BeamNG.drive

Balance · 4

• Differential overspeed protection was increased.

  differential overspeed protection

• Renamed the Abseiling Fuel mission to Fuel Mule and rebalanced its timed stars.

  abseiling fuel mission

• Seat and N2O bottle attachment stiffness was reduced.

  seat and n2o bottle attachment stiffness

• Seat and rear cargo attachment stiffness was reduced.

  seat and rear cargo attachment stiffness

Content · 7

• Chosen color is now saved in the user settings.

  chosen color persistence

• Player character's face and color are now synced with walking mode.

  player character sync

• Added an option for each player to choose a character face.

  character face option

• Some trees in the forest in Italy were readjusted to remove obstructions for larger vehicles.

  italy forest tree

• Longer fifth-wheel rails and an option for low fender tops were added.

  fifth-wheel rails and fender top

• Snow surfaces were implemented.

  snow surface

• Barriers were added to split-screen derby mode arenas.

  derby mode arena

Controls · 7

• Fixed the confirm X button not working when bound to the same button on both a wheel and a DualSense controller.

  confirm x button binding

• The default force feedback strength of Thrustmaster wheels was reduced by 25%.

  thrustmaster wheels force feedback strength

• The part selector search is now usable from a controller.

  part selector search

• Force feedback strength for unknown steering wheels was improved for safer results when using direct-drive wheels.

  force feedback strength

• The direction and travel sweep of the parking brake prop were changed.

  parking brake prop direction

• Missing pedal bindings for several Thrustmaster wheels were added.

  pedal binding

• Added a default configuration for the Thrustmaster T150 Racing Wheel on PS5 and PC.

  thrustmaster t150 racing wheel configuration

System · 16

• Safety guards were added to occupant.jbeam to reduce the likelihood of leaking beam variables causing instabilities and crashes.

  occupant.jbeam safety guard

• Improved resilience of the mod manager against corrupted mods, fixing cases where active mods were not visible.

  corrupted mods resilience

• DLSS preset K was forced for old GPUs.

  dlss preset k

• Reduced VRAM use by another 100MB when using the traditional user interface rendering without the dedicated layer.

  vram use

• Enabled a sharper rendering layer for the user interface by default when supported.

  ui rendering layer

• Memory used by vehicle navigation screens was optimized, saving around 200 MB of RAM per screen.

  vehicle navigation screens memory

• The broken nodegrabber was disabled in splitscreen to prevent instability.

  splitscreen nodegrabber

• Added debug logs to help understand possible reproduction steps leading to crashes.

  debug log

• The number of rotating autosaves in Career Mode was increased from 2 to 4.

  rotating autosaves count

• Moved the definition of the occupant system to frames/body of cars instead of main JBeam to reduce the number of old mods becoming unusable.

  occupant system definition

• The drag race will now end when the AI opponent crashes.

  ai opponent crash rule

• Reduced unnecessary verbosity of logs when spawning vehicles.

  log verbosity

• The cabin filter was improved to provide more muffling at high values.

  cabin filter

• Modded engine/exhaust event volume was increased.

  modded engine/exhaust event volume

• Spatialization improvements were added.

  spatialization

• ET + RT is now used for heads-up win checks everywhere in drag race mode.

  heads-up win check

UI · 14

• Fixed an issue where rapid UI actions, such as switching menus or loading thumbnails, could occasionally trigger duplicate operations or cause inconsistent responses.

  rapid ui actions bug

• Fixed mission settings overflowing text in the Co-driver dropdown, and the Vehicle dropdown not reflecting changes.

  mission settings text overflow

• Showroom maps were renamed to be less misleading.

  showroom maps name

• Fixed an error when entering the vehicle config menu while there is no active vehicle.

  config menu error

• Supersampling and upscaling information in Photomode has been improved.

  supersampling and upscaling information

• The Options > Help menu was reorganized.

  help menu

• Upscaling UX was improved.

  upscaling ux

• Optimized UI apps.

  ui apps optimization

• UI strings were translated, scrolling was enabled for long racer names, and timeslip player names were fixed.

