Hotshot Racing Update Now Live

[Jaybop]

Since Hotshot Racing's launch back in September, we've been blown away by the love and support our retro racer has received. It's been incredible to see all the lightning-fast laps, photo finishes and explosive scrapes from all our hard-drivin' Hotshots.

We've also been listening closely to all of your feedback and are pleased to announce our first Hotshot Racing update, which tackles many of the common issues you've been sharing on Twitter, Discord and Steam.

- Achievement unlocks: Players can now unlock the 'Overachiever' and 'Trophy Hunter' achievements

- Quick/Ranked Race fixes: Resolved the issue where players were unable to start a race

- Speed glitch resolved: We have increased car speed across Normal, Hard and Expert modes! Jump into Time Trial and set new records with upgraded performance

- Controller fixes: Game will now prioritise your game pad over other control options; Xbox 360 controller support has also been improved

And we're still listening! Feel free to share you feedback on these updates, or any other issues you're having:

- In our Steam forums
- On our Discord server: discord.gg/curvedigital
- By commenting below!

We hope these updates give you an even better Hotshot experience. Have these fixes improved the game for you? If so, please leave a review or rating on Steam, Xbox or PlayStation Store.

[Sundowning.]

Reposting my issue in the hopes of getting a fix:
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Screen tearing is still present and it's terribly noticeable, at the point it makes the game feel as if you were lagging in an online race, but on single player mode.

21:9, 3440x1440 100Hz, Vsync off (Gsync monitor).

This was reported a while back on the issues thread.

[Jonny*Combat]

Gear changes don't work on an xbox one pad. You have to let off the accelerator and keep pressing it, even then it is completely random.

[Lucky Mountain Games]

Jonny*Combat님이 먼저 게시:

Gear changes don't work on an xbox one pad. You have to let off the accelerator and keep pressing it, even then it is completely random.

If you have V-Sync switched off manual gears do not change correctly. A temporary fix is to enable V-Sync for now. This issue has been logged and we should have more info shortly.

[Lucky Mountain Games]

Bury Tomorrow님이 먼저 게시:

Reposting my issue in the hopes of getting a fix:
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Screen tearing is still present and it's terribly noticeable, at the point it makes the game feel as if you were lagging in an online race, but on single player mode.

21:9, 3440x1440 100Hz, Vsync off (Gsync monitor).

This was reported a while back on the issues thread.

Would it be possible for you to list your full PC spec on the Hotshot Support Discord (if you havent already). Any additional info would be a great help: https://discord.gg/xStjRWD

[Fair Warning]

can we have ultrawide?

[󠁳⁧⁧ 󠁳]

Lucky Mountain Games님이 먼저 게시:

Serial Sprinter achievement doesnt work.
And how we can unlock:
- Barrel-ly Made It ?
- Barreling Along ?
- Download Diva ?
Please help, game is amazing.

[MizzouRah]

Lucky Mountain Games님이 먼저 게시:

Bury Tomorrow님이 먼저 게시:

Reposting my issue in the hopes of getting a fix:
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Screen tearing is still present and it's terribly noticeable, at the point it makes the game feel as if you were lagging in an online race, but on single player mode.

21:9, 3440x1440 100Hz, Vsync off (Gsync monitor).

This was reported a while back on the issues thread.

Would it be possible for you to list your full PC spec on the Hotshot Support Discord (if you havent already). Any additional info would be a great help: https://discord.gg/xStjRWD

Going to do the same. Experiencing microstutters on hardware that should handle it.

[Foxhack]

Okay, there is SOMETHING weird going on with the car's AI now. I'm playing in hard, and the cars are more aggressive, yes. But I'm also seeing cars randomly get thrown across the track by other racers, sometimes the crashes make them go up into the air, or makes them turn the wrong way and they struggle to get back on the track. I just played a race where the last place was half a track behind everyone else!

I played the game before the patch and the AI was never this erratic. And it looks like the difficulty got bumped up a lot, too, I can't even keep up with the AI in hard mode now (I'm not that good of a driver but it seemed a bit more fair pre-patch, like it was hard but not excessively hard.)

And... activating a drift doesn't seem to work right some of the time? I used to activate it by tapping brake but now it seems I have to tap it three times to get the drift to work...

[zsigi]

Bury Tomorrow님이 먼저 게시:

Reposting my issue in the hopes of getting a fix:
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Screen tearing is still present and it's terribly noticeable, at the point it makes the game feel as if you were lagging in an online race, but on single player mode.

21:9, 3440x1440 100Hz, Vsync off (Gsync monitor).

This was reported a while back on the issues thread.

Have you tried "Borderless window" (i.e. windowed fullscreen) with V-sync? Regular fullscreen is locked to 60Hz, that may be causing your problems. I have a 144Hz monitor (Gsync as well, but not turned on as it caused issues in other games) and runs like butter.

[Luigi]

There is no mention of wheel support. Is it still planned?

[SilverSurferNHS]

Expert is still broken AF. I can slipstream and drift 99% laps and wind up half a lap behind in the mercie, viper and nsx.

[SilverSurferNHS]

Back button still gets bugged in the menus, can't back to previous menu. Odd framerate slowdown for no apparent reason mid race.

[BerylBolt]

As of the time of me writing this post, the controls not only for the main menu as well as for the in-game driving controls ARE STILL NOT correctly... corrected. My PlayStation 4 Dualshock 4 controller will not function properly and I cannot drive the car since the accelerator button pauses the game instead of letting me race. I sincerely hope that this and the other persisting issues are all fixed because as of right now, I'm inching closer and closer to just requesting a refund. One step forward and yet two steps back. This game has so much potential, I hope the developers don't squander the chance to keep improving this game into a timeless retro inspired arcade racing title! Fingers crossed these various concerns will be course corrected!!

[shadow1w2]

I currently play on the Switch version but plan to get the PC version eventually.
Would be nice to have an in menu achievement list for all platforms but especially Switch which has no achievements at all, unless you count the unlock conditions for shop items.
Just for the sake of quick viewing perhaps.

Speed increase wise the slower cars seem a bit more useful now and overall, Expert feels a lot less depressing and impossible as I can keep up with the pack a bit more however the AI is still on a warpath to slam me into a wall to a complete stop.
The aggressiveness is fine really, fun even, least on Hard but it feels like the AI on Expert they have an unfair advantage of being an immovable brick as well.
Pushing them is difficult to impossible as they won't even budge an inch but can easily push the player like their nothing and force them off to slide along the track if they so much as tap the back tire.
It seems to happen less for me after the update but before that I was constantly getting smashed against a wall and forced way behind the pack without hope of catching up.
I think it could use some more adjusting or perhaps a Nightmare (think Doom nightmare with a warning?) difficulty could be made and Expert could have slightly less invincible AI?
I like the high difficulty just feel like it needs some balancing to be more organic.

Either way it's good to see some updates like this and it's very much appreciated.

[Sir Tuddle of Wuddles]

Same issue as above, playing on PS4 pad and the RT button pauses game instead of accelerating. Makes the game nonfunctional on controller. Is there any fix for this besides waiting for an update? playing on keyboard is OK but it's not why i bought the game.