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Nitro Game Updates & Fixes

March 2025

  • March 9th, 2025
    • Announced the last season in preparation for Events to return.

December 2024

  • December 1st, 2024
    • Launched Holiday Heritage Track

May 2024

  • May 27th, 2024
    • Leagues officially launched!
  • May 23rd, 2024
    • AI moderation launched - all player-submitted content (display names, team names, team MotD, team requirements) is automatically sent to AI for review.

January 2024

  • January 28th, 2024
    • Leaderboards are removed in preparation for the release of Leagues.

August 2023

  • August 28th, 2023
    • Custom Nitros are now live for Gold members only!
    • Widescreen Mode available to be toggled on for Gold members.
    • Cash Shop completely redesigned and launched on Shop page.
    • Cash Shop purchases only available to Gold members.
    • Retro Rewind Shop launched - players can now purchase items from two seasons ago.

July 2023

  • July 7th, 2023
    • Nitro Gold race cash benefit bumped from 20% to 100% more cash.

June 2023

  • June 26th, 2023
    • Gold members can now have double the amount of stickers equipped.
  • June 5th, 2023
    • Added popup to celebrate completion of Daily Challenges

May 2023

  • May 13th, 2023
    • Added Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) as an option for players to better secure their accounts

March 2023

  • March 29th, 2023
    • Added exclusive Nitro Gold-only feature: animated custom nametags
    • Added realtime display in Garage of number of friends online & joinable friends races
  • March 18th, 2023
    • Display names can only be changed once every 7 days

February 2023

  • February 20th, 2023
    • New friends race invite system
    • New Nitro Type wait screen when waiting for a game host, with accuracy-streak mini game
    • Players are notified when a friend joins their personal track when elsewhere in the game
    • New invite-only vs public game type for friend games
    • New open-games system where players can more easily join friends and friends-of-friends on open public friend games
    • Bots have new cars and use trails
    • Customizer jewel when new loot has been added/earned
    • Customizer button is now green, for some reason
    • New onboarding experience for first time players

October 2022

  • October 29th, 2022
    • Improved team member and applications details (thanks Toonidy)
  • October 17th, 2022
    • Launched Nitro Math Beta

August 2022

  • August 8th, 2022
    • Added Casual Mode for Nitro Type friends races

April 2022

  • April 14th, 2022
    • Sticker Stan shop launched

February 2022

  • February 16th, 2022
    • Cash values were increased for achievement rewards

December 2021

  • December 2nd, 2021
    • Search feature added to Customizer

November 2021

  • November 28th, 2021
    • XMAXX Cave limited time dealership launched
  • November 23rd, 2021
    • Item rarities added to loot
  • November 7th, 2021
    • Nitro City track launched

October 2021

  • October 16th, 2021
    • Daily challenges
    • XP based seasons
  • October 1st, 2021
    • Hallowampus limited time dealership launched

September 2021

  • September 15th, 2021
    • Heritage Trail track preview

August 2021

  • August 21st, 2021
    • Launch infinity tier with Season 35
    • Sticker chat hotkeys. Use 1-8 to send stickers or navigate with arrow keys and enter.
    • Launch hidden teams season leaderboards API link.

April 2021

  • April 30th, 2021
    • Launch Seaside Rally track.
  • April 29th, 2021
    • Launch support for multiple fixed dealerships within the Shop.
  • April 16th, 2021
    • Launch generally available Trails.

March 2021

  • March 13th, 2021
    • Launch the Customizer to customize cars, paint, loot, and titles from a centralized place, and lay the groundwork for future loot types.

February 2021

  • February 18th, 2021
    • Increase cash sending limits for team captains and officers to $50,000,000 within teams to support team building.
    • Ability to override the max cash sending limits for content creators, influencers, and others in need. Contact support to request.
  • February 6th, 2021
    • Launched the shop.
    • Removed the dealership.
    • Removed the ability to sell cars.
    • New users earn 3 basic cars instead of 1.
  • February 2nd, 2021
    • Painting all cars is now free! We want to make player customization as accessible as possible, and have some more big updates coming soon!

