“In a decaying society, art, if it is true, must also reflect decay,” wrote Austrian journalist and Marxist Ernst Fischer in The Necessity of Art. “And if it does not want to violate faith in its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help change it.” I can't help but feel that he would be very grateful Rackfest 2The fourth Early Access update adds a tool that lets you brush away detailed rust, dirt, and dents on the canvas of your old banger. The said tool has been given a worthy, glorious name: CRAP-IT.
Yes, the developers at Bugbear have finally made the destruction racer's car customization more detailed than just choosing a color. CRAP-IT looks like your standard paint editor, but with a special emphasis on weathering effects beyond the usual range of stickers and paints. However, you can still put decals all over your car and save on rust if you're allergic to something that looks like it belongs in a junkyard.
Personally, I'm just glad to see that car customization in Wreckfest 2 is starting to take shape, as Bugbear was missing one element. built a fun racing chassis and started attach more cars and tracks to it.
In terms of cars and tracks, this update adds perhaps the most important demo fighter in the derby – a Volkswagen Beetle-style buggy. Ferdinand Porsche may be better known for his rear-engined sports cars, but damn, could he and the likes of Hungarian engineer Béla Barényi design a car that's as fun to drive around as a concrete egg on wheels, to the point where you kind of forget its origin like a people's car, conceived by the Nazis. Frankly, I think riding it on a track like Crash Canyon 2.0 counts as giving the mustachioed guy the middle finger, showing the proverbial disapproval of stiletto fascism and head-on collisions that waste metal that could instead be used to support a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist state.
In addition to these additions, Bugbear has also updated the way tires, suspensions, and how cars deform when colliding with objects are modeled. You can read full notes if you want to know the full description of the bug fixes.
I'm wondering how I managed to squeeze references to two political schools of thought into an article about cars that go room-room and then crash. Then I'll go and spend three hours writing out the word “boom” in rusty dents.
