A complete overhaul of FlatOut with many quality-of-life features.
This mod was built from the ground-up with my own tooling, including single-handedly reverse-engineering the track format, track collision format and the car model format.
This makes this mod the first of its kind for the game, as fully custom tracks for any FlatOut game were completely impossible before.
I have also hacked the game itself to hell and back in order to allow for features such as online multiplayer, new gamemodes, seamless controller support, and a lot more.
I've also added near-perfect support for ultrawide aspect ratios, including proper scaling of the menus, UI and in-game FOV.
Designed with customizability in mind, this mod is open-source and includes many small improvements upon the game's code that come together to make adding your own changes a lot less of a hassle.
Disclaimer
Due to the current programming landscape, I feel that it's necessary to explicitly state that this project had zero assistance or any other kind of involvement from any sort of "AI agent" and it never will.
This mod was entirely built by hand, by a human being, and I believe that any project that cannot also claim this about itself is not worth people's time. The only acceptable amount of AI use is zero AI use.
Installation
- Make sure you have v1.1 of the game, as this is the only version this plugin is compatible with. Note that the GOG release is structured entirely differently for whatever reason and is also incompatible.
- Plop the files into your game folder.
- If you get "Could not obtain native display resolution" on startup, disconnect your second monitor.
- Enjoy, nya~ :3
Features
- A brand new career mode based on FlatOut 2 with a cup system, finals for each class and proper progression
- A dynamic car list system that allows cars to be added or removed without having to change LUA scripts
- A new achievement system, with many brand new achievements
- A new animated loading screen based on beta assets
- A new handling mode, Hardcore, which removes the arcadey handling elements and leaves you with more of a simcade feel
- A new music player written from the ground up, allowing multiple songs to play per race, more than one menu song and customizable playlists similar to EA Trax
- A player list visible in-game that shows everyone's position
- An option to move the vehicle camera higher up
- Added a new arcade mode with 27 unique events
- Added a new gamemode, Arcade Race, a recreation of Ultimate Carnage's Carnage Race mode
- Added a new gamemode, Demolition, a reimagining of the cut Smashy Smash gamemode
- Added a new gamemode, Frag Derby, a recreation of Ultimate Carnage's Deathmatch Derby mode
- Added a new gamemode, Wrecking Derby, a recreation of FlatOut 2's gamemode of the same name
- Added crash bonuses, giving you money after every race for crashing into other cars
- Added health bars when close to your opponents
- Added Instant Action into the main menu, launching you into a random race with a random car
- Added multiple selectable weathers for every vanilla game track
- Added nitro gain while airborne
- Added overhead health bars to derby
- Added simple particle effects for nitrous
- Added support for online multiplayer, written from scratch with support for AI opponents
- Added support for split-screen mode up to 4 players using 4 controllers (or 3 and a keyboard)
- Added the ability to own multiple cars in Career mode
- Added the ability to wreck cars after they take enough damage in races
- Added unique descriptions for every car
- Addon BugBear Retro Demo cars
- Addon BugBear Retro Demo tracks with brand new alternate routes
- Addon FlatOut 2 cars: Chili, Malice, Roamer, Shaker, Banger, Splitter, Switchblade, Venom
- Addon FlatOut 2 tracks: Desert, Whattahoo Ranch, Farmlands, Timberlands, Pinegrove, Gas Station Derby, Parking Lot Derby
- AI opponents now have proper upgrades like in FlatOut 2
- All cars and tracks unlocked by default for Single Race mode
- Borderless windowed mode with seamless alt-tabbing that doesn't crash the game, as well as an in-game toggle between borderless and windowed mode
- Completely rewrote the car performance, car stats and general car data system, deprecating the equipment folder, removing all leftovers and converting the data to a more readable format
- Handling damage in the Options menu, allowing you to either disable it entirely or reduce it by only removing the bouncy suspension