  ui strings and timeslip player name

• A visible warning was added when access to the User Folder is denied.

  user folder access warning

• Fixed the Photomode Composition Grid so that it updates when its value is changed using the dropdown.

  photomode composition grid

• Optimized Image loader, Paint preview memory, and performance.

  image loader and paint preview

• The option to send Support Reports without leaving the game on all platforms was added.

  support reports option

• Fixed some options, e.g. in the Display section, failing to save.

  display options saving

Fix · 75

• A hang or crash that could occur following vehicle instability was fixed.

  vehicle instability crash

• Fixed an issue in the oscillation detection system which could sometimes cause a force feedback wheel to steer by itself to the right.

  oscillation detection system

• Some non-collidable nodes on the Cherrier Percheron that fell through the world when broken have been fixed.

  non-collidable node

• Unreadable next stop interior displays on the Wentward DT40L were fixed.

  next stop interior display

• An issue where vehicle occupants appeared after a race in Career Mode was fixed.

  vehicle occupant appearance

• Occlusion culling fixes were applied for Vulkan.

  vulkan occlusion culling

• Fixed a game freeze that could happen when installing certain parts.

  game freeze bug

• An issue with ultra-quiet sand skids was fixed.

  sand skids volume

• Clear front signals on the ETK I-Series not fading properly were fixed.

  front signals fading

• Fixed passenger positioning in their seats.

  passenger positioning

• Missing music in the Main Menu was fixed.

  main menu music

• An issue where frame taillight emitters continued to work even if the taillights were broken off was fixed.

  frame taillight emitter

• Fixed a memory leak when jumping back and forth where 1MB of memory was lost per 3 seeks.

  memory leak

• Fixed the clutch disengaging by itself during a recovery, even if the pedal was still pressed down.

  clutch behavior during recovery

• The stability of generic tow hitches was improved to reduce vehicle physics instabilities.

  generic tow hitches stability

• An issue in some mod maps where the invisible ground plane had an incorrect altitude causing vehicles to drive in mid-air was fixed.

  mod maps ground plane altitude

• Fixed the rear hillclimb diffuser getting in a fight with the driver and passenger seats.

  rear hillclimb diffuser

• A bug causing Career Tutorial popups to get stuck was fixed.

  career tutorial popups bug

• Fixed the emissive textures and models on fixed headlights so they work properly with low and high beams again.

  fixed headlights emissive texture

• Fixed an issue where breaking the rear door seals would create holes in the roof and strut towers.

  rear door seal

• Seat cargo was moved up 2.5 cm to prevent self-collision.

  seat cargo position

• Fixed leftover ghost objects potentially wrecking your vehicle during or after playing rally loops, career tutorials, and freeroam delivery missions.

  leftover ghost object

• Fixed passenger positioning in their seats.

  passenger positioning

• Fixed brake and clutch pedals clipping into the floor and slightly rotating on the wrong axis.

  brake and clutch pedal

• An issue where occupants incorrectly appeared in some split-screen game modes was fixed.

  occupant visibility

• Fixed zero-length beams throwing console errors caused by roof sunshade holder beams.

  roof sunshade holder beam

• Police vehicle configs now get assigned at the start of the Pursuit splitscreen gamemode as intended.

  police vehicle config

• Added a potential fix for broken vehicle part conditions that can prevent the save from loading.

  broken vehicle part condition

• ScatterSky's global sky state was reset on level exit to avoid ambient leaks.

  global sky state

• Fixed rare crashes during lengthy startup times, such as those caused by SSD storage with anomalously low read/write performance.

  startup crash

• Unclear or faulty titles and descriptions of some camera actions were fixed.

  camera actions titles and description

• Fixed mod details screen not showing up in some cases.

  mod details screen bug

• The front bumper bar was fixed to stop spiking during crashes.

  vivace/tograc front bumper bar

• An issue where the Vehicle Damage HUD app did not correctly reflect engine damage types was fixed.

  vehicle damage hud app

• Fixed the missing splitter switch on the manual transmission.

  manual transmission splitter switch

• Fixed pullover AI cars staying stopped at the roadside until respawned even when the vehicle they stopped for was removed.

