Station wagon survival ’em up Pacific Drive has acquired a summer season replace which provides a photomode, new upgrades for storage equipment, a brand new sideways dodge manouver for the automobile, and a bit of paid beauty DLC. That is the primary of a brand new roadmap of post-release updates nonetheless to come back.
Does the usage of “roadmap” right here represent a pun?
The photomode can now be launched from the pause menu, and allows you to fiddle with depth of discipline, focus management, and publicity instances, in addition to overlaying visible filters and altering climate situations and time of day. Normal stuff now, so far as photomodes go, however very welcome in a recreation world as atmospheric Pacific Drive’s hazily lit forests.
Your new equippable automobile capacity is the Juke Jet, which accurately appears to be a small jet engine you possibly can tape to either side of your car. It permits you to horizontally dodge your automobile left or proper, all the higher to keep away from obstacles looming out of the fog.
Lastly within the free replace, there’s two new nodes to unlock by way of the Fabrication Station on the storage improve tree. These are the Sensible Matter Deconstructor, which processes all of the junk you accumulate however don’t need, and the Vargas Auto-Pac-Vac, which can routinely “deposit supplies into your switch trunk”.
You possibly can learn concerning the new paid DLC over on Steam. The beauty gadgets do not curiosity me a lot, however the sale of these things is what’s funding post-release free updates to the sport. Of which there are extra to come back: this autumn they’re planning on including new problem modes, recreation customisation settings, and free cosmetics, with one other as but “redacted” replace deliberate for the winter.
