 12 input devices to prevent the user from having to disconnect unnecessary controllers.
  • Fanatec ClubSport Wheel Base V2.5 and CLS Elite Racing Wheel no longer lose input mappings.
  • Controllers are now longer detected automatically when entering the Settings menu;
    instead the user needs to click the Detect Controllers button on Settings, Advanced tab.
GAMEPLAY

  • Added a new Chase 3 camera that is further up and back to make it easier to see the surroundings.
  • Wrecking an opponent now registers correctly even when the victim has more speed than the attacker.
  • Limited the opening angle of hoods to prevent them from making it impossible to drive in the in-car camera once unlocked.
  • Depending the car(s), performing a PIT maneuver is somewhat more challenging than previously.
  • AI is now less inclined to ram the player in slow corners.
  • Reduced the delay at race start.
  • Expert AI is slightly faster now.
CAREER

  • Added all-new challenge events with special vehicles, for example Harvester Deathmatch.
  • Added unlock gates to career championships, i.e. some of the events are only unlocked after the player has earned enough championship points.
  • Adjusted bonus targets for many events to make them more engaging and remove impossible or very difficult targets.
  • Improved difficulty curve, added new unlocks and vehicle rewards, separated performance upgrades to classes.
  • Changed multi-heat demolition derby events to single heat format.
  • Adjusted performance ranges of AI vehicles to have more performance variation in events.
  • Added descriptions for career series.
  • Added a reward for completing the career.
USER INTERFACE

  • Added loading tips.
  • Changed over to new fonts.
  • Added a new outside garage scene to the main menu.
  • Added a new pit garage scene to the Pre-Race screen.
  • Improved a new Series Selection screen user interface.
  • Implemented a new Paint Shop user interface with a possibility to use three layers for the livery colors and resetting the colors.
  • Added a new user interface for Career Event Info and Pre-Race screens.
  • Getting wrecked mid-race now results in "WRECKED" text instead of misleading "FINISHED" text.
  • For ease of use, performance, visual and armor upgrades are now combined into a single Upgrades menu with tabs.
  • For quick access, Garage is now accessible directly from the Career Event Info screen.
  • Newly acquired parts and cars are now displayed with a "NEW" text to make them easier to find.
  • Owned parts are now marked with a little garage icon instead of "OWNED" text.
  • Damage log notifications are now longer displayed in the beginning of the new event when player restarts while taking damage.
  • Acceleration, Top Speed, Cornering and Strength stats no longer appears as 0 for Lawn Mower and other special vehicles.
  • In Market, Upgrades, items that the player cannot afford are now accompanied with "Insufficient Credits" text.
  • A purchased car is now automatically made active.
  • In Replay, the game now correctly defaults to Trackside Camera view.
  • Tab selection now loops when pressing the key or button repeatedly.
  • Select button is no longer grayed out in the main menu.
  • Mud Pit and Grass Field are now their own environments in the track selection view.
AUDIO

  • Added new licensed songs.
  • In-game music can now be enabled in the Settings, Audio menu.
  • Audio no longer suddenly goes silent on certain cars.
  • Adjusted audio balance.
LOCALIZATION

  • Added localized text for Brazilian-Portuguese, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Russian.
  • Updated localized text for French, Italian, German and Spanish.
 
Jerm

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Will have to try this out tonight! Also surprised it's finally being released.
 
VN1X

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I get that game development isn't cheap but this game is way too expensive at the moment. Will wait for a price drop.
 
TheRed

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Every time I see this game's title I think someone made a new Wreckless game.
This game looks really cool, I thought it was dead a while ago and never kept up with it. Glad they were able to improve and finish it.
 
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Probably the biggest turnaround I've witnessed when it comes to Early Access games thanks to THQ Nordic's involvement. Fantastic game which, strangely enough, satisfies an itch I haven't had since the good ol' Blur days.
 
