Update 0.57 — Launch Control, Grandpa Mission, Three New Towns & More

PATCHNOTES SUMMARY:

• A WHOLE NEW VIEW. No more top-down: a third-person camera on foot and in the car, free mouse look, aiming through the centre of the screen and a new hood cam.
• MEET GRANDPA. The long road now has an ending at km 1000 — cross Grandpa's bridge through the zombie waves and find out what waits for you.
• THREE NEW TOWNS. NEW CREEPS with a quarter-mile drag strip and a dyno, LOST WAGES with casinos, roulette, slot machines and a pawn shop, and TOWN OF TASTE, where you can buy your own house.
• JOBS. Earl hands out salvage jobs through the new JOBS app on your phone.
• FULL CONTROLLER SUPPORT with radial menu, weapon wheel and Steam Deck layout. Bonus: you can also drive with a steering wheel, force feedback included.
• MORE CAR FUN. A new car (Tennis 4), launch control and pops & bangs, kickdown, and engines that drown in deep water.
• FASTER. Rendering now uses a second CPU core and parked cars sleep.

New

• New camera and controls. Press V to cycle four distances (the fourth is the hood cam), C to look back. Left click uses and picks up, F opens the workshop and trunk on the yellow markers.
• Grandpa's ending at km 1000 with its own fight song and the credits, plus a military checkpoint at km 1010 where weapons stay at the gate.
• NEW CREEPS (km 100), LOST WAGES (km 200), TOWN OF TASTE (km 1030) — drag racing with timing, casino games, a pawn shop that buys your loot, and a house you can furnish.
• Launch control and pops & bangs in the ECU tool: hold the brake, floor it, launch at your set rpm — with afterfire.
• Engine crane: strip and build engines without a car.
• Drift Training in the garage: solo on the standard track, switch cars any time, everything maxed.
• A fresh start at a gas station at km 1, and the first stretch of road is zombie-free.
• 5 new radio songs — 30 on the dial.

Also in this update: a reworked tutorial, a sound overhaul, fewer zombies, a bigger backpack, teleport prices by distance, tuning shops in more towns, a log switch for bug reports (Settings › GAMEPLAY, off by default) — and lots of small fixes, like invisible cars after a teleport, tyres bursting after a teleport, cars floating on the lift, co-op joining, and many more. Saves keep working. Loot and the world beyond km 980 changed, so crates, trunks and wrecks roll new contents. Co-op needs the same version on every PC.