What changed in v5.1.0
First showable alpha — the first version of the fifth rewrite I'd think to show to anyone outside my closest friends. Two features make it one:
- Named saves — save your world and come back to it. A save captures the world identity, where your car is, your quest progress, and a cache of every chunk you actually generated — so the terrain you drove through comes back exactly as you left it, even if world generation changes underneath it later. Saves are offline solo, and may still break between alpha versions.
- Settings presets — named presets (PC, TV, Handheld, Mobile, Empty) that override values across every tuning panel at once. Pick the one that matches your setup and the whole game retunes — display, camera, world streaming, audio — then fine-tune from there. Drop your own preset file in and it shows up as a button.
Everything before this release is groundwork; this is the first one that behaves like a game you can put down and pick back up.