Victory: The Age of Racing blogs

The Cavron Cup has started

itomi — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:16:41 +0000

From 20 May 2013 to 27 May 2013 you will see a new slot with a branded car supplied excusively for a special event: click JOIN and take part in the Cavron Cup Hotlap Championship!

All the players will race for the best lap time on Fort Fast Blue track using the same dedicated car.

Performances are equal for everybody but you can change your car setup during the event.

Cavron Cup winners will receive different kind of prizes, listed below, including the special car of the event for the best ones. Once the event ended, the fastest drivers who win the car can normally use it in game.

You can't miss out on it!

Patch 0.09.903: Torrent support & Hotlap Championships

itomi — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:07:07 +0000

Today we're releasing our latest update for Victory: The Age of Racing. The 0.09.903 patch adresses lots of minor bugs in the game and introduces a brand new game launcher/updater and a new type of event: Hotlap Championship.

New Launcher / Updater

The brand new Victory game installer / launcher / updater introduces support for the BitTorrent protocol during the game download and updates.

Game downloads will be faster and more reliable with the support of dedicated seed boxes and CDNs and the chance share the download bandwidth between the different online users.

Update: some users are reporting problems with the new installer: Please remember to launch the installer as an Administrator if you're on Windows 8, this solves the problem. We're investigating now error reports to help you guys. Contact our Support if problems persist.

Hotlap Championship

The new update introduces a new type of event: Hotlap Championship. HLC is a structured event where players races for the best lap time on one or more tracks, using a dedicated car supplied by the game.

All the drivers will use the same dedicated car and will then have the same car performances during the event.

HLC winners (top 10 usually, but this varies) will then receive different kind of prizes, including the car used during the event and / or prizes supplied by our sponsors.

The first HLC will start soon, check out our news and our Facebook Page to be always updated on our events and initiatives.

Discuss on our Announcements Forum:

Patch 0.09.903: Torrent support & Hotlap Championships

April WinnersWeek

itomi — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:43:17 +0000

Special Event: WinnersWeek!

From 15th to 21st of April you take part in the WinnersWeek. Check your position in realtime, the online ranking is based on the number of races you won.

If winning is your attitude, show what you’re made of!

Prizes:

1st Position: 17000 VICTIS GOLD PACK
2nd Position: 7000 VICTIS GOLD PACK
3rd Position: 3500 VICTIS GOLD PACK
From 4th to 10th Position: 10x ALL + 5 WIDGETS (worth 1710 VG)

Check the ChampionsWeek ranking in realtime now, click here.

April ChampionsWeek

itomi — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:23:25 +0000

Always keen to compete? From 8th to 14th of April you participate in the ChampionsWeek:
we register the Race Points you earn during the week and award the best players with Gold and Widgets!

Who's gonna be the Champion?

Prizes:

1st Position: 17000 VICTIS GOLD PACK
2nd Position: 7000 VICTIS GOLD PACK
3rd Position: 3500 VICTIS GOLD PACK
From 4th to 10th Position: 10x ALL + 5 WIDGETS (worth 1710 VG)

Check the ChampionsWeek ranking in realtime now, click here.

6-7th April: Double Xp Weekend

itomi — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:27:32 +0000

Spend this weekend on the road if you want to level up faster: you will be rewarded with double Experience Points for each race you compete in.

March Grind Week!

itomi — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:05:34 +0000

It’s time to clock up the miles, Racer. From March 26^thto April 2^nd you will be part of the Grind Week Event:

Any race or event you take part of, we’re going to register the distance covered. The Grind Week ranking is available on the website and you can check your position right now!

Prizes:

1st Position: 17000 VICTIS GOLD PACK
2nd Position: 7000 VICTIS GOLD PACK
3rd Position: 3500 VICTIS GOLD PACK
From 4th to 10th Position: 10x ALL + 5 WIDGETS (worth 1710 VG)

The more you race, the more distance you cover, the easier you get to first place!

