Always improving
Every update. A better drive.
New features, fixes, and improvements from the Drift Team release history. Open a year to explore the archive.
Recent updates
- Game restyle.
- Multiplayer fixes.
- Move GWT temp dir.
- Fix daily race track selection.
- Bug fixes.
- Multiplayer connection fixes.
- Multiplayer voice chat volume fix.
- Fixed sound loops.
- Multiplayer voice chat fixes.
- Multiplayer voice chat volume.
- Multiplayer voice chat.
- Fix traffic car horns.
- Multiplayer opponent icons.
- Scale instances to 0.
- WebRTC mesh network.
- Self host WebRTC.
- Fix finish time accuracy.
- Variable FPS rendering.
- Multiplayer gold record times.
- Bug fixes.
- Web sockets handle multiple servers.
Earlier updates
202695 updates
- Web sockets.
- Virtual threads with rate limiting.
- User IP addr tracking.
- Memory usage tuning.
- Damage always on and ghost car option removed.
- Cache game stats.
- Reduce memory usage.
- Switch to Cloud Run.
- Allow gRPC to load its native library.
- Removed Java Ahead of Time (AOT) cache.
- Switch to gRPC DB connections.
- Log player replay times to console on game start.
- Bug fixes.
- Upgrade Elemental2.
- Added Java (Ahead of Time) AOT cache.
- Less Java heap memory usage.
- Fixed protobuf warning in logs.
- Fixed multiplayer race chart.
- Switched WebServlets to be RestControllers.
- Locked login cookie to same site.
- Upgrade to Java 25.
- Switch back to an F1 instance.
- Show all record ghost cars in multiplayer race.
- Bug fixes.
- Multiplayer sector times.
- Fix multiplayer in-game leaderboard.
- Show all multiplayer players in replay dialogs.
- Multiplayer records.
- Chunk multiplayer loading to stop timeout.
- Switch to HTTP DB access to fix random 500 failures.
- Remove DB warmup to fix start failures.
- Adjust system memory.
- Datastore version upgrade.
- Bug fixes.
- Multiplayer leaderboard.
- Moved word censorship to server.
- Rewind and restart with gamepad.
- Added stop-datastore-emulator execution.
- Keep track online player count.
- Disable page zoom with scroll wheel while racing.
- Header notification of multiplayer races.
- Move cars that overlap to have a gap between them.
- Player car tags to match car colours.
- Move ghost cars so they don't overlap.
- Daily race ghost car colours.
- Multiplayer: Admin tools.
- Added minimum percentage drift bonus when tandem drifting.
- Multiplayer record profile replays.
- Track editor shortcuts for Mac.
- Bug fixes.
- Validate multiplayer records.
- Multiplayer: Randomised start positions.
- Multiplayer: Don't show replay cars in map.
- Multiplayer: Players start in order from highest score to lowest.
- Multiplayer: Player race status notifications.
- Removed auto accelerate.
- Multiplayer: Scores to match target cars.
- Multiplayer: Leaderboard to show target cars.
- Fixed cron jobs running from admin.
- Allow unlimited race replays to show.
- Cleaned up AdInPlay code.
- Multiplayer: Allow 2 race replays to show.
- New objects.
- Multiplayer: Race records.
- Removed watch ad to refuel.
- Multiplayer: Highlight opponent in race.
- Grayscale non drafting cars.
- Gfx performance improvements.
- Multiplayer: Matching to other teams.
- Fixed DB ancestor key creation.
- Improved server memory reporting.
- Fixed server memory usage.
- Fixed track objects.
- Show track length in more track descriptions.
- Multiplayer: Bug fixes.
- Fix deletion of user cars.
- Multiplayer: Save race history.
- Enable response compression.
- Fix camera direction when rewinding for multiplayer lag.
- Upgrade to Spring Boot 4 with Jetty.
- Inlined the nocache.js file.
- Improved browser caching.
- Smooth ghost car movement during rewind.
- Fix camera direction for race restart.
- Multiplayer: Max race time.
- Dependency libs upgrade.
- Multiplayer: Bug fixes.
- Longer rewind ability.
- Multiplayer: Discord voice chat.
- Multiplayer: Auto ready state when chatting.
- Multiplayer: Race progress indication in lobby.
- Bug fixes.
- Multiplayer: Fix sector time colours.
- Wait for the GWT CodeServer to start before starting the Spring Boot server.
- Switched to woff2 fonts.
2025127 updates
- Force HTTPS.
- Track count on top track creators table.
- Top track creators table.
- Chart for unique players per week.
- Camera angle and zoom included in rewind.
- Multiplayer: Rework logic flow.
- Show control method in high scores and race finish screen.
- Multiplayer: Save unsent chat message.
- Multiplayer: Bug fixes.
- Multiplayer: Moved to main home screen area.
- Multiplayer: Track select.
- Multiplayer: Test tools.
- Multiplayer: Scores.
- Bug fixes.
- Multiplayer: Show all players on join game.
- Removed distance driving stats.
- Multiplayer: Show drift bonus area on players car.
- Multiplayer: Improved connection type detection.
- Multiplayer: Ready to race button.
- Multiplayer: Drift bonus.
- Multiplayer fixes.
- Multiplayer: Final times screen.
- Multiplayer: In-game leaderboard.
- Multiplayer: Chat history on connect.
- Bug fixes.
- Multiplayer connection type icon.
- Damage indicator added to opponent cars.
- Multiplayer network data usage indicator.
- Added objects and cars.
- Build JS file size report.
- Fixed assetlinks.
- Multiplayer network lag fix.
- Resimulate correction data compression.
- Rewind and resimulate multiple corrections.
- More obvious rewind indicator.