- Moved The Ever Lasting from Central Supply Chain to the menu soundtrack
- Moved the transmission selection to the Options menu, allowing you to change it at any time
- New BFS loading system with filesystem and patch files that look more like FlatOut 2's
- Overhauled the game's texture loading system, adding support for uncompressed ARGB8888 DDS files
- Removed the limit on the maximum amount of car models
- Removed the limit on the maximum amount of car tire models, each car now loads its tires from the car's folder
- Reworked a lot of the menu UI to display more information in a more efficient way
- Reworked the derby system, adding consistent damage and a contact timer
- Seamless controller support, allowing you to swap between keyboard and controller for driving and menus at any time
- Verbose LUA errors
- WIP support for widescreen and ultrawide screens, a lot of menus have been redesigned to support a dynamic aspect ratio
Achievements
- Big Earner - Earn over $4000 from a single career race
- Blast Master - Get 500 crash bonuses
- Car Collector - Unlock all cars in the game
- Carnage Master - Complete Arcade Mode
- Carnage Millionaire - Earn 1,000,000 points in Arcade Mode
- Carnage Wizard - Complete Arcade Mode with all gold
- Community-Run - Purchase a car with a custom livery
- Dead Man Walking - Win a race on less than 25% health
- First Blood - Wreck a car in multiplayer
- FlatOut 1 Map Veteran - Win an event on every FlatOut 1 track
- FlatOut 2 Map Veteran - Win an event on every FlatOut 2 track
- Friendly Competition - Win a multiplayer race
- Glass Cannon - Win a Survival Derby with the Pepper
- Junkman - Fully upgrade a car
- Killing Spree - Get a 5 frag streak in Frag Derby
- Like an Angel - Get a strike in Bowling
- Makin' it Big - Reach a total balance of $50,000
- Not a Scratch - Win a race without taking any damage
- Overkill - Get 10 separate bonuses in a single combo
- Race Master - Complete career mode
- Race Wizard - Complete career mode with all gold
- Real Habanero - Win the Bronze Finals with a stock Pepper
- Smashy Smash - Destroy 5,000 roadside objects
- Speedrunner - Gold an Arcade Mode event in less than 1:15
- Starting Point - Win a race
- Takedown - Wreck an opponent in a race
- Trackmaster - Achieve an author score
- Unfriendly Competition - Get 200 crash bonuses in multiplayer
- Windshield Tester - Get ejected 25 times
- Your Own Jukebox - Customize the OST via Chloe Trax
Credits
- xInfamousRYANx - panels.ini for the new cars
- Mutacja - minimaps for FO1 tracks and Retro Demo tracks
- teddyator - car skins, UI design
- OgrMtar - car skins, door deformation for the Pepper and Blockhead
- Mac21Sas - car skins
- rowwise - car skins
- Yellow_Fantom - car skins
Known issues
- AI is incompetent on some custom and reversed tracks
- Other languages are not supported, you can and will see English text interspersed between localized text
- The mod will crash and/or have major graphical artifacts on Intel integrated GPUs, this is a driver problem and can't be fixed
- Tough Trucks maps have some minor graphical issues such as flickering lighting on some fences
Source code
Main plugin: https://github.com/gaycoderprincess/FlatOutChloeCollection
Time trials: https://github.com/gaycoderprincess/FlatOutTimeTrialGhosts
Verbose LUA errors: https://github.com/gaycoderprincess/FlatOutVerboseLUAErrors
Tools used
My tool for editing cars & tracks: https://github.com/gaycoderprincess/FlatOutW32BGMTool/releases
xNyaDev's bfstool for packing BFS files: https://github.com/xNyaDev/bfstool
Disclaimer
This mod is not and will never be compatible with the newest version of the game on Steam, as me and the team do not approve of or tolerate the actions of Strategy First and the ZOOM Platform in any way.
All they have done in recent times is milk the last cents out of a dead horse for profit by selling a modpack commercially, shamelessly using the work of the community without permission such as in the case of xNyaDev's bfstool, dishing out empty promises of upcoming features, and making the games less stable for little to no actual benefit.
Not to mention the lackluster Steam Workshop support which is now filled with low-effort reuploads of other people's mods, which are not even functional in some cases.
If you have money to spare, please support the actual developers of the game. Go buy Wreckfest, get Wreckfest 2 when it releases, and if you want a FlatOut game, buy it used. Thanks.
Last updated: 2026-04-26 19:31