SP 11.0 Beta 3: Steering Wheel support, Hot Lap Party, new Driving Assistance and more!

itomi — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:24:04 +0000

After months of work and weeks of testing we're finally ready to release one of the most anticipated updates for Victory: today the Service Pack 11 is available for everyone to download.

SP11 officially starts the Beta 3 phase in the development of Victory and includes lots of new features:

New Steering Wheel Support

We've tested and wrecked lots of steering wheels during the last months to be able to give you the absolute best steering wheel driving experience in Victory. Connect your wheel, enter the options panel, calibrate it and feel the difference on the road.

We support a vast range of USB steering wheels, including force feedback effects that will give you an unprecedented experience in Victory.

To balance the game, if you use a steering wheel to drive in Victory almost every driving assistance is automatically turned off. This will make both your experience more realistic and balance your efforts with other players that have chosen different input methods (keyboard, joypad, mouse).

The balancing of the different input methods it's one of our priorities: we'd like to see keyboard, joypad, mouse and steering wheel racers to play together without any evident advantage for a particular input. We strive to achieve this together with our fantastic community feedback and support. Feel free to report your feedback and advices on the forum, as always, we'll improve Victory together.

New Live Events: Hot Lap Party

"Hot Lap Party" is a new long lasting live event where you can join a multiplayer time attack mode.

Racers have to set their fastest lap before the end of the event: Check the event rankings in real time on the brand new HUD that also shows overtakes, sector times and more. Up to 100 players can join a single Hot Lap Party!

You can enter and exit a Hot Lap Party whenever you want: set a new lap time, race in another event, go back to it, close the game if you want and then come back and set a new time before the event finishes.

New Intelligent Driving Assistance

We've invested over two years working on our Racing Artificial Intelligence (RAI). We'll use it in our career mode included in a future service pack. But the core of RAI is now finished and we've used it in the last months to drive every possible car variants (millions!) in Victory to set reference times, adjust and modify our racing tracks and, above all, test the driving skills of our AI.

SP11 includes now an Intelligent Driving Assistance that helps you drive your particular and unique Rookie, Semi Pro or Pro car. Victory's Racing Artificial Intelligence will recognize the track and brake for you when needed, according to the performance points, engine, tires and widgets on your car.

Also, it's now possible to enable the visualization of the ideal racing line on the track: that line is the result of thousands of RAI attempts on that particular track.

The Driving Assistance is enabled by default for every racer: We encourage you to try it, it's the best way to start driving in Victory.

You can disable (or re-enable) the Driving Assistance everytime you want in the game options.

This is a big step for us to finally enable every player to be competitive in Victory: With different levels of driving assistance, driving aids based on your preferred controller, unlimited car customization, realistic physics based on user's choices and different car classes we finally want Victory to be the only racing game enjoyable by both casual and hard core online racers.

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It's now possible to save a screenshot of the game by pressing the PrintScreen key. A new screenshot will be saved in the "screenshots" folder inside the game main folder.
The HUD new sector time indicator introduced with Hot Lap Party it's also available in the HotLap Challenge mode.
The Results / Car Status / Degradation screen has been updated to better show your car status.
There's new HUD PI/Buffs/Widgets indicators in the HUD during a race.
Various interface corrections.
Lots of bug fixes.

Discuss this latest Service Pack on our official forums:

SP 11.0 Beta 3: Steering Wheel support, Hot Lap Party, new Driving Assistance and more!

Victory Service Pack 10.1: Updated Physics, Premium Accounts and new Economy

itomi — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:39:34 +0000

Car Physics Updates and Patches

Victory Service Pack 10.1 solves lots of bugs and problems of the recently updated car physics, introducing a brand new automatic gear box and better balancing the overall experience in the Rookie Class.

Game controls

Solved lots of bugs related to the mouse and joypad inputs
Victory is now fully compatible with Sony Playstation's controllers

Updated Car Physics

The new automatic gearbox introduced with P10 now works as intended, solved various bugs.
The rookie class cars are now easier to drive than before, with added basic grip and brake power.
We applied a better mechanical balance to the three car classes.
The three different engine brands are now more diversified
Hot Lap Challenge have now new reference lap times.

