KT Racing has released the Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Season 6 update, bringing a new game mode, a bunch of new cars and fixing over 350 bugs and issues for the open world racer. They’ve also previewed what’s coming in Season 7 & 8 later this year.

While KT Racing is currently embroiled in Nacon’s insolvency saga – Kylotonn themselves have filed for insolvency this week – work has been able to continue at the studio while they work through the judicial process. This means more work on TDU Solar Crown, and presumably on the WRC license that the studio reclaimed last year.

Season 6 of TDU Solar Crown brings the new Detective missions that were voted on by the community last year. This sees you needing to tail a particular vehicle, trying to be close enough to intercept comms, but wary of drawing their suspicions. Once you reach a destination, you’ll than have to pap a photo of them as a final mission capper. Each mission has a little story that you’ll unravel through the wiretapping, and there are 15 of these missions to start with, with another 15 set to be added through a mid-season update.

Beyond that there’s three new cars, and three new special editions, quality of life improvements for Casino NPCs to now be voiced and more outfit save slots and GPS checkpoints, and there’s a new 50-tier Solar Pass.

More broadly, the continuing work to improve the base game is ongoing. Season 5 saw Hong Kong’s southern district reworked, and Season 6 is seeing a similar effort put into the northern districts, bringing more variety to the buildings, creating more light channels for the sun, and more.

Looking ahead to Season 7, KT Racing is working on live enhancements to improve the Solar Pass, Live Events and Daily Challenges, will introduce an official racing centre. Season 8 is what classic TDU players will be really keen to see, with houses, garages, customisation and furniture all set to debut.

Here’s the full patch notes for TDU Solar Crown Season 6:

New Content

• New Game Modes
  • Detective missions have been added within the contracts system
• New Features
  • Body kit parts system has been added starting with the official Audi Sport Performance Parts of the Audi R8 Coupé RWS.
  • New physical HUBs for Ibiza’s clothing store.
• Quality of Life Improvements
  • Casino’s NPCs are now voiced.
  • Increased number of outfits save slots to 6.
  • Increased number of GPS checkpoints to 10.
• New Cars
  • Pagani Huayra Roadster
  • Pininfarina B95
  • Lamborghini Temerario
• New Special Editions
  • Alpine A 110 R Ultime
  • Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Black Series
  • Bentley Continental GTC Speed Edition 12

General Fixes & Improvements

• Optimisation – Reduced memory usage of oceans by improving ocean culling.
• Fixed crash when starting the game with an upscaler mode that isn’t supported by the GPU.
• Fixed crash when exiting Poker game while not yet seated.
• Fixed various issues with Poker
• Fixed crash when using photo mode.
• Improved billboards visual quality
• Fixed lighting sometimes broken on vehicles when exiting hubs with reflection quality setting at very high
• Fixed traffic lights sometimes stuck on yellow
• Fixed errors in the time cycle sometimes happening when changing islands
• Fixed messages sometimes being displayed twice
• Fixed game becoming unresponsive after entering a product code during a race
• Updated Solar Pass and Shops cameras
• Replaced unlocking of items when passing clan levels by a money reward
• Added rebinding possibility for Alyss Next & previous choice
• Resolved manufacturer logos cropped in specific situations
• Fixed wrong PR displayed in the car sell menu for cars with performance upgrades
• Fixed various clothes rendering issues
• Fixed various clipping issues with clothes
• Fixed various localization issues
• Fixed race lobby weather/timecycle changing dynamically before race start
• Fixed missing roads on Hong Kong Island
  • Note: this was a separate issue from hidden roads, which a fix is currently being worked on for the next update
• Keybinding list missing after changing Advanced Setup during Race or Contracts
• Fixed various impossible tasks
• Fixed various map issues on Hong Kong Island and Ibiza
  • HKI – football pitch has dirt patch on it
  • IBI – park has incorrect textures throughout the area
  • HKI – Aberdeen Gas Station water grate allows players cars to fall through the map
  • HKI – cone In Middle Of Road In HKI
  • IBI – the player is able to drive underneath buildings in ‘Dalt Villa’ district ‘Ibiza’ due to  missing ground assets
  • HKI – gap present in tunnel on HKI
  • HKI – Missing concrete barrier
  • HKI – Missing center piece
  • HKI – The sign board appears to be levitating in the ‘Central District’ (District 3)
  • HKI – Flowerbeds are found in the road
  • HKI – Lights do not illuminate underneath bridge, but show on reflections
  • HKI – Floating Fences on Hong Kong Island
  • IBI – Two of the walls of a villa in the ‘Figueretes’ district appear incomplete in the Ibiza island
  • HKI – The car appears to be levitating when driving on any soccer ground
  • HKI – Vegetation on onramp of Hong Kong Island
  • Note: there are still other areas we need to work on to completely fix this issue
  • Other various places on HKI/Ibiza (totalling a total of 100+ fixes alone (separate from the 250 mentioned in total))
• Fixed AR gas station UI not being disabled
• Fixed poor render distance on some objects
  • Hippodrome Race Track banners
  • Solar Hotel lighting in freeroam
  • Note: this is a continued effort to improve other areas in each Season
• Fixed parking garage near British Performance being blocked
• Fixed Rock LOD Appears Black Rather Than Correct Colour
• Fixed Duplicate currency indicator displayed in beauty salon.
• Fixed The lighting inside the convenience store beside the gas station is excessively bright
• Controller/Keyboard visual steering tyre sync – players who use controller and keyboard will no longer see a slow turning speed, and the visual dynamics of the tire now match the physics of the vehicle.
  • Note: We still want to improve this so that the actual interior steering animation can keep up with the input in certain conditions, but it requires further testing and code work. We’ll update you when we have more news on this.

