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Hey everyone, This is one of the biggest updates since launch. Two headline features, a pile of long-standing bug fixes, and a full save system audit under the hood. Your wheel drops now actually land in your Steam Inventory This one is embarrassing and important. Wheel drops were supposed to appear in your Steam Inventory since day one. They never did, for anyone. The grant call we used only works for developer accounts, so it worked in every test and failed silently on every real machine. That is fixed, and it changes more than it sounds: New wheel drops now arrive as real Steam Inventory items, tradable and marketable. Wheels you already unlocked in the game are backfilled automatically. Just play with Steam running and your collection will sync to your inventory over your next sessions. Ownership is now two way. If you sell or trade a rim away, you lose it in the game too. If you buy one from the Market or a trade, it unlocks in the game without a drop. Selling something actually costs you something, which is what makes buying worth it. If a wheel you earned does not show up in your inventory after a couple of sessions, ping me on Discord with your Steam name. About that 5,000,000 km achievement I have seen the thread thanks to Wightie, and I did the math. At realistic play speeds, 5 million kilometers is roughly 25,000 hours of active driving. That was never going to happen organically, and I am not pretending otherwise. So here is the deal: once you own 150 cars, a new option appears in Settings that lets you buy mileage with credits, at 10 credits per km. It counts toward the odometer and every distance achievement, including the 5M. It does NOT count on the distance leaderboard. Bought kilometers will never outrank driven ones there. Distance counters that quietly stopped counting The "km bug" reports were real, and there were several separate causes: a precision bug that froze the lifetime distance accumulator on long saves, the same bug freezing the sessio...

Hey everyone, Bigger hotfix than usual this time, a new option, a couple of annoying bugs squashed, and some polish. Here is everything in v1.5.217. Wheel Drop Notifications are now your call There is a new toggle in Settings for the wheel drop claim popup. It is ON by default, so nothing changes unless you want it to. Turn it OFF and the claim button stops sliding in on its own. Instead, a Claim button shows up in Settings whenever you have a drop waiting, and it tells you how many (like "Claim (1)"). Either way your pending drops are saved, so you never miss one, and you still get the reveal showing what you unlocked when you claim.Bop Mode is now two modes Bop Mode used to be a single switch. Now it is two:Bop Mode - Music: the car bounces to the beat of the track, BPM synced.Bop Mode - Key Press: the car pops on every keystroke, and now it does this while you are driving too, not just parked.They are mutually exclusive, so pick the one you like or leave both off. If you already had Bop Mode on, both turn on so your setup carries over until you choose. The car that drained its own tank Short version: a car with Cruise Control and a maxed Idle RPM could quietly drain its own fuel while you were away and end up as a dead brick that ignored every keystroke and click. Big thanks to Iris Nebula for the catch ("it stopped moving... as soon as I change the car it works, only this one is broken"). Root cause was: Cruise Control keeps the car in Drive and Idle RPM holds a minimum speed, so the car was burning the more expensive driving fuel rate even with zero input from you. Since fuel is saved per car, only that one car ran dry while the rest stayed full. Now, when the car is rolling on its own with no recent typing, it sips fuel at the cheaper idle rate instead of the driving rate, so your tank lasts far longer (AutoRefuel and DLC still work exactly as before). And an empty car now still bops when you press a key, so you can tell it is alive and just needs fuel, even t...

Hey everyone,Mostly a deep save-system sweep this round. A few of you sent long reports and some screenshots over the past week, and digging into them turned up more than I expected.Jukebox playlistTwo layers, stacked.Every time the game shut down, an empty SavePlaylist was being written even if you had not touched the Jukebox that session, overwriting your saved playlist on disk with an empty array. Underneath that, the save plugin was storing raw string arrays without the type marker it needs to deserialize them, and the load path was silently returning null. So even on saves where the data was intact, the playlist looked empty on relaunch.Both addressed. There is one unavoidable migration cost: anyone whose disk save was already wiped by the first bug will need to re-add their tracks once. After that, it sticks.Lifetime distance counterSome of you reported the counter reading high at startup, dropping mid-session, and jumping again on the next launch. The cache that holds total distance across all cars was being built before the current car was spawned, so the current car's saved odometer got included in the cache AND added live, double-counting it. Reordered so the cache always rebuilds with the current car excluded. Existing saves untouched, the display corrects itself on the next restart.AchievementsProgress bars sitting half-filled while the achievement said "Completed!" - the UI was reading stale progress from saves where the unlock happened before the progress field was written. Bar now snaps to full on unlock and the unlock path always writes the target value back so it stays consistent.Streak100, 500, and 1000 were not unlocking retroactively if your best streak was already past the threshold before those achievements existed. They check on launch now.Crash protection if your unlocked-achievement list ever gets out of sync with the inspector list.Wheel DropsThe whole timer save and load layer was throwing too many bugs to be worth keeping and it was very ...