What’s in the update?
The update contains improvements and amendments to the game, and fixes for several issues reported by players on the MotorStorm forum.
> Microbadges – Secret Microbadges unlocked.
The hidden Microbadges are no longer a mystery: check them out from the Microbadges screen in your Garage.
> Audio Settings – Preference order is now DTS followed by AC3.
DTS audio settings are automatically configured if available.
> Audio Settings – Vehicle horn volume control added.
Volume of vehicle horns can now be adjusted using a dedicated sliding scale.
> Garage – Competition Winners Gallery added.
A Gallery for photo competition winners can be viewed from your Garage.
> Speed Events – Gate visibility improved.
Not only are the next two gates now visible (instead of only the next one), the colour of the flares at each gate have changed to make the Speed Events a little easier: orange smoke on the left and yellow smoke on the right.
> Speed Events – Gate ‘passed’ issue fixed.
When playing in standard definition, the issue with some gates not registering as ‘passed’ has been fixed.
> Split-screen – 4-player Split-screen lock-up fixed.
A potential lock-up situation, occasionally caused by leaving a 4-player split-screen race, has been fixed.
> Online Racing – “Never-ending (zero lap) races” fixed.
Races will no longer begin with (and remain infinitely at) zero laps; a problem which affected various online races since Update 1.02.
> Online Racing – All 12 positions displayed in race results.
Since Update 1.02, only the top 8 positions were displayed at the end of a race. This is fixed and all 12 results are displayed at the end of the race.
> Online Rankings – Rank cap increased.
In order to alleviate the congestion at the top of the Leaderboard the rank cap has been increased.
> Online Leaderboards – Player’s stats added.
You can now view any player’s stats from any of the Leaderboards in the game, and compare them with your own.
> Online Matchmaking – “Searching for Matchmaking” screen fixed.
The “Searching for Matchmaking” message no longer overlaps, as it did in certain languages.
> Soundtrack – Track previews added.
Highlighting a track on the playlist (from the Soundtrack screen in the Options menu) will play the track.
> Soundtrack – Track details added to Pause Screen.
The artist and song title of the track being played are displayed on the Pause Screen.
I hear this badboi weighs in at around 600mb!
ReplyDeleteMethinks the devs are trying desperately hard to get people buying / playing this! I mean, new downloadable content for it for free every week for the past few weeks; plus patching things that people have asked for. I really must play this again. I'm ashamed to say it's joined a growing pile of games I've played only a couple of times before moving onto the next.
ReplyDeleteOnline Racing – “Never-ending (zero lap) races” fixed.
ReplyDeleteFIXED? That sounds like a pretty cool feature to me - talk about an endurance race! 24 hours? See if you can last, FOREVER!
@ pablo - 608Mb to be exact, kind scary, are we downloading the whole game over again?? now d/ling it :\
ReplyDelete@ reakt - yeah, the thing i didn't like was the change to the online lobby, nowhere near as user friendly as the original game. For me though the game just felt like a map pack that we were asked to pay full price for. Have you tried playing 4 player split screen? seriously not worth the bother on anything less than a 50" monster screen.
MS:PR - 660,000 units sold globally
MS - 3,480,000 units sold globally
i shall let the numbers speak for themselves. I much prefer FUEL to MS:PR even though it's only shifted 50,000 units.
Oh, and a big thanks to the pond scum who slashed my brand new set of DMR Moto tyres outside of work today! that's £60 i could do without having to spend right now :( nothing like a bit of mindless criminal damage to round off a day at work hey.
@ reakt - you can do a 24hr Le Mans race in GRiD if you are clinically insane :D
ReplyDeleteMy award for greatest comment on the EU Blog goes to our Spanish friend Lacri:
ReplyDelete"Please, fix the AC/DC spelling mistake. The band appears as AB/CD! If it helps, I am using the Spanish version of VidZone."
Cue reply:
"Hi Lacri, AB/CD is actually a AC/DC tribute act"(sic)
Armando Iannucci would be proud of that.
:)
ReplyDeleteThe VidZone guy replied to my comment too (first time I've had one of 'em blogrunners acknowledge me. I asked about support for the official Sony remote in VidZone. Apparently it already works, but only if it's assigned to slot 1.