Fuse Games has released the first major update for Star Wars: Galactic Racer, a quality-of-life patch built around the feedback players have sent in since launch. The update is available now, weighs in at 467 MB, and leads with the change the studio says its community asked for most.
That change is aimed squarely at online multiplayer. Parties in Galactic Racer could previously hold just three players, and Fuse Games has now doubled the cap, so groups of up to six friends can party up together.
The studio says the bigger parties were promised a while ago, and it wanted to deliver them as quickly as possible. The higher cap applies across online multiplayer, letting larger groups take on multiplayer Tours together and share the stories that come out of them.
PC players on mouse and keyboard get attention in this update as well. Fuse Games has added a handful of keyboard layout presets, built to support AZERTY keys and both left-handed and right-handed play.
The presets are a stopgap rather than the finished solution. The studio acknowledges that the lack of key rebinding support is hurting the experience for mouse and keyboard players, and full key rebinding is planned for a later update.
Multiplayer rewards are getting more generous, too. Players who join a Tour partway through will now receive 6,000 credits for jumping in mid-Tour, up from the 4,000 credits the game handed out before the update.
The rest of the patch is largely focused on the multiplayer experience. Transition tidy-ups have been made to the Spectator camera view, smoothing out how watching a race in progress flows from one moment to the next.
Fuse Games has also removed the "Exit the game" option from the multiplayer menu on PC. The option was causing accidental quits, and taking it out of that menu should keep players from dropping out of sessions by mistake.
A few party stability fixes round out the multiplayer work. They are aimed at keeping grouped players together more reliably when moving between races and Tours.
Two platform fixes are included as well. The update fixes a connection issue affecting the PlayStation 5 version, and it fixes a crash tied to AMD Frame Interpolation.
Fuse Games does flag one thing players should check after installing. The studio has seen instances of campaign vehicle customization resetting after the update, so it is asking players to check their vehicle customization once the patch is in place.
The update is the first step in the game's post-launch support, and Fuse Games says more is on the way. The studio thanked players for the feedback and support during the launch period, saying it has been overwhelmed by the reception and will keep shaping future updates around what the community reports.