Premium Accounts: Step 2

SP10.1 introduces the new Premium Accounts, giving Premium Users a broader range of esthetic items to choose from and better services through the game.

Premium Account Benefits

Premium Account Days are now available to buy with Victis Gold in game, open the Premium Account menu to buy more days for your Premium Account.

Check out the Premium section to buy Victis Gold or Starter Packs.
Premium Account Users now get:
+ 50% Rx bonus after each race
+ 30% Gc bonus after each race
- 30% GC discount on every item in the market
Performance Points in the Research & Development section of the game are now free for Premium Account users.
Class licenses (Rookie License, Semi-Pro License and Pro License) are now free for Premium Account users.
Premium Account users can buy every single esthetic item in the item market. If you buy a premium item when you are a Premium Account user, that particular item will remain on your car even if your Premium Account expires.
Premium Account users can buy every single paint item during the car creation. If you buy a paint item (stickers, patterns, forms, templates, etc.) when you are a Premium Account user, that particular item will remain on your car even if your Premium Account expires.
Premium Account users can buy every single car block during the car creation. If you buy a car block when you are a Premium Account user, that particular car block will remain on your car even if your Premium Account expires.

Please note that every single performance item is still accessible by both basic and premium account users. It's crucial for us to guarantee our basic users the same reachable car performance of premium users.

Buying premium account days is the best way to enjoy Victory and support the development of the game, but rest assured that you can continue to play for free and reach the same car performances with your basic account.

15 days of Premium Account for every user

As a result of those changes we decided to give to every single beta user that registered before the release of this patch 15 days of Premium Account for free, so you can test the advantages of Premium Accounts versus Basic Accounts.

Economy Rebalance

We continue to rebalance the economy of the game based on players' feedback and usage statistics to finally find the perfect combination of prices for every single item and service in the game.

Updated Prices

We updated the prices in Gears Credits and Victis Gold for lots of items in the market. You will be able now to buy more esthetic items to increase your car Wonder and level up faster / gain more gears credits after each race.

We now give 20.000 Gears Credits (was 5000) when you start a new driver. This will allow newcomers to enjoy the game experience without worring about GCs for 5-10 levels, depending on player's decisions.

Restore Widgets are now way cheaper than before, allowing players to repair their cars spending less GCs.

New Performance Points Reset

The first performance point reset for every car in the game is way cheaper than before. Every subsequent reset will cost you more and more. We want to give you the opportunity to reset your PPs, but we also need to discourage this practice after the first one.

Reseted Performance Points can now be reallocated for free.

New Car Repaint prices

We lowered the prices for Car Repaints. The price to repaint a car will raise every time you repaint that particular car. We want to give you the opportunity to repaint your car, but we also need to discourage this practice after the first one.

Website Updates

We've updated and we'll continue to update the website reflecting the new features and balancing introduced with this patch.

Invite your Friends

You can now invite your Facebook friends to play Victory and unlock rewards if they register to play! Check out the Invite Friends section in your dashboard.

Comments?

Discuss in our forums this Service Pack.

Victory is on Steam Greenlight

itomi — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:42:03 +0000

After the release of the Service Pack 10 and the approaching of the SP11 (expected in november) we now feel ready to propose our game for Steam pubblication and enter the Steam Greenlight process.

If you like Victory and have a Steam account please head to the Victory page on Greenlight, vote "Yes" and maybe leave some positive comments :D

We need your help as you're the players that actually tried Victory and knows its potential.

We want to finish the development of the game with all the optimizations it needs by the end of the year and be able to release it on Steam in 2013... to do so we have to pass the Greenlight process!

You can find Victory on Greenlight here:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=97896468

Patch 10.0: New Live Events, brand new Physics, Lan Parties and more!

itomi — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:31:12 +0000

Today, Vae Victis released Victory Patch 10. This is our tenth major update and introduces some new great features to our beloved baby, we hope you'll enjoy the patch new contents and features as we enjoyed creating them.

