Thanks to our friends at both  Thrustmaster and Logitech the following PC Steering Wheels can now be used in-game:

Thrustmaster:

TX Racing Wheel
TMX Pro
TS-PC Racer
TS-XW Racer
T-GT
T150 Pro
T300 RS

Logitech:

G29
G920

Supported Features:

– Steering Wheel and Pedals supported in standard configuration (accelerator on left, brake in middle)
– Buttons on Wheel – default configurations for all wheels, user-configurable to override default buttons in settings menu.
– Force Feedback (off-road judder, shunt/slam wobble, self-centring spring, “light steering” when in-air)

Custom Hypercars

In addition to the above we  have added 2 custom versions of the Hypercar for anyone who plays the game with a Steering Wheel on PC. They are available in the single-player game to be used in the Hypercar Series events.

The first is available to players who use any of our supported steering wheels, and is a nod to our favourite Racing Cockpit company, Next Level Racing. This is a custom-painted Tuned Hypercar. In other words, it’s perfect for Heatwave Events.

The second is just for people playing on any of the supported Thrustmaster steering wheels. This custom skin sits on an Advanced Hypercar. Therefore this is ideal for Road Rage and anywhere else you want to smash up your rivals.

Many people told us not to bother with adding steering wheel support to Dangerous Driving on PC. We were told it’s a small and niche audience that won’t be interested in our arcade racing game. But we met many fans at the PAX East Show in Boston who asked if it was something we could do. We know many of you have some amazing dedicated steering wheel setups at home. So, despite being a small indie team, we decided to give it a crack.

Check out our Your Questions Answered Post for more information and don’t forget to subscribe to the Dangerous Driving Club.

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First of all, we’re here to tell you that the Road Rage update is now live on all platforms and includes the following changes:

• New Mode “Road Rage Online” (see below)
• HDR10 support for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Pro, Xbox One S and Xbox One X
• Online shunt and slam reactions have been tuned to allow more car to car battling and fighting resulting in reduced incidence of one touch Takedowns
• We fixed the issue of Rank occasionally not saving correctly at the end of Online Race
• Online Leaderboard occasionally not updating correctly is now fixed!
• Online Events being Ranked as a loss due to host quitting online session is also now fixed
• The strange issue of Lap not counting due to player crashing on Finish Line is now fixed
• Created Option to allow user to select radial blur on or off via the Options Menu
• Additional HUD and Frontend improvements
• Improvements to the HUD Message system. The number of messages on screen at any time has been reduced. All messages have been re-prioritised to show the most relevant ones
• Improvement to the Draw Distance of Headlights of Oncoming Traffic

Secondly, we can also tell you about a new Online Game mode that you can now play!

What is Road Rage Online?

Team up Online for a fight to the finish. The Blue Team races and the Red Team chases across all 7 regions of the game.

The Blue Team must fight off the Red Team and survive to the finish. The Red Team must Takedown all the Blue Team to Eliminate them before they can escape.

In the heat of battle if you are Eliminated you can remain in the fight, run interference against the Red Team and try to help your Team score a Team Win!

And what’s better than winning? A Perfect Victory! For the Blue Team you must get yourself and ALL your Teammates safely over the line. For the Red Team you must eliminate the Blue Team WITHOUT being Takendown.

Whose side are you on?

Thirdly, there’s a new ruleset to this classic mode…

As it’s Hell on the Highway and Rough out there on the Road it is easy to lose sight of Team Orders and Takedown your own side. If this happens you will be called out as a Traitor!

Sometimes no one wants to be on the losing Team. If this is you you can now choose to be Rebel and switch Teams after Elimination.

In other words, if you can’t play clean play dirty!

In conclusion, be sure to check out our Your Questions Answered Post for more information and don’t forget to subscribe to the Dangerous Driving Club.

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High Stakes is the latest Dangerous Driving Update and is now live on all platforms and includes the following changes:

• New Elo Ranking system online (see below)
• Vertical Takedowns
• Added Twin Ferry Lakes tracks to the online track options
• Leaderboards can now be scrolled up and down
• Increase leaderboard rows displayed from 7 to 10
• Track online races played and completed and display stats in the lobby
• Formula DD tyres now spin at the correct speed
• Added track logos to the loading screens
• Fixed frame pacing. This leads to smoother 30Hz play and reduced input latency
• Fixed priorities on HUD messages including traffic takedowns and online takedowns
• Fixed the background movie pausing

New “High Stakes” ELO Ranking system

We have changed the ranking system in the High Stakes Dangerous Driving update.  The previous ranking system used Dangerous Driving Points. You would earn one DDPoint for finishing the race and one DDPoint for each player beaten.

We have moved away from this and we have a brand new ranking system that takes into account player skill.

Why have we changed it?

There were several features we didn’t like in the DDPoint ranking system.  It was difficult to catch a player that had more DDPoints. If you played against a higher ranking player and won you would only close the gap by a single DDPoint.

Secondly, lower rank players were unfairly punished as the rewards for winning or losing were the same no matter how skilled the other players were.

