When we played Top Speed 2.0 about 2 years, some bugs has been detected, some coments has sent to The Playing In The Dark Team.
The wait has been very, very long, wile we can't use the extra tracks and vehicles in multiplayer game so some times the races was bored after a time playing. Also, the tracks and vehicle creation was hard.
But now, there arent problems as this!. Some monts ago (I have noticed about this a mont after the news post) the Playing In The Dark Team present a release candidate (unstable) of the version 2.1 of Top Speed. Is a release candidate version, unoficial, because this can content some bugs. I have tested the version and there arent too many. I recomend to download this version from the Playing In The Dark web.
The new features and changes that I remember are:
The menu has been rearranged
Quick Start option removed. This game mode doesn't already exist.
Street Adventures option removed. Read more down for more information, because there is a way to play this game mode.
Track selection and race mode changes and new features
When select the Time Trial, Single race or Host A Game options, the game shou 3 options and Go back, wit the warning Select a track tipe:
Race track: Shou the standar tracks included in the game.
Street Adventures: Shou the street adventures included in the game.
Custom Track: Shou the tracks and street adventures downloaded or created by the user.
The tracks, street adventures and custom tracks now have ordered by name in the list.
Added France, Ireland and Portugal tracks and Rallye to the desert Street Adventure.
Added new vehicles. The car4 is now the car6.
Now is posible play a custom track in multiplayer game.
Options menu new features:
The game request confirmation when the user select the Restore Default Settings option.
In the game Settings menu, the Use Hardware Sound Direct Acceleration and Reverse Stereo are new. This options was in the racing.cfg on the 2.0 version.
The number of laps now can be a number from 1 to 8.
The file racing.cfg doesn't exist and the new file is topspeed.cfg, wit some settings removed.
The readme now is a chm help file.
The TS2 Utiliti pack program from X-Sight-Interactive is included wit the game installer. This program is for create tracks, vehicles, change the configuration file in a grafical user interface, make a server history, paqaje and download add-ons, chek files related to Top Speed (tracks, vehicles and the higscore.cfg file).
Playabiliti new features
The game contain a new surface for tracks and street adventures (sand) and a efect called clock what is a clock bell.
Your time is anounced when all players finishes a race in multiplayer game and this anounce is more extended.
More realistic fisic model.
The horn and the brake are eared on the real side.
General changes
Two sounds in the menu wont be played simultaniousli anymore, except in the Local Server menu, where this problem can hapend.
For more information, visit http://www.playinginthedark.net and read the news "Release candidate Top Speed 2.1 has arribed!".
For users that speak Spanish, I have created a paqaje to translate the game and the TS2 Pack to Spanish. Is uploaded to Playing In The Dark download page.