Sound

• Fixed issue while using an H-Shifter, the vehicle incorrectly produces a ‘rev match’ dynamic/sound when the gear select is in neutral too quickly (with auto-clutch off)
• Fixed Alfa Romeo 4C Spider sound clips at redline
• Fixed missing tunnel reverb on Ibiza
• Improved sound balancing for vehicle audio and AI audio
• Fixed BMW M4 Competition exhaust pop
• Fixed Evija, Battista and Taycan Are Missing Sounds From Other Players/AI In Freeroam/Events
• Fixed Aston Martin DBS Superleggera Sound On Throttle Below 3k RPM Is Silent
• Fixed Distorted UI noise heard when stopping or pausing near the finish line
• Added default horn option in Workshops

Vehicle Fixes/Improvements

• Fixed ROOF option not locked when it’s raining and the vehicle is off
• Fixed ‘Aston Martin DBS Superleggera’ reputation Level
• Fixed left / right view when using an interior camera on several vehicles.
• Fixed spoilers not being equipable on the correct vehicle
• Fixed upgrade pricing of Ford F150 Adventurer/Nissan GTR The Tyger/BMW M4 Competition
• Fixed Ferrari Portofino missing interior trim options
• Fixed Ferrari 250 GTO lighting and odometer
• Delorean Alpha5 rearview mirror
• Fixed Bugatti Chiron Supersport 300+ missing rear diffuser exhaust
• Fixed Bentley Continental indicator lighting
• Fixed Ferrari 488 Pista indicator/reverse lighting
• Fixed Aston Martin Valour Has Rain Particles In Interior
• Fixed AC Cobra 427 Steering Animation Clips When Steering Left
• Fixed DeTomaso P72 hitbox making the vehicle ‘waterlock’ in certain areas of the map
• Fixed Aston Martin DB11 & Aston Martin DB11 Volante Are Missing ‘Swan Doors’
• Fixed Aston Martin DBS Superleggera Is Missing ‘Swan Doors’
• Improved Ferrari LaFerrari spoiler animation
• Fixed Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE rim depth
• Fixed Time Display Blocked On Lamborghini Countach LPI-800
• Fixed The window stickers on the GTR Tyger can appear in low quality
• Fixed Ferrari LaFerrari FXXK DashBoard Not In Sync Until 6000RPM
• Fixed Some Rims Clip Vehicle’s Wheel Hub/Brake Assembly
• Fixed Michelin tires appear blurry on console performance mode
• Fixed Argento Liquido and Oro Liquido color thumbnails for the Pininfarina Battista do not correspond with the vehicle color preview.

Steering Wheels

• Fixed Logitech G923 PS naming in device option screen
• Fixed input delay sometimes appears when using a wheel on specific vehicles.
  • Aston Martin Vantage GT3
  • Aston Martin Vulcan
• Fixed Logitech G29 FFB Issues
• Fixed Constant Force with non true force logitech wheels
• Fix crash with Thrustmaster wheel on XSX

PC

• Various PC specific optimisations
  • PC players should see an improved frametime/stable framerate
  • Improved shadow performance
• Added possibility to move camera around the car with the mouse using left click
• Fixed FXAA not working when no upscaler is being used
• Improved multiple inputs so players can now use their wheel and other devices without affecting steering angle animation and sync
• Better select settings when some settings depend on others (resolution/refresh rate)
• Fixed upscaler quality being better at 99% than 100%

PS5

• No PS5 specific improvements/fixes

Xbox Series

• Increased default upscaled resolution to 1440p in performance mode
• Fixed controller disconnection prompt reappearing after switching between wireless and wired controllers during gameplay
• Improved SSAO

Network

• Fixed sessions not properly cleaned up after players leave
  • Players should notice an improved grouping as a side effect of this fix
  • Players should now find live events such as Hot Heads will work
  • Players should find lobbying in social spaces have improved
• Fixed various Lobby errors
  • Players should find that the race/event errors will appear much less
• Various optimisation improvements

Source; Steam