Art of Rally Australia DLC and New Updates Available Today

The Art of Rally Australia DLC is available today for PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Nintendo Switch users will have to wait until December. The DLC costs $8.99 and features 6 new stages, 1 free roam area, 4 new vehicles and 2 songs.

The team also released a new 1.5.0 update providing plenty of improvements and fixes. Check out the patch notes below.

• Performance improvements for long sessions and when multi-tasking (e.g. alt+tab)
• Stability improvements for vegetation renderer indirect
• Framerate is no longer capped at 230 fps
• Custom rallies can now have up to 12 stages
• Windows on some houses and boats now glow at night
• Unlocked songs remain unlocked after resetting collectibles
• Last visited free roam stage is remembered
• Various improvements to ghost selection
• Added “total time” to stage post-finish menu in multiple stage rallies
• Career and custom rally overall results now support times longer than 1 hour (single stage results still cap at 59.59.999)
• Free roam views are easier to activate and can be activated by holding the button while passing through the trigger area
• Added extra checks for unlocking freeroam stages and some achievements
• Improved controller button glyphs position in enter/exit View prompts

• Prevented tires from clipping through road on some stages
• Prevented various bugs that could be triggered by a terminal damage crash
• Fixed various issues with saving and loading rally progress and car condition
• Various fixes to ghost selection in menus and leaderboard interaction
• Fixed a bug where some ghosts show the wrong vehicle (may not apply retroactively to existing ghosts)
• Retired AI now remains retired even after resuming saved rally
• Best time in post-finish menu shows correct locally saved best time when offline or when privacy policy is declined
• Recover car near finish gates no longer triggers multiple time penalties
• Skidmarks are cleared when entering free roam views and when recovering car
• Fixed issues with vehicle placement in free roam views
• Fixed il gorilla e1 wheel texture issues when changing liveries
• Fixed issues with wheel texture on some ghosts (e.g. le 504, the fujin, little monkey)
• Camera effects no longer remain active outside photo mode during a replay
• Controller vibration stops after restarting stage or recovering car
• Player selected audio settings are reapplied after disconnecting headphones / earbuds
• Fixed a bug causing screenshot names to use a 12-hour format in rare cases
• Fixed guardrail collider in farschewiler
• Fixed reset zone and prop issues in lake nakuru
• Fixed house texture issues in norway and kenya
• Reduced water foam under bridges on some stages
• Fixed rare leaderboard UI issue in post-finish menu
• Fixed rare terminal damage UI issue in post-finish menu
• Fixed issues with fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean (incl. rendering on Steam Deck)
• Retired leaderboard entries can no longer be used as custom ghosts
• Rich presence fixes for Steam and Discord
• Dynamic resolution option removed for Vulkan, as it’s not supported
• Vegetation renderer indirect option removed for Vulkan, as it’s not supported