Need for Speed: Shift - Erste Details zu Patch Nr. 2

Mit "Need for Speed: Shift" hat Electronic Arts die bekannte Rennspielserie neu aufleben lassen und erntet dafür durchweg gute Noten. Mit dem ersten Patch integrierte man einen LAN-Modus in das Spiel. Jetzt steht das zweite Update in den Startlöchern. Allerdings sind die Veränderungen diesmal nicht ganz so gravierend. Beispielsweise wird die maximale Spielerzahl für Online-Duelle von acht auf zwölf hochgeschraubt. Zudem soll die Performance und Stabilität des Spiels insgesamt verbessert werden.

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• 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
• mproved 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

Die Autos werden ebenfalls modifiziert und sollen sich nach dem Update etwas anders handhaben lassen. Besitzer einer Grafikkarte aus dem Hause AMD dürfen sich über diverse Optimierungen freuen, die für eine bessere Grafikdarstellung sorgen werden. Wer mehrere Grafikkarten verbaut hat, sollte ebenfalls Verbesserungen bemerken.

Wann der zweite Patch für "Need for Speed: Shift" veröffentlicht werden soll, ist noch nicht bekannt.

Download: Need for Speed: Shift - Patch #1 (14 MB, WF-Mirror)

Download: Need for Speed: Shift - Demo (1,13 GB, WF-Mirror)