The Polacolour Update is now live for art of rally with a dark mode UI

A big highlight from 2020 was art of rally, the indie racer from Funselektor Labs developer of Absolute Drift (get it free until June 19) and there's a big overhaul update out now.

This update has been in the works for about 6 months now the developer said, bringing with it an updated UI from one an artist who worked on the also fabulous Mini Metro. There's even a dark mode included (hooray, my eyes!) and there's UI scaling now too. You can also see cross-platform leader boards and downloadable ghosts now too. Check out the new trailer to show it off:

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Some of what's new includes:

• huge re-design of the UI and also dark mode and UI scaling
• cross-platform leaderboards with downloadable ghosts of anyone you see on the leaderboard
• car physics body collider is less bouncy
• lowered the maximum torque rpm for all cars.
• raised the rev limit for group 2 cars and vans.
• updated baseline ai times
• rain ai times use faster times from the wet leaderboards

There's also other improvements:

• optimized grass shader
• optimized vegetation cutout shader
• lighting for all times-of-day have only one light instead of multiple lights for better performance.
• stages now use ambient light from the skybox instead of a gradient, which gives equal or better lighting to the previous multiple directional lights and also doesn't tint the dust/smoke blue.
• updated localization for new terms and also fixed some existing terms
• road bumps have been toned down as they were throwing the car at high speeds
• last used cars and liveries are now saved between runs so you no longer need to cycle through and pick your favourite every time

And of course a good dose of bug fixing has been done too.

One game not to miss out on for sure.

You can buy art of rally for Linux from GOG and Steam.