- Update v1.8.1:
- New Garage Cosmetics system - show off your trophies, or make it cozy!
- New Anomalous Activity - Goldshells, a puzzling source of cosmetics for the garage and car.
- A incredible new discovery, a [spoiler]REDACTED INFORMATION[/spoiler] to be found in the Zone.
- Upgrade to Unreal Engine 4.27
- New Paid Cosmetics - the Frozen Pack!
- Features and Content
- 23 Garage Cosmetics for you to discover, bring back, and mount in and around the garage.
- 23 new posters, signs, and decorative items for the garage
- 30 locations in the garage to customize
- Discoverable in multiple locations!
- More garage cosmetics are being planned for the future
- New Zone Activity - Goldshells!
- Multiple types can be found out in the zone
- Recommended method for opening is [spoiler]REDACTED[/spoiler]
- Something new is stirring out in the Zone there are rumors and sightings of [spoiler]REDACTED[/spoiler]
- 10 additional Wilderness maps have been added to the deep zone biome
- Main Menu Button added to show and take player to newest cosmetic DLC at digital store
- PS5
- PC
- New Localized Languages
- Polish
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Turkish
- Credits Updated
- Added new team members
- Added additional localization support
- Added new co-development partners
- Unreal Engine Upgrade - Version 4.27
- We’ve updated the Unreal Engine version that Pacific Drive uses to the latest version of Unreal Engine 4 - 4.27!
- This upgrade comes with significant changes and improvements to DirectX 12, which we have found improves performance and fixes those rare cases of mesh transforms becoming ‘corrupted’.
- For visual context, this is the glitch that showed massive spikes or broken textures in-game.
- Ex: (The sky dome being too small, a car part’s mesh physically skewed, or other similar vertex-bending artifacts).
- This upgrade moves us to the newest, most stable version of Unreal Engine 4, which improves stability of the game across the board.
- Performance Improvements from the engine update and the result of ongoing work:
- Foliage & Landscape Optimization (GPU)
- Improved shader caching to address hitches (GPU)
- Post Process & Lighting Optimizations (GPU)
- Multiple UI Optimizations (CPU)
- For anyone facing issues with this upgrade, it’s recommended to check that your GPU drivers are up to date.
- Bugs and UX Fixes
- Fixed an issue where sometimes meshes would become distorted on load for any location in game.
- Improved car doors closing on inclines, related to physics and has been adjusted.
- Player will now receive an impact hammer from the friendly dumpster if they can’t progress in the tutorial after returning from the first trip without one
- Resources less likely to get stuck in boulders - no longer stuck inside geometry.
- Fixed UI tabs to update more reliably in the logbook, inventory, and menus
- The radio will not interrupt music played by quest progression
- Prybar health meter has been enlarged when the icon is flipped horizontally
- Fixed an issue where the camera would sometimes move erratically while getting into the car
- Made payload more noticeable after it lands and fixed issue were interact prompt would not appear when highlighting the payload
- Fixed an issue where cosmetic items could be duplicated while interacting with the Detailing Station specifically
- PC ONLY - Fixed an issue where some graphics setting configurations were displaying at higher settings than displayed.
- Ex: Choosing a low, medium, high setting will no longer leave the setting set higher than displayed and will now be accurate.
- Update v1.7.4:
- New content featuring The Invincible
- New Decal Kit
- New Sticker
- New Bobblehead
- Astropunk Red Paint
- Resource replenishment has been fixed on all game modes
- Bugs and UX Fixes
- Gameplay settings now properly transfer when saving to a new save slot.
- Resource Replenishment setting now activates on death as well as successful returns to the garage.
- Presets can now be deleted in-game on PlayStation 5 and on PC.
- Getting into the car while trying to quick heal no longer causes the last equipped item to appear in the player’s hands while seated in the car.
- More lockers and storage containers are sortable.
- Radiation suit now correctly blocks radiation under 2.5K with the new difficulty presets.
- Special shout out to Macksfield, a player from our community who was experimenting with the upgrades and discovered that unintended radiation was making it's way into the Drivers suit.
- Dumpster Pearls now properly provide resources when fed to the Matter Deconstructor. This was related to harmful status effects and/or fatigue effects being disabled in the settings.
- Update v1.7.3:
- Various fixes related to Achievements and presets
- Colossal Cappy is now scannable, with the correct logbook implementation
- Bugs and UX Fixes
- Players are now warned when choosing a custom preset that includes settings that will disable achievements on main menu, and in game.
- Scenic Route now has a warning that explicitly states that achievements will be disabled because it turns off player death.
- It is now more difficult to disable Achievements from main menu and settings menu
- Achievements can only be disabled if game is started with settings applied from either the main menu, or from the settings menu - changes will not take effect if the pause menu has not been exited.
- Colossal Cappy is now easier to scan, and it’s entry will now appear in the logbook after being scanned.
- Removed a road-less map from the early game pool.
- A specific Forest map was proving to be too nasty when encountered early on in higher difficulties due to the lack of roads. This map has been removed from the pool of viable early game maps and will now only appear later in the game.
- Fixed typo in credits for "Worse in Person"
- Gameplay Balance and Scripting
- Implemented an “Accident Forgiveness Plan†where players who encountered an issue where achievements were erroneously disabled after scrolling through difficulties now have achievements enabled again for viable saves.
- Fix is retroactively applied to existing saves - it will be possible to start earning achievements again on affected saves.
- Story-related achievements will need to be re-attempted.
- Update v1.7.2:
- Various 'Custom Radio' fixes
- Fixed Waypoint placement issues
- Bugs and UX Fixes
- Fixed Soft-lock that would occur after driving through a level exit while interacting with the ARC device map.
- Custom Music can now be used in DirectX11 mode.
- Exiting the car while parked under a Stabilizer no longer teleports the player on top of the Stabilizer.
- Impact Hammer recipe is no longer affected by recipe scaling options during Q01. Will still scale after Q01 is completed (Identified as an issue with higher difficulty presets specifically)
- “Siphon Fuel†objective during the tutorial will no longer jitter as fuel is being pumped.
- Fixed issue where waypoints were unable to be placed on map when Zoomed in on certain maps
- Fixed default and custom music sometimes overlapping when played in-game
- Custom difficulties that contain a period in their name will now appear and be usable in the preset difficulties list.