转眼间（在上海隔离中）一个季度过去了，rF2也按预期推出了第二个季度大更新，由于整体节奏变化以及似乎更有钱了（虽然MSG看起来药丸的样子，但是只要不用去帮忙做其他游戏了），这个季度的更新非常大，带来了一些新功能等，内容需要五月更新发布，下面看看有哪些。

（注：体验RC会导致汉化补丁失效，将会在正式版本更新后再更新）

首先是新功能的视频介绍

声音引擎

声音引擎进行了彻底的翻新，并且是整体的更新，但是内容也可以更针对性的利用新的特性，但是需要等到下个月的内容更新一起出来

降挡保护，引擎和刹车冷却

这个版本带来了一些物理改动，带来了如上三个功能，在RC版本下， Dallara IR-18 (v0.93) 和Formula Pro (V0.93) 加入了TEST版本，来使用新得功能

雨天更新

对于整体降雨的行为进行了重做，包括赛道上下雨和变干的行为，并且可以设置赛道的湿度。

其他

其他更新相见更新日志，这里提几个亮点

- 增加了赛车线辅助显示（其他游戏都有了但是其实没啥用）

- 增加了火花特效，效果不错

- 更新了安全车

- AI的一系列更新

- UI中一系列设置选项的更新

Release Candidate V1.1128 Update Notes

Client 8551968
Dedi 8551974

General

• Updated Safety Car added to Retail and ModDev. Old Safety Car removed.

• Added a visual driving line feature, this can be toggled from settings

• Removed texture cache to simplify loading a bit

• Added an option to set the amount of water on roads at the start of a session.

• Increased the rate of RealRoad calculations by approximately x4.

• Added a server option to disable faster real road calculations, as this adds approximately an extra 4KBps per client to server overheads.

• Minor update to default weather conditions for different profiles (Rainy/Overcast/Sunny etc)

• Updated how road and rain conditions are reported. Old percentage values now snap to a set percent for each tyre of condition, masking the true absolute condition in the game. The Default HUD has been updated to show a text description.

• Corrected Rear Flap System default wet weather disable point to work with new weather ranges.

• Fixed an issue where Cameras constrained to specific paths would not work correctly in replays.

• Extended Freelook mode to allow control via joypads as well as adjustments of exposure, aperture, sensor size and focus.

Graphics

• Decreased interval of Static Mapper updates from 5 minutes to 10 seconds. This should result in smoother lighting changes at dawn / dusk and as weather conditions change.

• Corrected Sky Colour to remove Cyan Effect

• Slight adjustments to exposure for sky colour adjustments when sun at it’s highest.

• Minor Atmospheric Corrections, including linking AirMass to AirPollution,

• Reducing Fog Brightness Slightly

• Reduced Exposure a touch when the sun is around 10 degrees of altitude.

• Improved cloud selection at different weather settings

• Minor cloud texture improvements

• Fixed an issue where Clouds would disappear at really high altitudes

• Fixed issues with lighting interpolation in sky rendering at Dusk/Sunrise, which would result in jumps in lighting values.

• Fixed puddle splashes not setting when rain drops are not used (set to off or scene viewer)

• Fixed lighting on spray during wet conditions, and tweaked particle profile

• Updated reflections on PBR Road and Curb Shaders

• Updated Rain Particle settings and fixed rendering on ultrawide screens

• Passed through particle settings refining Spray, Dust, Smoke and more.

• Fixed an issue in VR where the scene would over exposure

• Fixed an issue in VR where replay mode would not render correctly

• Driver labels now work in VR

• Sparks!

• Particle movement and camera movement based motion blur that can be clamped to a target camera refresh rate (shutter speed)

• Movement behaviour based on airflow estimations around the car.

• Terrain and car underbody collisions.

• Additional light emission from particle. 

• New behaviour archetype concept in the rF2Particles.pcd file.

• New sparks archetype that brings:

• New sparks particle effect that gets activated when undertray points of the car scrapes on the ground.

• Backwards compatibility with existing cars and tracks.

Physics

• Implemented enhanced cooling system for oil & water with new parameters in the .hdv file The new model includes:

• Direct heat transfer between water and oil

• Oil radiator

• Switchover Thermostat

• Separated front and rear brake ducts

• Added configurable gear shift protection

• New algorithm for wet road calculations effecting how quickly surfaces get wet and dry, taking into account drainage, humidity, ambient temperature and sky weather conditions.

• Updated tyre grip calculations on rubbered in areas when surfaces are wet

AI

• Added AI Dry Tyre strategy (Random Dry Tyre in Practice, Softs in Qualifying and try to pick an appropriate tyre for race strategy in race)

• AI now check if to change Tyre Type just before the pit road entry rather than at the start of the lap

• Fixed various issues around AI Tyre Selection when session changes and weather changes – such as not switching to wet tyres when it was dry before but now is wet.

