Der Publisher Electronic Arts hat jetzt die ersten Details zum zweiten Patch für das Rennspiel Need for Speed: Shift verkündet. Im Rahmen des Updates wird nach derzeitigen Planungen unter anderem die Anzahl der Teilnehmer bei Online-Spielen von 8 auf 12 erhöht. Zudem sollen die allgemeine Performance sowie die Stabilität des Spiels angehoben werden.
Auch die Handhabung der einzelnen Autos wird nochmals überarbeitet. Des Weiteren dürfen sich Besitzer von ATI-Grafikkarten über einen besseren Support freuen, was sich letztendlich in der grafischen Qualität niederschlagen sollte. Besseree Unterstützung soll es zudem für PC-Systeme geben, die mit mehreren Grafikprozessoren arbeiten.
Hier eine Liste der Änderungen:
- Increased the maximum number of online players from 8 to 12
- General game stability and performance improvements
- Improved car handling
- Fix for issue where some cars would bounce on their suspension during high load situations
- Fix for grass sometimes being displayed out of position
- Fix for intermittent incorrect driver duel results
- Fix for inverted balance slider operation
- Fix for online wins and losses occasionally being calculated incorrectly for drift races
- Fixed issue where loaned career car would inherit the player's career car tuning settings
- Fixed various usability issues with the advanced tuning screens
- Fixed lap timing for first lap of rolling start events
- Fixed car tuning settings sometimes not taking effect
- Fix to prevent rewinding past the start of instant replays
- Fixed car livery occasionally appearing all white during driver duel events
- Fixed incorrect screens being shown when player is disqualified
- Fix for occasional invisible opponents appearing during online drift events
- Fix for intermittent hang when skipping quickly through post-race screens
- Fix for intermittent hang when pressing X repeatedly in My Cars screen
- Fix for missing race groove on point-to-point tracksPrevented car livery resetting to default after an online race
- Fix for advanced tuning not staying unlocked on reload
- Fixed invitational event cars getting their setups corrupted and becoming undrivable (e.g. Veryon and Carrera GT)
- Fix for Lamborghini's having a low top speed when upgraded
- Fix for Corvette Z06 and Dodge Viper not able to move at the start of some events
- Fix for some upgraded AI cars bottoming out causing some instability over bumps
- Fix upgrade menu bugFix for a force feedback strength settings save bug
- Fix multi-player settings for AI opponents and drift modeFix for vinyls being incorrectly applied on rear wing
- Fix for a hang in lobby when accessing friend's list from car select
- Fix for profile load bug which skips save select menu when holding down Enter key
- Fix for jumping body parts when car resets
- Improved ATi graphics card support
- Improved dynamic vertex buffer usage (performance optimization on all PCs)
- Fixed crashes on certain PC configurations when changing shadow settings
- Fixed intermittent crash during first lap of races on certain PC configurations
- Disabled forced dampening for custom wheel presets on PC
- Optimized multi-GPU PC operation
- Fix for intermittent missing surface sounds on certain PC configurations
- Fix for intermittent black skies
- Fix for LAN menu hang for client when host quickly returns to main menu
