Arizona Derby — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Play the free demo now — Something darker is here | 2026-04-11 | Ava Hunt and Thieves of the Lost is a grounded, cinematic survival experience set in ancient ruins.The deeper you go, the more the world pushes back — reacting to every step you take.PLAY THE FREE DEMO. WISHLIST NOW.Key featuresPhysical, momentum-driven movement: Move with intent — read the space, commit to every step.Atmosphere-led discovery: The mystery unfolds through space, silence, and cinematic detail.Measured stealth and positioning: Timing matters. So does restraint.Tension over noise: Combat is a choice — not the only way forward. |
| Hotfix & Logo Change | 2021-09-23 | A small update that fixes hovering texts in menus and their content. Some additional optimizations, minor bug fixes, and polishing along to set game experience on the highest level, along the way. Along with those technical changes, there is a crucial marketing change that connects AD1 to the AD2 game, by changing the logo from old (a little boring and slow :) to the new: Bringing out the competitive focus of the game and its wicked style. It connects AD1 to the AD2 game since the current game has not Arizona's track (no matter it's created over 5 different and large tracks, they were not perfect and opted from AD). Since this new logo is the |
| Upcoming 'Arizona Derby 2' Can be WIshlisted Now! | 2021-09-22 | The upcoming 'Arizona Derby 2' can be wishlisted here: Arizona Derby 2 The game moves boundaries with the highest quality of the graphics of tracks and shaders of the cars. Immersive super realistic physics, with highly challenging AI opponents will keep you hooked to the game. Drive the world's top tuners through locations that are hidden gems across the globe. Ascend the leaderboards, race against the gangs and their allies. Tune the car into endless customizations and show up to the world. Hit the pedal, heat out the offroads! More, superb tracks, cars, upgrades, and optimizations coming along! Wishlist the game and be first to know about |
| Official Announcement of the "Arizona Derby 2" Game | 2021-09-02 | Dear Players, After the great success of the 'Arizona Derby' game, where tens of thousands of players become part of the AD Republic, we're happy to announce to you that Arizona Derby 2 is just set to happen! AD2 will shake the gaming world, move the standards to unimaginable levels, and hooked you up to the most intense actions ever. It will have far more tracks than even the current game, which has 32 different tracks, they'll be very interesting, dynamic, set all across the globe. It is expected to have even 50 different tracks on huge open-world setups. AD2 will have super-realistic and most intense visual and sound FX, bringing the overa |
| Top the AD Leaderboards! | 2021-08-26 | Hello AD Players, Please post in the comments of this announcement how many tracks you have unlocked and played in the game. To start, here is a short update from one of the best players in the AD game, XxZ3R0xX, if not the best, because he's topping the leaderboards with records times, that's hardly reachable, but as he proves it, not impossible. There are, of course, many of the other great players, who top the leaderboards through the years, namely: LUNATEK, NITEVISION, MARTENS78, FLASHBAC85, TOYSPACE, CODEX, VRM, CHAVOGHETTA2525, YELLOBEARD, KONSTANTINOWITSCH, OXOTHUK-3A-HACKAMU, JOHN, PAOLO FOUREL, UKNOWN NOMAD, NOWISTOK, VISEGAMING1998, |
| Hot Fix: Rear Mirror and Checkpoint Arrow Update | 2021-05-05 | Hi, This is an update that enabling a rear mirror, which will help you noticing opponents coming from backs. This is an addon to the previous update of opponents' arrows, which help you noticing them faster. The second part of the update is what many players asked in a way to see and orient to the next checkpoint. So it's been added blue Checkpoint Arrow, which will show you the right direction to go. This is how the final mirror and checkpoint arrows look like in gameplay: |
| Arizona Derby: Offroad Wars Update | 2021-05-04 | Dear Drivers, This patch brings so much anticipated damages to the game and will change how you know and play racing games forever. Get ready for the stunning off-roads sessions. What does this mean to you? It's a hell of fun, you will not only need to race, clear checkpoints along the line, doing stunts, but you should evade other racers, or playing dirty, take them down, get even higher scores based on the values of their cars. When your car is damaged, take some repair tools in hand, get out of the car to fix it. Slow-mo of ADriver (avatar out of the car) is even lower 20% so it will take you just part of a second out of the fast action, t |
| Gravity Update | 2021-04-07 | Hey Drivers, Following two years of updates from numerous players, besides talking with top game performers, there is the conclusion to increase the gravity for 20%, and it will results in: - Less jumps over smaller hills, which will enable you to race more on the ground and get better times - much stable controls - less side jumps - more of controls during jumps - less in-air-time, which means more controls over rig, during heavy stunts over hills - less moon-land-physics - no-fly physics - less 2-wheely physics Also: - car will be more downed to the ground - suspensions becomes stiffer - overall you feel more stable during off-road maneuver |
