If (like me) you found developer Ironwood Studios’ wonderfully weird four-wheeled survival game Pacific Drive just a bit too exhausting when it launched earlier this year, now might be the time to go back: its new Drive Your Way update introduces a whole bunch of custom difficulty settings and presets to make things easier – or masochistically more difficult, if you prefer.
With Pacific Drive’s new update installed, players can immediately choose from seven presets enabling them to tweak the difficulty of their adventures across the Olympic Exclusion Zone. These range from the standard Pacific Drive experience to Joyride – which retains the same fundamental core but reduces gathering, crafting, and research requirements – to presets that lean hard in the other direction. Nuclear Journey, for instance, smears everything in lethal radiation, while Iron Wagon doesn’t just make things tougher, it deletes your save if you fail.
However, it doesn’t end there; the Drive Your Way update also makes it possible for players to create their own presets, with over 50 considerably more granular settings available – complete with tweakable value sliders for each – as detailed in the video below.
Pacific Drive | Drive Your Way Fall 2024 Update