Update Speculation thread

There are already in game pictures from last year of updated versions of Small Island, Port, Industrial Site, and Derby Arenas.

ECA appears somewhat complete. Hirochi Raceway was released alongside ECA, and it likely will share assets with the updated ECA, as both are set in Maine, so it may be somewhat complete.

It is unknown how new the map updates will go to. Hirochi Raceway might be the final map to be updated, or it could be JRI, which is mostly abandoned industrial, and could re-use assets from the first 4 maps if needed (but hopefully not).

 

I can already hear NWA and see riots in Belasco.

 

The difference is literally night and day.
Old:

New:


Old:

New:

 

I can imagine that Firwood will only get some props and textures (maybe) added/upgraded, due to it getting an upgrade not too long ago, but what do I know.

 

The Firwood overhaul was in March 2016, more than 3 years ago. The whole area is very outdated compared to the current quality standards, and I would not be surprised if the entire town is rebuilt with the same road layout.

 

Looks like they're replacing the blobby rocks with some rocks that actually look like rocks. Hopefully they do this for the rest of the cliffs and whatnot because it looks kinda odd currently.

 

the water physics are awsome!

 

I don't think there are new water physics, but just new particles and such.

 

Here's also hoping they are modeled from all sides, instead of having these annoying gaps that current rocks got on them.

 

Wow! ECU is looking awesome! The only thing im kinda afraid is it going to have fps issues?

 

Map updates still have to be within the performance limits of everything else due to the minimum/required specs. If you can run the maps currently in game, you can run these. If not, there should be a legacy version to download like there is for DRI and the old gridmap.

 

Well, good news!

 

It's strange how many ECA teasers have been released recently. There have been 3 in 15 days.

 

I know about these two:


but what was the 3rd one?

 

The map:

 

Awww!

 

Where is bubu? Pls giv bluebucc

Seriously though, it does seem fair that we should get a decent Bluebuck teaser, at the very least, to celebrate the 4th of July.

 

It seems that ECA will feature Stop Ahead signs before Stop Signs. Another nice detail I didn't expect to see.