[WUB] Sonic & All-Stars Racing Gets a Fresh Tune-Up

Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed 10 Sumo Digital has been hard at work to improve their masterpiece, Sonic & All-Stars Racing. Luckily for the development team, patching games on the Wii U is easier than ever before, and so they’ve given us this list of improvements for the game:

Networking
Vehicle collisions in online races handle high latency much better.
X360 – Increased timeouts to allow for less network errors.
Rating reset issues should be resolved.
-100 Rating Penalty for players who quit races intentionally (even for router resets).
Starlight Carnival – Road shader adjusted to prevent ‘driving in the sky’ issue.
Super pick-ups in arenas should work in all cases now.
Rare issue leaving players unable to return to lobby addressed.
Difficulty
Tuned the difficulty of Traffic Attack, Ring Race, and certain Race events in World Tour.
Corrected certain traffic attack gates not giving you extra time.
Made the ‘Skip event after 3 failed events?’ option appear on all difficulties.
Achievements
Team Sonic – Made achievable in local gameplay so this is easier to get.
Yokozuna – No longer unlocks when you only beat Sunshine Tour Expert Ghost.
‘Beat someone 500 points higher than you’ sticker no longer awarded unless criteria met.
‘Meteor Strike’ No longer triggers incorrectly.
Misc
Time Attack – Multiple exploit fixes.
Online play – Multiple exploit fixes.
Co-op swap weapon slot now allows you to swap if you already have a weapon.
Improved front end leaderboard caching.
In-games triggers now handle physics tunnelling better for very fast players.
incorrect HUD showing ‘Lap 2’ cases addressed.
Improved motion controls for Wii-U
Favourite character in license no longer incorrect.
Hot-Rod physics effect in Arena’s clamped.
Occasionally being able to drive through Swarm attacks corrected.
Audio
Announcer should now say correct finishing position in high latency games
All-Star music volume level corrected
Reverb effects removed when audio disabled.