Update Highlights

🖥️ Improved: Server Hub

This update adds major performance improvements to the server hub, especially for those running lower-end hardware.

~ 🏃 Optimisation

The leaderboards page has had its first optimisation pass, significantly improving overall UI responsiveness and smoothness, as well as the rewards page receiving some TLC too.

All instances of player avatars (in leaderboards, groups, parties, etc) now render and load much faster, also boosting the responsiveness of the entire hub.

The server hub tutorial system (and its hints) was removed in favour of optimisation. A new version of this will be added back in future iterations of the hub.

~ 🧱 Layout Improvements

We've removed the menu attached to your player name and avatar in the bottom-left and replaced it with the buttons at the middle bottom of the window. This improves discoverability for those pages that were previously hidden away in an obscure spot of the hub.

For the groups, leaderboards, punishments and sessions pages, we've improved the design of the UI to fit with the overall theme of the hub more.

We intend to further improve the layout of the hub to be easier to understand, but for now, this is all we have to show.

🏆 Improved: Zone Leaderboards

There was a bug that caused the on-screen zone leaderboard to not update properly when you changed drift zones. This gave the impression that there was a single leaderboard for all zones, which isn't the case.

This bug is now fixed and zone leaderboards should switch accordingly. We will also be improving zone leaderboards in a future update, making them much faster and more accurate.

🚙 Improved: Handling Editor

We've added the following fields back to the handling editor:

• nInitialDriveGears
• fTractionSpringDeltaMax
• vecCentreOfMassOffset (advanced)
• vecInertiaMultiplier (advanced)
• fRocketBoostCapacity (advanced)
• fBoostMaxSpeed (advanced)

The above fields that are labelled as "advanced" will only appear in the editor if you've enabled the "Show advanced fields" under the settings menu of the handling editor!

⭕ Improved: Zones

In this update, we've added support for dynamically loading and unloading custom maps upon entering their zones. This removes the need to teleport to a custom map in order for it to load, and allows you to just noclip to it or teleport to a player within it instead.

This isn't a finished feature so there may be some weird behaviour while we iron it out completely.

~ 🔂 Drift Zones

We've added a new feature to drift zones to counter the trolls that have been ruining your drift scores - it works by automatically deleting your vehicle when you exit out of it.

This prevents players from leaving vehicles in the middle of the track or road, causing issues for others that are trying to drift there.

😎 Improved: Notifications

We've tweaked the look and feel of notifications in the top-right to be more visible in light and bright scenes. The previous design had too much transparency going on which caused issues when reading text. The layout has also been improved, though that is less noticeable.

🌟 Improved: Ultimate Supporter

We've increased the max party member limit for Ultimate Supporters from 75 to 128.

The reasoning behind this change is pretty simple:

The Ultimate Supporter package is the final package, and 128 is the game engines limit of rendering players. With the introduction of party zones in this update, it makes sense to allow Ultimate Supporters to take full advantage of that limit by using them.

💯 Balanced: Drift XP

We've tweaked the amount of XP that you get from drifting from 1 XP per 5k score to 1 XP per 15k score.

This brings drifting in-line with other server activities (such as Minigame races) that should offer a higher amount of XP for winning in a competitive environment compared to casually and passively gaining XP.

🩻 Fixed: Images

Some images in the server were failing to load after Imgur, the image host that we use, started rate limiting requests from FiveM clients.

We've moved these images to our own CDN now (as we should have done in the first place) and they should as such load faster and more reliably.

🎉 Fixed: Group Invites

We've fixed two major bugs with the group invite command through our Discord bot, allowing you to invite members who were previously invited to your group.

The issue was a combination of two that have now been fixed, one related to improper error handling due to an oversight in our internal API.

👘 New Content: Clothing

In this update, we've added a mixture of new clothing and accessories for both Male and Female peds.

We've focused on quality for the Male peds rather than quantity, so feel free to check out the new stuff in-game and let us know what you think about it!