| ADriver Looting Update - No Time Count While Looting, Wild-Ride Tuning and More | 2021-04-07 | Hello ADrivers, Loot Season is on the way! 1. ADriver Looting Update - No Time Count While Looting In ADriver Mode The new change is that if you were going into ADriver (racer avatar) Mode, time would not be counting. If you successfully loot (only that), you will get even 5 extra seconds (so no one can't cheat and press ADriver and smooth out time, and you will have with those 5 extra seconds chance to speed up and also hit the leaderboards with score without any looting delays. Also, what's important some of the tiers will enable you, based on your luck and chosen tiers, to get much more AD$ and XP than before, so you can buy more upgrades, |
| 'Wild-Ride' Mode, Braking Sounds Improved, Rain VFS Polished, All blur removed | 2021-04-05 | Hello Racers, More cool stuff to improve gameplay: Wild-Ride Mode -its Slow Motion actions have been added in the game, so you can check them on and have cool cinematics while jumping: Anytime, you can uncheck them. Here you can see slow-mo and camera cinematics actions with Wild-Ride Mode turned on: Polished braking sounds at off-road terrains Braking sounds wasn't working pretty well, so it's been polished, both hand brake and normal brake now works much cooler: Also, a very important thing is that no more too much of raindrops VFX overlay for the mud/dirt effects (wet puddles actually on roads) since too much rain VFX impacting gameplay, i |
| Storing Show/Hide In Game Options of Player Names & Checkpoints | 2021-04-03 | This is a small patch that address some of the players feedbacks, so he can enjoy his settings, instead to reapply them: Saving show hide player names and checkpoints Increasing the texts of the message pop-up from bosses that appears in right corners during game, so it's more visible (this can be hidden in Pause Menu/Settings) |
| Leaderboard Challenge | 2021-04-02 | It's an exciting time to share that just one of the 32 leaderboards, has reached over 1,400 wins submissions, which is amazing, since it's all but not easy to win competitions, especially in higher settings. And top leaderboards positions are being held for even year, since it's too hard to reach most skilled players, but still not impossible. Top scores are really hard to pass, so we challenging you to play, win and post your top scores!! Currently, top leader is being in 10s of milliseconds challenged, but it's still leading its position: Pimp your off-road ride and beat the leaderboards! Reveal your off-road talents to the world! See you o |
| Hotfix: Fixing Positioning System, Adding 132 Songs to Soundtrack and more | 2021-04-01 | This patch fixing some positioning issues that are unintentionally left with the previous build reported by the player Rogeredogde9, thanks, buddy! Also following his and other players' feedbacks soundtracks get pimped out back to the game with 132 all-exclusive licensed tracks for the 'Arizona Derby' game. Players really insisted so I organized some dynamic loading and it will not impact the memory, the game package will be a little larger than 14GB. People really wanted it back, especially players that nail all the top results at AD, so I put it back, along with the original AD Rap Soundtrack of 12 songs by a rapper named TxMic. Here is a v |
| Major Sounds Tuning | 2021-03-31 | This patch bringing major sound tuning, achieving a much better sound experience to the players without too many noisy volumes, and at the same time perfect off-road encounters. What is being changed? - car to car crashing sounds before delays, as of complex visual logics for about 300ms, so now that's tuned and bringing real feeling of actions. AD game is full of 1000s of visual complexities to provide such first-class experience, and this is finally debugged - nitro sounds tuned - crash sounds lower in volume - plane sounds adopted - camera view sounds removal - handbrake sounds, local or only on racer (since on finish line before was all o |
| New Garage, Menu, UI, New Features, Music & FX Revision, Many Optimizations | 2021-03-21 | This is a huge milestone in the "Arizona Derby' game, it follows some player's feedbacks and totally improves the place where you will spend time tweaking, tuning, customizing, and buying new rigs, check them in person, and plenty of cool stuff. The game gets ready for its new Season, now in Caribbean styles, all with big Menu changes and brand new vibes coming along, for enjoying the most intense racings ever. Boys and girls welcome to the Tikiii!!: (Final trailer has been updated with billboard changes and the introduction of the girl's character). This patch bringing a new simplified garage scene which is now cleaned of the old train facto |
