Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Version 1.4.1 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

Here are the total patch notes for the most recent Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds replace (via Sega.com), bumping the title as much as Version 1.4.1 on the Switch and Switch 2.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds – Version 1.4.1 Patch Notes (twenty third June 2026)

Update Overview

This replace celebrates Sonic’s thirty fifth Anniversary!

We’ve added Classic Sonic and his machine Mach Cyclone, in addition to particular thirty fifth Anniversary music tracks. We’ve additionally added new Gadgets, made stability changes to races, and glued varied bugs.

The World Championship Qualifier (Legend Competition Round 6) has additionally been introduced!

We hope you proceed to benefit from the ever-expanding pleasure of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds!

Sonic thirty fifth Anniversary Content

• Added Classic Sonic as a playable character
• Added Mach Cyclone as a selectable machine
• Added Sonic thirty fifth Anniversary music tracks
• Added new songs by three artists in celebration of the thirty fifth anniversary

Collaboration Decals

• Added 15 collaboration decals with well-known manufacturers

World Match/Legend Competition

• Added “Donpa Ticket Chance,” which has a set probability of occurring

New Gadgets

• Added 8 new Gadgets that develop present methods

Competitive Balance Adjustments

• Made changes to Gadgets and races

Other Additions/Adjustments

• Added voice help for Chinese (Mandarin)
• Character Friendship is now unlocked by default
• Changed the CPU icon to a typical robotic mark throughout on-line play
• Added help for the DualSense™ Wireless Controller on PC (Steam/Epic)
• Added a SEGA Account linking function
• Updated workers credit
• Fixed a wide range of different points, in addition to up to date information for upcoming dwell content material and the World Championship

To commemorate this milestone, we’ve added Classic Sonic and his machine Mach Cyclone.

Popular tracks from Sonic Mania and Sonic Superstars have additionally been added:

• Studiopolis Zone Act 2 (Tee Lopes: Sonic Mania)
• Mirage Saloon Act 1 (Tee Lopes: Sonic Mania)
• Hard Boiled Heavy Boss (Tee Lopes: Sonic Mania)
• Opening Theme (Jun Senoue & Tee Lopes: Sonic Superstars)
• Bridge Island Zone Act 2 (Tee Lopes & Jun Senoue: Sonic Superstars)
• Special Stage (Tee Lopes: Sonic Superstars)

In addition, we’ve added songs by three artists commemorating the thirty fifth anniversary to the Jukebox.

• Speed Is My Life (Jun Senoue & Nathan Sharp)
• Here We Go ~ Run to the Future（Yousa·Ling）
• ONSOKU WO KOETE（Yunosuke）

A collaboration sticker that includes Yousa, who carried out “Here We Go ~ Run to the Future,” can be accessible.

The Sonic thirty fifth Anniversary Festival is scheduled to start on Friday, June 25 at 8:00 PM (ET)! Join the enjoyable and assist rejoice the Blue Blur’s birthday!

Collaboration Decals

Added collaboration decals.

Can be utilized in “Customize Machine”.

World Match/Legend Competition

“Donpa Ticket Chance” will now have an opportunity of occurring in World Match and Legend Competition. If you meet the circumstances throughout a race the place the Donpa Ticket Chance is energetic, you’ll obtain an elevated variety of Donpa Tickets after the race.**

New Gadgets

Added 8 new Gadgets.

These could be obtained as soon as your Gadget Plate reaches Gold Plate or larger.

• Technique Enhancement
  • Ultimate Air Trick
  • Perfect Landing
• Support
  • Substitute Item
  • Invincible Finish
• Status Enhancement
  • Collision Evolution
  • Ring Evolution
  • Damage Evolution
  • Item Hit Evolution

The following Gadgets, beforehand distributed as Festival rewards, can now be bought*** with Donpa Tickets from the Customize Gadgets display screen.