  pullover ai cars roadside stop

• Fixed mesh behavior on the front airbag suspension.

  front airbag suspension mesh behavior

• Fixed traffic cars pulling over without hazard lights after seeing a crash.

  traffic cars hazard light

• Fixed AI cars pulling over briefly or stopping forever due to stale crash targets.

  ai cars pullover behavior

• The strength of normals was reduced to fix lighting issues.

  normals strength

• Fixed issues with the thumbnail generator.

  thumbnail generator

• Fixed an issue where menu navigation stopped working properly when entering a menu while the nodegrabber was active.

  menu navigation bug

• All game mode vehicles are properly reset now.

  game mode vehicle reset

• An issue where the player could get stuck in the map UI while not in map mode was fixed.

  map ui bug

• A hang in the split-screen settings menu when using a vehicle with a custom configuration was fixed.

  split-screen settings menu hang

• Fixed tire skidding sounds missing or coming from only one wheel, with the fix applying to newly recorded replays only.

  tire skidding sound

• The intro camera in Around the Bend and Leap crawl missions was fixed.

  intro camera

• Fixed visibility of occupants while in the config menu.

  occupant visibility

• Fixed license plates rendering to correctly use sRGB profile so modded plates render with the right colors as well.

  modded license plates srgb profile

• Fixed traffic cars pulling over for no visible reason due to far-away or old crashes, ensuring only cars witnessing a crash stop for it.

  traffic cars pullover behavior

• An issue that could prevent Career Mode from saving further progress was fixed.

  saving progress bug

• An issue where AI was missing signalsData under certain circumstances was fixed.

  ai signalsdata bug

• An issue where world camera controls didn't work in walking mode was fixed.

  walking mode camera control

• Fixed an issue where certain traffic vehicles failed to teleport away when the player pressed R to reset the vehicle.

  traffic vehicle teleport bug

• Fixed HDR being too bright on KDE Plasma.

  hdr brightness

• Fixed text input logic in the virtual keyboard and similar cases.

  text input logic

• Fixed player vehicle setup issues for some custom challenge missions.

  custom challenge mission

• Fixed 4-way stop deadlock caused by falsely yielding to cars queued behind at a turning road.

  4-way stop deadlock

• Fixed ghosting, washed-out images, missing lights, excessive brightness when entering VR, ignored upscaler settings, and a crash.

  vr visual and stability issue

• Broken text in some cargo delivery screens was fixed.

  cargo delivery screens text

• Fixed a brief stutter when crossing the finish line, just before the time appears on the timeslip.

  finish line stutter

• Loaded FPU Box Trailer configurations were fixed to prevent being severely heavier than advertised, and double pallet stacks were unified with single ones.

  loaded configurations weight

• A typo on the small flatbed floor was fixed.

  small flatbed floor typo

• Some right-side fuel tank variables were incorrectly named left, and some configs' PC-file fuel variables set values higher than the fuel tanks could store.

  fuel tank variable

• A common crash due to the audio mixer hanging and leaving the game unresponsive was fixed.

  audio mixer hang crash

• Fixed plates rendering to correctly use the sRGB profile.

  srgb profile rendering

• The splitting of low and high beam emissives on the headlights of the Ibishu Covet has been fixed.

  headlights emissive

• Fixed slow-motion persisting after a restart.

  slow-motion persistence

• Fixed the BeamNG window forgetting which monitor to start on when using X11.

  beamng window monitor startup

• An issue that could lead to wheels steering on their own to the right and getting stuck was fixed.

  steering wheels self-steering bug

• A memory leak in the Vue subsystems has been fixed.

  vue subsystems memory leak

• An issue where camera order was not being saved between vehicle changes was fixed.

  camera order persistence

• A UI bug where mission stats would be duplicated across all elements was fixed.

  mission stats ui bug

• Ultra-loud ice skids were fixed and their volume curves were tweaked.

  ice skids volume

• Fixed license plates not updating correctly when the design is changed.

  design update bug

General · 1

• Community and general translation fixes, general improvements, and log errors in the HUD layout editor were addressed.

  general