Hey everyone! Wanli Skyway 1.1 is out, and it’s a big update. It’s still the same 31 km straight road over the ocean, but now there’s a lot more to do on it than just holding the throttle down.

The maglev

• A 430 km/h maglev runs on its own track right next to the bridge, with a station at each end

• Race it: stop behind a gate launch line, press Race and it’s you against the train to the other end. Most cars lose

• Or ride it: stand on the gold pad in a station for three seconds and you’ll ride in the cab all the way across. Your car will be waiting for you on the other side

The bridge under construction

• A second bridge is being built next to the first one, you can get there from the service area

• There’s a girder machine working on it, cranes, barges and two missing spans you can jump (one at about 105 km/h, the long one at about 195)

• The far end just stops in the air over the sea. You know what to do

The drawbridge

• At km 13 the bridge can open now. In Ships mode, every few minutes traffic stops at the lights, the bridge goes up and a tall junk sails through

• In Stunt mode the bridge lifts to a 16 degree ramp. Jump it

• It’s off by default, so the road stays perfectly flat until you turn it on

Typhoons

• Real crosswind that pushes your car across the lanes at speed, with gusts up to 28 m/s

• Rain, fog, big waves and lightning. Windsocks on the gantries fill up and storm signs turn on

• The covered galleries work as typhoon shelters, there’s no wind inside

• You can set it to off, random, or start a storm right now. Off by default

The pace light

• A line of green lights on the median that moves at the pace of your record, like the lights on an athletics track

• Keep up with it and you’re on record pace. You can race your own best, the map record, or a fixed 200, 300 or 400 km/h

• The timer now saves the full trace of every record run for this

Near misses

• Pass a traffic car close and fast and you get points: NEAR, CLOSE, RAZOR

• Chain them for a multiplier. Touch anything and the chain is gone

• Your best chain is saved as a record too

Fireworks

At night four barges out at sea put on fireworks shows with a finale. You can also launch one any time you want.

Achievements and places

• 25 achievements, from hitting 300 km/h to beating the maglev to waiting out a typhoon. Records you already have count too

• A Places list that takes you anywhere on the map in one click: all spawns, the drawbridge, both maglev stations and the end of the bridge construction

Traffic

• You can now set how fast traffic drives, from the road’s 120 km/h up to no limit. If you use the game’s simple traffic cars, they get replaced with real cars at high speed, because the simple ones can’t go faster than about 115

• Traffic now uses all three lanes instead of sitting in one

The timer and the road

• The Wanli Skyway UI app (UI Apps, Gameplay) times 0-100, 0-200, 0-300 and 0-400, 400 m, 1/4 mile, 1 km, 1 mile, 5 km and 10 km with trap speeds, rolling 100-200 and 200-300, gate to gate and top speed. Every frame is timed, so it’s accurate to a few milliseconds. Records are saved per car

• A speed camera on every gantry, 30 in total

• Endless mode: after a certain point you get moved 16 km back with your speed and damage, onto a part that looks exactly the same. So the road never ends

• Kilometre posts, launch lines with distance boards and braking countdown boards

• A service area with pavilions, pine trees and a golden dragon, plus four covered galleries

Fixes and polish

• All spawn points now face the direction traffic goes

• New lighting masts and real Chinese lanterns

• Trees, benches and lamps at the service area are solid now

• Chinese licence plates on every car spawned on the map

• New spawn previews taken in the game

• 10 spawn points now

Everything is in the app and in the radial menu: Sandbox, Wanli Skyway.