EA & Slightly Mad Studios have released the second patch and the five-car content download pack for the PC version of Need for Speed Shift.
The free content pack includes five brand new cars you can find listed below, it will also introduce team racing to the multiplayer mode.
Included cars:
* 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
* 1967 Shelby GT 500
* 1969 Dodge Charger R/T
* 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T
* 1998 Toyota Supra Mark IV
Together with the DLC pack, patch 1.02 is now available. Alongside various small fixes for all platforms, the patch will address the technical issues of the PC version such as poor ATI support, crashes when changing graphic settings and more. Furthermore, the patch will increase the number of players in online races from 8 to 12. The full patch changelog can be found below, you migth have to click ???Read More??? to see it.
Important: The patch requires a clean installtion of Need for Speed Shift to work. Make sure to use a fresh install if you have used any modifications with the old version.
Download Need for Speed Shift DLC Pack & Patch 1.02 Here
NEW CONTENT/FUNCTIONALITY
– Increased the maximum number of online players from 8 to 12
BUG FIXES ??? CROSS-PLATFORM
– 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
PC SPECIFIC
– 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
