Uncover the Truth: Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Season 6 Detective Missions

KT Racing has released the Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Season 6 update, bringing a new game mode, a bunch of new cars and fixing over 350 bugs and issues for the open world racer. They’ve also previewed what’s coming in Season 7 & 8 later this year.

While KT Racing is currently embroiled in Nacon’s insolvency saga – Kylotonn themselves have filed for insolvency this week – work has been able to continue at the studio while they work through the judicial process. This means more work on TDU Solar Crown, and presumably on the WRC license that the studio reclaimed last year.

Season 6 of TDU Solar Crown brings the new Detective missions that were voted on by the community last year. This sees you needing to tail a particular vehicle, trying to be close enough to intercept comms, but wary of drawing their suspicions. Once you reach a destination, you’ll than have to pap a photo of them as a final mission capper. Each mission has a little story that you’ll unravel through the wiretapping, and there are 15 of these missions to start with, with another 15 set to be added through a mid-season update.

Beyond that there’s three new cars, and three new special editions, quality of life improvements for Casino NPCs to now be voiced and more outfit save slots and GPS checkpoints, and there’s a new 50-tier Solar Pass.

More broadly, the continuing work to improve the base game is ongoing. Season 5 saw Hong Kong’s southern district reworked, and Season 6 is seeing a similar effort put into the northern districts, bringing more variety to the buildings, creating more light channels for the sun, and more.

Looking ahead to Season 7, KT Racing is working on live enhancements to improve the Solar Pass, Live Events and Daily Challenges, will introduce an official racing centre. Season 8 is what classic TDU players will be really keen to see, with houses, garages, customisation and furniture all set to debut.

Here’s the full patch notes for TDU Solar Crown Season 6:

• New Game Modes

  • Detective missions have been added within the contracts system

• New Features

  • Body kit parts system has been added starting with the official Audi Sport Performance Parts of the Audi R8 Coupé RWS.
  • New physical HUBs for Ibiza’s clothing store.

• Quality of Life Improvements

  • Casino’s NPCs are now voiced.
  • Increased number of outfits save slots to 6.
  • Increased number of GPS checkpoints to 10.

• New Cars

  • Pagani Huayra Roadster
  • Pininfarina B95
  • Lamborghini Temerario

• New Special Editions

  • Alpine A 110 R Ultime
  • Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Black Series
  • Bentley Continental GTC Speed Edition 12

• Optimisation – Reduced memory usage of oceans by improving ocean culling.
• Fixed crash when starting the game with an upscaler mode that isn’t supported by the GPU.
• Fixed crash when exiting Poker game while not yet seated.
• Fixed various issues with Poker.
• Fixed crash when using photo mode.
• Improved billboards visual quality.
• Fixed lighting sometimes broken on vehicles when exiting hubs with reflection quality setting at very high.
• Fixed traffic lights sometimes stuck on yellow.
• Fixed errors in the time cycle sometimes happening when changing islands.
• Fixed messages sometimes being displayed twice.
• Fixed game becoming unresponsive after entering a product code during a race.
• Updated Solar Pass and Shops cameras.
• Replaced unlocking of items when passing clan levels by a money reward.
• Added rebinding possibility for Alyss Next & previous choice.
• Resolved manufacturer logos cropped in specific situations.
• Fixed wrong PR displayed in the car sell menu for cars with performance upgrades.
• Fixed various clothes rendering issues.
• Fixed various clipping issues with clothes.
• Fixed various localization issues.
• Fixed race lobby weather/timecycle changing dynamically before race start.
• Fixed missing roads on Hong Kong Island.
• Keybinding list missing after changing Advanced Setup during Race or Contracts.
• Fixed various impossible tasks.
• Fixed various map issues on Hong Kong Island and Ibiza.
• Fixed AR gas station UI not being disabled.
• Fixed poor render distance on some objects.
• Fixed parking garage near British Performance being blocked.
• Fixed Rock LOD Appears Black Rather Than Correct Colour.
• Fixed Duplicate currency indicator displayed in beauty salon.
• Fixed The lighting inside the convenience store beside the gas station is excessively bright.
• Controller/Keyboard visual steering tyre sync – players who use controller and keyboard will no longer see a slow turning speed, and the visual dynamics of the tire now match the physics of the vehicle.