Giants Software program and Straight4 Studios have launched a brand new, free DLC pack alongside a “vital new replace” for Project Motor Racing. Update 2.1 features a complete rebuild of the dealing with mannequin for the GT3 and GT4 classes, Alpha triple-screen assist on PC, and extra.
The ‘Aussie Rivals’ pack brings one of many biggest rivalries in motorsport to Project Motor Racing for the primary time, introducing the 2013 Holden VF Commodore and a “fully reworked” 2013 Ford Falcon FG. These Australian home fashions represented the final really native conflict between Holden and Ford, earlier than Holden transitioned to the imported ZB Commodore shell in 2018 and the dying of automobile manufacturing in Australia noticed the Supercars sequence subsequently shift to Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang shells. This period of V8 Supercar racing has been represented in a string of Forza Motorsport video games, in addition to on iRacing and 2014’s Grid Autosport, however by no means in Gran Turismo – so this will likely come as notably appetising for PS5 gamers.
Alongside the DLC pack comes Update 2.1, which – in response to Straight4 – “delivers main enhancements throughout content material, physics, on-line racing, immersion, presentation, and close-quarters racing.”
The replace features a full rebuild of the GT4 and GT3 courses led by new CCO Aristotelis Vasilakos, former dealing with guru at Kunos Simulazioni for Assetto Corsa. It additionally options Alpha triple-screen assist, improved collisions, and varied “graphical enrichments all through the sport.” Logitech’s ‘Trueforce’ suggestions has additionally now been enabled on all platforms.
Gamers will now have the ability to be a part of supported on-line periods after they’ve began, with out having to attend for the following full restart, and people registered for a ranked session will now not want to remain on the registration display whereas they wait. That’s, when you’re registered you’ll have the ability to return to different areas of the sport. When the ranked session is nice to go, you’ll get a notification that can assist you to be a part of straight from wherever you might be.
“Gamers have been placing in the laps, giving us the suggestions, and pushing us to make PMR higher,” mentioned new Straight4 Studios CEO Kevin Boland. “Update 2.1 is the results of that course of: a serious GT4 and GT3 overhaul, cleaner racing, higher on-line circulation, stronger immersion options, and the free Aussie Rivals Pack, delivered as a giant thanks to our neighborhood that continues to encourage and form Project Motor Racing.”
This new replace follows an earlier main replace for Project Motor Racing launched again in March, which “geared toward resetting PMR’s basis and bringing the sim a lot nearer to what a severe motorsport title ought to really feel like.”
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