| Welcome to the 'AD Tiki Islands' | 2021-03-13 | Choliaono roared the tinny, little-known Carribien Islands, where AD garage being set into an old train factory, leaving nothing but few screws on grounds The new facility was been reassembled on the shapes of the old one Things are being rebuilt from bamboo trees with help of locals, mainly hard-workers from the Cholo team. They were your competitors on the Tropical Paradise tracks, but they get here to rebuild and help in no time. This is still ongoing activity and AD will welcome you soon in its freshly built camp, where you can tweak and tune your rigs and test them on the tracks. Good news is that you'll be able to see past the old, shad |
| Hot Fix AD 2.0.6b: Additional optimization & improvement of Redwood lighting | 2021-03-09 | These tracks addressing additional optimization improvements on Tropical Tracks, which results in a 15-20% fps increase, mostly reducing too many environment sounds. Also, it will get back Redwood rush levels to the previous default, since reported crashing on new rendering settings, so it's reverted back and it's looking very realistic with natural skylights reflections over cars: Additional particle pooling management will handle faster creating and utilization of particles in a complex and dynamic system. More of optimizations is under way, to make the experience even lighter on all the rigs btw some refreshing detail from Redwood vegetati |
| DUB41 G01D3N P4CK - Largest Giveaway of Cars and Equipment Worth Millions of AD$ | 2021-03-04 | Hello guys, Without further ado, turn your rigs on and experience the best offroading experience ever with three fresh rigs, packed for the great actions. With rigs, there's coming unlocked 3 exclusive packs of rims and off-road tires. Those packs cost millions of AD$ which will be given freely for you to relish the racing. All this coming with packs of about 50 updates to the Arizona Derby, to a whole new 2.0 version, with plenty of improvements, new features, and optimizations to make your gameplay unforgettable. You can read the whole news here. You will get this 3 supercars: 1. Hyppero 2. Windicator and: 3. Pinnacle All coming with the 3 |
| Introduction to the AD 2.0: Big Pack of New Features and Optimizations | 2021-03-04 | Note that since of substantial shrinking of file size on HD (from 65GB on launch to 26GB and finally now to just 15GB), it will take longer to download this patch to those who have the game already installed. The patch will be rolled in the period from 8-9 March 2021. Hello Racers from around the globe, Arizona Derby getting to the next level, bringing a new patch with extreme updates, to make it the world's best racing game in terms of gameplay, graphics, smoothest, and most immersive experiences. Winter is almost over, but Arizona Derby Season is just about to starts. We don't have any marketing, you're here only due to the visibility that |
| Overview of the Best Streaming Videos of the 'Arizona Derby' | 2021-01-19 | While AD videos steadily overwhelm youtube, here's the overview of the most-watched 'Arizona Derby' youtube streaming shows. Players obviously having a lot of fun while playing, some obviously very excited did tons of fun things, while rushing off-roads: You can check how spectacular their actions and skills were here. Also here are ToySpace streams, which has millions of subscribers, he created some stunning moments at Arizona Derby using his toy-cars and nice setups. (No this isn't AD game, that's ToySpace setup lol) Check video accolade for his streams: He streamed Arizona Derby for weeks and published like 20's of videos with hours of gam |
| Top Players of the 'Arizona Derby' | 2021-01-17 | Hello Off-roaders, It's been over a year and a half since you start rushing over 'Arizona Derby' hills, getting more skilled and enhanced rigs to the very high-ends. Congrats on that!! Some of you guys playing unexpectedly great, winning advanced AI racers and placing ultimate times, all at extremely high off-road speeds. Here is the video & list of the best and most skilled 'Arizona Derby' players, that shows exceptional skills: XXZ3ROXX, LUNATEK, NITEVISION, MARTENS78, FLASHBAC85, TOYSPACE, CODEX, VRM, CHAVOGHETTA2525, YELLOBEARD, KONSTANTINOWITSCH, OXOTHUK-3A-HACKAMU, JOHN, PAOLO FOUREL, UKNOWN NOMAD, NOWISTOK, VISEGAMING1998, NERDERUDITO, |
| Arizona Derby Manual | 2021-01-15 | Hey Racers, Here is an exclusive overview of what is 'Arizona Derby' goals, how to play, how to progress, upgrade, what tricks you should use, how to drive best, what about competitions with other racers, how to clean levels, maps, win all competitions, get more skilled, etc. Also, it's explained how to control different types of vehicles (drones, off-road rigs, etc.) and get out of the car with ADriver and do some great actions and looting. You can download and check full instructions here |
