Every update that reached the championship, newest first — what changed on the stages, in the rover, and around the site. Each date is the day that change went live.
GameplayFixes
The countdown clock used to start while the stage was still building, so on a slow first load the lights could skip beats — or the run could begin with no lights at all. The clock now starts on the first frame the lights are actually on screen.
GameplayStages
A storm run is no longer fog over the same stage. The wind leans on the rover — a steady push gusting to about two-thirds of the tyres' grip — nudges its heading, and slicks the ground to 0.88 of clean-air grip, so braking points arrive earlier than the forward stage taught you.
Multiplayer
The host of an online race room now picks the board with the stage, and every pilot in the room races it: forward, reversed, storm or reversed storm.
SiteGameplay
Sign in with X now sits at the top of your pilot page and in the header of every page, and the game asks on the results screen. You come back where you started.
Gameplay
The minimap used to hang at the top centre of a phone screen, right over the road ahead. It now sits at the bottom centre, between the steering and the pedals, so the road stays clear.
Gameplay
Clearing a checkpoint now plays a chime that climbs a step with every gate, and the screen shows which checkpoint it was and how many gates are left before the finish.
Site
Sign in with X on your pilot page and your call sign becomes your X @handle, verified on every board. When you set a Mars record, the replay post on X tags you.
GameplayStagesFixes
Practice now opens each stage onto its four boards, and the daily challenge can land on any of them. Reversed runs go through the same gates as forward ones, exactly where they stand.
Gameplay
The first run on any board, forward, reversed or storm, is posted on X as its first Mars record, and every record video now shows the whole run, however long the stage.
Stages
A fourth stage is on the roster: a 1,689 m sunset run through seventeen gates that rides the summit at 192 m, then falls to a finish 134 m lower, on the plain beside The Eight.
GameplaySite
When @marsrallychamp posts a new record's replay on X, a card says so — the pilot, the time and the stage — with a link to watch it, until you open it or close it.
GameplaySite
When your run takes a board's #1 from the standing record, @marsrallychamp posts its replay on X by itself, made from your run once it is on the board, so you can close the game the moment you finish.
GameplaySite
Share the clip from the results screen and its link opens a race against your exact run, not just the stage. Making the clip puts the run on the board under your call sign.
GameplaySite
With reminders on, you get a notification when another pilot takes your place on a board, or beats the ghost you dared them with. Tap it to race their ghost and win the place back.
GameplaySite
The main menu now opens with today's daily: the stage and the time left, or your streak and whether today keeps it. The results screen shows your streak after every run.
Gameplay
After a finish you now see the next medal to chase and how far off it is, and where your best stands on the board with the gap to the pilot one place up.
Fixes
The daily card on the home page and the daily in the game now always name the same stage, sky and quests. NEXT STAGE in the Mars Cup posts each stage time to the board, as SUBMIT & RETRY does.
GameplayFixes
After a finish, RETRY, NEXT STAGE, the share and replay buttons and MENU now sit together in one panel pinned to the bottom of the screen. Your payout, the cards and the board scroll behind it.
SiteFixes
On a wide screen a long row name such as INVITE A FRIEND could run into the line beside it. The name now always keeps its room, and the line beside it shortens with an ellipsis instead.
Gameplay
After a finish, 🎬 SHARE A 15 S CLIP makes a short video of your run's best moment — your biggest slide or jump, or the run to the line — cut between replay cameras, with the race clock and the stage in the picture. One more tap shares it.
Gameplay
The tutorial is six lessons now — drive, shift up, brake, corners, the slalom and the hairpin — and then a timed mini-race over the course's last five gates, the jump included. Clear it and your first real race starts.
Stages
A new pilot who skips the Proving Ground now starts on Stage 2, The Long Run, the gentlest ground of the three: two real corners, and every other bend under 25°. The Eight is still Stage 1, and a returning pilot still picks up where they left off.
MultiplayerSite
An invite link now opens straight into the room it names: no lobby list, no name prompt. A call sign is minted for the link if you have none, and the results screen asks for your own after. The link itself lands on a page that says who is waiting, with a card that unfurls in chats.
GameplaySite
The results screen's challenge button now reads DARE A FRIEND — BEAT MY 3:52, and the line it shares names your time, the stage and your medal, so a pasted link reads as a dare. Your own run on a board, the record when it is yours and every challenge page have a SHARE button too.