- Rewind and resimulate.
- Added PlayerInputMgr for rewind and resimulate.
- Bug fixes.
- Added car damage fire sound.
- Restart feature.
- Removal of TrackBodyGridMgr and verlet performance improvement.
- Full fade in at race start.
- Tyre smoke decreases as speed increases.
- Removed rolling average spin control.
- Rewind feature.
- Show newest community cars created in editor.
- Elemental2 upgrade.
- Reduce memory usage for replay cars.
- Phone vibrate support added.
- Bug fixes.
- Chat delete.
- Data cleanup tools.
- Added mountain climb drift track.
- Object draw order with arrows in editor.
- Added texture edge blur.
- Pinch to zoom in game.
- Removed cached images from definitions.
- Switch to elemental2-webgl for WebGL.
- Traffic now stays in its lane around a corner.
- Fix computer car regression tests.
- VIP users can change their steering type.
- Added "Center line" option in main track properties.
- Bug fixes.
- Added Ackerman steering.
- Clean track object sizes in the editor.
- Multiplayer to transmit binary data.
- Switch to elemental2-media for Audio.
- Switch to elemental2-dom for WebRTC.
- Added more Learn to Drift tracks.
- Performance improvements.
- Added personal race stats.
- Simplified player and computer car list in track editor.
- Zoom key buttons.
- Share replay from in game with time param.
- Pause sound if replay is paused.
- Editor allows switching car types and start positions.
- Don't allow racing of non-promoted tracks in single player.
- Improved cornering for computer racers.
- Replay playback speed controls.
- Bug fixes.
- In game volume controls.
- In game zoom controls.
- End of race chart.
- Rounded corners on fieldsets and dialogs.
- Smooth car stopping.
- Track validations on publish.
- Replaced Practice with Learn to Drift.
- Removed Facebook login.
- 2 decimal place for in race times.
- 1 decimal place for in race times.
- Lazy load usernames.
- Bug fixes.
- Performance improvements.
- Fix replays not validating.
- Improved computer car logic.
- Loop track detection always automatic.
- Improved crash physics and performance improvements.
- Turn on traffic in Daily Race.
- Fixed server validation (HashSet to LinkedHashSet).
- Fixes for Java race validation failure.
- Added kms/miles driven to the home screen.
- Added friend race button in friends list.
- Show track creator and desc in Single Player.
- Bug fixes.
- Allow a corner as the start track piece.
- Improved image compression in track editor.
- Show where the thumbnail boundary is in the editor.
- Added damage indicator on players car.
- Track editor warnings when immovable objects are over the track.
- Damage turned on for all Daily Races.
- Improved computer racer and traffic driving abilities.
- Added track editor objects.
- Car damage on all cars.
- Show track creator in daily race.
- Bug fixes.
- Lazy load user details on page load.
- Fix start dialog drivers table.
- Auto track checker and cleaner.
- CrazyGames integration.
- Restyle of track desc widget.
- Revamped race times widget.
- Handle player names with tall special characters.
- Show position compare events in Daily Race.
- Show position score changes in Daily Race.
- Upgrade to Java 21.
- Custom game zoom amount.
- Bug fixes.
202472 updates
- Added rear and four-wheel steering.
- Auto zoom to cater for large vehicles.
- Small track skips no longer get a penalty. Big skips get a larger penalty.
- Disable full-screen mode when iFramed.
- Next track voting only open to logged-in users.
- Improved smoke and dust effects.
- Reduced acceleration when drifting with point-to-steer.
- Switch from JSNI to Elemental2.
- Game menu restructure.
- Dynamic game zooming + removed corner arrows.
- Bug fixes.
- Allow loading more community cars.
- Library upgrades.
- In game steering help message when activated.
- Automatically update the change log.
- Added more engine sounds.
- Admin user cars.
- Show car descriptions.
- Added car flame position.
- Removed alternate player racing option in friend race.
- Players can create cars to share.
- Added more cars.
- Fix to properly stop objects when not moving.
- Disable restarts in multiplayer.
- Library upgrades.
- Texture transition on loop track join.
- Fixed loop track section overlap.
- Editor 90 degree rotate.
- Limit number of friends to invite in friend race.
- Bug fixes.
- Improved start/finish line.
- Road texture transitions.
- Road start and end texture merging.
- Rewrite of texture management.
- Added more cars.
- Road line colours.
- Steering help to always steer into skids.
- Added car speed based steering speed.
- Added more objects.
- Smaller daily bonus.
- Test drive career cars.
- Stats to be weekly.
- Profile tracks date search.
- Fixed age value saving.
- Moved sound to use JsInterop.
- Bug fixes.
- Fix for loading more tracks.
- Info for engine sounds.
- Added more cars.
- Added more engine sounds.
- Car sound picker.
- Fixed cars as objects sizes.
- Custom engine sounds to have a max volume.
- Server side game data caching.
- Split out car collections.
- Launcher directory fix.
- Library upgrades.
- Custom engine sounds.
- Improved team wins badge.
- JsInterop for multiplayer connection.
- Improved multiplayer code.
- Support for gamepad rumble.
- Multiplayer WebRTC.
- Bug fixes.
- Fixed deobfuscating stack traces.
- Fix max speed calc.
- Switched from Tomcat to Undertow.
- Added more cars.
- Fixing slowness issues.
- Merged in Maven (pull request #1)
- Switching to Cloud Datastore.
- SpringBoot 3.
202369 updates
- Fixed tests.
- Restructure to client/server/shared.
- Clean up launchers.
- Added GAE config yaml.
- Move to Maven and Java 17.
- Multiplayer.
- Added moderators.
- Fix Teams random track selector.
- Removed player auto brake.
- Added more cars.