| Boss and Gangs Overview in 'Arizona Derby' | 2021-01-12 | Hello Off-road champs, 'Arizona Derby' consists of 5 different championships and one bonus Championship. Forest Ride Redwood Rush Canada Trophy Tropical Storm Siberia Run Dubai Drive (bonus Competition) Each of the main Championships having 6 different tracks to compete on. You need to adapt your skills to each of the different tracks and special types of Championships, in a way to become the #1 rider. Each of the gang members having its own driving style and you'll compete with the same crew members at a particular Competition, so you can, racing them many times, find the most appropriate ways to overtake them, which will also depend on diff |
| 1.5.95c HotFix - Full Controller Support | 2020-12-10 | This patch resolve issue of full controller support in the main menu and gameplay. Some explanations are added, like how to get out of the Photo-Mode (press key 'F'), etc. Also, this patch making loading screens more diverse with instructions in them. |
| Hotfix 1.4.22a.2: Gameplay Optimisations, Login Fix & Leaderboard Status Report | 2020-09-07 | Hello Off-Road Nation, The great news is that AD Community getting larger every day. More and more people submitting top scores to the lists. The situation is intense! There are extreme competitions for some tracks, especially for the first tracks in Forest Ride Map, there are 826 score submissions, which means so many people have finished in the top 3, to be able to submit a score: The patch includes optimizations of 116 soundtrack's which are randomly played, while in-game and they were before all loaded into memory, so the overall experience should be smoother since they're streamed now. Also, the game fixed account log-in Issues to the St |
| Update 1.3.17c - Controls Remap, Full Controller Support & Menu Speedup | 2020-09-03 | Off-road Nation, First to say you congrats for hitting the leaderboards in an increased way, over this year, just one of over 30 tracks, has over 800 hits (which mean player need to finish at top 3 places in order to sign the leaderboard at least): Totally, there's been around 20,000 score submissions to all of 30 leaderboards, which is very exciting news, since it's hard to overtake very smart AI racers at Arizona Derby, even at the lowest levels, but not impossible with training and skills. AI's made to be very challenging all the time. 1) Full Controller Support and here is how it works: 2) Remapping of the ControlsBased on requests over t |
| AD v1.0 - Full Release Version | 2020-03-01 | Hello Offroad Nation, We're just getting the full version of 'Arizona Derby', the gameplay gets extremely exciting, all the aspects of the game get ultimately better, in order to reach a great level of immersion and action, all these thanks to your feedback's. Among many tuning and polishing from the previous month, Arizona Derby addresses hundreds of feedbacks from all players over the previous year in over 44 patches and before that, it addresses feedbacks from pre-early alpha version from thousands of the streamers, content creators and early testers. The main things that are done aside from some little tunings are loading of the level's t |
| AD Max Speed Gameplay & Leaderboard Progression | 2020-02-24 | Hola Derbians! Some players asked me and here I posted some random fast speed gameplay with the rig tuned like hell. It's all but not casual racings and don't try this at home's, dudes! :) State of the Leaderboards Btw, there's huge progress in the leaderboards, since a lot of players won top results and currently, record hold the first Forest Ride track, where is submitted 467 top results till today. On the rest of 30 other tracks, there are average 100 records submitted per track, so estimation is that it's over 3,100 results submitted from all you guys which are great, especially having in mind that AD is all but not simple racer, even on |
| 0.99.3f: Near Full Release Update | 2020-02-04 | Hello Off-roaders, This is a new update that addressing some fine tunings that will make overall gameplay much more intense and as smoothest possible. First of all thanks for extreme support and positive comments over time, to make this game is very well shape, I read tons of comments, feedbacks and get messages from people in which they told me that game is so great they claim they stop playing regular racers for while, as they dive deep into 'Arizona Derby' and thank you for this guys, sounds really amazing. We're almost 1.0v with such extended scope of the gameplay and features, that can compare or overtake even world biggest racers on the |
| 0.98.2c: Additional Character Options & Polishing of ADriver menu | 2020-01-26 | Hello, This is new updates: 1) Character screen, called ADriver, part of Garage where you choosing your avatar, is now additionally customized, you can now take a closer look at your selected character. It's a new button added: Here is how it looks in practice: Along with over 33 characters (extended over time from initial 20 in previous patches), there will be more in future, also more female chars and other different types of characters (in latter on updates from 1.x+ versions). 2) ADrivers are now buyable, you starting with the one free avatar, and during the game, when you reach more AD$, you can buy new characters and start collecting AD |