Gameplay
Before your third finish the ghost on track is a run you can follow, not the record: the slowest run on the board that still made bronze pace. On The Eight that is a 4:50 against a 1:44 record. The tag over it reads PACE CAR, and the split flashes compare against it.
Gameplay
The controls card before your first three races now opens on fifteen seconds of a real board run taking a corner on the handbrake: off the throttle and brake early, tap the handbrake as you turn in and the rear swings round, then counter-steer and power out. Most new pilots never touched it.
Gameplay
Before the lights of your first ten races, a card lists the controls for the keyboard, gamepad or touch screen you are using, and the countdown waits until you close it. Tick DON'T SHOW THIS AGAIN once you know them.
GameplayFixes
The dust your wheels kick up in a slide or a landing now thins out to nothing at its edges. Each puff used to end in a faint square, which showed most from the low and close cameras.
MultiplayerFixes
Watching an online race from the helmet, dash or onboard camera, the screen between the yoke grips now shows the pilot you follow: their speed, motor revs and race clock, marked LIVE. It used to stay blank, or hold your own finish once you were home.
GameplayFixes
The ground pushes back along its own surface now. A rover parked across a hill stays only as far as its tyres hold it and slides on anything steeper, a climb costs the speed a climb should and a descent gives it back, and a drift up the outside of a banked corner settles instead of launching. Board times set before this update stay where they are, and their ghosts still race.
Site
The hero is one column of menu rows, the way a game opens: Play now — Continue · Stage N once you have driven — then Single player, Online racing with its live counts, Tutorial, Free roam, Leaderboard, Garage, Pilot and Settings. Single player opens Mars Cup, Practice and the Daily challenge, and Practice opens the stages, each with your medal and best time.
Site
Every board — the global page and each stage's own — now opens on its times: a one-line record strip, then the whole first sheet of 100 runs as a timing sheet, with the gap to the record on every row and medal plates on the top three.
Site
While the rover loads, the garage turntable now puts it together piece by piece from the inside out — cabin, yoke, pilot, wheels, suspension, hull, lights, bash plates, rear bay and livery — on the turning table, with a line naming the part going on, instead of an empty frame. And the turntable now stays in view while you browse the parts.
Site
The garage page now has the rover itself, turning slowly on a turntable in the paint, rims and calipers you have equipped. Grab it with the mouse or a finger to turn it any way you like, and equip a part to see it change on the rover.
MultiplayerFixes
When joining or hosting an online race failed for a reason the race server had not given, the message blamed the server — even when the server was fine and the trouble was at your end. It now says what actually failed, and carries a short code you can quote if you tell us about it.
Gameplay
Every lesson in the proving ground is now read out by the co-driver, in the same voice that calls the corners on a stage, so you can keep your eyes on the road. The card on screen stays as it was.
Gameplay
The proving ground's six slalom cones now stand on the middle of the track, each with an arrow on the ground and a sign above it showing the side to pass. Driving straight down the middle no longer gets you through.
GameplayFixes
In the proving ground, driving out through the hairpin gate now always moves you on to the climb, whether or not the handbrake turn counted. You no longer have to turn round and come through it again.
Gameplay
Every lesson in the proving ground now gives one short instruction instead of a paragraph, such as "Hairpin! Hold SPACE and flick the wheel." The key to press still shows above it.
Multiplayer
An invite to race arrives with an incoming-transmission hail, in the game and on every page of the site, and a new line in your race room's chat plays a short comms chirp, so you hear both with the tab in the background.
Gameplay
The proving ground no longer opens on a welcome card with a NEXT button to find: the first card says to hold the up arrow, and moves on as soon as you do. On the keyboard, throttle and brake are now the up and down arrows only.
Multiplayer
Keep a race room open in a tab and it plays a docking chime when a pilot takes a seat and a radar ping when someone you could invite comes online, even with the tab in the background. An open room now waits 30 minutes for a race to start, up from 15.
MultiplayerSite
Every page of the site and the game now shows the pilots online right now, with an INVITE beside each. Say yes to an invite and you both land in a public race room, hosted by the pilot who asked, with the room chat open.
