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The Long Drive V2024.10.17b [top] Jun 2026

Mismatched tires affect handling. Overloading your vehicle with heavy junk will drastically reduce your fuel efficiency. 2. Managing Liquids

: The updated physics engine thin-locks objects like metal bars to keep them from jittering through the floorboards. The seasonal pumpkin item received stability overhauls, allowing its built-in light toggle to function flawlessly. Purple texture glitch slices affecting broken glass and mirrors have also been eliminated. Dynamic Road and Environment Overhauls

The ability to save and load specific vehicles from different save files via the Developer Menu. Technical Status : Currently exclusive to the branches on platforms like Compatibility

: The pumpkin item was improved, restoring the ability for players to manually turn it on and off. Combat & Destruction Fixes The Long Drive v2024.10.17b

: To run the current builds smoothly, 8GB to 16GB of RAM and at least 4GB of VRAM are recommended. the new Physics Lock features or a comparison with the subsequent v2024.11.26b update? The Long Drive - UPDATE V2024.10.17b_test and ... - Steam

The sun hung low over the endless Hungarian desert, a pale disk bleeding into the hazy horizon. Inside the cabin of a battered Lada, the silence was broken only by the rhythmic thrum-thrum

With a game so reliant on a physics-driven world, bugs are an inevitability, and the developers have squashed several major ones: Mismatched tires affect handling

: A thin "Physics Lock" was added around metal bars to improve how they interact with other objects. Item Fixes :

Grab a BB gun, revolver, or katana to defend against aggressive desert mutants (rabbits and zombies).

The Long Drive has long been a favorite for gamers who crave atmospheric, quirky, and punishingly realistic survival simulation. Developed by Genesz, this indie title strips away the cinematic hand-holding of modern games, leaving you with a rusted car, an endless highway, and a vast desert. Managing Liquids : The updated physics engine thin-locks

Two-stroke engines require a strict ratio of gas and oil. This update makes engines more sensitive to bad mixtures, resulting in sputtering, black smoke, or total engine failure if you get the math wrong.

The Long Drive v2024.10.17b is not a better version of the game. It is a broken, malevolent, and deeply poetic experience. It turns a meditative road trip into a paranoid struggle against a sentient landscape. It is the gaming equivalent of finding a VHS tape in an abandoned attic—you know you shouldn't watch it, but you can't look away.

Mixing large truck tires on the rear axle and small tires on the front changes your car's center of gravity and acceleration vector.

: Eliminated the broken purple textures plaguing light bulbs and large mirror slices. The Evolution of the Beta Branch