
WRECKFEST CARMAGEDDON NOT LOADING UPDATE
Want to place bets on Bugbear's next game being a full Carmageddon reboot?Īs well as the Carmageddon content, the Wreckfest update also includes some fixes, although the remaining list of known issues included in the update post is much larger. THQ Nordic bought Wreckfest's developers Bugbear in November 2018, and acquired Carmageddon the following month, making this update a match made in the boardroom. It doesn't go as far as BeamNG.drive with its soft body simulation, but it's a more accessible and arcadey way to make car metal crumple.

I've also played a bunch of Wreckfest, early during its early access journey. I don't actually want to kill a bunch of things in Wreckfest, and the retro zombies makes the killing cute while ticking the nostalgia box.

I'm glad that the update keeps the zombies as pixellated sprites, rather than modernising them into 3D. It wasn't the first 3D racing game I'd played - that was probably Screamer - but it was the first where you could do more than just drive a fixed way around a loop. I liked it at the time not for the ability to make zombies (or robots) go pop, but for Bleak City, which felt as close to an open 3D world to drive around as I'd seen at that point.

I played a bunch of Carmageddon back when it was first released, or at least its demo. It's a free update which adds two new tracks, Bleak City and Devil's Canyon, from the original zombie-smashing racing game, as well as the Eagle-R car and swarms of pixellated zombies to burst. The Carmageddon Tournament Update for Wreckfest is now live for PC, PlayStation and Xbox and sees the return for the popular people and vehicle combat game. Wreckfest is a racing game that's as much about slamming into scenery as careful cornering, so today's tie-in with Carmageddon is a perfect match.