January 2021

  • January 19th, 2021
    • Added ability to "boost" (add a reaction to) your team's most recent Message of the Day message.
  • January 16th, 2021
    • Upgrade the "Top 3" race and profile badge to include more ranks. Top 3, Top 10, Top 50, Top 100, and Top 300 for racers, and Top 3 through 50 for teams. Ranking is based on speed and activity over the last 7 days.
  • January 11th, 2021
    • New "Top Speeds" chart in "My Stats" shows every new high speed achieved over time since Aug 8, 2017 when tracking began.
  • January 10th, 2021
    • Leaderboards have been replaced with Top Teams (last 7 days). Top Teams also shows up in the /teams search page. Teams with any ranking (requires at least 150 races in 7 days) will also see their position and nearby teams on their teams page.
    • Realtime notifications in the bottom right corner when friends and teammates come online.
  • January 6th, 2021
    • Require stronger passwords.

December 2020

  • December 30th, 2020
    • Require a CAPTCHA during large sessions to reduce automated botting capabilities.
    • Allow Google, Clever, and Facebook Single-Sign-On (SSO) users to change their public player URL.
    • Allow Google and Facebook Single-Sign-On (SSO) users to optionally log in with a username and password.
    • Support for temporary bans.

October 2020

  • October 28th, 2020
    • Removed the "Team Status" feature from teams. This feature was rarely used for its intended purposes, and we will instead be adding better, safer ways to play with your friends in the near future, so stay tuned!

September 2020

  • September 17th, 2020
    • Added arrows to the season page to make viewing rewards easier.
    • Rebuilt the notification system (friend race invites, achievements, season rewards, etc) that greatly reduces the chance you'll miss a notification, and improves the experience when receiving more than one notification type at a time (they now show up sequentially instead of all at once).
    • Added the next season reward to the race results page.
    • Added screen for free players after earning a season reward that shows what rewards you've earned and could unlock by upgrading to Nitro Gold, to help clarify how season rewards work.
    • Many under the hood improvements and bug fixes (SMASH THOSE BUGS!)

August 2020

  • August 27th, 2020
    • Re-did Jeepers Rubicon to make it "HD" quality.
  • August 21st, 2020
    • Completely revamped our /Upgrade page to make it easier to buy Gold.
    • Added ability to renew your Nitro Gold membership before it expires.
    • Added a notification in Garage if your Nitro Gold is expiring soon.
  • August 20th, 2020
    • Launched the New Track test to Gold players on test.nitrotype.com!
  • August 7th, 2020
    • Updated the Sign In page.
    • Implemented the "Blast Doors" over typing area, prior to race start.
  • August 6th, 2020
    • Launched the official Nitro Type merch store!

July 2020

  • July 6th, 2020
    • Fixed a bug where closing the season announcement pop up would sometimes not work.
  • July 4th, 2020
    • Launched Season 28!
    • Replaced persistent levels with your season level.
    • Replaced the BORING XP bar on the race results with an epic one.
    • Updated a handful of achievements.
    • Changed the "minimum level" requirement on teams to minimum races.
    • Updated the requirements to purchase a team to require 50 races.
    • Removed XP from the mystery box.
    • Fixed a bug where the jewel on the News link wouldn't show up if you logged in right after a new post was posted, but your local cache hadn't cleared yet.
    • Removed the friends search feature. This feature was rarely used, very hard on the server, and rarely gave the results you were looking for. Future updates to help with finding friends will be coming.
    • Display names are no longer required to be unique, and spaces are now allowed.

June 2020

  • June 17th, 2020
    • Updated the canned-chat options for friends races, per player feedback. Let's Gooooo!
  • June 16th, 2020
    • A Nitro Gold membership is now required to send cash to other players. Free players can still receive cash from others.
  • June 10th, 2020
    • Created the Nitro Updates page! Fun fact, you know this because you're looking at it!

May 2020

  • May 28th, 2020
    • Increased the price of The Wild 500 from $10,000 to $50,000,000.
  • May 20th, 2020
    • Launched the new Season Rewards page to make finding and earning season rewards easier and more fun.
    • Added three additional bonus tiers to the Season Rewards.
    • Added the 9 Bit Racer car .
    • Removed all past season reward achievement groups and achievements from the achievements page.
  • May 12th, 2020
    • Updated the Hall of Fame to show the 10 most active racers, instead of the top 3.
    • Updated the Hall of Fame to show the 5 fastest racers, instead of the top 3.
  • May 11th, 2020
    • Removed the "Oldest Active Player Account" section from the Hall of Fame.
  • May 7th, 2020
    • Accounts are now required to be at least 14 days old to send cash to other players. Accounts less than 14 days old can still receive cash.
    • Removed the "Biggest Spender" "Longest Session" and "Most Money" categories from the Hall of Fame

For older updates, head on over to the News Page!