I've been trying to get back in to this game a couple of times now, but what's stopping me from enjoying it is an extremely annoying bug with the donut missions.

Sometimes the donut counter just freezes and the percent just won't go up no matter what you do! Only way to fix it to drive away from the donut zone and come back, but that's no good when your goal is to go fast.

I'm pretty sure the bug didn't exist back when I last played seriously (maybe four years ago?), but now it seems to happen once or twice on every run and it's really killing the game for me.

Does anybody happen to know if a patch of the game without the bug exists somewhere? Does anyone have any other tips on avoiding it?

EDIT: This is on PC, haven't played the other versions.

Really wish I could help you on this one. I think the game was last updated when the zen edition for ps4 came out, it could have changed a couple things in the game but I think donuts were kinda wonky since day 1. This was the first game of this develloper (who worked mostly alone I think) so I think it's fair that he made a couple mistakes.

Maybe a couple things could help you get less problems:

-Do you play on hard difficulty to have more horsepower? -Do you play manual transmission to make sure your wheels are spinning out?

Sometimes, giving a hard angle change to your donut will make the counter stop, maybe try smooting your entry line ?

If nothing works, maybe try running a category with less donuts? Some don't even have a single one.

Positive side of the wonky objectives zones: you can drive however you want inside a spin box, as long as you hold handbrake, meter will go up.

Hope I could help anyone reading this a bit, this is an awesome game! <3

Have a great day! Alex

Waza is correct. Sadly I don't have a copy of the game pre-Zen Edition. My steam copy got updated when Zen came out. Which is a shame because I used to run Free Roam Any % years ago and there used to be a way to skip World 3 entirely that Zen patched out (along with the lack of donut detection bug).

My only success at doing a donut after running into the bug is to get out of the donut area AND start a new drift before it will count up again. So it forces our donut drifts to be consistent.

From what I understand, the developer has largely moved onto Art of Rally, their next game. There is still a bug report thread in the game's steam forums for AD, but it's not very active these days. Still might be worth a bug report, if someone feels strongly about asking the dev to fix the donut thing.