• New sandpit race track featuring both normal and reverse layouts, work-in-progress.
• New mudpit derby stadium, work-in-progress.
• New small derby stadium, work-in-progress.

Environment Art:

• Smoothed out track-sides and improved gravel race track readability.
• New work-in-progress spectator models - some previous ones remain.
• New concrete barriers, used in various derby stadiums.

Weathers:

• Two new weathers: stormy evening and misty evening.
• Weather can be now specified in the event setup.

Vehicles and Handling:

• New driver model, as of now simply static.
• Improved suspension and tire physics.
• More responsive handling with a game pad.
• Improved player vs. AI collision physics.

Damage:

• Improved deformation physics so that visual car damage is more accurate.
• Improved gameplay damage to prevent cars from getting too torn up and still going.
• Fixed a case where cars would get damaged and eventually destroyed from rubbing against a static barrier.

Replay:

• New replay mode with slow motion and fast forward time controls (-16.0x ... 4.0x), a number of different cameras, target locking & switching, depth-of-field and field-of-view settings.

User Interface:

• Race timer now correctly displays hundredths as well instead of random numbers.
• Game is no longer unpaused when exiting Steam overlay if the game was paused.

Input:

• Implemented multicontroller support (e.g. wheel and pedals in separate USB ports).
• Sensitivity & deadzone adjustments now take effect without a restart.
• Added saturation, sensitivity and dead zone settings for XInput controllers.
• Game now defaults to DirectInput for wheels, hopefully making some wheels behave better.
• The game now detects more than one XInput controllers that are connected simultaneously.
• Force feedback is disabled for Microsoft Sidewinder FF wheel in an attempt to work around buggy driver causing lag.

Audio:

• Increased AI engine volume.
• General improvements.

IMPORTANT: If you're experiencing controller issues such as being unable to correctly assign controls, please remove the user data generated by the previous build by navigating to [STEAM INSTALLATION FOLDER]/userdata/[USER ID]/228380/local and removing the folder labeled 'next car game pre-alpha'.