- Track images in open graph.
- Daily stat graphs.
- Added more objects.
- Bug fixes.
- Team race chat.
- Privacy policy.
- Multiplayer.
- Profile photo.
- Cache cars in shop images.
- X link.
- Fixed player hitting stopped car physics.
- Random career tracks for length search.
- Fix game leaderboard when lots of players.
- Team finish position in notification message.
- Added more tests for traffic.
- Discord integration.
- Teams next track selection fixes.
- Multiplayer.
- Team win badge in country flag.
- VIP allowed to customise car sounds.
- Reduce hosting costs.
- WebRTC.
- Cron jobs time updates.
- Bug fixes.
- Tyre smoke easier to see through.
- Install app menu option.
- Removed iframe site message.
- Age chat restrictions.
- Fixed delete account.
- Car shop reorg with car boost indicators.
- Fixed equal time sort in Teams.
- User data clean.
- Wider player matching for Single Race.
- Delete invalid replays tool.
- Fix Team loading spinner height.
- Fix practice tracks.
- Remove versioning in replay data.
- Delete old unused tracks.
- Fix editor match feature when adding boost.
- Fix num coins when penalty.
- Give some coins for last place unless cheated.
- Loyalty bonus.
- AdinPlay data auto update.
- Add boost to career cars.
- Shop auto scroll when new car available.
- Blocked users no longer give message notifications.
- Bug fixes.
- Remove old IE code.
- New ads file.
- Adding Boost to existing cars.
- Adding Boost unit tests.
- Adding Boost sounds.
- Adding Boost touch to steer controls.
- Adding Boost value range checks.
- Adding Boost Gamepad controls.
- Adding Boost (Nitrous / KERS).
- Driving help controls reminder prompts.
- More accurate penalty calculations.
- Group chat on friend races.
2022244 updates
- New cars.
- Bug fixes.
- Debugging of empty JS errors.
- Fix for pin corner.
- Improved object collision processing.
- Removed data conversion code.
- Decrease match range for each track.
- Improved opponent matching algorithm.
- Automatic detection of creating loop tracks.
- Code clean up.
- Improved debugging of game crashes.
- Show more tracks when viewing new tracks.
- Improved traffic crash avoidance.
- Traffic now honks their horns.
- Removed music.
- Increase max smoke/dust allowed.
- Added "All Time" tab in Team high scores.
- Fix Team history refresh error.
- Improved mist spray effect.
- Fix for showing invalid items in editor.
- Don't allow player cars to be over the start line.
- Traffic cars no longer do burnouts.
- Fix for next tracks in Teams.
- Better handbrake physics, and car roll to stop.
- Faster Teams track loading.
- User admin fixes.
- Fix for target time in Teams.
- Leaderboard to size to fit unlimited number of players.
- Sector time bug fix.
- Editor replay name bug fix.
- Refresh option in Teams when time runs out.
- Bug fix for previous Teams events.
- Top 30 players to get prizes in Teams.
- Coloured time background on race finish.
- Replaced gfx detail setting with antialiasing setting.
- Teams to show target time when racing.
- Fixed practice track time display.
- Bug fix for in game map.
- Game textures loading progress bar.
- WebGL rendering for race time display.
- Restart race 'R' hotkey at race end dialog.
- Improved track map with long start or end sections.
- Different colours for different drift bonus amounts.
- Fixed drag and drop item add in editor.
- Fixed some cars police lights.
- Large drift bonus bug fix.
- Show total drift bonus while racing.
- More levels of drift bonus sounds.
- Fix tyre smoke alignment for cars with spanning wheels.
- Fix police light alignment for cars with spanning wheels.
- Improved car wheel alignment controls.
- Fix car neons.
- Car wheels now rendered with car body.
- Improved car gfx draw performance.
- Improved brake and reverse light gfx.
- More accurate in game leader board for loop tracks.
- Only allow a game zoom level range of 8 to 18.
- Fixed Teams winning positions to handle equal amounts.
- Faster rendering of car flames.
- Better brake and reverse lights.
- Improved proximity warning graphic.
- Improved car neons.
- Better proximity warning on non ghost replay cars.
- Teams position display bug fix.
- Fix multiple Teams event loads.
- Increased Teams winnings to top 20 players.
- Close the dropdown draw when deleting the last notification.
- Improved tyre smoke. Now has trailing smoke effect.
- Save game image on game crash.
- Updated and added cars.
- Green dot on new high scores.
- Hash out rude words.
- Handle invalid races in player position leaderboard.
- Deleted Gymkhana from practice tracks.
- in game player position leader board to handle opponents short cutting straight to the finish.
- Auto brake to first cut accelerator before braking.
- Remove test replays when changing settings that make track harder.
- Fixed practice tracks.
- Fixed notification delete error.
- Fixed car start angle check.
- Improved game data caching.
- Fixed game start screen position when large number of players.
- Handle long user names in notifications.
- Fix crashes with editor textures.
- 43 new cars added.
- Mem caching bug fix.
- Show all winners in previous Team events.
- Balancing of point to steer controls vs button controls.
- Upgrade GWT DTD to 2.10.0.
- Added more cars.
- Added tyre drift intensity setting.
- Sync user names in Teams page.
- Show number of team event wins in player name.
- Change log to handle line wrapping.
- Added change log page.
- Proper URLs for team replays.
- Bug fixes.
- Restart at race end button.
- Fixed recent tracks list.
- Notification delete.
- More cars.
- Sorting of career tracks.
- Fixed thumbs up triggering in career mode.
- Don't bother saving IP addresses.
- Fixed recording user login activity.
- User admin improvements.
- Max friends.
- Bug fixes.
- Don't expire login cookie.
