SEGA Rally Patch description
The legend of Rally games is back as SEGA Rally motors onto next-generation consoles and PC

The legend of Rally games is back as SEGA Rally motors onto next-generation consoles this autumn promising to push the boundaries of the Rally genre to a new level. A true next-gen game, SEGA Rally looks and plays better than ever offering fans bumper-to-bumper, heart stopping, and adrenalin pumping action sure to induce a grin to player's faces.

Developed by SEGA's own Racing Studio, a handpicked team made up of the cream of the industry's racing development talent, the return of the king of arcade rally games promises to set a new president on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

SEGA Rally retains the looping courses of its predecessors rather than the customary point-to-point of many other titles. This amongst other features, helps to ensure close competitive race action with rival cars all vying to be first over the finishing line to pick up the most points.

With over 30 licensed high performance cars to race across a multitude of rich, vibrant and exotic environments, finding the right car for the right surface can put you one step ahead of the opposition.

Accessible but realistic car handling guarantees a fun and rewarding experience as the signature SEGA Rally power slides are still a feature to be reckon with.

Each environment is based in a colourful, exotic location, with each track full of charm and character mimicking varied environments from around the globe. Surfaces vary from course to course, and the track deformation feature ensures that each surface cuts up and ruts differently making each surface a challenge to master.

The circuits will feature an interactive environment incorporating surface deformation and smashable scenery, which will cause the experience to vary each lap.

As the race goes on, your car will get muddier and dirtier, with trips through the water cleaning your chassis off again. Don't get caught behind your opponent on a dusty track, your visibility becomes impaired, which makes taking that next corner perfectly all the harder.

The result is a dynamic, multi-layered, game structure that produces an exponentially huge number of game play possibilities, creating a game that at heart is a serious and rewarding driving game, but with the game play sensibilities and fun of an Arcade Racer.

What's New in This Release:

· Shader 2.0 shadow fix
· Player change button disabled when rewinding Time Attack Replay
· Thread-safe network statistics
· Timeout for network start-up
· Improved Ghost Upload
· Graphical Shadow improvement
· Improved Ghost car behaviour when online
· Loading screen correction after failed ghost upload
· Ghost file handling improvement
· Ghost upload no longer takes place when rank is below 100
· Cursor fix on On-Screen Keyboard used for chat
· Leaderboard fixes to place '?' until leaderboard update takes place
· Fix to allow online ghosts to be accessible
· Head to Head user interface fix for overlapping icon
· User Interface flow issue fixed
· Shadows and Motion blur removed from Front End
· Fix for lock buffer exception crash
· Improvements to the Chat system
· Online Session update fix
· Improved game compatibility
· Online fix for connectivity
· Fix for displaying total car miles
· Improved online game search
· Timeout added to account creation and deletion
· Front end flow improved for Head to Head
· Account creation timeout fixed
· Connection dropout handling improved
· Uploading and Downloading Ghosts fixed
· Account Sign In fix
· Legal Screens can no longer be skipped
· Improved language support
· Missing icon replaced in Front End
· Icons fixed for Russian distributions
· Alt-F4 now handled more gracefully
· Improved online experience with updated server data
· Blank leaderboard fixed
· Sign In buttons fixed
· Updated Chat menu
· Chat file handling fix
· Gamer Pictures added to online experience
· Text Scaling fix in Front End menu system
· Chatting whilst going into an online race fixed
· Audio loading moved to improve performance
· Improved Alt-TAB support
· Online Menu update in Front End
· Leaderboard caching to improve leaderboard performance
· Aspect Ratio in Launcher corrected and filtered
· Flashing Textures fixed
· Graphic tab in launcher layout improved
· Audio fix to Front End
· Fix for exiting the game with an Xbox 360 Controller
· Fix for car mud at low resolutions causing a crash
· Improved PC Clock update accuracy
· Main menu and Pause menu audio matched
· Co-Driver audio faded out on entering menus
· Fix for race not starting in specific circumstances in lobby
· Audio fix for post race glitches
· Multiplayer online championship points reset between championships
· Lap counter fixed in online games
· Online game searches fixed when a large number of games exist
· Font corrections for hi resolution displays
· Front end flow to highlight correct menu item in lobby
· Shadow improvements
· Game Launcher improvements
· Improved game clock synchronisation
· Improved Xbox 360 Controller support
· SSE1 Optimisations
· Head to Head enabled
· Bonnet flash between camera cuts fixed
· Glow reset between races
· Front end fixes for help text
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