If (like me) you discovered developer Ironwood Studios’ splendidly bizarre four-wheeled survival recreation Pacific Drive only a bit too exhausting when it launched earlier this yr, now could be the time to return: its new Drive Your Method replace introduces a complete bunch of customized problem settings and presets to make issues simpler – or masochistically tougher, in case you choose.
With Pacific Drive’s new replace put in, gamers can instantly select from seven presets enabling them to tweak the issue of their adventures throughout the Olympic Exclusion Zone. These vary from the usual Pacific Drive expertise to Joyride – which retains the identical elementary core however reduces gathering, crafting, and analysis necessities – to presets that lean laborious within the different course. Nuclear Journey, as an illustration, smears every little thing in deadly radiation, whereas Iron Wagon would not simply make issues more durable, it deletes your save in case you fail.
Nonetheless, it would not finish there; the Drive Your Method replace additionally makes it attainable for gamers to create their very own presets, with over 50 significantly extra granular settings accessible – full with tweakable worth sliders for every – as detailed within the video under.
And given Eurogamer’s Chris Tapsell known as Pacific Drive a “collection of merciless brutalisations” and “horrible ache” in his 4 star overview, that additional assist could be appreciated.
Elsewhere within the replace, customized music can now be performed from native storage on PC, bumpers and wheels at the moment are paintable, and there are two new collectible cosmetics – an antenna topper and mirror hanger – out within the exclusion zone. Moreover, Ironwood has launched the paid Anomalous Beauty Pack DLC, containing the Mailbox Bunny bobblehead, Sawblade hood decoration, Vacationer shifter, Anchor steering wheel, Trip sticker pack, and Anomaly decal package.
Beforehand, Ironwood revealed this newest launch can be the second of three updates deliberate for 2024. Summer season introduced a photograph mode, new automobile and storage content material, plus free (and paid) cosmetics – and following Pacific Drive’s new autumn replace, one other is due this “winter”. As to what it’d include, that is at present unclear, with its content material solely listed as “redacted”.