- Removal of team winner convert code.
- Search for users with name that starts with the search.
- Count number of times person wins a team event.
- Record track data information when editor crashes.
- Item move buttons for editor.
- More cars.
- More visible markers in editor.
- Better object resizing in editor.
- Fixed width or height sizing when repeating in one direction.
- Team race to allow full screen.
- Bug fixes.
- Team event history time select.
- More team event history shown.
- Auto show ad when needed.
- Team widget loading fixes.
- Fieldset header styling.
- Fieldset headers and alignment fixes.
- Move tree out of the way so accelerate is easier to see.
- Fixed game dialog position issues.
- Grouping of track objects.
- More cars.
- Clean up object list.
- Reorder object type radio buttons.
- Simpler non advanced editor mode.
- Ability to select items above and below in track editor.
- Show colour changes in item properties.
- Generic delay function.
- Allowed very large object sizes.
- Bug fixes.
- Dust when stopped fix.
- New Google Analytics tag code.
- More cars.
- Rotary engine sound.
- Antilag.
- Backfire and antilag.
- Improved car sounds.
- Fixed object sizes when adding in editor.
- Track ids for team track voting.
- Search for objects.
- Force racing at start.
- Switch DNF to ghost replays.
- Steering wheel graphic to turn further.
- Point to control bug fixes.
- Point to control for touch screens.
- Start lights fade out.
- Handbrake lights.
- Steering wheel graphic.
- More cars.
- Mouse steering bug fixes.
- Going into reverse is faster, and no longer turns the view around.
- Mouse steering.
- Track review timer countdown.
- Better instructions animation.
- More track validation to stop trolling tracks.
- Ability to restart the race - fix for career mode.
- Ability to restart the race.
- Fixed notification display error.
- Fixed computer races to keep overtaking, and drive more aggressively.
- Fixed bug where it would auto brake at finish line.
- Bug fixes.
- Player link button now always shows.
- Fixed game start fade in.
- Better tyre smoke effects on all surfaces.
- Better tyre smoke effects.
- Removed option for smoke density.
- Reduced max rain spray.
- Split apart race cars to open/closed wheel.
- More cars.
- Better car drift flames.
- Fixed aim section to not jump ahead and trigger auto brake.
- Bug fixes.
- Clean up displays.
- Analog speedo and taco.
- Adding speedo and taco.
- Split out speedo and player position.
- Track select, allow longer length.
- Ability to disconnect signed in account.
- Allow proxy site access.
- More cars.
- Better dirt and snow skid marks.
- Better snow smoke effect.
- Better sector time bars.
- Better gfx throttling.
- Editor resize from corner.
- More efficient loading of demo track.
- Bug fixes.
- Removed cache preloading.
- Racer overtake bug fix.
- Graphics level setting.
- Faster highscore check.
- Improved flames from damaged cars.
- Flames from damaged cars.
- More cars.
- Player as police - Variable bonus based on car weights.
- Player as police.
- Fixed friend race to only load summaries.
- Chase mode - Now just player type.
- Chase mode.
- Smarter computer racers that don't spin off as much.
- Bug fixes.
- User rank decrease cron change.
- Cron job clean up.
- More engine sounds.
- Object transparencies.
- More cars.
- Loading progress for all track editor cars.
- Repeatable textures to be square to support mobile.
- Split cars race cached data into 2 entries.
- Teams voting track to not have traffic.
- Switch to use TrackKey everywhere.
- Teams widget clean up.
- Teams to limit number of winning players to show.
- Teams to show more players in leaderboard.
- Fixed repeating object textures.
- Bug fixes.
- More cars.
- New demo track with police.
- Car RPM limit.
- Removed track editor view position URL params.
- Cache the current team track.
- Stop straight tracks from being included in Teams.
- Fix alter images for items that have repeatable textures.
- Ignore JS errors with no details.
- Police lights.
- Police siren.
- Working on police.
- Car search.
- New cars.
- Git test
- Bug fixes.
- Team display improvement.
- Test tracks to not be included in resources.
- Improved tyre smoke.
- Editor click anywhere on item to select.
- Car usages.
2021187 updates
- Clear all notifications.
- Breadcrumbs.
- Admin data size tool.
- New cars.
- Compress data in memcache.
- Red corners for cars that don't collide.
- User chat blocking.
- Team maintenance.
- Bug fixes.
- Car colour change.
- Track type icons.
- Moved career btn.
- Working on computer racers.
- New cars and min steer to 50 deg.
- New cars.
- Editor car sorting.
- Clean up.
- Image compress.
- New team winner trophy.
- Player position times to include drift bonus.
- More precision on sector times.
- Bug fixes.
- Sector times.
- Highlight item when adding in editor.
- More objects.
- New cars.
- No auto accelerate at start, just min speed.
- Added privacy policy.
- TE: Power distribution check.
- TE: Brake amount check.
- Jpeg track images.
- Performance improvement: Loading images natively.
- Bug fixes.
- Resize and rotate editor points.
- Editor drag sizing.
- New demo track.
- More objects.
- Working on textures.
- More cars and objects.
- Flags as image resources.
- Better counters.
- Stats on main screen.
- More cars.
- Bug fixes.
- Custom number of raindrops.
- Better drift messages.
- Better race message display.
- Fixed race position board for multi lap races.
- Show lap messages.
- Fixed colour change.
- More objects.
- Team player voting for next track.
- Object categories.
- More cars.
- Admin update track popularities.
- New trending algorithm.
- Trending list to ignore career tracks.
- Storage compression, and clean of old data.
- Storage calc bug fixes.
- Bug fixes.
- Admin image sizes.
- More visible rain.
- Removed corner check from track editor.
- New objects.
- Track editor performance improvements.