Patch 10.0: What's New

Live Events: Super GP

Live Events are events created in real time by the central Victory Server and proposed to inactive players by pushing a dialog with the event's attributes and the "join this event" button.

There's different kind of Live events we're developing, the first ones that is being released with Patch 10 are the Super GP events.

A Super GP is a single race created by the central server with random prizes for the participants.

Each Super GP race offers an Event Reward that will be rewarded to each player that will finish the event (the single race in this case) and a Winner Prize, awarded to the winner of the event.

This two prizes are chose from this four categories:

Race Points (Rp)
Experience points (Rx)
Gears Credits (GC)
Bonus Widgets

The amount and type of the prizes varies from event to event and are chosen randomly by the central server.

Each Super GP race is described by its rewards, the race track where it will be hosted, the car class that it's allowed to race and by some more options:

Collision Mode (on, off, delayed)
Laps number (8-14)
Max Players

A list of the live events running or waiting for players is now available in the new Live Events List in the Race Lobby screen.

New RC6 car physics

After months of work we're now able to release our sixth major release for our car physics engine in Victory. This is the result of your feedbacks and the analysis of the milions of driven kilometers you guys have done during Beta 2.

General rebuild of the Car Physics with various optimizations and improvements
Rebalancing of the car attributes: Brakes are now way more important
The Semi-Pro Class is now easier to drive
The Pro Class is now harder to drive
Engines have now more differentiated attributes from brand to brand
Tires have now more differentiated attributes from brand to brand
Aerodynamic balance has been completely revamped
You can now turn "Auto Gears" off and manually set your car's gears settings

Our car physics is still a work in progress for us: We still want feedback from you as we want to fine-tune everything until the last day of beta. So feel free to report your impressions about the new car physics and post it on our Beta Testing forum.

As a result of those changes we resetted all the world record times in the game. The WR-related achievements & titles you gained during the previous version of the game were not resetted.

Achievements Quests and new Achievements

We added a simple "quest" system based on the completion of the first achievements to promote the exploration of the basic features of the game and act as a simple tutorial for the new players.

We also added 30 brand new Achievements, we have now over 300 different achievements in the game.

LAN Support

We added a new "Local LAN" screen in the lobby where players can create local area network servers to play with fellow LAN friends and easily create LAN parties!

Other changes

We heard you and introduced some changes based on your forums feedbacks:

We slightly reduced the handicaps values in handicap mode: Now having 5 handicaps gives you less disadvantages than before. This needs a good balancing, so report back on the Beta Testing forum your feedback on the new settings
Economy rebalancing: We've changed some of the items prices as we're balancing the game economy according to your testing during this beta
If car collisions are off, the slipstream effect is now greatly reduced
New "yellow arrows" shows you the most important buttons and features in the game
The Research & Development screen has been updated with new animations and better thumbnails for tires and engines
Improved cockpit camera: The dynamic cockpit camera now better simulates helmet's movements and road asperities
It's now possible to exit the session during the results screen
Copy & paste now correctly works
Now you can change your controller method everywhere
A new Level-Up sceen reminds you what you can do after a level-up
New "Victory!" and final position messages at the end of a race
New race start countdown message at the start of a race

Polishing and game optimizations

We're now able to optimize the game and do the final polishing as the game core is now finished: We started to optimize the game by hunting down memory leaks and by optimizing race tracks and car models. P10 contains just a first round of these optimizations, killing down a big chung of memory leaks and introducing first car models optimizations.

We'll continue to optimize the game as much as possible: The actual version is far from what we consider our best possible, we'll release new smaller patches (P10.1, 10.2, etc..) during the next weeks containing even more optimizations.

The vast majority of the lag / FPS drops comes now from tracks and car models not perfectly optimized: Our content team is working hard on this big task since last june and will deliver updated and optimized new tracks and car models in the next major patch (P11), this will bring improved performances for the game and allow players with slower computers to play flawlessy.

> Discuss on the Announcements Forum!