Fixes
A run driven on a device you have linked to your wallet now goes on the board under your claimed call sign even after the wallet's sign-in has lapsed, instead of as PILOT. If a run ever does go up as PILOT, the game now says so and why.
Your pilot dossierMultiplayerFixes
A room opened or a race started now shows on the home page's Online Racing card within about three seconds, as quickly as in the game's race list. It used to take a quarter of a minute or more.
Find a raceMultiplayerFixes
On a phone on its side the race room now shows its chat beside the room, with the ready, start and leave buttons in view, so nothing needs scrolling.
How online racing worksMultiplayer
Watching an online race, or the rest of one after you finish, you now hear the car you follow: its motor, its tyres on the ground and the wind, from any camera.
Multiplayer
During an online race the screen now lists every pilot in order, under the stage name. An overtake between two gates moves the list straight away, not at the next gate.
MultiplayerSite
Race rooms have a chat now, and anyone can watch a public race that is under way from the stands. The home page shows when rooms are open or a race is on, and after you finish you can watch the rest of the race.
GameplayMultiplayer
Every ghost on track — your best run, the rival field, online opponents and the cars in a race replay — is now the full rover with its pilot inside, a little transparent. Online, the room gives each seat a colour and every screen shows every car in it, yours included.
Site
The blog now opens on three hubs — Play Racing Games, Learn Rally and Explore Mars — each with an introduction and hand-picked reading lists before the full archive. A new tools page holds three free utilities built from the numbers the game runs on.
MultiplayerFixes
The stage picker in an online race room listed every number from 1 to 8, and starting a stage still under survey sent the whole room back to the landing page. It now lists Stages 1, 2 and 3.
Fixes
A wheel in the air no longer throws dust or presses a rut. Over a crest or off a jump the plume follows only the wheels still touching the regolith, and a rover on its roof leaves the ground untouched. Replays and replay videos follow the same rule.
SiteFixes
Opening PRACTICE on the landing page showed Stage 1 and Stage 2 and cut the list off there. Stage 3, The Opener, and the note on the routes still under survey are back in it.
Read the Stage 3 guideGameplay
A run now starts in the HELMET camera, from inside the pilot's helmet with the yoke and both gloves in view. If you have already picked a camera under SETTINGS, you keep it.
Gameplay
A stage no longer opens on untouched ground. The ruts of its board's three fastest runs are already pressed into the regolith when you line up, so you can see the lines the quickest pilots took. Replays and replay videos show them too.
Stages
A third stage is on the roster and the numbers have moved with it. The Eight is the new Stage 1: a 2,676 m night loop through twelve gates that finishes nine metres from where it started. The Opener is now Stage 3, unchanged, and The Long Run stays Stage 2.
Site
Only the podium used to say how long ago a time was set. Every row of a stage board now carries it too, so a fresh run further down the order stands out.
Open the leaderboardsGameplayFixes
With daily reminders on, the game warns you in the evening if you haven't driven yet. Chrome on Android refused the way that warning was made, so it never appeared there; it now arrives like any other notification, and tapping it opens the game.
Open SettingsMultiplayerFixes
After an online race the results said ON THE BOARD AS and the call sign you typed, even when the board posted the time as PILOT: a filtered name, or a call sign another wallet has claimed. The line now shows the name the board actually used.
How online racing worksSiteFixes
A wallet link used to end 30 days after you linked it, and from then on your times went up without the ✓, and under a claimed call sign as PILOT, until you linked again. Now opening the site or posting a time renews it, so it lapses only after a few weeks away.
GameplaySite
Once daily reminders were on, the only way to stop them was to block the site's notifications in your browser. Settings now has a DAILY REMINDERS switch beside SHARING DRIVE PATHS: OFF silences the evening reminder and the daily notification, deleting your browser's delivery address from our server, and ON asks your browser again.
Fixes
Claiming a call sign on the pilot dossier was meant to keep it yours, but anyone could still post a time under it. Now a run posted under a claimed call sign keeps the name only from a browser where the wallet that claimed it is connected; from anywhere else, whoever drove it, it goes on the board as PILOT.
SiteFixes
A linked wallet keeps a profile on our servers: the devices you link from, a copy of your game progress and any call sign you claim. Anyone could read it through the database the game uses; now only our server can, and Delete wallet profile on the pilot dossier erases it.