- New cars.
- Track "featured" added.
- Team performance improvements.
- Teams countdown timer.
- New ads.txt.
- Bug fixes.
- Performance improvement on collision checking.
- More cars.
- Added snow flakes.
- Wet road tyre squeal.
- Vintage effect.
- Rain sound.
- Rain mist spray.
- Wet surfaces.
- Fog.
- Rain and math performance.
- Bug fixes.
- Fix to stop steering going past 90 deg from travel angle.
- Work mode.
- More cars.
- Cars fixes.
- Rear lights offset + flames on and off.
- Different backgrounds.
- New promo video.
- Sound demo volume.
- Trending tracks.
- Added volume control.
- VIP to modify career car lights.
- Car lights in car editor.
- Car neons on garage icons.
- Bug fixes.
- More cars.
- Car neons in track icon.
- Share track button.
- Fixed logout to have option to not delete login cookie.
- Smoke colour and density.
- Track map to show road edges and lanes.
- Track piece properties.
- Car neons.
- Headlight colours.
- Show ad if video ad does not display.
- Bug fixes.
- More cars for career.
- Static ads.
- Allow 8 cars in career.
- More cars.
- Caching of cars.
- Lights.
- Object colour changing.
- Night races - lights show on cars.
- Show / hide car lights.
- Night races.
- Links in chat.
- Bug fixes.
- Speedo.
- More career cars.
- Ads with AdInPlay.
- Filters on career tracks.
- AdInPlay.
- New PayPal payment method.
- VIP car tuning.
- Admin track edit, and career track sort.
- Fixed sounds in practice tracks.
- Different engine sounds.
- More players in Team.
- Bug fixes.
- Career track thumbnails to not have cars.
- More cars.
- Smarter tyre smoke.
- Line locks.
- Larger limits for showing tracks.
- Admin features for users.
- New Track Summary with thumbnail images.
- New drift scoring system.
- Practice tracks.
- Match car performance tool.
- Bug fixes.
- The Team score table.
- New Google Analytics tags.
- More cars.
- Pinned object corners.
- Colour input.
- Show token.
- Warning for large images.
- Prompt when unsaved changes.
- Ability to hide wheels.
- Extra editor checks to stop trolls.
- Bug fixes.
- Sorting cars.
- Car categories
- Team new round notification.
- Team notification.
- More cars.
- Image upload with PNG compression and base64 encoding.
- Own image base64 encoding.
- 15 new cars.
- New sign in with token.
- Multi-lap races.
- Moved "Loop track" setting.
- Fixed or follow car camera view.
- 22 new cars.
- Bug fixes.
- Allow car and object definition sizing, and car json export/import.
- More cars and objects.
- More cars.
- Notification and friend list improvements.
- New objects.
- Concrete background.
- Clean up.
- Popularity fixes.
- New Top Rated algorithm.
- Fixed chrome bar url resizing listening.
- Cars as objects.
- Working on Team.
- Bug fixes.
- Team event to be 4 day event with winnings.
- Removed under construction messages in Team.
- Improved detection of which track section the player is on.
- Previous team replays.
- Team winner badge.
- Team bug fix with ghost cars.
- Working on Team - Overlapping objects now not allowed.
2020108 updates
- Objects in the way of players at start, are now removed.
- New hottest and unpublish ratings.
- Track editor instructions.
- Bug fixes.
- No player collisions on race start.
- Player must face start line.
- Car max speed.
- Game data table.
- Removed high score position in single race.
- Auto generate user name.
- New cars.
- Image modify instructions.
- Car types.
- Demo mp4 video.
- Bug fixes.
- Track rating after 30 seconds.
- Handle invalid images.
- Proportional acceleration and braking.
- Gamepad support.
- Bug fix for auto brake on long vehicles.
- Notification drawer.
- Friend chats.
- Flip track object.
- Duplicate tracks check.
- Invalid tracks check.
- Bug fixes.
- Car tyre sizes.
- Show tyres in images.
- Notification times.
- Fixed auto brake bug.
- Smaller track json.
- Favourite tracks.
- New objects.
- New cars and objects.
- Top time notification.
- Track editor improvements.
- Track editor duplicate and keyboard shortcuts.
- Bug fixes.
- Track preview image to include objects.
- New tracks.
- Ability to swap to user.
- Switched to use GWT serialisation for tracks when playing (not when editing).
- Check high scores.
- Fixed track join bug.
- Retry track list.
- VIP badge.
- Added VIP.
- Unlimited fuel option.
- Bug fixes.
- Retry race button.
- General improvements.
- Fixed favicons.
- Top times for single races.
- Bug fix to not save users car in replay unless career mode.
- Fixed penalty manager.
- Driver aid flash.
- Don't save the free car to the users cars table.
- Better instructions.
- New tracks.
- Bug fixes.
- Better fuel refill.
- General improvements.
- Better loading of tracks to find unplayed ones.
- GWT 2.9 and rank change to update daily.
- Secure icon on players names.
- Music off by default.
- New touch controls, now has accelerate.
- Handle rendering of overlapping track pieces.
- In game sound controls.
- Removed server race validations on normal races.
- Bug fixes.
- Removed AppLixir.
- Police bank run track.
- Buy coins.
- Player name widget with add friend.
- Buy button tracking.
- Added on sale prices.
- Cron jobs to use saved cursors.
- PayPal payments.
- Fuel cans.
- Added Google play button.
- Bug fixes.
- My Tracks in track selection.
- Watch ads for fuel improvements.
- Watch ads for fuel.
- More applixir work.
- Added applixir ads back in.
- Track editor improvements.
- Auto add for player car.
- Removed applixir.
