Console players can now switch between Quality and Performance mode in Wreckreation.
Despite the entire team being put on redundancy notice earlier this month, Three Fields Entertainment is still diligently supporting Wreckreation with a swathe of post-release updates.
The latest pre-Christmas update has dropped, bringing with it a long-requested new feature: Live Mix buildings.
As previewed in a recent video outlining planned updates, players can now add a selection of buildings to fill out the barren environment. The latest update adds 32 new Live Mix objects, including 22 buildings as well as scaffolding, cranes and other construction materials.
These new buildings can be placed in a newly added town area in place of a mountain that has been removed.
Another welcome addition is new graphics settings for consoles. This allows players to prioritise graphics or performance on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with Quality mode running at a “consistent 4k resolution” in 30fps while reducing screen tearing.
The update also makes it possible to try player-created challenges by sharing codes with friends. Thanks to the recent cross-play update, these challenges can be played across PC, PlayStation or Xbox.
The update comes after Three Fields launched a Patreon campaign this week, inviting fans to help fund future updates and prevent the independent studio from shutting down.
Full patch notes for Wreckreation’s latest update are below.
Wreckreation Content update 3 patch notes
- Changes to the Maccoll County around Black Creek and Storey – bulldozed a mountain and started work on a town area
- First look at snappable Live Mixable Buildings
- 9 new Live Mix collectibles unlocking 32 new Live Mix objects including 22 Buildings variants, scaffolding, cranes and other construction materials
- Added Video Settings on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 allowing players to choose between Quality or Performance mode. Quality mode runs at 30 FPS, targets consistent 4k resolution, reduces screen tearing and adds visual enhancements such as increasing the grass quality
- Introduce ‘Share Codes’ on Player Created Challenges to enable easy sharing between friends, works cross platform
- Add Rating option to Player Created Challenges
- Game will now serve up Most Played/Highest Rated Challenges to Players, Community Challenge Filter also available on the Map
- Changes to Parking Lots to show Recently unlocked and Most Driven spaces in every Parking Lot
- The Base and Wreckoning cars are now stacked in the same parking spaces, allowing players to toggle between them to make it easier to see which cars have been upgraded
- Save the camera pitch position for each car in the save game, stop the pitch you have set resetting when you crash
- Traffic levels restored to last value selected in DJ menu after events
- Fix white screen on console if Takedown performed as time expires
- Cop sirens now synched online
- Fix the custom engine audio resetting to default after a crash when a client
- Ensure other players will hear the correct engine type
- Fix palette colours being wrong for some liveries on the Car Customisation screen
- Physics Reaction Improvements
- Prevent the central barriers ever being passed though, except in offroad races when barrier collision is turned off
- Don’t allow driving through Sky track barriers, including in offroad races
- Adjust collision on the trucks so that lower cars (like the Mulsanne) don’t go under it and get stuck
- Fix ping off glitch when stuck under a truck caused by physics engine aggressively de-penetrating two vehicles at 500mph
- Fix for a case where traffic could end up floating in the air
- Fix Bad spin from clipping the end of a barrier
- Fix for frame rate collapsing due to detached hinged parts, which could occasionally happen if vehicle became severely damaged
- Fix Game Crash when resetting during a Sky Track race at the same time as the fade to black occurs during the crash camera
- Fix memory leak that resulted in a Game Crash on consoles after a couple hours of play
- Reducing tree pop-in at near distance on Medium Texture Quality PC settings