Fixes
Every board run can be downloaded to watch, and a copy of one could be posted again under another name, landing on the board as a second, identical time. The board now knows the runs it has taken, and takes the same run again only from the device that first posted it.
SiteFixes
A referral now counts only when the recruited pilot's own game reports it, with the key it keeps next to its board id, and only your device can switch on its daily reminders. Nobody else can invent recruits, claim a pilot someone else brought in, or stop your device from switching on reminders.
Fixes
A run that took ten minutes or more finished as normal and then failed to post: the game said LEADERBOARD SUBMIT FAILED and kept the time on your device. Runs up to half an hour now go on the board, with their ghost and replay.
The leaderboardsSiteFixes
The pilot dossier promised your profile lives in your browser, no signup ever, right above the panel that links a wallet and keeps a copy of that profile on our servers. It now says the profile stays in your browser unless you link a wallet, and playing still needs no account.
SiteFixes
Linking a wallet and switching on daily reminders both store data on our servers, and the privacy page described neither. It now says what each one keeps, which of it anyone can read, the cookie a wallet link sets, and how to stop each.
Fixes
Your device now keeps a private key next to the id the board knows it by, and the board asks for it with every time you submit and every wallet you link. Nobody else can post a run in your name or put their badge on your times, and linking a wallet now keeps one time per board: your fastest.
MultiplayerSite
Every finisher of an online race is now filed with the race, so the race can be rebuilt from each pilot's inputs and watched with all of its rovers on the stage together. Times set in a race carry an ONLINE tag on the leaderboard.
MultiplayerGameplay
An online race runs the same simulation as a solo drive — the other rovers are ghosts the physics never touches — so its time can be checked the same way. Every finished race now goes on the global leaderboard by itself, under your call sign, re-simulated from your inputs like any solo run.
SiteFixes
Sharing a blog post, a stage guide, a stage leaderboard or a ghost challenge left the preview in the chat or feed without its picture, because the site failed to draw the card. Each link shows its own card again — the headline for a post, the medal times for a stage, the top three for a board, and the time and pilot to beat for a challenge.
SiteFixes
In a laptop-sized window or on a tablet turned sideways, the header ran off the edge of the screen, every page could be dragged sideways, and the Play now button was squeezed until its label disappeared — with a wallet linked, it was cut off on wide screens too. The header now gives way before it runs out of room, so every page fits and Play now always reads in full.
Fixes
Once you had linked a wallet, a faster run could go up beside your previous time instead of replacing it, so the board showed you twice. The faster run replaces the old one again, and a run you set while your wallet is connected carries the verified badge straight away.
MultiplayerFixes
An online race never posts a leaderboard time, yet its results screen still asked for your name and offered SUBMIT, which silently posted nothing. It now says the time is not eligible for the board, with no name field and no SUBMIT, whether the race ran to the end or you lost the connection and finished offline.
SiteFixes
On a phone, the daily briefing on the landing page and the daily challenge page was squeezed in beside its three quests, so the stage title and RUN TODAY'S CHALLENGE ran past the edge of the card. The quests now sit underneath, and the briefing takes the full width of the screen.
Today's daily briefingSiteFixes
The About page counted two dozen achievements and promised dust storms that change your stage mid-run, and the landing page said a storm can roll in mid-stage. There are 30 achievements, five of them hidden, and a dust storm comes only with a stage's storm variant, where it blows at full strength from the start line to the finish.
SiteFixes
The game was described as eight stages in search results, link previews and the install prompt, and two are open. That copy now describes the driving instead of counting stages, so it stays true as more stages open.
The stages open todaySiteFixes
The daily challenge page said its board resets at midnight. There is no daily board: a daily run goes on that stage's leaderboard and stays there, and what midnight changes is the stage, the sky, the three quests and the day your streak counts.
MultiplayerSiteFixes
The multiplayer page said that if your connection dropped mid-race, your finish could still go on the global leaderboard. It cannot: a run that starts as an online race never posts a board time, even when you finish it offline, so the pages that suggested otherwise now say that board times come from solo runs.
How online racing worksSiteFixes
The landing page, footer and About page said the stages were charted from real Martian terrain. They are not — the ground is hand-sculpted to Martian morphologies, and the site now says so.
