News - Need for Speed: Shift : Neuer Patch in der Pipeline

Neben dem mittlerweile offiziell bestätigten kostenlosen Download-Inhalt zu Need for Speed: Shift, arbeiten die Mannen hinter dem Game auch an einem neuen Patch, zu dem es bereits handfeste Infos gibt. Die PlayStation 3 wird demnach als erstes in den Genuss des Updates kommen, denn diese soll bereits am morgigen 23. November bedient werden. Die Xbox-360- und die PC-Version werden dann am 01. Dezember versorgt.

Die Konsolenversionen updaten dabei beim Start des Spiels automatisch, den Patch für die PC-Version werdet ihr dann natürlich auch bei Gameswelt herunterladen können. Die voraussichtlichen (englischsprachigen) Patch-Notes lauten wie folgt:

• General game stability and performance improvements
• Improved car handling 
• Fix for issue where some cars would bounce on their suspension during high load situations 
• Fix for grass sometimes being displayed out of position 
• Fix for intermittent incorrect driver duel results 
• Fix for inverted balance slider operation 
• Fix for online wins and losses occasionally being calculated incorrectly for drift races 
• Fixed issue where loaned career car would inherit the player's career car tuning settings 
• Fixed various usability issues with the advanced tuning screens 
• Fixed lap timing for first lap of rolling start events 
• Fixed car tuning settings sometimes not taking effect 
• Fix to prevent rewinding past the start of instant replays 
• Fixed car livery occasionally appearing all white during driver duel events 
• Fixed incorrect screens being shown when player is disqualified 
• Fix for occasional invisible opponents appearing during online drift events 
• Fix for intermittent hang when skipping quickly through post-race screens 
• Fix for intermittent hang when pressing X repeatedly in My Cars screen 
• Fix for missing race groove on point-to-point tracks 
• Prevented car livery resetting to default after an online race 
• Fix for advanced tuning not staying unlocked on reload 
• Fixed invitational event cars getting their setups corrupted and becoming undrivable (e.g. Veryon and Carrera GT) 
• Fix for Lamborghini's having a low top speed when upgraded 
• Fix for Corvette Z06 and Dodge Viper not able to move at the start of some events 
• Fix for some upgraded AI cars bottoming out causing some instability over bumps 
• Fix upgrade menu bug 
• Fix for a force feedback strength settings save bug 
• Fix multi-player settings for AI opponents and drift mode 
• Fix for vinyls being incorrectly applied on rear wing 
• Fix for a hang in lobby when accessing friend's list from car select 
• Fix for profile load bug which skips save select menu when holding down Enter key 
• Fix for jumping body parts when car resets

Die PC-Version erhält darüber hinaus folgende, Plattform-spezifische Änderungen:

• Improved ATi graphics card support
• Improved dynamic vertex buffer usage (performance optimization on all PCs) 
• Fixed crashes on certain PC configurations when changing shadow settings 
• Fixed intermittent crash during first lap of races on certain PC configurations 
• Disabled forced dampening for custom wheel presets on PC 
• Optimized multi-GPU PC operation 
• Fix for intermittent missing surface sounds on certain PC configurations 
• Fix for intermittent black skies 
• Fix for LAN menu hang for client when host quickly returns to main menu