Update 8 - Turn Up The Heat

UPDATE 8: TURN UP THE HEAT

How's the chase, racers? Update 8 brings a huge shake-up to the way you build hands and collect cars in C3. First of all, the much-requested Synergy Toggle has arrived, allowing you to enable or disable synergy rolls when collecting.

However, the main event, without question, is the Heat system.

The Heat system is very simple. Once you purchase your first Elite car (applied retroactively, don't you worry), you will unlock your first Heat level, and one more with every subsequent Elite, up to the cap of Heat 10. From then, you may use the Heat toggle in the Collect screen to activate your Heat levels. Each Heat level imposes an RQ limit for your hand, starting at 460 and decreasing by 40 every new level to a final cap of 100 at Heat 10. If your hand doesn't meet the limit, you can't collect - simple as that. 

To sweeten the deal, though, each Heat level will add a flat bonus to all three of your main stats, with a particular focus on the Earnings bonus. Optimising your hand around these RQ limits can lead to huge gains, especially if you invest in Elite cars at lower rarities to further add modifiers.

So that's Heat. Turn it up, or stay frosty - the choice is yours, racers.