Update 1.1 Released
2021-10-21We hope you’ve been enjoying the V1.0 release of Drive over the past couple of months. It has been great to watch people gaining achievements and posting times to the leader boards. We’ve received plenty of feedback, so we’ve got another update for you bringing some of the community feature requests to the game. This update focuses on input control, a long-requested feature update which includes force feedback support for wheels and input control using VR controllers. New Features: Added Steering Wheel Force Feedback – The community has been asking for this for a long time and now it’s here. Drive now supports force feedback for steering wheels providing really nice feedback while racing. You can adjust the strength of the feedback in the Settings menu.
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Add VR Controller Support – you can now control Drive using your VR controllers rather than keyboard or gamepad. Use the thumb stick to steer, triggers to accelerate and brake and various buttons for menu interactions, handbrake and horn. Support is limited to Oculus controllers due to issues with SteamVR integrations with Unity. Added Super Sampling – we’ve added the ability to adjust the graphics quality up to provide an even better VR racing experience. Obviously increasing the graphics quality is a heavy workload for both CPU and GPU so this feature requires a beefy PC to use on the higher settings. On lower end machines you may notice a reduction in FPS which can be offset by lowering the number of AI in a race. Updates: Particle Effects – we noticed that the dust effect when racing on dirt roads was a little too much when in VR so we adjusted the particle effect to make it a bit nicer. While we were they we also make a few changes to the smoke and fire effects. Bug fixing – fixed a range of smaller bugs and quality of life issues The Future: As we’ve mentioned before, Drive is an ongoing game for us so we will continue to add new content and provide updates into the future. We’ve got some new content in the works so the next update will include new cars and tracks so keep an eye out for that as well as some cool new items for Drive Customs. We hope you enjoy this release and your VR racing. As always, we welcome feedback through the Community Hub and the Drive Discord. The DRIVE Dev Team





