Finally you can drive in Australia in the first DLC for art of rally! Part of our team is based in Australia so this is extra special and we've put our best into it!

The Australia DLC contains:
+ 6 new tracks (Gum Scrub, Toorooka, Nulla Nulla, Comara Canyon, Lake Lucernia, Wombamurra)
+ 1 new freeroam location (Comara)
+ 4 new cars (The Rotary Kei, Das Scholar, Das Maestro, and The Kingpin)
+ 2 new tunes recorded with a didgeridoo by Tatreal

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Alongside the DLC, we're releasing a huge free update to the base game full of quality of life improvements and bug fixes. Check out the changelog for art of rally v1.5.0 below:


** fixes

+ prevented tires from clipping through road on some stages
+ prevented various bugs that could be triggered by a terminal damage crash
+ fixed various issues with saving and loading rally progress and car condition
+ various fixes to ghost selection in menus and leaderboard interaction
+ fixed a bug where some ghosts show the wrong vehicle (may not apply retroactively to existing ghosts)
+ retired AI now remains retired even after resuming saved rally
+ best time in post-finish menu shows correct locally saved best time when offline or when privacy policy is declined
+ recover car near finish gates no longer triggers multiple time penalties
+ skidmarks are cleared when entering free roam views and when recovering car
+ fixed issues with vehicle placement in free roam views
+ fixed il gorilla e1 wheel texture issues when changing liveries
+ fixed issues with wheel texture on some ghosts (e.g. le 504, the fujin, little monkey)
+ camera effects no longer remain active outside photo mode during a replay
+ controller vibration stops after restarting stage or recovering car
+ player selected audio settings are reapplied after disconnecting headphones / earbuds
+ fixed missing camera shutter sound in GOG Linux and Epic
+ fixed a bug causing screenshot names to use a 12-hour format in rare cases
+ fixed guardrail collider in farschewiler
+ fixed reset zone and prop issues in lake nakuru
+ fixed house texture issues in norway and kenya
+ reduced water foam under bridges on some stages
+ fixed rare leaderboard UI issue in post-finish menu
+ fixed rare terminal damage UI issue in post-finish menu
+ fixed issues with fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean
+ retired leaderboard entries can no longer be used as custom ghosts
+ rich presence fixes for Discord
+ dynamic resolution option removed for Vulkan, as it’s not supported
+ vegetation renderer indirect option removed for Vulkan, as it’s not supported


** improvements

+ performance improvements for long sessions and when multi-tasking (e.g. alt+tab)
+ stability improvements for vegetation renderer indirect
+ framerate is no longer capped at 230 fps
+ custom rallies can have 12 stages
+ windows on some houses and boats glow at night
+ unlocked songs remain unlocked after resetting collectibles
+ last visited free roam stage is remembered
+ various improvements to ghost selection
+ added “total time” to stage post-finish menu in multiple stage rallies
+ career and custom rally overall results now support times longer than 1 hour (single stage results still cap at 59.59.999)
+ free roam views are easier to activate and can be activated by holding the button while passing through the trigger area
+ added extra checks for unlocking freeroam stages and some achievements
+ improved controller button glyphs position in enter/exit View prompts

CHANGELOG v1.5.1


** improvements

+ updated credits
+ improved overall leaderboard connectivity


** fixes

+ fixed a bug that caused rank percentages to sometimes not show on leaderboards
+ fixed a bug that caused incorrect rank percentages on leaderboards
+ fixed an issue with blurry car wheels rendering through car bodies
+ fixed an bug where damage wasn’t saved correctly between stages
+ fixed an issue with certain world best leaderboard entries would cause errors
+ fixed an issue where car stats wouldn’t count up correctly
+ fixed a bug that caused high memory usage resulting in a crash when the player has a large amount of custom liveries
+ fixed the two Australia DLC song names being switched
+ fixed an issue where the world best ghost option would not display
+ fixed custom liveries not reloading at runtime
+ fixed capture button in photo mode for controllers
+ fixed some issues with selecting ghosts over a multi stage rally


CHANGELOG v1.5.2

** improvements

+ DLC cars no longer appear in leaderboard as unknown car
+ DLC ghosts show the DLC car even when DLC is not owned


** fixes

+ fixed an issue where players were unable to progress in career mode
+ fixed an issue where the current ghost selection could change after a stage restart
+ fixed an issue where players were stuck in car selection or loading screens
+ fixed a spot in Kanto Mountains (Japan freeroam) where the car would respawn under the road
+ fixed an issue where car stats were incorrectly recorded in the GOG version
+ fixed localization issues with hud menu option
+ fixed UI issue in repair screen when using French localization
+ vibration no longer continues in post-finish menu
+ fixed an issue where changing language in pre-stage menu could break the menu
+ fixed issues caused by loading multiple stages in succession with custom ghost selected

CHANGELOG v1.5.3

**fixes

+ fixed a performance issue when playing in offline mode
+ fixed ghost selection not remembered between pre-stage and post-finish menus
+ fixed other misc issues with ghost selection in menus
+ fixed misc issues related to browsing the leaderboards

CHANGELOG v1.5.4

**fixes

+ numpad Enter key now works in game
+ fixed custom livery issues for the rotary kei and das maestro
+ fixed custom livery template issues for das maestro (creators need to update their custom liveries for das maestro)

Note: Currently in-game version is shown as v1.5.4a2, so if you want to backup the offline installer I recommend waiting until we fix that next week.

CHANGELOG v1.5.5 (main branch)

**fixes

+ fixed unable to scroll down in custom rally stage selection in certain cases
+ fixed unable to scroll up in main menu in certain cases
+ das hammer v3 livery now loads correctly when the car is unlocked in career

BETA BRANCH (GOG Galaxy) update v1.5.5

We released a build with improvements to controller support across the board on the beta branch. If your controller had issues previously, it's worth trying it with the new beta build. Especially on macOS, or if you're running Galaxy in Linux via Wine/Proton.

If you didn't have controller issues before, but now have with the beta branch build, please report the issue to the team and attach the game logs. You can do it here or use email / Discord. For our contact details see: https://www.funselektor.com/contact