The Murray Cup Racing map, New Horizon Speedway, seems to be a few thousand feet above a planet surface. Are there any planetary gravity or atmospheric effects (e.g. wind resistance) added to the flight physics for that map? If not, would various such conditions be considered for future race courses?asked by Holo-san Voidrax
TL;DRChris Roberts says the Murray Cup map has a very small amount of gravity, he's unsure about wind resistance, and other race courses will have more atmospheric or gravitational effects, though it's early days.
We actually... there is actually a very small amount of gravity that's supplied on the Murray Cup racing map, the New Horizon. I'm not sure if we've put wind resistance in there. The engine actually supports it - it is actually just a setting that you do, and we removed it for everything obviously in space, but I'm not sure if someone put it back in for that particular map. But there definitely will be some other areas where, I think on some races it'll be all out in space, some races would be closer to a planetary surface and they would have more atmospheric effects or more gravitational pull and stuff. And that could also cause, or create, some interesting twists in the racing. So it's still early days on that and there will be more stuff to be done there, but a lot of the engine already supports that kind of stuff.