GameplaySiteFixes
Most people who start a stage never finish it, and a counter saying so tells us nothing about why. When a drive ends, the game now sends us the line your rover took — position and speed, no call sign and no account — so we can find the corner that spins everyone and the rock people get stuck on. It is kept a month, never published, and Settings has a switch to stop sending it.
GameplaySiteFixes
It was advertised as a three-minute tutorial and it is not one — nineteen lessons, each with room to get it wrong a few times. The copy now says what it teaches instead of how long it takes, and a real figure goes back once we have measured how long pilots actually spend in it.
Gameplay
Until now every reward waited at the finish line: quit six gates into a stage and the run left no trace at all. The ground you covered, the air you caught and the time you held it sideways are now banked whether or not you cross the line, and reaching a gate you have never reached on that stage pays XP and credits the first time.
GameplayFixes
The proving ground is now the first thing a new pilot is offered rather than the thing they skip, and a first timed run starts on Stage 2 — twice the distance of Stage 1 but far easier ground, where Stage 1 puts its two tightest corners 51 m and 75 m down a steep start line.
GameplayFixes
On a phone, a larger UI SCALE ran the co-driver's pace notes into the timer and the speed readout across the top of the screen. The HUD now grows only as far as the screen is wide enough for, and keeps your full setting wherever it fits.
GameplayFixes
On a phone held sideways in a short browser window, a larger UI SCALE pushed the damage readout under the look buttons and the CAM button onto the pedals. The HUD now grows only as far as the screen has room for, and keeps your full setting wherever it fits.
GameplayFixes
On a short screen, such as a phone in a browser tab, the damage readout and the rival's tag ran down the left edge and under the look-left and look-right buttons. They now share a row under the speed readout, clear of the controls.
Fixes
A run opened from a leaderboard, with REPLAY on the site's boards or WATCH on the game's, showed the pedals, steering and gear chips over LOADING REPLAY…, where they did nothing. The screen now shows only LOADING REPLAY… until the run plays.
SiteFixes
All 63 posts in the Mission Log now carry in-game screenshots and diagrams made for them, and no picture appears in two posts.
PerformanceFixes
Hover QUALITY in the pause menu and its tip now names what the presets trade: render scale, bloom, film grain, shadow resolution, ground detail and wheel ruts. It used to list a shading effect that Medium and High stopped drawing in September.
GameplayFixes
The H, D and L buttons stand in a column just left of the brake, level with the pedals, so with the browser's toolbar taking its share of the screen they no longer climb into the race timer or off the top edge. On a tablet they keep their place above the handbrake.
GameplayFixes
The countdown screen used to catch every tap, so the pause button, the gear chips and the pedals did nothing until GO. They now respond while the lights count, and pause takes you out of the stage before the start.
GameplayFixes
The pause button now has the top-left corner to itself, with the speed readout beside it, so every digit of your time stays in view. The timer, the checkpoint distance and the CAM button keep the top-right.
SiteFixes
Before your first drive, the new-recruit card on the pilot dossier now reads 0 / 26 achievements, the number the game awards. It used to count one too many.
StagesFixes
The stage plate on the HUD reads STAGE 1: THE OPENER and STAGE 2: THE LONG RUN, where it used to repeat the stage number. The championship cup names them too, up next and in its results.
SiteStages
The Stage 2 guide carries a video of a record run, filmed from the pilot's helmet cam. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
Watch it on the Stage 2 guideGameplayPerformanceFixes
The pilot's helmet now has a tall shield and a chin, and the yoke's horns flare into flat carbon wings. The rover draws lighter and builds faster, so a stage starts sooner.
GameplayMultiplayerFixes
On a gamepad, START during a run now restarts it the way R does, straight back on the start line without the countdown. In an online race, BACK now asks before you leave, as Esc does, instead of taking you out of the race at once.
GameplayFixes
With a controller connected, the tutorial names the controller's buttons instead of keyboard keys: RT / R2 to roll forward, RB / R1 to shift up, A / CROSS for the handbrake. Before, a card saying "tap A to shift up" sent pad players to the handbrake.
GameplayFixes
On a gamepad, pushing the left stick left now turns the rover left; the steering had been mirrored. Settings has a new CONTROLS section listing the keyboard, gamepad and touch controls, and the pause menu opens the same list.
Fixes
A run opened from a leaderboard, with REPLAY on the site's boards or WATCH on the game's, played in silence. It now sounds the way your own replay does after a finish: engine, tyres, wind and every impact.
