2 Weeks ago we started our test-run of our new bi-weekly Challenge "TrackRace". What can we tell you - people went crazy and broke each others record over and over again. ManiaKK, BasstoMouth and TenLetters are the ones that had the longest track created in those 2 weeks: 4321m - what an achievement!
This time, we wanted to spice things up a little - so without further ado, here is your next Challenge:
GET AS MUCH ANIMALS IN ONE SCREENSHOT AS POSSIBLE (SEED: AnimaAs)
The Frosty Extra Update
Heya railroad workers!
As is customary we've decorated Unrailed a bit and added a freshly-baked gingerbread man as playable character. Also new: in-game highscore leaderboards with the option to watch the replays of the top players!
And with that it only remains to say: Thanks a lot for an INCREDIBLE 2019! We are looking very much forward to what is to come next year and wish all of you happy holidays. ๐
Update: Check out our official Unrailed online highscore list here: https://unrailed-online.com/highscore
2nd Early Access Update
Heya railroad workers!
Alright, time for update number two. It's a smaller one but it comes with two frequently requested featuers - new languages and savegames:
Languages are pretty self-explanatory (and featured in another post), but let me say a couple of words about savegames: We know they are a controversial feature because on one hand, they allow inexperienced players to progress faster, but on the other hand it might take away from the roguelike core of Unrailed.
We decided to tackle this problem in two parts: Part one allows you save and quit at each train station and continue if you return - but there is still permadeath - if you crash you have to begin from scratch. This is just a convenience feature for people that want to split their sessions into parts. Part two enables players to progress in the game without having to restart from the beginning if they crash. Here the first station in each new biome acts as a checkpoint. This means you'll still have to work quite a bit for each checkpoint, but allows you to learn quicker from your mistakes. However, games with checkpoints activated are not shown on the online leaderboards.
As always, if you have feedback or even already an idea how we could improve our save-system-approach come by our Discord server.
Localization Update
Greetings!
You seem to enjoy Unrailed! At least judging by the Discord Server feedback and reactions to our in-game presence. You wouldn't believe how happy we are! A big ""Thank you!"" to you all, delivered in our own, special way. Granted, our game doesn't have that much text, but we still want to make your gaming experience as enjoyable as we can. That's why we bolstered our localization with various new language options:
Polish
Japanese
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Turkish
Italian
See you in-game!
Nominate Unrailed for a Steam Award!
Heya railroad workers!
It was a blast working together with you guys on improving Unrailed these past months. While we were working on the next update the Steam autumn sale came along and with it the nomination process for the Steam awards.
So if you want you can nominate us for the "Better with Friends" Steam award by clicking the button above. You don't have to pick that one, but we just felt that one made a lot of sense given about everything in its description ๐
End of announcement, keep on building tracks.
The Spooky Extra Update
Heya railroad workers!
About that little Halloween Update ๐ป: Let me keep it short and sweet, we've done some decorating and added two new spooky characters to the set. Take a look:
And with that we wish you all a happy Halloween! ๐
1st Early Access Update
Our wee little track-building game is now already about a month and a half old! It was a blast to see the community grow this fast and wholesome. Our Discord has reached 2'500 members and Unrailed has been watched on Twitch alone for over 600'000 hours. Even from a competitive standpoint new heights were reached: The previous record featured in our last post has since been beaten by one of nearly double the distance!
Since launch we've wached on all these channels for feedback and new content ideas. And we distilled parts of that into our first update. Check a look at the follwing graphic to see what we added and improved:
That's it. Thanks a lot for everyone helping us to improve and extend Unrailed!
PS: Stay tuned for a little halloween themed extra update coming next week หsteamhappyห
Here is the exact changelog: UPDATE 0.9-350-g897d1c2e1
*New: Allow players to join an already running game (via join private & session-id) *New: Kick/Add friend menu in [ESC] menu in a lobby or in an online game *New: Showing steam names in lobby or in game with pings (as speech bubble or in separate box; can be configured in the [ESC] menu) *New Wagons: Mine Wagon added to automatically mine nearby ressources consuming iron. Collector Wagon to automatically collect nearby commodities consuming wood. Break Wagon added: After a timeout it can be activated by dashing multiple times into it. Slot Machine Wagon added for players with supporter pack. Dash to try your luck. (Can be activated in the supporter pack menu) A second Storage Wagon can now be bought in the shop *New: Achievements added. *New: Window mode and Resolution can be changed in settings *New: More Emojis: Hold [E] and press [Space] to switch the page ([DEL] and [END] for the right split player) or press [Right Trigger] with a gamepad (or flip the page with left/right analog stick press [L]/[R]) *New: Added replay browser ([ESC] -> [Replays] in the main menu) *New: Two tasks added: Each players has to mine at least one rock / chop at least one tree. *New: Keyboard rebinding possible by putting by putting keyboardremapsingle.txt or keyboardremapleft.txt or keyboardremapright.txt into "%appdata%..