- Swap ads to softgames.com
- Assetlinks for Trusted Web App.
- Bug fixes.
- Ads + secure login cookie.
- Single Race work.
- New track.
- Cron items.
- Refactor of user preferences to be JSON.
- Refactoring from "Race" to "Career".
- Preload load for demo race.
- EU cookies consent.
- Track editor improvements.
- Simplified friend race to only allow track cars.
- Clean up cron job.
- Fixed low car power bug.
- Fixed heavy car bug.
- Handle disabled cookies.
- Better crash handling.
201964 updates
- Brake and reverse lights.
- Better loading spinner.
- New game start lights.
- New loading lights widget.
- Bug fixes.
- Track editor improvements.
- Clean up.
- Fixed penalty bug.
- Delete old data.
- Better auto brake and steering help buttons, and notification messages.
- Removed track name.
- Clean up race buttons.
- Removed Google Ads loading code.
- Google Ads loading code.
- Fake content for Google Ads. Added share button at end of race.
- New practice tracks.
- Bug fixes.
- Fixed sounds not playing on iPhone.
- Track editor improvements.
- Method only stack traces.
- Custom car engine sounds.
- Track section lookup performance improvement.
- Fixed unit tests.
- Updated loading page.
- Removed float values in rendering.
- Removed JOML jar.
- Remove WebGl4J jars.
- Updated loading page. Game no longer code split.
- Bug fixes.
- Google ads removal.
- Google ads.
- Math precision error fix (again).
- Separate client and server math.
- Fix for Facebook share.
- Fixed unit tests.
- Bug fixes and math precision error fix.
- Deobfuscate stack traces.
- Handle browsers with disabled cookies.
- Network bug fixes.
- Bug fixes.
- Unit tests.
- Switched away from using Math functions.
- Better corner cutting penalty amount.
- Instant action for new players.
- Various improvements.
- Spin control and auto brake.
- Catch all JS error handler.
- Working on track editor.
- Fixing traffic.
- Race validation improvements.
- Track objects bulk import/export.
- Full car import/export and fix for user car json.
- Bug fixes.
- Race data download feature.
- Improved editor memory usage.
- Better undo manager.
- Upgrade to latest App Engine SDK.
- Friend race to allow choosing of car.
- Better crash data reporting.
- Reorder car collection to fix rendering.
- Option for "ghost cars" tracks.
- Fixed unit tests.
- New "race time" result value.
- New scoring with drifting and drafting weighted more.
201866 updates
- Replays full screen. Career button on practice screen.
- Bug fixes.
- New drift messages, and no drifting off track.
- Better friend race locking.
- improved main page layout.
- Track length tabs.
- Loading progress bar calls.
- Sign-in reminder, and fix for iFrame.
- Fixed loading progress bar.
- iFrame fixes.
- Version checks.
- iFrame check.
- Working on friend race.
- Buttons on start race dialog to change settings and cancel race.
- Bug fixes.
- Fixing direction arrow.
- Desktop notifications.
- Only save replays for current race data storage.
- New Practice tracks.
- Improved highway practice track.
- Added test for traffic speed increase.
- Improved traffic. Now speeds up when driving next to another car.
- New traffic rush track.
- Fixed road arrows + track editor to have position and zoom in url.
- Fixed practice replay URL bug.
- Fixed Firefox bug with country select list.
- New session manager.
- Bug fixes.
- Notifications.
- Working on Friends.
- Main page resize.
- Auto sell cheapest car when garage full.
- Country flags.
- Clean up.
- Fix WebAudio playback due to autoplay policy changes.
- Removed scooter and widened first tracks.
- Better track length buttons.
- New track.
- Demo video on home page.
- Facebook login fixes.
- Player position widget.
- Bug fixes.
- Drift practice tracks.
- New car prices. Bug fixes.
- Check for race too long. Improved track lengths in race selection.
- Better garage.
- Fixing tracks.
- Track editor improvements.
- Track objects.
- Improved track map.
- Image compression.
- Track object management.
- Car resources.
- Fixed garage.
- Car data.
- Cars.
- Bug fixs.
- Drift practice work.
- Fixing drift practice.
- Stars and coins animation at race end.
- Improved drift race selection page.
- Show stars and coins at the end of the race.
- Track length categories.
- Track length filter.
- Cleaned up measurement select.
- Coin system based on track length.
2017190 updates
- Track map images.
- Removed track icons.
- Clean up of track data.
- Bug fixs.
- Better user stats page, and general fixes.
- Top players list.
- Drift Race high score screen.
- General work.
- New users only created after page load.
- Fixing DB indexes.
- Clean up.
- Coin history screen.
- Restructure of car definition json.
- Switched to send JSON in network call.
- Checking for cheating.
- Unit tests.
- Coin fading.
- Bug fixs.
- Ghost cars.
- Renamed drift school to drift practice.
- Improved settings page.
- Fixed unit tests.
- Clean up.
- Coins for single player race.
- Coins now reflect USD.
- User garage work plus bug fixes and data clean up.
- Ranking system for drift races.
- Have users race with their own cars.
- Compressed pngs.
- Buy/sell cars.
- Split out car definition.
- Car definition breakdown.
- Bug fix.
- Main page button descriptions.
- Removed track difficulty.
- Brake and hand brake for touch screen.
- Auto accelerating message.
- Track distance.
- New instructions widget.
- Bug fixes.
- Force cars to accelerate for 1 second after race start.
- Allow objects to stop moving.
- Brake force on cars.
- Accelerate and hand brake.
- Brake and reverse.
- Donut school track.
- Garage work.
- New penalty system.
- Working on new penalty system.
- Better loading of replay cars message.
- Replays cars now own object, and immovable on impact.
- Switched to use new Google Cloud Platform.
