You can now make Pacific Drive’s weird survival a little less nightmarish with custom difficulty presets

If (like me) you discovered developer Ironwood Studios’ splendidly bizarre four-wheeled survival sport Pacific Drive only a bit too exhausting when it launched earlier this 12 months, now is likely to be the time to return: its new Drive Your Means replace introduces an entire bunch of customized issue settings and presets to make issues simpler – or masochistically tougher, for those who want.

With Pacific Drive’s new replace put in, gamers can instantly select from seven presets enabling them to tweak the problem of their adventures throughout the Olympic Exclusion Zone. These vary from the usual Pacific Drive expertise to Joyride – which retains the identical elementary core however reduces gathering, crafting, and analysis necessities – to presets that lean laborious within the different route. Nuclear Journey, for example, smears every thing in deadly radiation, whereas Iron Wagon does not simply make issues harder, it deletes your save for those who fail.

Nonetheless, it does not finish there; the Drive Your Means replace additionally makes it potential for gamers to create their very own presets, with over 50 significantly extra granular settings out there – full with tweakable worth sliders for every – as detailed within the video beneath.

And given Eurogamer’s Chris Tapsell known as Pacific Drive a “sequence of merciless brutalisations” and “horrible ache” in his 4 star overview, that additional assist is likely to be appreciated.

Elsewhere within the replace, customized music can now be performed from native storage on PC, bumpers and wheels at the moment are paintable, and there are two new collectible cosmetics – an antenna topper and mirror hanger – out within the exclusion zone. Moreover, Ironwood has launched the paid Anomalous Beauty Pack DLC, containing the Mailbox Bunny bobblehead, Sawblade hood decoration, Vacationer shifter, Anchor steering wheel, Trip sticker pack, and Anomaly decal equipment.

Beforehand, Ironwood revealed this newest launch can be the second of three updates deliberate for 2024. Summer time introduced a photograph mode, new automotive and storage content material, plus free (and paid) cosmetics – and following Pacific Drive’s new autumn replace, one other is due this “winter”. As to what it’d include, that is at present unclear, with its content material solely listed as “redacted”.