Gameplay
Every run now starts through the pilot's visor, gloves on the yoke and the stage opening ahead. One press of C takes you out to the chase view behind the rover.
Gameplay
The rover is rebuilt as a pressurized Mars rally-raid machine, and a pilot in a pressure suit now drives it from a centre seat. A helmet cam shows the stage through the pilot's visor, gloves on the yoke.
GameplayFixes
The haze that softens the far landscape had stopped drawing, so every ridge stood out hard to the horizon. It is back at every distance: the ground near you stays crisp, the ranges behind fade into the colour of the sky, and the horizon melts away instead of ending on a line.
GameplayStagesFixes
Every gate is rebuilt as Race Control hardware: stainless legs faced in black heat-shield tile, one black visor across the top and one light line that shows which gate to drive through next. The start rises into stainless piers under the Mars Rally Championship lockup and counts you down with its own start lights.
Performance
Medium and High no longer draw the whole world a second time every frame for a shading effect that barely showed, so the picture looks the same and costs your graphics card less to produce.
GameplayFixes
The light bar across the rover's nose now dims as knocks wear down the battery pack and goes dark once the pack is badly hurt, so you can read the damage from the driving seat. It used to stay at full brightness whichever camera you drove with.
PerformanceFixes
Smashing the rover's nose hard enough to kill the headlights used to freeze the picture for a moment, and again when they came back at the repair zone. Now the beams simply go dark and light up again, with no pause.
GameplaySite
Where a browser can't encode AAC sound itself, the game now brings its own encoder, so an MP4 replay video keeps its sound in the format phones and social apps expect, rather than Opus or none at all.
Gameplay
DOWNLOAD REPLAY VIDEO now builds the video from the replay one frame at a time instead of recording the screen, so a slow device takes longer rather than dropping frames, and the size of your window no longer matters.
SiteGameplayFixes
Every run on every board can now be watched rebuilt from its inputs: the site lists each stage's forward, reversed and storm boards in full, and the game's own boards open any run in a new tab.
GameplaySiteFixes
Each run now records what you did with the controls, sixty times a second, and a time only goes on the leaderboard once the server has driven those inputs through the same physics and reached the same finish. Every board has restarted on the new build.
GameplayFixes
The rover reads the ground the way a real tire does — packed regolith has cohesion that low gravity does not take away, and a tire sliding sideways digs in — so a drift comes round under throttle. Every board has restarted on the new handling.
Gameplay
The CASUAL, STANDARD and SIM presets are gone from the settings panel. Every pilot now drives the way SIM did, so the rover behaves the same for everyone and every time on the board was set on the same physics.
Gameplay
A small map now sits in the corner of the driving view, zoomed in close enough to read the ridges and hollows around the rover and pick a line. It follows you across the stage and marks each gate as the bar you have to drive through.
Stages
The second slot on the roster is open again, on a route laid out from scratch. The Long Run covers the full length of its 2.5 km square: a short drop off the start, one pair of real corners, then long, fast ground all the way to the finish.
Level editor
The in-house editor the championship routes are built in draws terrain at the same one-metre detail the game drives on, so a route is laid over the ridges and hollows exactly as the rover will meet them. Stages charted from here sit truer to the ground.
GameplayStagesPerformance
Every stage is built on the hand-sculpted Martian terrain at its native one-metre detail, and the ground around your rover is drawn at that same detail as you drive. The ridges, ruts and hollows you feel under the wheels are the ones you can see.
Stages
Crosscut and The Eight have been pulled from the roster — neither route was good enough to keep. The two slots hold their terrain and will come back with routes built from scratch.
Gameplay
Regolith is loose, and the rover now sinks into it: every wheel presses a rut into the surface wherever it rolls, at any speed, the way tires cut into snow or mud. The tracks stay for the whole run.
GameplayFixes
A bump used to lift the rover and leave it gliding along with its wheels clear of the regolith, for far longer than the bump deserved. It now settles straight back down, and each wheel follows the ground under it instead of riding at a fixed height on the body.
Gameplay
Each wheel now throws a puff of dust as it touches down after a jump, a crest or a washboard hop, sized by how hard it lands, and leaves a short dark scuff where the tire bit. A nose-first landing shows the fronts touch down before the rears, and replays show the same landings.