- Fixed scooter getting twisted up on big crash.
- My Garage work.
- Data preload.
- Simplified background image code.
- Background image.
- Clean up.
- Bug fixes.
- Sign in button.
- Switching to use lambdas.
- Upgrade to GWT 2.8.1
- My Garage.
- Clean up start and finish dialogs.
- Fix username screen.
- Better error messages on start.
- Better square icons.
- New square icon.
- Don't let cars overlap at race start.
- SEO work.
- Page styling.
- Track editor work.
- Improved help.
- Improved instructions.
- Bug fixes.
- New icons.
- Delete unused users.
- Handle user being deleted.
- Immediate race saving.
- Page redesign.
- Welcome message.
- Simpler login.
- Max race length.
- Replays without login.
- New track.
- ServiceWorker so app gets asked to be installed.
- Fake service worker.
- New timings to go to milliseconds.
- Fixing tests.
- Full screen racing.
- HTTPS and Android share.
- Cleaning up the track JSON.
- Started cleaning up the track JSON.
- - Less power for front wheels. - Removed track piece speed limit.
- Bug fixes.
- Drift race work.
- Simplified user management.
- Updated tests.
- - Removed loading progress bar, now shows names as they load.
- Drift race difficulty levels.
- - Fixed instant race for guest users. - Sorting of race tracks.
- More race tracks.
- Gfx fixes for road types.
- Performance improvements.
- Button images.
- New WebGl lib. Coin sound.
- Clean url.
- Bug fixes.
- Server side validations for drift race.
- Coins.
- Penalty test.
- Fixed objects getting twisted up.
- Unsupported browsers message.
- Music fixes.
- Compress game music.
- Enabling Drift Race button.
- Removed dates.
- Drift Race work.
- Samsung browser fixes.
- Bug fixes.
- Pause sounds on minimise.
- User management.
- Background image.
- Pause music on minimise.
- Delete user.
- Guest login.
- Updated tests.
- Improvements to traffic.
- New race track.
- Sharing on social.
- New loading dialog.
- Timeout progress bar.
- Clean up back button.
- Clean up.
- Login option on main screen. New base widget framework.
- Dynamic number of skid marks.
- Tracks.
- Unit testing.
- Bug fixes.
- Traffic bug fixes.
- Fun loading messages.
- Fixed analytics.
- Fixed facebook login. Updated tracks.
- Updating tracks.
- Stop cars from pulling out in front of other cars.
- Bug fix.
- Track speed limits.
- Car speed limits.
- Traffic in track lanes.
- Track lanes.
- Rework how track sections are created.
- Working on traffic cars in own lane.
- Better player names.
- Fixing login.
- Web share idea.
- Bug fixes.
- Redoing track lanes.
- Track lane.
- Tilt steering.
- Redoing the traffic
- Different network timeouts.
- Small features.
- JUnit tests.
- Fixes for incorrect replays when bumping into objects.
- Clean up.
- Clean up of replay data.
- Reorg so replay car loading happens on construction.
- Bug fixes.
- Tests.
- Fix for collisions with replay cars.
- Fixed bug when player misses finish line.
- Fixed school high score refresh.
- Track creation.
- Fixed penality error.
- Increase timeout.
- Track direction arrows.
- Bug fixes in track creation.
- New tracks.
- Bug fixes.
- Splitting straight pieces into sections.
- Better track map.
- Cleaning up the links.
- Button clean up.
- Gamepad fixes.
- School top times.
- Added a 5 second network timeout.
- Handle delay in drift school saves.
- Performance improvement.
- More debugging gfx.
- Bug fixes.
2016285 updates
- Track map road edges.
- Tracks.
- Restrict steering speed.
- Record control method.
- Traffic to steer proportionally.
- Gamepad.
- Analog steering.
- Fixed FPS.
- Fix idle sessions.
- Removal of AddToAny
- Bug fixes.
- Fixing bugs.
- Fix 'X' to quit for iPhones.
- Tracks.
- Fixing tracks.
- Fixing replay errors.
- Fixed rounding error.
- New version release.
- Working on tracks.
- Fix for no email on FB login.
- Fix for traffic to avoid players.
- Drifting colours.
- Clean up.
- Changed drafting to only be behind player cars.
- Bug fixes.
- Track editor work.
- Track status fixes.
- Collision avoidance.
- Performance improvements.
- Traffic AI.
- Racing line.
- Traffic.
- Removed integer point and line classes.
- Removed saving of editor scroll and zoom values.
- Drafting area.
- Drafting fixes.
- Math performance improvements.
- Track editor.
- Removed DBImage class.
- Scenery.
- Track objects.
- Track editor refactoring.
- New serialisation.
- Restructured to pull out images.
- Better serialisation.
- Fixing bugs.
- Rewrite of the serialisation of the track data.
- Car images.
- Credits page.
- Credits page + clean up.
- New left nav menu.
- Fixed login error.
- Sounds.
- Music and sounds.
- Music.
- Welcome widget.
- Move music to local.
- Adding sounds.
- Switch sounds to mp3.
- Working on sounds.
- Work on sounds.
- New App Engine version, and penalty sound.
- New hand written sounds framework.
- Bug fix.
- Smarter gear change sounds.
- Fixed instructions dialog.
- Fixed track editor to know when anything has changed.
- Revamp of login to pass login via html page.
- My Tracks page.
- Track editor work.
- Help title bar.
- Reorganise of packages.
- Handle invalid replay data. My Tracks page.
- Handle invalid replay data when loading.
- Track lanes.
- Working on track lanes.
- Track lanes - not working.
- Center line fixes.
- Ability to unpublish a track.
- Smoother corners.
- Map fix.
