Bugbear Entertainment have released a brand new update for Next Car Game: Wreckfest, and it’s a pretty hefty one. According to the changelog, they’re implementing an experimental version of part repairing and crew mechanics, and adding new grass technology too.

No, seriously. Grass is a big deal here.

The path also implements a variety of server side improvements.It downloads itself automatically from Steam, so you don’t have to worry about that. The full list of changes and improvements in this patch follows:
General:

• Implemented an experimental version of part repairing and crew mechanics.
  Note that in order to be able to repair you first need to recruit a crew by clicking the small crew button above the car’s icon and then assign your newly-recruited crew to the car.
• Added a new work-in-progress tarmac track.
• Improved all suspension setups.
• Added Racing and Rally tyres in addition to Standard ones.
• Improved off-road surfaces, now they are either more slippery or slow down.
• Improved clutch logic so it’s now easier to get the car moving again after spinning out.
• Improved gamepad controller.
• Fixed frequent crashing when joining servers with lawn mowers.
• Improved vehicle paint-job changing speed.
• Improved game start-up time after system boot.
• Fixed graphics settings resetting after system boot.
• Excluded paint-job related files from data modification check.
• Implemented new grass.
• Alpha-to-coverage multisampling for foliage is now always enabled.
• Removed festive stuff.

Server:

• Added basic event rotation functionality for dedicated server.
• Added an ability to log dedicated server’s messages to a file.
• Further reduced idle dedicated server CPU usage.
• Dedicated server configuration is from now on read fromserver_config.cfg file which is not clobbered by Steam updates. The file is seeded from the oldinitial_server_config.cfg file.

Next Car Game: Wreckfest is out now on PC via Steam.