Cars Online Patch Details Dec 08

December 19, 2008 by Nick
Filed under: Cars Online

Cars Online has had a patch and there are some pretty cool things, but nothing too interesting. At least they are doing some things. But I can’t wait till they release the world to us

Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings, and Happy New Year!

Wow, who doesn’t love the holidays? I know we sure do! None the less, there is no amount of snow, holiday cheer, or delicious egg nog that can keep us from what we do best, and that’s making this project better for you. Now don’t think we don’t love egg nog (because I certainly do), we just love Cars more!

So as you can imagine, we’ve got all sorts of good things going on around here. If you’ve logged on today, then I’m sure you’ve already seen some of the changes we’ve made. That said, how about I stop talking and start posting those patch notes?

Good idea, here they are:

Patch Notes (12.18.08):

Race Code Update: We’ve updated ALL the Race Codes that will be released to the public. This means that you should now be able to redeem ALL of your codes for a special collectible badge, some car coins and some special consumables for racing.

NOTE: If you redeem a code and get a PLACEHOLDER image, don’t panic, that badge hasn’t been “officially” released, you’re one of the lucky few who got a Car early. When that particular Car is “officially” released, we’ll update the artwork!

Race Codes: What’s This Pop-Up: Added a graphic showing the back of the ticket

Enter Race Codes Pop-Up: Added Congratulations screen after entering a code from the landing page, made the Race Code input 4 fields of 4-digit boxes (like entering credit card info), and replaced the fanfold of race tickets with graphic of back of the ticket

Verbiage: Several copy changes throughout the site. We do it because we love to proofread. We also do it because we sometimes don’t get enough coffee in the morning

Garage: Replaced green and blue shades with different shades of blue and green; renamed “Yellow Shade” to “Not-So-Mellow Yellow”, very original

Garage: Also add the following new functionality: camera angle change when you are customizing your car–that way you are not relying on the buttons that spin your car, you will see the correct view based on what you are adding to your car

Garage: Removed the locked tire and paint job in the Workbench

GUI: Made GUI visible on 1024 x 768 monitor. Added “Game Trailer” to GUI. Changed “Racetracks” to “Race”. We reworked those visual styles to be much more race-worthy

Send Us Your Comments: Added an updated “Send Us Your Comments” form accessible from the Envelope icon on the upper right side of the GUI. Now you can send us your comments AND questions, as well as let us know your name and e-mail address. Talk about exciting! We’re out of control over here!

Leaderboard: Click the RSN icon in the upper-right corner of the Garage–it’s totally tricked out! Send us your feedback using the previously mentioned “Send Us Your Comments” form

Help: Updated some of the copy to make the Help even more helpful; replaced “Contact Us” hyperlink with our hyperlinked e-mail address (memberservices@worldofcars.com) for those of you who don’t have an e-mail application installed on your computer

Landing Page: New loading animation featuring everyone’s favorite little “Pit Stop!” hero, Guido! Honestly, this is the best part of this week’s update

Landing Page: We also updated the “About Game” copy. It was REALLY long before, and now our awesome Marketing mechanics have completely re-tooled it, added a cool fin, some rims, and pretty much gave it more horsepower

Game Trailer: Added to GUI, made the trailer MUCH larger, which rocks, of course

Racing: Added track difficulty selection to each of the tracks. Now you can play at your level of skill. We’ve also got leaderboard rankings for each level of difficulty. If you’re just getting started you might want to check out our…

…Training Track: Yup, we’ve added a special Training Track for all our new and young players alike. Test your keyboard skills on the giant oval of pavement

Create My Car Button: The “Race” button has been changed to “Save” in the Create My Car process since you have to save your Car before you race it! Go figure

Congratulations Pop-Up: Updated the Congrats Pop-Up after creating a new Car for the first time, it’s awesomesauce

Last But Not Least: All sorts of mysterious behind-the-scenes magic! Because that’s what we do best here at Disney