Male:
- Lower Body: 4
- Upper Body/Tops: 2
- Shoes: 1
- Scarfs & Chains: 1
- Shirts & Accessories: 2 
- Glasses: 1
- Decals: 2

Female:
- Hair: 5
- Upper Body/Tops: 15
- Lower Body: 8
- Bags & Parachutes & Nails: 1
- Shoes: 4
- Scarfs, Chains, and Accessories: 2
- Shirts & Accessories: 5
- Badges & Logos: 2
- Glasses: 2
- Decals: 4
- Earrings: 1

- Fixed heels that clip beneath the ground or float just above

🚗 New Content: Vehicles

In this update, we've added 39 new vehicles for you to use in-game. We've also gone through and applied further fixes to various vehicles ensuring balance and fairness for PvP use.

Here are all the new vehicles:

Albany Esperanto Executive
Albany Cavalcade III
Albany Primo LX
Annis 300R Widebody Custom
Benefactor Zokusha Glendale
Bravado Oceanic
Classique Panorama
Classique Trailer Trash Panorama
Classique Panoramas
Declasse Burrito Power Wheels
Declasse 2000 Yosemite
Declasse Sabre
Declasse Vigero ZX Widebody Custom
Enus Paragon XR FR Works
Grotti Cheetah Classic Roadster
Grotti Cheetah Classic Cabriolet
Grotti Unmarked Cheetah Classic Vice PD
Grotti Itali RSX Roadster
HVY Linerunner
HVY Aerocab
Imponte Dukes Cobra
Invetero Coquette GTE
Invetero Coquette Drift Spec
Invetero Coquette VR1
Karin Boor Custom 4 Seater
Vapid Aleutian XL
Vapid Civilian Caracara 6x6
Pfister Comet S2 Widebody Custom
Pfister Comet RR Custom
Progen Tyrus S
Progen Tyrus GTR
Truffade Thrax S
Vapid Contender Baja Spec
Vapid Dominator 645
Vapid Dominator 645 Fastback
Vapid Penman
Vulcar Warrener Custom
Willard Eudora Convertible
Western Nightblade Custom Ape Hanger

Full update log

• Added back the following handling fields to the handling editor:
  • nInitialDriveGears
  • fTractionSpringDeltaMax
  • vecCentreOfMassOffset (advanced)
  • vecInertiaMultiplier (advanced)
  • fRocketBoostCapacity (advanced)
  • fBoostMaxSpeed (advanced)
  • Note: those labelled with "advanced" will only show if you've enabled the "Show advanced fields" under the handling editor settings!
• Added support for loading and unloading maps on zone entries
• Added 19 new drift zones for custom maps
• Added improvements to the UI of notifications
• Added support for purchasing liveries on our store
• Added improvements to the UI of the "currently talking" list
• Added a new car meet zone at La Mesa
• Added automatic vehicle deletion upon exit for drift zones
• Added optimisation to the leaderboards page of the server hub
• Added optimisation to the rewards page of the server hub
• Added optimisation to every instance of a player avatar for overall performance improvements in the server hub
• Added buttons for player-specific pages to the bottom middle of the server hub
• Added UI improvements to the groups, leaderboards, punishments and sessions pages of the server hub
• Adjusted the Ultimate Supporter max party member limit from 75 to 128
• Adjusted the logic for gaining XP while drifting, balancing it with other server activities
• Fixed a bug where the leaderboards kept rendering on-top of the handling editor and vStancer menus when they were open
• Fixed a bug where on-screen drift leaderboards didn't update upon entering a new drift zone
• Fixed a rate limiting issue with Imgur that caused many images to not load
• Fixed an issue where standing near a vehicle and looking at another will result in weird behaviour when trying to upvote them at car meets
• Fixed an issue where you could upvote your own vehicle at car meets
• Fixed a bug that caused information to not be sent correctly
• Removed the "large gatherings" rule related to car meets
• Removed the player navigation menu in the bottom-right of the server hub
• Removed the buggy game renderer that caused issues with lower-end hardware in the server hub
• Removed the buggy tutorial system that also caused performance issues in the server hub

We hope you enjoy the changes, and look forward to seeing you on the server!
Good luck and have fun :)