• Character Type Kit
• Advanced Kit
  • Item Buster Kit
  • Drift Spinner Kit
  • Panel Combo Kit

***These could be bought as soon as your Gadget Plate reaches Master Plate or larger.

Competitive Balance Adjustments

With Ver. 1.4.1, we’re aiming to develop tactical selection via Gadget customization.

We’ve added new Gadgets that develop customization choices for the Air Trick, Collision, Item Hit, and Recovery builds, which had been underpowered in comparison with different Gadgets.

We have additionally reviewed and adjusted the results of sure help Gadgets that have been tough to make use of and aded new help Gadgets as effectively. Our purpose is to extend the vary of choices accessible to deal with a greater diversity of conditions.

In addition, we have strengthened present status-enhancement Gadgets total to match the facility stage of the newly added Evolution Gadgets and Hyper Ring Engine.

Regarding Ring Engine, we have addressed a difficulty the place beginning place created slight benefits and drawbacks, whereas additionally adjusting the mixed impact of equipping the 2 sorts of Ring Engines to forestall it from changing into too sturdy.

We will proceed to make stability changes primarily based on Gadget utilization and win charges.

Adjustment to Number of Rings at Start of Races

In all modes besides Time Trial, the variety of rings held in the beginning of a race has been standardized to twenty. Up till Ver. 1.3, the variety of rings in the beginning was adjusted primarily based on beginning place to mitigate benefits/disadvantages.

However, for sure Ring-related Gadgets, reminiscent of Ring Engine and Low-Ring Speed Up, variations in beginning ring counts affected how simply their results could possibly be triggered, which in some circumstances created benefits or disadvantages relying on beginning place.

We imagine that within the present aggressive setting, the influence of beginning place has been lowered in comparison with earlier than. Therefore, to make sure all racers start beneath the identical circumstances no matter beginning place, the beginning ring rely has been set to twenty for everybody. There aren’t any adjustments to Time Trial mode.

Festival Adjustments

We have adjusted merchandise stability in order that highly effective gadgets, reminiscent of King Boom Boo, usually tend to seem primarily based on the space between racers. In addition, we’ve lifted the ban on Ring Engine and Hyper Ring Engine, which had beforehand been prohibited in Festivals.

In Ver. 1.3, variations in participant talent and squad composition tended to lead to bigger gaps in match outcomes. In explicit, Ring Engine and Hyper Ring Engine labored exceptionally effectively with the Super Team Dash’s invincibility impact and the crew battle rule that forestalls injury from teammates, permitting them to carry out higher than in different modes, reminiscent of World Match.

For this purpose, their use had been restricted in Festivals, however primarily based on the most recent changes, we’ve determined to elevate these restrictions.

We will proceed to watch and regulate stability in Festivals going ahead.

Gadget Adjustments

Fixed a difficulty the place equipping solely Hyper Ring Engine didn’t enhance prime velocity. It will now correctly enhance prime velocity by 4 km/h.

• Ring Engine + Hyper Ring Engine

The results of mixing the 2 Ring Engines have been adjusted as follows:

1. The prime velocity enhance has been modified from +11 km/h to +9 km/h.
2. Fixed a difficulty the place parameters have been rising excessively when Ring rely was low.

We imagine that combining the 2 Ring Engine Gadgets ought to supply efficiency that justifies the downside of shedding Rings each 0.5 seconds. However, in Version 1.3, this mixture was performing higher than supposed, so we’ve lowered its effectiveness on this replace.

Note: These adjustments won’t be utilized in Time Trial mode in consideration of their influence on World Rankings.

The required slot value has been lowered from 2 to 1.

Due to its comparatively low win charge and restricted standalone influence on race outcomes, this adjustment makes it simpler to include into a greater diversity of builds.

• Item Keeper

  The Gadget impact will now activate in opposition to assaults from Dark Chao. When hit by Dark Chao, solely empty merchandise slots shall be chosen to reroll.

  With this replace, equipping this Gadget will forestall merchandise loss attributable to the pink Warp Ring.

  Note: This impact doesn’t apply to pressured merchandise adjustments attributable to Boost Frenzy.

