Pleasingly weird four-wheeled survival sport Pacific Drive has formally offered 600K copies, and its developer Ironwood Studios has introduced it is celebrating that milestone with a sequence of content material updates all through the remainder of this yr. And the primary of these updates is now reside, providing a bunch of free additions, in addition to a little bit of daft beauty DLC.
Pacific Drive’s first free replace lets gamers doc their travels throughout the anomaly riddled forests of the Olympic Exclusion Zone utilizing a brand new photograph mode. It is obtainable proper from the pause menu and offers participant entry to varied digicam settings – together with depth of area, focus management, and publicity – in addition to quite a few aesethetic filters. It is also attainable to vary climate circumstances and time of day when you’re in there.
Photograph mode arrives alongside the brand new Juke Jet automobile skill which, as soon as mounted in your station wagon’s aspect rack, supplies a horizontal enhance that needs to be helpful for dodging and drifting. There’re additionally two new improve nodes to be discovered within the storage’s Fabrication Station, unlocking the Sensible Matter Deconstructor and Vargas Auto-Pac-Vac. The primary lets gamers toss junk into the Matter Constructor from wherever within the storage, whereas the latter deposits supplies into the switch trunk earlier than being filling the remainder of the vacuum storage.
Elsewhere, there is a new efficiency mode particularly for the PS5 model of Pacific Drive, new factors and curiosity and worldbuilding particulars in Junctions, a brand new Coastal Freeway map, a brand new Believer Sticker and Golden Hood Decoration, and extra – as outlined in Ironwood’s patch notes.
The free replace (formally model 1.6.2) arrives alongside a brand new little bit of paid DLC referred to as the Pleasant Dumpster Customisation Pack. This includes a collection of trash-themed beauty objects for adorning your station wagon, together with the Re-Cycled Steering Wheel, Dumpster Devotee decal equipment, Reward Shifter, Air Trashener, Dumpster Idol, and Cuddle Can.
As detailed in Pacific Drive’s new 2024 post-launch roadmap, this collection of summer time DLC might be adopted by two extra releases earlier than the top of the yr. This autumn, gamers can count on a free replace that includes new problem modes, sport customisation settings, and cosmetics, alongside one other paid cosmetics pack. That’ll be adopted by a winter replace, however particulars round that stay beneath wraps. Extra might be revealed “within the coming months”.
And when you’ve not but taken Pacific Drive and its sentient station wagon for a trip by its beautiful bizarre rendition of the Pacific Northwest, it is properly value investigating. Eurogamer’s Chris Tapsell referred to as it an “exhausting, oddly lovable nightmare” in his 4 star evaluation, and there is presently 40 % off, that means you may decide it up for £14.99 on PS5 and PC.