Finally, the old system encouraged players to play shorter events.  The quickest way to increase your DDPoints was to play the Island Lighthouse over and over again. We have aim to fix this with the High Stakes Update.

What does it mean for you?

When you next go online after downloading the High Stakes Update for Dangerous Driving you will find your rank has changed and will be somewhere between 1200 and 2500.

We have calculated your initial rank from your existing DDPoints. Players who haven’t played online before will start with a rank of 1200. Players who have earnt a lot of DDPoints from playing before the update will start closer to 2500.

After each race we compare you against every other player in the race.  You will earn some points for every player you beat and you will lose some points for every player that beats you.  The number of points you win or lose depends on how skilled the other player is. However, if you beat a player that’s a higher rank than you, you will earn more points. When you beat a player that is a lower rank than you, you will still earn points but less.  If the other players rank is much lower than yours, you won’t earn any points.

On top of this, the number of points you win or lose is also determined by the length of the race.  Longer races mean you will win or lose more points.

One important thing to note here is that this is a ranking system so it’s possible for you rank to go down as well as up.  Indeed some players will find they start at 1200 and go down if they keep losing. This isn’t a bad thing, the game is just figuring out your skill level.  You will find that after a few games your rank will stop dropping even if you lose and when you start winning you will gain more points as you are a lower rank.

Let us know what you think of the High Stakes Update! Get in touch!

Check out our Your Questions Answered Post for more information and don’t forget to subscribe to the Dangerous Driving Club.

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Here is the full list:

• Host can choose any car / any track combination and set the number of laps
• Ensure players are invulnerable when resetting after a crash (to avoid crashing again immediately)
• Add ahead/behind distances to the in-game HUD
• Further improvements to finding games to make it easier for players to get into game, add ‘browse games’ option on console, extend browse games to include games in progress
• Handling – Improve landing from air to lessen the chances of your car ending up facing the wrong direction
• Lobby graphics given an overhaul
• All cars by default can carry more boost
• Xbox Live : Add presence text for in lobby and in online game
• Bug Fixes – primarily to Pursuit Mode

Making games is a fun yet highly complex process and Dangerous Driving is certainly a compex game to make. No game is perfect, they never can be. Or at least, they would never ever get released. But here are the latest fixes and improvements to the game. Be sure to let us know if you experience any problems. We love to get feedback from our Players. Without your support, we would not have this wonderful opportunity to make videogames. Arcade racing games have been our passion for over twenty years and we’d love to continue making them. As you’re here, hopefully you feel the same way as we do!

We will be publishing details of the next Dangerous Driving  update very soon. Check back or sign up to our Dangerous Driving Club HERE. You know it’s the right thing to do. In fact, we think you’ll be unsure of what path to take in life until you do. So sign up today, we’ll work hard to make it worth your while.

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“Fully Comp” is the third Update for Dangerous Driving. We’re pleased to announce that the Update is now live and available for download on PSN and Xbox Live. This update is a significant one.

If you want Fixes, you got it!

Here are the main changes included in this  “Fully Comp” update to Dangerous Driving

• Host of improvements to physics and collisions including:
  • Improve collision after a Takedown to reduce the likelihood of the player car intersecting the road and spinning rapidly, before being reset to the track
  • Decrease the chance of player car going underneath a rival and being forced through the road
  • Reduce the likelihood of getting launched into the air as a result of ramming a rival (surely this is the epitome of Dangerous Driving?)
  • Limit being spawned facing the wrong way after a collision
  • Improve collision with barriers to address the situation where the player car gets lifted up or stuck and being spun around
  • Make the consistency of collisions with traffic better – traffic is now always fatal (we have slightly reduced the amount of traffic to accommodate this)

But wait! There’s more! It’s a “Fully Comprehensive” Update

• Improvements in joining online games – to reduce the number of network errors being returned when trying to join a game; we have also added some extra tools to analyse where and why the failures are happening
• Restore the in-Garage ticker showing the car stats and mileage (went missing in the last update!)
• Fix for Wrecks not getting cleared online – this may be a player selectable option in a future update
• Fix an issue at the U turn on the Hypercar Class Shakedown event where players get stuck in a crash/respawn /crash loop
• Improve how player is reset on track after a crash in Dangerous Driving
• Save Sensitivity options – previously reset each time the game was relaunched
• Remove reset on the right stick camera movement. It will instead reset when you crash or restart
• Fix for Pursuit vehicles taking each other down and ending the event early
• Upgrade to latest Unreal Engine for improved graphical performance and faster load times for Dangerous Driving

We’re excited about getting these fixes out to you. We’ve also firmed up the plan for the next update to Dangerous Driving Check out our roadmap page for more details.

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UPDATE: The PC version launched June 14th and includes everything listed below but ALSO includes a heap of fixes which are part of the ‘Fully Comp’ update. See details below.