• Fixed an issue with calculating road conditions when changing session where they would not fully compute.

• Fixed an issue where cars that don’t allow pit stop refuelling would run a full tank in practice and qualifying

• Prevent AI from leaving pits in closed session

• Fixed an issue where if there was a set of valid wet tyres, intermediate tyres would default to dry tyres.

UI

• Always show official sticky servers in the server list even if filters are active.

• Enabled “Restart warmup” button also when event is in race session.

• Updated button layout in session controls and setup summary.

• Added fading out of screen when leaving event or replay.

• Added condensing of tire name when too long to fit in event standings table.

• Added help text when hovering over various settings

• Added music to showroom

• Changed breaking of long chat lines so they only break on full words

• Fixed getting stuck in assign control pop-up after assigning tab key

• Disabled user text selection everywhere except in text fields

• Added highlighting of assigned control key values when hovering over with mouse

• Improved transition between different profiles in graphics and gameplay settings menus

• Refined styling of car classes in event screen

• Refined styling of car classes in fullscreen standings ticker

• Disabled “Default max wheel angle” setting when “Max wheel angle mode” is set to automatic

• Disabled “Steering wheel range” setting when “Range set by vehicle” setting is enabled

• Hid the car selection list when the drive/spectate pop-up is showing when joining a server directly with a join link

• Changed searching for cars and tracks so that the list scroll position is kept at the top after search (clearing the search text will scroll to the selected item)

• Enabled car selection on server during a practice session

• Made it possible to add multiple custom graphics profiles

• Made it possible to add multiple custom gameplay difficulty profiles

• Always sort “All Tracks & Cars” to the top of the list in singleplayer series selection

• Added fallback image for showcase tile in case the actual image cannot be loaded

• Updated showcase, news and store tiles background image positioning and scaling

• Added option to expand server chat window to full height

• Setup notes for the highlighted setup (the one you clicked on in the setup list but not yet loaded) are now shown on the setup summary page

• Setup notes can now be typed in the setup summary page (the setup still has to be saved to save the changes)

• When saving a setup, the folder for the current track will be selected by default (instead of the folder of the loaded setup)

• Removed automatically expanding all found items in car and track selection after search

• Added highlighting of selected opponent filters

• Fixed multiplayer screen with drive/spectate pop-up showing too soon when using +connect to join a server, and if and when content install is still in progress

• You can now select car upgrades directly from the car selection screen without going to the showroom (both in singleplayer and multiplayer)

• Disabled singleplayer grid position setting if qualifying is enabled

• Added two new gearbox graphs:

• Top speed per gear

• RPM after upshift

• The existing graph, gear spacing, is kept as a third option

• Fixed occasional blank page in the first launch wizard when going to the exit screen and back

• Reordered difficulty settings and sliders

• Singleplayer RealRoad settings are now enabled only when the weather preset is set to “Scripted”

• Renamed “Steering effects strength” setting to “Force feedback direction”

• Singleplayer “Race Laps” and “Race Time” settings are now disabled/enabled based on the “Finish Criteria” setting

• A singleplayer session can now also be enabled by clicking on the disabled session button in quick event

Modding

• Added IBL Visualizer Debug tool to Scene Viewer (already present in ModDev)

• Added Texture UV Mip Debug tool to Scene Viewer (already present in ModDev)

• Added AI Vocal Strategy Player File debug option for Mod Dev (Pit Strategies, Tyre Changes and when selected what they are doing – can be expanded in future).

• Fixed overcast preview mode (note: this is not exactly the same as in game)

• Updated sample wet masks at Loch Drummond

Sound

• New 3D Sound Engine

• Increased amount of simultaneous effects to 256

• Environmental effects and filtering system

• Proper cockpit filtering

• Autodetection of open and closed cockpits for environment effects and filtering

• Sound effects such as skid, kerbs, gravel, wind, suspension and many more now work online and in replays

• Support for full surround sound setups

• HRTF support (Binaural headphone experience)

• Improved VR experience

• Backwards compatible

• Many new sound effects

• Support for trackside broadcast microphones

• Every car now causes audible ambient noise around the whole track

• Brand new, modern, customisable file format with much more freedom for audio designers

• Improved debugging tools for dev mode

Formula Pro V0.93

Added TEST version which includes shift protection, push to pass, and engine cooling and brake duct cooling split

Dallara IR-18 V0.93

Added TEST version which includes shift protection, engine cooling and brake duct cooling split