Developer Slightly Mad Studios have provided more details on the plans they have for supporting Project Cars throughout 2015, calling the initiative ‘On Demand’ they have said:

“PROJECT CARS ON DEMAND is our commitment to keeping Project CARS up-to-date with the greatest, freshest, and most critical content whilst also allowing players to pick and choose the cars & tracks they want – without being locked in to a pre-paid scheme. “Project CARS was built for the future from day one and with PROJECT CARS ON DEMAND racing fans around the world will be able to enjoy a continually growing and evolving experience throughout 2015 with continual free updates that improve and expand upon the original core game, free cars and vehicle liveries delivered at no extra charge, and additional content made available without the usual obligation to purchase a long-term season pass.”

The details they have provided so far (and some we have managed to obtain ourselves) include:

Feature Updates

SMS have restated the commitment to keep supporting Project Cars via updates and we already know that Update 1.3 is out for the Xbox One and Update 1.4 has been detailed and is with Sony and Microsoft and should be with us soon. With SMS promising to keep Project Cars up to date with new hardware support and put fixes identified by the community in place.

Fixes for the highest priority issues identified by the community

Improved balancing and defaults

Additional functionality and expanded support for existing features

Brand-new items that open up new possibilities within the game

Support for new hardware released

Free Cars

Each month a free car will be released. The first of which, the Lykan Hypersport, arrived in May shortly after Project Cars launch and the next is being promised very soon.

While it has not been confirmed, it has been suggested that this will be the Audi A1 Quattro. Only time will tell if that is the case, however a free car each month will certainly help to keep Project Cars fresh without any additional cost and it will be interesting to see if this will be the route to provide road cars to the community.

Free Community Liveries

Another regular free DLC will be the free Community Liveries, these will be released every other month and once again the first arrived in May just after Project Cars launch. These will consist of the liveries created by the Driver Network and WMD communities and will allow console players access to some of the best user created liveries.

The May pack contained a range of creative designs and homages to iconic real-life liveries as well as an accurate recreation of Deadmau5′ livery for his BAC Mono. The second pack, due in July will feature a community created livery for the Ford Escort Mk1, six real life DTM liveries for the Mercedes-Benz 190E as well as others that have not yet been detailed.

Car Packs

To date three chargeable car packs have been released for Project Cars, the Modified Car pack (which featured the Ruf CTR3 SMS-R complete with GT Planet livery), Limited Edition Car Pack and the Racing Icons Car Pack.

Future car packs will feature “American muscle and US stock, Japanese road machines, British LMP and GT, classic and modern-day open wheel, touring, and track day vehicles. Promising a wide range of cars that should cater for all tastes.

No details have yet been provided on how many packs will be released or how frequently we will see them, however as soon as details emerge we will keep you updated.

Track Expansions

Currently no additional tracks have been released for Project Cars, but SMS have stated that we will see “an additional 12 unique locations consisting of road tracks, historic locations, modern circuits, and ovals.”

These Track Expansions will not just consist of the tracks alone, but will also contain appropriate vehicles so that “players will therefore get access to the most iconic, beautiful, and contemporary locations throughout the year that continue to represent a truly global snapshot of racing around the world.”

The first of these packs is scheduled for July and while no official details have been released about its content, it has been long rumoured that it will consist of five layouts of the Audi Ruapuna Park circuit in New Zealand and will be supported by three cars from Audi’s racing lineage. The Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro, Audi R8 LMP900 and Audi 90 IMSA GTO.

This would seem to be supported by two of the banner images that are on the Project Cars website right now, one of the Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro and another of a field of Audi 90 IMSA GTO’s in action.

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