Update: much smoother, 1.8 GB less video memory, new landscape

Performance

• About 1.8 GB less video memory (2.7 GB instead of 4.5 GB in our test). Textures now use GPU compression with no visible difference. This helps cards with 4 to 6 GB the most.
• Long drives to the next town run much smoother.
• A loaded tipper no longer stutters while driving or loading.
• New anti-aliasing option "MSAA 2x + FXAA" as a lighter choice than 4x.

Landscape

• New eucalyptus trees, river red gums now line the river banks.
• The dry river at Coolabah Ford looks like a river: sand bed, gravel channels, cracked clay at the waterholes.
• Spinifex, saltbush and dry grass across the outback.
• Newly modelled shelter in the tutorial.
• No more boulders on the road, and the Redbank info board no longer stands in the corner.

Machines and plant

• The CE02 backhoe digs properly again. When the arm runs out of reach, the game tells you to move closer.
• The EX30 dumps neatly into the tipper bed instead of beside it.
• New tipping ramp with a wheel stop at the big plant's feed hopper: reverse up and tip straight in.
• The full chain works: dig, load, haul, tip, wash, take the gold off the mat.

Controls: E carries, F uses

• Caps on fuel cans, drums, water casks, vehicle tanks and generators now open with F (pad Y). E only carries.
• Also on F: refuelling generators, step deck ramps and wings, trailer ramp, pickup bed canvas, camp doors and gates.
• The supply crate opens with F only.
• The gold pan hint shows the real key, and pocketed matches show their icon in the quickbar.
• A quick Tab tap and a hold are told apart reliably, even at low frame rates.

Fixes

• Refuelling with the fuel can is more reliable.
• The starter wash tub is filled with water, so the first pan wash works right away.
• Pouring water into the cook pot is easier.