Gameplay
A finished run can now be saved as a video file instead of screen-recorded. Pick the camera it should be shot from, and the replay plays one full pass from the start line while it records — engine, skids and wind included.
Site
Stage drops, physics changes and daily-challenge results now get posted as they land. The link sits in the site footer, above every Mission Log post, and the cockpit asks once after a finished stage — with a box to never ask again.
GameplayFixes
A replay now follows the wheel inputs recorded during the run instead of inferring them, so the car you watch drives the line you actually drove. Two new cinematic views watch it: a trackside broadcast camera and a flying drone.
FixesSite
Night and dusk runs keep their beam on the terrain ahead instead of losing it mid-corner.
Site
Driving guides, Mars science explainers and engineering write-ups on the tire model, the damage model and the netcode. Every post now carries a visible FAQ, a byline and its own share image.
Read the Mission LogFixes
Goals that ask you to finish every stage now measure against the stages that are open, not against stages still being charted, so they are completable.
Open your pilot dossierGameplay
Cycle chase, dash, hood and trackside views with C, ending in a free camera you can fly around the rover. The HUD names the mode as you switch.
Performance
Everyone starts on HIGH instead of being benchmarked into a preset at boot. Step down from the quality control in settings if you would rather have the frames — nothing demotes you silently.
GameplayStagesFixes
Collision was rebuilt so the rover behaves like a real body on the real surface, and a checkpoint counts when you cross the line between its posts rather than when you near it.
SiteFixes
The chips on the leaderboard open the board they name, each with its own shareable link, and they work with JavaScript switched off.
Open the leaderboardStages
Two more rally stages join Stage 1 in the route book. Both are drivable, both have a survey sheet on the site, and both keep their own leaderboard.
Open the route bookSite
The website was rebuilt as an official artifact of the championship rather than a landing page — numbered documents, timing-sheet typography and cinematic Martian plates.
StagesLevel editorGameplay
Guest routes outside the championship can be published and played from a link, and every open stage gained two practice variants.
Gameplay
Opt in and the fastest three runs on the board start alongside you as ghost cars, so the target is on the stage instead of in a table.
Level editor
The in-house editor the championship routes are charted in became a tool a stage can actually be authored in, including reshaping the ground under the route. New stages get better because the tool they come out of did.
Gameplay
Pick how much the car helps you, and restart a run the instant you know it is over.
SiteFixes
An optional wallet link lets you claim the runs you set, and the leaderboard now verifies submissions on the server. The game still needs no account to play.
GameplaySite
Runs became shareable artifacts: send a link and whoever opens it races your exact ghost.
PerformanceSite
The first load got dramatically lighter, and the game stopped depending on third-party CDNs to start at all.
Site
The site got a real design system and a place to write: stage survey sheets, feature pages that differ from each other, and the Mission Log.
SiteGameplay
The game lost its menu screen. The site carries the mode launcher and everything around the driving, so opening the game puts you on a stage instead of in front of a list.
MultiplayerPerformance
Up to 8 pilots race the same stage at once, seeing each other live. Create a private room and share the link, or join whoever is already racing in the public lobby.
How online racing worksGameplay
A training course walks you through throttle, braking, looking around and landing jumps before you are timed on anything. Gears shift sequentially on A and Z.
Run the tutorialGameplay
Runs started counting for something beyond the clock: a pilot level, a challenge that changes daily, and cosmetics you earn rather than buy.
GameplayFixes
The grip model was rebuilt around real Martian constants, so stopping takes roughly three times the distance it would on Earth — about 165 m from 100 km/h.
Site
Posting the game on X, Discord or Reddit shows a Mars Rally card instead of a bare URL.
GameplayFixes
Land on the roof and press T to right the rover. The body itself now collides with the ground rather than sinking through it.
GameplayPerformance
The rover gained an interior worth looking at from the dash camera, and the renderer gained controls for slower machines.
GameplayFixes
Hitting things started to matter, and the phone layout stopped fighting the HUD.
Gameplay
Where the record begins: a rover on hand-sculpted Martian terrain, a deterministic physics simulation with fixed substeps and a per-wheel tire model, recorded runs you can replay bit for bit, and a leaderboard to put them on. Everything above is what happened next.
About the championship