Decorate your garage by hunting down brand new cosmetic items to make your space as cozy or as cool as you want it to be - as well as a new anomalous activity that takes some work to crack open. Alongside the new content, we’ve also upgraded to the latest version of Unreal Engine 4 and it brings some pretty significant improvements!

Want to see the trailer and screenshots? Check it out here!

Version 1.8.1 Highlights

• New Garage Cosmetics system - show off your trophies, or make it cozy!
  
• New Anomalous Activity - Goldshells, a puzzling source of cosmetics for the garage and car.
  
• A incredible new discovery, a REDACTED INFORMATION to be found in the Zone.
  
• Upgrade to Unreal Engine 4.27
  
• New Paid Cosmetics - the Frozen Pack!

Features and Content

• 23 Garage Cosmetics for you to discover, bring back, and mount in and around the garage.
  
  • 23 new posters, signs, and decorative items for the garage
    
  • 30 locations in the garage to customize
    
  • Discoverable in multiple locations!
    
  • More garage cosmetics are being planned for the future
• New Zone Activity - Goldshells!
  
  • Multiple types can be found out in the zone
    
  • Recommended method for opening is REDACTED
• Something new is stirring out in the Zone there are rumors and sightings of REDACTED
  
  
• 10 additional Wilderness maps have been added to the deep zone biome
  
  
• Main Menu Button added to show and take player to newest cosmetic DLC at digital store
  
  • PS5
    
  • PC
• New Localized Languages
  
  • Polish
    
  • Brazilian Portuguese
    
  • Turkish
• Credits Updated
  
  • Added new team members
    
  • Added additional localization support
    
  • Added new co-development partners

Unreal Engine Upgrade - Version 4.27

• This upgrade comes with significant changes and improvements to DirectX 12, which we have found improves performance and fixes those rare cases of mesh transforms becoming ‘corrupted’.
  
  • For visual context, this is the glitch that showed massive spikes or broken textures in-game.
    
  • Ex: (The sky dome being too small, a car part’s mesh physically skewed, or other similar vertex-bending artifacts).
• This upgrade moves us to the newest, most stable version of Unreal Engine 4, which improves stability of the game across the board.
  
• Performance Improvements from the engine update and the result of ongoing work:
  
  • Foliage & Landscape Optimization (GPU)
    
  • Improved shader caching to address hitches (GPU)
    
  • Post Process & Lighting Optimizations (GPU)
    
  • Multiple UI Optimizations (CPU)
• For anyone facing issues with this upgrade, it’s recommended to check that your GPU drivers are up to date.

Bugs and UX Fixes

• Fixed an issue where sometimes meshes would become distorted on load for any location in game.
  
• Improved car doors closing on inclines, related to physics and has been adjusted.
  
• Player will now receive an impact hammer from the friendly dumpster if they can’t progress in the tutorial after returning from the first trip without one
  
• Resources less likely to get stuck in boulders - no longer stuck inside geometry.
  
• Fixed UI tabs to update more reliably in the logbook, inventory, and menus
  
• The radio will not interrupt music played by quest progression
  
• Prybar health meter has been enlarged when the icon is flipped horizontally
  
• Fixed an issue where the camera would sometimes move erratically while getting into the car
  
• Made payload more noticeable after it lands and fixed issue were interact prompt would not appear when highlighting the payload
  
• Fixed an issue where cosmetic items could be duplicated while interacting with the Detailing Station specifically
  
• PC ONLY - Fixed an issue where some graphics setting configurations were displaying at higher settings than displayed.
  
  • Ex: Choosing a low, medium, high setting will no longer leave the setting set higher than displayed and will now be accurate.

Known Issues

• “More Info” button is not working with controllers on any platform while in the inventory menu screen specifically, usually mapped to L3
  
• Status effect icons on bumpers do not properly follow the icon when the bumper icon is rotated
  
• Radio Interstitial subtitles will appear regardless of how far player is from the radio
  
• Custom music will cut out infrequently while playing in the garage
  
• Rarely, loot containers may spawn with no loot in them
  
• Containers can be lootable through specific walls
  
• Issue where the display mode can be shown incorrectly; will show Windowed mode at 1280x720 instead of the correct settings after changing the display mode and/or resolution.

The Trips and Treasures update is now available for Pacific Drive on Playstation 5 and PC, free for all players.

Want to read through the patch notes, with our full list of changes and updates? Click here!

Decorate with new Garage Cosmetics!

Now that you've been living in the garage for awhile, we thought it'd be nice to let you decorate! 23 new cosmetic items are able to be discovered on your trips out into the Zone - some from brand new sources. You can use 30 different locations in the garage to display your hard won trophies - and we're planning on adding even more in the future.

Harvest Goldshells

New to Pacific Drive in this update, Goldshells are also new to the Olympic Exclusion Zone. Without taking the fun of discovery away - you'll look for these puzzling little containers out on your trips, and find inventive ways to break them open. You'll get a chance to collect car cosmetics, and the new garage items as well! The best method for opening them is REDACTED.

Enjoy the new Unreal Engine Upgrade - Version 4.27

For more in-depth information on this upgrade, check out the patch notes! In short, we've updated the version of Unreal Engine 4 we were using to the latest available and it's brought some pretty significant performance and stability improvements.

... And much more!

In addition to all the wonderful new content we've also added additional languages, a new main menu button that makes it easier to check out all the car cosmetics, and 10 new Wilderness maps to discover on your journey through the Zone.

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Breacher beware.. there have been sightings and appearances of... REDACTED in more secluded areas of the Zone - research indicates that -

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The Frozen Pack

It's starting to get a little chilly out there... I'd say you should try to warm up, but I'm pretty sure your steering wheel is already frozen, and that snowman on your dash looks awfully comfortable.

Keep it cool with these new parts:

• Snowflake Antenna Topper
  
• Frozen Steering Wheel
  
• Snowman Bobblehead
  
• The Chrome Toboggan Hood Ornament
  
• Snowdrop Mirror Ornament
  
• Blizzard Decal Kit

Also, you can enjoy two new free cosmetics in the form of:

• A Hot Cocoa Sticker
  
• The Ski Pole Shifter

Having reached the end of the year we'd just like to take a moment to thank everyone who's played Pacific Drive so far - or who might be thinking about it in the future! We are continually inspired by our community, and it's incredibly rewarding to have your support. While this is the last official update for 2024, keep an eye out for patch notes and hotfixes landing soon.

We're happy to say that we've also updated our roadmap in anticipation of next year. While it's currently under wraps, you will see more content and updates to Pacific Drive in 2025.

We're getting ready for the holidays over at Ironwood! Join our Discord[discord.gg], follow us on X, and check out our Instagram[instagram.com] if you want to hang out during the break.