- Fixed texture repeats.
- Lots of changes due to home internet being down for a week.
- Clean up.
- Debug option.
- Bug fixes.
- Cancel race button.
- Retry button.
- Fames for cars when drifting.
- Show players name in replay.
- Updated instructions.
- Turn buttons.
- Better car box highlight.
- Direction arrow when not progressing.
- Arrow back to track.
- Clean up.
- Highlight box at race start.
- Drift Race for non logged in users.
- Social sharing.
- Drift Race.
- Penalty for getting a run up to the start line.
- Autopilot.
- Bug fixes.
- Drift race history.
- URL fixes.
- Bug fixing.
- User stats.
- Shadows.
- Shadow on title bar.
- Shadow on fieldsets. Bug fix for random race tracks.
- Fix for cars replays overlapping when loading.
- Fix for twisted cars.
- Drift Race.
- Removed car images.
- Rework the DB layout.
- Load last edited track.
- Bug fixes.
- Keep logged in feature.
- Fix to saving times that are the same race time, but better drift time.
- Boaty McBoatrace.
- Image paste.
- Bug fixing.
- New timing to only use frames.
- Reduced "bounce off" effect in car physics.
- Delete user replays.
- Drift Race.
- Crash detection.
- Bug fixes.
- Update player name to update scores.
- High scores.
- Bug fixes for login and URLs.
- Various fixes.
- Fixed track map size for iOS.
- Fix for game height in iOS.
- Social sharing.
- New URL handling.
- New URL changing. Dumped anchors.
- Game crash recording.
- Crash reporting.
- Better sizing on game start.
- Better touch control image.
- Better error handling.
- Better instuctions.
- Bug fixes.
- Removed drafting.
- Incremential steering.
- Better drafting detection.
- Remember login.
- Partial stay logged in functionality.
- Fixed IE11 focus problem.
- TODO list.
- Custom car images.
- Bug fix.
- Fixing FB share.
- Fixed instructions.
- Social links.
- Share icons.
- User replays.
- User replays. Fixing FB share.
- Road line textures.
- Editing track grip.
- Bug fix for red/white lines.
- Track to have seperate textures.
- Snow background option.
- Fixed red/white track edge.
- Darker grass.
- Fixed turn around widget.
- Restructure for loop tracks.
- Loop tracks.
- Loop tracks and bug fixes.
- Bug fixes.
- Session cleanup cron job.
- Drafting customisation.
- Fixed getting FB email.
- Google OAuth Login.
- Fixing iPhone bug.
- FWD / 4WD / RWD.
- Better track edge.
- Red/white line on track.
- Rework of track drawing.
- Fixed track edge.
- Title bar colour.
- Track object definitions. New icons.
- Bug fixes.
- Caching of drift school tracks.
- Customisable tyres.
- Boost for cars at start based on mass.
- Fixed bug with cars twisting up after crash.
- Individual car data.
- Drag settings.
- Delete track with car defs.
- Instructions.
- Working out car power, weight, and drag.
- Individual car settings.
- Bug fixing.
- Images.
- Refactoring data for individual car data.
- Better code splitting.
- Drift School.
- Bug fixes.
- Skid marks.
- Background textures.
- Fixing iPhone width problems.
- Save email.
- Background testures.
- Simpler background colour handling.
- Img sizes.
- Handle html versions.
- Renaming to Drift Team.
- README.md edited online with Bitbucket
- Drift School.
- Instructions.
- Bigger icons on game status bar.
- Edit drift school.
- Admin users.
- New app engine version. Admin users.
- More efficient rendering.
- Bug fixing.
- Replays as byte arrays.
- Edit replays.
- Bug fixes.
- Saving replays with track data.
- Game instructions.
- Improve finish screen.
- Finish screen.
- Game implementation.
- Start widget.
- Track Map.
- Track Map. Removed 3d test.
- Start logo.
- Start race dialog.
- Car wheel x offsets.
- Player names on cars via textures.
- Removed use of canvas 2d.
- Player names on cars via canvas 2d.
- All cars now the same image.
- Car image saved in track.
- Save car detail in track.
- Game implementation - Showing race start information.
- Track editor work.
- Game implementation.
- Zoom implementation.
- Track editor delete objects.
- Cleaning up the track editor.
- Track grip.
- Track boundary edge.
- Better penalty system.
- JSON for track data.
- More efficent user storage.
- Now only user id stored on session.
- Google analytics and fav icons.
- User profile.
- Login.
- Game implementation.
- Facebook login.
- Masses on objects.
- Adding crates in editor.
- Common image resources.
- Feedback page.
- Test for Google.
- Car start positions.
- Implementation.
- Fixed game loop for Chrome Android!
- Better smoke.
- Skid marks now a colour shader.
- Loading progress bar.
- Game implementation.
- Loading replays in background.
- Player name.
- Loading gfx.
- Penalty times.
- Smoke.
- Implementation.
- Delay start.
- Checking for going backwards.
- All object meshes are created at the start of the game.
- Cars to be single mesh.
- Game implementation.
- WebGL4J now working.
- Trying to get WebGL4J working.
- Initial attempt to convert to WebGL4J.
- New WebGl library - WebGL4J.
- Multiple opponents.
- Implementation.
- Improving track gfx.
201517 updates
- New tyre rendering.
- Clean up of verlet code.
- Removed old game renderer.
- Game implementation.
- Implementing WebGl rendering.
- WebGL rendering.
- Grass.
- Fixed screen touches.
- 3D work.
- 3D tests.
- Switch to use G3D.
- Playing with 3d.
- Added 3D test with Parallax.
- Added ignore.
- Ignore build.
- README.md edited online with Bitbucket
- Moved from SVN.