The Third Party Fire and Theft update adds the following

• 6 player online racing (see our blog post HERE which details everything you need to know about online play details.)
• Ability to raise the camera on the right stick
• Save player’s last paint choice per car
• Increase the amount of Boost earnt from Air
• Add HUD scaling on PC to fix issues reported with running the game at different resolutions
• Fix Xbox One Leaderboards ‘Top’ filter never loading on the Results screen

The PC update also includes the following fixes to Dangerous Driving

• Host of improvements to physics and collisions including:
  • Improve collision after a Takedown to reduce the likelihood of the player car intersecting the road and spinning rapidly, before being reset to the track
  • Reduce the likelihood of player car going underneath a rival and being forced through the road
  • Reduce the likelihood of getting launched into the air as a result of ramming a rival
  • Improve collision with barriers to address the situation where the player car gets lifted up or stuck and being spun around
  • Reduce the likelihood of being spawned facing the wrong way after a collision
  • Improve the consistency of collisions with traffic – traffic is now always fatal (we have slightly reduced the amount of traffic to accommodate this)
• Fix an issue at the U turn on the Hypercar Class Shakedown event where players get stuck in a crash/respawn /crash loop
• Improve how player is reset on track after a crash
• Save Sensitivity options – previously resets each time the game was relaunched
• Remove reset on the right stick camera movement. It will instead reset when you crash or restart.
• Upgrade to latest Unreal Engine for slightly improved graphical performance
• Fix for Pursuit vehicles taking each other down and ending the event early.
• Fix for Wrecks not getting cleared up online
• Make it easier to find games online – introduce option to browse games

These fixes and improvements will be coming to the console versions of Dangerous Driving very soon. Release Date currently estimated to be June 25th 2019.

There are 2 known issues on console which are currently being fixed :

• On PlayStation – the second half of a Point to Point track won’t always load in and you can get caught in a crash loop. UPDATE: This has been fixed by a PS4 update on June 18th
• On PlayStation and Xbox – the vehicle stats and mileage have disappeared from the car select. The workaround is to check your mileage on the in game speedo whilst we prep a fix.

Make sure you join our “Dangerous Driving Club” so you can be first to receive all the latest news about Dangerous Driving from us here at Petersfield’s biggest game development Studio, Three Fields Entertainment.

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DANGEROUS DRIVING

Dangerous Driving is evolving – to date it has all been about Single Player Racing but we’re in the process of  introducing Networked Online Racing.

 

It’s an exciting step. It’s something we started doing back in 2004 so we all have experience of it and something we have been itching to get back to.

Here’s what is in the first Online Update :

• 6 player online racing.
• A Ranking system directly related to your finishing position in each race. Finish a race and you will get 1 point plus another point for every person you beat, giving a maximum of 6 points per race (As we add more game modes we will likely add more ways to earn points)
• 18 pre set events.
• Client Server but without a dedicated Server – so one player will be the host and they will create the game and choose the event (and hence the car).

To balance the game around player skill we have made a few changes to how the game works online such as introducing a much larger penalty (speed loss) for hitting barriers. We’ve also re-tuned Boost earning to really reward dangerous driving.

We’re also aiming for a consistent number of traffic cars around each player. However online these will only appear in oncoming – which increases the risk / reward balance. You’ll earn more boost driving in oncoming but it increases the risk of your crashing.

To keep things fair players will always be in the same car type. Even within one class the speeds vary by up to 30 mph making the races very unbalanced if we didn’t do this. 

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DANGEROUS DRIVING UPDATE #1

No Claims Bonus is the first Update for Dangerous Driving. It’s now available for download on PS4 Xbox One and PC.

 

We’ve been listening to your feedback and the No Claims Bonus Dangerous Driving update contains the fixes listed below:

• Prevent unfeasibly short leaderboard entries
• Fixes an issue that would cause a Crash on Xbox when signing out of the game (according to the stats from Microsoft this accounts for 18% of all Crashes on Xbox)
• Fixes an issue that would cause a Crash during gameplay on all platforms when hitting quit during Danger Time
• Prevents AI shooting past the player at super sonic speed
• Prevents AI speed not being capped when you’re in Takedown Camera (hence why they speed past you)
• Ensures Aftertouch Takedowns give you the advantage they should (not reset at back)
• Ensures laps always register on Hypercar Shakedown event on Desert Marathon
• Stops AI always crashing at start of Island Lighthouse track
• Minimises player getting reset behind persistent wrecks after a Crash
• Ensures it is possible to get Platinum medal on Formula DD Survival Event

No Claims Bonus is just the start. We will be publishing a roadmap this week of other Dangerous Driving Updates and fixes with the priority on Collision fixes and adding Online Racing. Check out the Known Issues list on our FAQ for more info.

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Once you have Spotify authorized make sure you have Spotify running on the device (PlayStation4, Xbox One or PC) and choose a playlist. You will then be able to control that from within the game.

The current implementation is, we hope, just the start of a fully featured integration which includes gameplay triggered music!

You will need a Spotify Premium account to access this but you can get a 1 month free trial so we highly recommend you check it out.

If you see the screen below you will need to ensure that Spotify is running on your Xbox/PS4/PC. Go out to the dashboard/minimise the game etc and open Spotify and then return to the game.

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