• Spin Drift/Drift Spinner Kit

  The knockback impact in opposition to opponents has been strengthened.

  This enhancement is very noticeable when used whereas your Power stat is low.

• Perfect Charge Boost

  The period of the velocity enhance triggered by a profitable Perfect Charge has been barely prolonged.

• Friction Drift

  Fixed a difficulty the place slight deceleration may happen even when not drifting.

• Quick Starter/Slow Starter

  Increased the enhance to all parameters from +10 to +20.

• Super Quick Starter/Super Slow Starter

  Increased the enhance to all parameters from +20 to +60.

• Tuner Gadgets

For all Tuner-type Gadgets, the parameter will increase have been doubled:

When machine kind doesn’t match: +4 to +8

When machine kind matches: +10 to +20

Note: There aren’t any adjustments to parameter reductions.

• Machine Kits

  For all Machine Kits, parameter adjustments when the machine kind matches have been adjusted. Previously, kind matching utilized each a rise (+20) and a lower (-16). Going ahead, solely the rise (+20) will apply.

• Ace Pilot Kit

  When in Plane kind, the rise to all parameters has been modified from +10 to +20.

• Sea Dog Kit

  When in Boat kind, the rise to all parameters has been modified from +10 to +20.

• Panel Combo Kit

  The will increase to Power and Handling have been raised from +4 to +8.

Additional Voice Support

Added voice help for Chinese (Mandarin).

Character Friendship Unlocked by Default

Players can now entry Character Friendship with out having accomplished the Grand Prix.

CPU Platform Icons in Online Play

In Legend Competition, CPU opponents not topic to ranking calculations have been displayed with the identical platform icon as gamers, which may have an effect on gameplay. As a consequence, in all on-line modes, the platform icon for CPU opponents has been modified to a robotic icon.

SEGA Account Linking Feature

If your platform account is linked to a SEGA Account, the message “SEGA Account Linked” will now be displayed within the lower-left nook of the Extras Screen.

Note: This will solely be displayed whereas related on-line.

Updated Staff Credits

Staff credit have been up to date with the most recent info.

Live Operations Data Additions/Data Updates for Future World Tournaments

Updated information in preparation for upcoming dwell operations.

Bug Fixes

Courses

• Fixed a difficulty on the Wily Castle course the place firing gadgets reminiscent of Rocket Puch towards a bounce ramp may trigger the projectile to journey horizontally as an alternative of launching upward from the ramp.

Race Park

• Fixed a difficulty in Custom Match the place, when the Items setting was set to Extreme, CPU characters would acquire gadgets not acceptable for the setting.

Festival

• Fixed a difficulty in sure Frenzy occasions the place getting into a Travel Ring marked with “?” would fail to set off Frenzy Time.
• Fixed a difficulty the place, when a crew consisting solely of CPU gamers was generated, a participant wouldn’t be assigned to the third crew.
• Fixed a difficulty the place, when the Autoselect Rental Plate possibility was set to OFF, the transition animation when race guidelines modified wouldn’t play appropriately.

Text Display

• Fixed a difficulty in sure languages the place the Gadget Speed Character Kit was incorrectly displayed as Speed Character Kit 2. There isn’t any change to the Gadget’s impact.
• Corrected the Simplified Chinese translation for Tangle & Whisper to an acceptable translation.

Additional minor gameplay points have additionally been fastened.

We will proceed to make enhancements primarily based on neighborhood suggestions to make sure that all gamers can compete in a good and pleasing setting.

Thank you for taking part in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds!

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Once once more, Sega can be internet hosting a “World Championship 2026” occasion, the place racers from all over the world can compete in opposition to one another.

Online qualifiers begin on thirtieth June 2026 and run till nineteenth July 2026, which then result in the finals in New York City on ninth October 2026. You can discover out extra and register via Sega’s website.

“The Top 24 racers will have the chance to compete live in front of a global viewing audience for first place. Throughout the Qualifiers, fans will also be able to earn Twitch Drop rewards for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds by watching participating streamers on Twitch!”