Changelog

What changed in each version, newest first.

2.7.1

Changed

  • SPPPD moved to https://spppd.xyz, the website and the online server both. The default server is now spppd.xyz. A save that names spppd.vanillaiice.xyz still reaches the same server, and the old website address redirects to the new one.

2.7.0

Added

  • Wrecks look like wrecks. A car that hits a fence hard enough to wreck folds in where it hit, its paint scuffs dark around the dent, it pours dark smoke while it waits, and bits of it fly back off the wall in its own colour, with black plastic and glass. It goes back on the road whole: damage doesn’t build up over a race.
  • A hard hit that doesn’t wreck the car still throws a few bits.

Online

  • Protocol 4. A rival’s wreck dents and smokes on every screen, not only its own. Everyone in a room needs this version: 2.6.0 and older can’t join a 2.7.0 room.

2.6.0

Changed

  • The cars are rebalanced. Power now decides who is quickest, and cornering follows the car: light, nimble cars corner hardest, and heavy ones make their time back on the straights. The gap from the fastest car to the slowest over a lap of every track is down from 16% to 9%.

  • MUSCLE MONSTER sat on traction control the whole way off the line and lapped like TOFU RUNNER. It now has 601 kW instead of 470, sits further back on its rear wheels and has the grip to use them: 0-100 km/h takes 3.4 s instead of 4.5, and 0-200 takes 8.6 s instead of 11.3. It still spins its tyres more than any other car.

  • Steady cornering grip on ARCADE, before and after (CYBER, WEDGE, QUAD TURBO and OPEN WHEELER are unchanged at 1.52, 1.50, 1.50 and 1.69 g):

    Car Before After Also
    4WD MONSTER 1.48 g 1.62 g 311 kW, up from 281
    TOFU RUNNER 1.34 g 1.62 g
    HOT HATCH 1.39 g 1.56 g
    ROCKET 1.48 g 1.55 g
    BIG BULL 1.28 g 1.50 g stronger brakes
    MUSCLE MONSTER 1.25 g 1.48 g 601 kW, up from 470
    SAMURAI 1.28 g 1.46 g
    BAJA BEAST 1.24 g 1.45 g stronger brakes

  • Letting go of a long handbrake drift is smoother in every car: the tail no longer snaps as the drift ends, and it swings less past straight.

2.5.0

Added

  • TOUCH STEERING in SETTINGS: STICK, as before, or BUTTONS. With buttons, left and right arrows steer the way the arrow keys do, and a thumb anywhere on the left half steers to its side and can slide across without lifting. BRAKE sits above DRIFT, and with AUTO GAS off a GAS button takes the corner.

2.4.1

  • Minor changes.

2.4.0

Added

Changed

  • LUSAIL is replaced by MIRAGE, a new desert circuit. It is built from smooth corners, so its fences no longer fold or kink at the bends, and the road keeps one width. Best laps set on LUSAIL don’t carry over.
  • Saves from before 2.3.0, which name the server by its old address, are no longer moved to spppd.vanillaiice.xyz. They still reach the same server; to switch, type spppd.vanillaiice.xyz as the server on the ONLINE screen.

Relay

  • Bans, dashboard users and logins are kept in an SQLite file (-db), so a restart or deploy no longer clears them.
  • The dashboard has real users, each with a name and password, and a login page in place of the shared password. Users can be added, removed and changed on the dashboard, or with relay user add|passwd|del|list. SPPPD_DASHBOARD_TOKEN (or SPPPD_ADMIN_PASSWORD) now makes the first user, admin, when there are none.
  • Optional statistics with -analytics: unique IPs (stored as keyed hashes, deleted after -analytics-days, 30 by default), rooms, joins, races, drivers, refusals, peak players and traffic per day, and a record of each race. The dashboard shows the last 14 days and exports daily.csv and races.csv. Off by default.
  • -max-rooms caps the rooms open at once. Past it, hosting is refused with “The server has no free rooms”, and joining an open room still works. The dashboard shows players and rooms against their limits.
  • The official server’s log is capped at about 10 MB.

2.3.0

Added

  • Fence crashes. A hit that costs a car 15 m/s of speed wrecks it. You lose control for 1.2 s, then restart stopped on the racing line where you hit, ghosted for 2.5 s, and the lap stops counting as clean. Every car has the same limit, however heavy it is. Driving flat out and bouncing off the fences no longer pays.

Changed

  • The default online server is now spppd.vanillaiice.xyz, with no port to type. Saves holding the old address move to it, and a server you chose yourself stays.
  • Each car has its own nitro sound.

Online

  • Protocol 3. A car that has just been reset is now a ghost on everyone’s screen, not only its own. Everyone in a room needs this version.

Other cars can’t wreck you, even by shoving you into a fence. Glancing off a fence still only bounces.

2.2.0

Online

  • Races for two to four players, through a public relay.
  • The host’s track is shared with everyone in the room, including custom tracks.
  • A rematch button, and host-only race setup.
  • Room codes are generated, and six characters long.
  • A dashboard for the relay, and protection against abuse.

Added

  • Five cars, for twelve in all: TOFU RUNNER, WEDGE, QUAD TURBO, BAJA BEAST and OPEN WHEELER.
  • Six tracks, for ten in all.
  • MIDNIGHT, a fourth time of day with no floodlights.
  • A horn.
  • Vibration on pads and phones.
  • Sliding fills the nitro tank faster.
  • The finish shows at the line, with the results three seconds later.

Changed

  • Each car has its own engine sound, and the turbo and supercharger sounds are new.
  • Six cars are redrawn from their real shapes.
  • The game loads behind the splash, and rendered sounds are saved between launches.
  • Phones are locked to landscape and start on high effects.

2.1.0

Added

  • A freestyle radio: drop your own music on the window.
  • Touch controls for phones.
  • Stronger on/off nitro with a warp effect, and synthesised sound effects.
  • Engine types, and CYBER, modelled on a Model S Plaid.

Changed

  • Arcade handling and a flat, bright arcade look became the default.
  • Slipstream, and a settled pad layout.

2.0.0

  • Overhaul: a new vehicle model, tracks, interface, effects and track editor.