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Coreda said:
Thanks. Hard to know with some games based on appearances alone.
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I play on Automatic shifting with traction control and other aids set to half, and it feels like the game isn't controlling my car for me, while still making every corner not an instant spinout anymore. You can mix and match with off, half, and full for each of the driving aid options, and set shifting to manual, manual with clutch, and automatic.
 
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I backed this years ago when it was known as Next Car Game. Can't wait to see all the things that have been added since I last checked it out. It's going to be a great game to unwind to after some intense Project Cars 2 sessions.
 
MaDKaT

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I havent kept up with the development of this game since the original tech demo years ago. Does this game include similar mini games like those in the old Flatout games?
 

Fredrik

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Cool! I've had it on Early Access since the start but barely played it because it was so, well, early in development :P
Installing the full game now!
 
ara

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Hah, you start your game and obviously most will try career first, to get to know the game. You pick the only championship that's unlocked at the beginning, see a menu with a bunch of different contests, so the logical thing would be to pick the most upper-left one... Which is a lawnmower deathmatch.

Interesting way to introduce people to your game. I enjoyed it, though. Looking forward to smashing cars for the rest of the evening.
 
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So how is the gameplay? All things considered - single player content and structure, AI, UI polish, bugs - can you say the game feels like a finished product?
I'm looking at change log posted above and some of the things indicate that the game was rushed into 1.0 version.
 

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Deathrace_K1ng said:
So how is the gameplay? All things considered - single player content and structure, AI, UI polish, bugs - can you say the game feels like a finished product?
I'm looking at change log posted above and some of the things indicate that the game was rushed into 1.0 version.
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Definitely not rushed to release. The game was in a good state for months with this update being a polishing and UI update.

Single player content consists of championships which are a collection of events. Events are either Banger Races or Destruction Derby set on a variety of tracks with varying lap count, vehicle classes or AI drivers. These reward you with car customisation parts, XP and money.
You can also create custom events where you can change up some things, such as AI count, vehicles and ToD.
Nothing too crazy here. It's really all about the driving and crashing, which feel fantastic.

AI is good, sometimes really aggressive and generally challenging. Have not encountered rubber-banding.

Multiplayer: You can set up own custom servers and there's at least one official dedicated server. As you would expect, mp is the most fun you will have in this game. Pretty glorious.

UI polish: nothing crazy here either. It's serviceable and now even pretty fast.

Bugs are in multiplayer mainly with games not starting correctly, some server browser problems and some freezes here and there. Those tend to get fixed rather quickly after a new update. Expect a hotfix either tomorrow or on Monday.

Mods: Obviously, these really add to the game with new tracks, paint jobs, camera angles, particle effects, AI tweaks, etc. Most of them are not compatible with the current build right now and have to be updated but the creators are fairly quick to do so (some of them are also not allowed in mp - be aware of that).
 
Jaypah

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I put in for this back when it was NCG and man it's come pretty far and that's without playing the finished version. I'll fire it up later tonight and check it out.
 
oneils

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Am I crazy or did they do a paid beta/demo/early access outside of steam, on pc, for a while? Or was that a free demo? I thought I had this on early access (from an old website of theirs) a long time ago. Can't remember now.

Maybe I am confusing this with beamNG.

edit: ah looks like it was a demo of next car game. I think I actually paid for early access to beamNG drive a long time ago. I have no idea how to get that now.
 

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Not a fan of renaming the tracks. I get why they did it but I liked the descriptive titles a bit more.
Btw, I'm glad that the addition of buses does not destroy mp races. Only a few people actually pick them and they are super slow, so they are not even a real threat.
 
Zach

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I'll buy this at full price if it ends up running okay on PS4. Keeping an ear to the ground!
 
Stiler

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Reinstalling now, haven't played for over a year or more since early access.

I hope more people do so mp will have a healthy amount of people to play with.
 
