‘I’ve mounted the solar’: Heroic modder lastly offers with 20-year-old bug in Avenue Racing Syndicate

The Quick and the Livid has rather a lot to reply for, not least the early 2000s fad for street-racing video games drenched in dangerous boy imagery. Avenue Racing Syndicate, with its trailer declaring “Get wheels, get girls” is a contender essentially the most egregiously 2004 factor ever to exist.

Avenue Racing Syndicate arrived on PC a yr later, and whereas it was no Want For Pace Underground or Burnout 2: Level of Impression, it discovered followers amongst those that loved customizing its roster of licensed cares, free-roaming its Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Miami maps, and outrunning the police. What gamers did not like was a bug particular to the PC model that made the solar blindingly vivid on daylight tracks.

“HOW TO REMOVE THE SUN? LOL” asks one poster on the Steam discussion board, whereas one other laments, “I suppose the builders by no means heard of windshield visors or sun shades.” Wait lengthy sufficient, and ultimately a hero will come alongside—on this case a modder by the title of Radzerg, who simply launched a patch with the easy declaration, “I’ve mounted the solar”.

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Radzerg’s solar repair, which it’s also possible to discover on Nexus Mods, is available in three flavors. One reduces the glare impact to 60%, one other to 30%, and a 3rd disables it fully, eradicating the solar texture from the sky. The one factor in Avenue Racing Syndicate that can ship you blind now are the unlockable “girlfriend” movies.