"Codenamed Cagney" is our 3rd and most ambitious software update yet!
It's a spectacular free addition to your Burnout Paradise experience, bringing a mountain of new gameplay.
Here's what you get:
3 New Freeburn Game Modes:
Road Rage
3 New Freeburn Game Modes:
Road Rage
• Play with up to 8 players, split into two teams. One team must race through a series of Paradise City checkpoints. The other team must stop them.
• Cue incredible car chases, battling through the city, tons of voice communication as players co-ordinate their efforts.
Stunt Run (vs)
• Play with up to 8 players. Pull stunts to score points - hit barriers, billboards and ramps; ace barrel rolls, flat spins and massive airtime to score big.
Stunt Run (vs)
• Play with up to 8 players. Pull stunts to score points - hit barriers, billboards and ramps; ace barrel rolls, flat spins and massive airtime to score big.
• Everybody competes to simultaneously reach the biggest total. Hit your rivals to kill their scores and gain multipliers.
Marked Man
• Play with up to 8 players. An individual is selected at random and everyone else gangs up to find them and run them off the road.
Marked Man
• Play with up to 8 players. An individual is selected at random and everyone else gangs up to find them and run them off the road.
• If you're the Marked Man, you score for reaching the end point in one piece. Skilled players can score big by eliminating other players along the way.
70 New Freeburn Challenges
70 New Freeburn Challenges
• "Freeburn" is Burnout's enduring contribution to online gameplay - absolutely seamless switching between online and offline play, through the Easydrive Menu System.
• "Cagney" adds a further 70 new Freeburn Challenges and introduces a timer and multiple-stages to each challenges for the first time
• Leaderboards log your best time as well as the players that also participated, so you can see who rules at any particular challenge
Vehicles
Vehicles
• Hunter Olympus
• The Nakamura Rai-jin Turbo RWD (rear-wheel-drive)
New Paint-jobs
• Rossolini Tempesta Dream
• We teamed up with our community to bring you 2 all-new paint-jobs for our favourite vehicles. Check out the Oval Steel Racer and Inferno Hippie Van.
Ranked Race Changes
• We completely overhauled our ranked racing system to create a more honest racing scene. here for the full breakdown!
Custom Soundtracks
• Custom Soundtrack support on PS3
Other high-priority fixes and updates
• If you're in a 3 or more player challenge and a player drops out, the remaining players can still complete it (subject to it being a challenge that can handle this!)
• "Previously" section on the search games list now displays Challenges, Today's Best and Freeburn game modes, making it loads easier to decide which game you want to join
• You can now view Leaderboards and Options in an online game
• You can now mute other online players in the show players screen
• You can now mute yourself if you have a PS3 Eye/Eye toy
• We've increased time-out for online races, and if all players complete the races within the timer, then you go straight to results
• The Airfield has been changed to help with the drivability of the area and make it a little easier to complete the hoop challenges
• Online cars now show damage - roll up to the start in a half-destroyed Hunter Cavalry and everyone else will see it!
• Added a stronger display message if you rule all of Todays Best
• The Easy Drive menu & Challenges page now loops from top to bottom
• Fixed the navigation system so that it takes into account the next check point in a race
• Fixed traffic not reappearing in Freeburn after a no-traffic race
• Fixed online races using Lawrence Road - it's been reporting finish distances with a little inaccuracy
• Revised 30+ car resets following crashes
• All new sound effects added for Easy Drive
• Driving backwards in Road Rage now ends the event as it does in Marked Man
• Option to invert camera axis for the look around camera on right stick
• Online player information made accurate on the instance a player goes through a checkpoint in races
• If you set VOIP mix to zero it is now saved correctly
• 1080i support for "almost HD" sets - PS3 only
• Improved the Standard Definition rendering on PS3
• New highlight to show the player in Today's Best
• Easy Drive fades out if it's unused for 20 seconds
• Boost chaining no longer possible by drifting in open areas
Ranked Race Changes
• We completely overhauled our ranked racing system to create a more honest racing scene. here for the full breakdown!
Custom Soundtracks
• Custom Soundtrack support on PS3
Other high-priority fixes and updates
• If you're in a 3 or more player challenge and a player drops out, the remaining players can still complete it (subject to it being a challenge that can handle this!)
• "Previously" section on the search games list now displays Challenges, Today's Best and Freeburn game modes, making it loads easier to decide which game you want to join
• You can now view Leaderboards and Options in an online game
• You can now mute other online players in the show players screen
• You can now mute yourself if you have a PS3 Eye/Eye toy
• We've increased time-out for online races, and if all players complete the races within the timer, then you go straight to results
• The Airfield has been changed to help with the drivability of the area and make it a little easier to complete the hoop challenges
• Online cars now show damage - roll up to the start in a half-destroyed Hunter Cavalry and everyone else will see it!
• Added a stronger display message if you rule all of Todays Best
• The Easy Drive menu & Challenges page now loops from top to bottom
• Fixed the navigation system so that it takes into account the next check point in a race
• Fixed traffic not reappearing in Freeburn after a no-traffic race
• Fixed online races using Lawrence Road - it's been reporting finish distances with a little inaccuracy
• Revised 30+ car resets following crashes
• All new sound effects added for Easy Drive
• Driving backwards in Road Rage now ends the event as it does in Marked Man
• Option to invert camera axis for the look around camera on right stick
• Online player information made accurate on the instance a player goes through a checkpoint in races
• If you set VOIP mix to zero it is now saved correctly
• 1080i support for "almost HD" sets - PS3 only
• Improved the Standard Definition rendering on PS3
• New highlight to show the player in Today's Best
• Easy Drive fades out if it's unused for 20 seconds
• Boost chaining no longer possible by drifting in open areas










