SpinTires news 67

Oovee Games Studios have officially announced that they have started collaborating with the manufacturers of the SHERP all-terrain vehicle to release a new DLC for Spintires (coming in July).

Features:
- Max speed 40 km/h;
- Can overcome obstacles up to 1 meter high and slopes up to 35 degrees;
- Easily traverses rocks, sand, mud, fallen trees, moves on ice and water;
- Floats on water and climbs out onto ice without any problems.

The SHERP "Ural Challenge" expansion will consist of a 4x4 wheeled SHERP and a 10x10 wheeled SHERP (which includes a trailer). A highly detailed map of the Yugyd Va National Park in the Ural Mountains region will also be added, the perfect place to test your SHERP.

New features will be added, such as support for amphibious vehicles.

The new expansion will include a very detailed map of Yugyd Va National Park, numerous technical innovations. The map itself is the perfect environment to showcase the capabilities of the new SHERP vehicle. The map will also feature various missions, a destructible bridge, and other important points accessible only by water.

This DLC brings a bunch of new features or improvements to Spintires:
- Support for landing crafts.
- Self-inflating tires that are controllable.
- Differential steering.
- Vertical steering for articulated vehicles.
- Completely rewritten mud physics.

What’s included in the new vehicle pack:
- Officially licensed Sherp N ATV (4x4) with custom sounds.
- Officially licensed Sherp Ark ATV (10x10) with customizable sounds and crane mounts.
- A large and very detailed map heavily inspired by Yugyd Va National Park with various dynamic obstacles.

No exact release date yet, expected in July this year (this month).

The developers have released new screenshots of the map and vehicles from the SHERP Ural Challenge DLC for SpinTires.

Among them, the SHERP 10x10 was shown for the first time.

The release is scheduled for July/August this year. Coming soon.

The SHERP Ural Challenge DLC was released very recently, and the developers have just published new screenshots for the new expansion. Along with the DLC, players received the new patch 1.6.0, now available for everyone.

What's new in 1.6.0?

Added / New
- Tire inflation system (CTIS) is available on the following vehicles: SHERP N, SHERP ARK, B157, B131, C4310, C255, D535, E7310, B66, C4320.
- Differential steering, either by braking one side of the wheels or by reverse rotation (tank-like).
- Support for chassis with multiple steerable joints (e.g., twisting left/right and tilting the cabin up/down).
- Driver animation for vehicles controlled by levers instead of a steering wheel.

Improvements
- Much more realistic water interaction, now taking into account the shape of what is submerged and applying buoyancy, water flow pressure, and surface friction.
- Completely rewritten mud physics. New mud physics.
- Removed sleeping driver animation (his back cutting through the seats was a headache for both modders and developers).
- The driver now looks where the vehicle is going instead of looking at the camera.
- Increased maximum number of bones per mesh from 16 to 40.
- Improved brakes.
- Improved automatic transmission, downshifts better when driving uphill than before.
- Improved transmission.
- Mirror effect enabled on static models.
- The crane grabber turn button in the advanced menu was merged with the main crane operation button.
- Minor change in the advanced visual effects menu.
- Fixed "brown" water.
- Improved water particles, especially those used when amphibious vehicles move through water.
- Improved rain textures.

Fixes
- Crash during refueling in multiplayer.
- Some crashes when loading saves.
- Brakes now stop movement between the wheel and chassis instead of stopping all wheel movement.
- Removed speed damage.
- High-friction tires no longer cause absurdly high fuel consumption.
- Interface errors at refueling.
- Achievement names and descriptions.
- Launching the game without pressing the "casual" or "hardcore" button will start a hardcore game, even if the casual option is selected.
- Joining MP games via invitations or friends list sometimes did not work.
- Increased traction of K-700 and E-167 in mud.
- The rim of the D-535 wheel can deform like rubber.

The developers have released a small update v1.6.1 for SpinTires.

What the patch includes:
- Fix: switching to the Main Menu from the Escape menu generates a save for the main menu instead of a save for the player's level;
- Bug fixes: crash when detaching trailers via the advanced menu;
- Fixed missing textures for those who do not own the CH DLC;
- Missing tire sounds from the base game (if you did not own the Sherp DLC) - fixed.

For Spintires, a Halloween update 1.6.2 has been released. The update is already available on Steam. Let's look at the changes.
Added- Ability to adjust brake power (//).
Improvements- Mud rebalancing. Now it’s easier to drive through mud.- Russian translation (thanks to Oldman777).- Rework of torque limits with unlocked differential.- The camera now works properly when the vehicle is upside down.- If interface text is too large and doesn’t fit within set boundaries, it will simply end with an ellipsis.- Rain now occurs slightly less often.- Optimization of collision boxes C509.- On vehicles with articulated steering (e.g., Sherp N), brake force is now dynamically adjusted.- Certain reworks of the Night DayTimeState value.- Improved controller and steering wheel support. Device response to braking has been enhanced.
Changes related to mud- Road tires are now less stiff.- Reduced grip for offroad tires.- Overall, mud resistance has been decreased, improving passability.
Fixes- The B66 spare tire was flipped.- Brightness settings for murky water have been reworked.- Certain fixes related to unlocked differential and torque. New limits on wheel rotation speed in mud have been introduced accordingly.- The camera used to freeze when switching between preset positions. This has been fixed.- Automatic transmission now correctly switches between reverse and forward modes.- All wheels on the Sherp N now have identical settings. Previously, they differed.- Wheels sometimes vibrated and moved when in contact with mud in certain situations. This bug has been fixed.- The game sometimes crashed when retracting the winch. Bug fixed.- Some menus (like the garage menu) were incorrectly displayed for a short time for unknown reasons. This will no longer happen.- In multiplayer, vehicles will no longer spawn inside each other, preventing getting stuck.- Fixed a bug where vehicles would easily flip over during sharp braking on a straight road if speed was medium or high.- For some reason, sparks (broken engine effect) appeared very frequently. The higher the frame rate, the more sparks appeared. This behavior has been corrected.- The handbrake now prevents wheel turning.- Fixed a bug with the side camera when switching between preset positions.- B80 tires were not getting dirty. Bug fixed.- There was a bug where the "Drop Cargo" command did not drop the cargo even though the correct key was pressed.- No more crashes when processing empty texts.- Various random crashes have been fixed.- Fixed some errors related to mud distribution on wheels. Mud was distributed unevenly and the mud height was incorrect.- Some other minor fixes.

The developers left a small hint about the upcoming setting of the new DLC on the company's official Facebook account. A screenshot was also published, which may be directly related to the new expansion. 
Guess where we are headed next in the upcoming DLC?