DrFunk

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Backed it when it was Next Car Game. I honestly can't believe it's made it. Gonna update and report back

When I backed it, I had a 2600K. Now I have a 7700K. Madness
 
c0Zm1c

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I was pleased to see the game has a three-wheeler, and equally pleased to see what race I needed to do in order to acquire it. :D
 

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ara said:
Hah, you start your game and obviously most will try career first, to get to know the game. You pick the only championship that's unlocked at the beginning, see a menu with a bunch of different contests, so the logical thing would be to pick the most upper-left one... Which is a lawnmower deathmatch.

Interesting way to introduce people to your game. I enjoyed it, though. Looking forward to smashing cars for the rest of the evening.
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Yeah that was dumb to be honest, should've removed that and the other lawnmover race, to me it was weird and boring.

But besides that... This game is fantastic! I was just supposed to try it but ended up playing for 3 hours! It's Destruction Derby, and it's Awesome! =)

I've only played it with a controller so far, which worked great, the rumble felt nice and the controls are spot on. I'll try with a steering wheel next time.

Runs beautifully on my 1080ti on ultra as well, mostly 100-144fps. It'll be interesting to hear about the console performance later on, if they can get it up to 60fps on the X I might rebuy it there to easier get some family play time.

All in all I'm really positively surprised, haven't played since a super janky Early Access version. It's great now! This is what I wanted from OnRush, takeouts + racing! The demolition, the weight to the cars, the controls. It's all great! The engine sound could be better though, great on some cars but annoying on others.
 
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It's finally out! Man, I had so many doubts during early access, I fully expected that the game went to shit. Good to see it having positive reviews, I'll definitely play it when I get home.
 
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ara said:
Hah, you start your game and obviously most will try career first, to get to know the game. You pick the only championship that's unlocked at the beginning, see a menu with a bunch of different contests, so the logical thing would be to pick the most upper-left one... Which is a lawnmower deathmatch.

Interesting way to introduce people to your game. I enjoyed it, though. Looking forward to smashing cars for the rest of the evening.
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Fredrik said:
Yeah that was dumb to be honest, should've removed that and the other lawnmover race, to me it was weird and boring.
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The lawnmower demolition derbies were popular back when I played the game more online. I can see why it's in there but I agree, odd choice for the first race of the championship.
 
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I got this on steam back when it was in early access, I stopped playing several months after the last update (last update at the time, I think the update was that they had completely redone the physics) after I saw a post on the steam forum page for the game asked why the updates stopped and someone noted that the dev had gone belly up. It made me sad since I wanted to see the game completed. Ended up uninstalling the game. Im glad the game development suddenly came back to life and it finally got updated and polished. Will give the game another try.
 

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Guys, it's really simple for me: is it the sequel to Flatout 2 or not? (in all but the name of course)
 
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Played few SP career games last night.
Works really well and must be tons of fun in MP when I try that later.
WIth friends this should be super fun.

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neonxaos

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Booted it up again last night, and it's really solid. The straight up Destruction Derby takes me back to the really early PlayStation days of glory, and the races feel weighty and fun.
 
FloatingDivider

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I bought this when it was next car game, it was essentially a soft body physics tech demo, and since the development team seemingly vanished I thought I had wasted my money. I can't believe this is actually coming out, downloading now and will report on quality later.
 

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Everything I see from this game makes it seem like the true FlatOut sequel we never got. Don't get me wrong, I loved FlatOut 2, but it was closer to Burnout than FlatOut, to be honest. That incredible level of destruction, those heavy cars (FlatOut 4 got close), that atmosphere... damn, too bad this is only coming in November on consoles, but then again this June would have been a bloodbath, releasing between OnRush and The Crew 2.
 

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Booted it up again last night, and it's really solid. The straight up Destruction Derby takes me back to the really early PlayStation days of glory, and the races feel weighty and fun.
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Yup it's like Destruction Derby 1 on steroids, I love the weighty feel of the cars and physics, the first car you get (not the lawnmover) had a reeealy nice feel, use the handbrake in every turn and just stomp on the gas, so much fun!
 
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