\Local\Daedalic Entertainment GmbH\Unrailed" . An example can be found below. - *Bug fix: Flickering of all objects randomly during longer online matches *Bug fix: Multiple menus could be opened at once. *Bug fix: Ping tool speech bubble showing [L] instead of [R]. *Bug fix: Wide checkboxes collider unprecise *Bug fix: Cow walk animation often missing *Bug fix: Ping tool could select background objects and did not select wagons or upgrades during the shop. *Bug fix: No tracks can be build on the tile right to the station *Bug fix: Sometimes the first train station track did not attach to the second one. *Bug fix: Some character models have a broken carry animation while carrying wagons in the shop. *Bug fix: Sombrero wrongly positioned for some characters during some animations. - *Balance: Train speed is now better adapted to 2 and 3 players (slower than before and slower starting speeds per biom). *Balance: Dynamite Wagon now consumes one iron per dynamite. *Balance: The train engine can no longer be ghosted. *Balance: Train speed incrase now superlinear but starting slower than before. *Balance: Cost per upgrade depending on the wagon to upgrade. *Balance: 2nd wagons of same type cost more. - *Improvement: Allow clients and host to reconnect after being disconnected (automatically) *Improvement: Light Wagon, Supercharger Wagon, Transformer Wagon now supports stacking. *Improvement: Ability to take commodities out of wagons which are using or storing commodities. *Improvement: Shop upgrade system reworked, one can now buy upgrades for specific wagons. *Improvement: Wagon upgrades in the shop describe what exactly they improve. *Improvement: Warning when the train speed gets too high to upgrade the train engine. *Improvement: Seperate leaderboards per difficulty. *Improvement: Speech bubbles over train wagons to indicate which kind of ressources are needed *Improvement: Night is now actually black such that the map is not visible anymore outside the lights *Improvement: Speed increase in discrete steps after each station. While the train is at a station, the next speed is being previewed. *Improvement: Shop prefers offering wagons which have been less offered before. Shop tries to avoid showing upgrades which have been shown just before. *Improvement: Respawn tools when skipping a station *Improvement: Milk Wagon: Walrus effect leads to faster walking & melting snow Animals now slightly following the Milk Wagon Drink milk by dashing in the wagon More noticeable particle animation for players being buffed *Improvement: Removed spawnpoint in menu on the "report bug" button *Improvement: Slightly improved particle performance on longer runs *Improvement: Options in [ESC] menu Select a steam friend to invite to the current lobby/game Show the session id during a game *Improvement: u und v characters more distinguishable. *Improvement: Disallow to pick rails midway (it is only allowed now to pick from the last connected track onwards) *Improvement: Ping on gamepad can now only be spawned with right analog button press [R] and not at all with split gamepad controller
Records, Contests and more
Heyho, railroad workers!
As we already talked about in our recent Community Recap #1 you guys are crazy about proving yourself against your friends and/or rivals. Some more than others - for example, look at Astonkin, QuantillusVarus, Bulba and oilbucket (who got disconnected in between).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0A97_ryAI
This enthusiastic group of our community members came together to create our first official Record: 2.748m Distance. It took them 4 hours and 15 minutes and a lot of nerves, but in the end they succeeded in becoming record holders.
We enjoy the passion you are putting into Unrailed! and even if we cant promise much at this point in time, you can be sure, that we are planning to support this enthusiasm as good as we can and keep on working out those aspects of the game, that our playerbase already is going crazy about - so keep your eyes wide open, so you won't miss our upcoming events.
"This game has introduced me to a new group of people from all over the world and theyโre some of the most kind and genuine people Iโve ever spoken to, so props to the unrailed team and the discord you guys created which let us come together and have a bunch of fun."
We are delighted, that seemingly Unrailed! does a great job in transforming strangers into a friendly group of gamers that enjoy getting stressed out by a train that doesnt stop.
Only Players of the same version can connect to each other, so please make sure to update to the latest version as soon as possible
Crash fix: Earthquake particles in shop could lead to a crash
Crash fix when player comes close to a bandit
Crash & Bug fix: Turkish region setting could lead to a crash when entering the online menu and to wrong letters in the menus
Crash fix when a once upgraded milkwagon is next to an active supercharger wagon
Crash fix when a sound file is missing
Crash fix randomly occuring during online sessions (releated to the data serialization)
Bug fix: Network code related synchronization issues
Bug fix: Shop buy sound sometimes played too often
Bug fix: Train reversing
Bug fix: Missing button icons in chinese "reject" translation
Bug fix: Players could place a invisible dynamite when entering with a dynamite the shop and leaving it again
Bug fix: Players could loose their tools to some unrachable place when being killed by dynamite
Bug fix: Memory leak when ending a game session
Bug fix: Saving Sound volume ingame results in a changed music volume when restarting (and vice verca)
Bug fix: New water wagon in space has no air bubble
Bug fix: Meteor can destroy tracks underneath the train leadering to a camera and train flickering effect
Bug fix: Flying objects (dynamite or wood) in Versus did not synchronize the z position
Bug fix: Players sometimes enter a lobby without a character
Bug fix: Players who disconnect with a tool picked up will remove the tool from the game
Bug fix: Tracks could sometimes be placed on grass
Improvement: Better render performance for long distance sessions
Improvement: Better Meteor collision code
Improvement: Better online and replay performance for long distance sessions
Improvement: Lower memory consumption for longer online sessions
Improvement: Players cannot activate the Exit Shop button while respawning
Improvement: Updated network library and network code
Improvement: Crash dumper runs as separate process
Improvement: Upgraded and supercharged dynamite takes slightly longer until it explodes
Improvement: Balancing of "craft for at least x seconds" tasks now depending on upgrade level of the crafter wagon
Change: Clients have a "Quit" instead of "Back to lobby" Button during an online session disconnecting them from the game without bringing all players to the lobby
Change: Added Photon Logo on splash/loading screen
Change: Shift button image in tutorial now looks like [SHIFT] instead of [arrow up]
Discord Rich Presence is now in English due to encoding issues with Discord
Community Recap #1
Hey, railroad workers!
It has now been precisely one week since we dived deep into Early Access territory and presented our precious indie game Unrailed! to the public. And what a week it was โ the sheer amount of feedback you guys have been delivering on Discord or Steam is mindblowing. And we are already on it.
Feedback
Since most of the things you are bringing to our ears need some tinkering in the code, it's only realistic that it takes a bit longer to fully implement gameplay feedback (When it comes to hotfixing issues, you can see here the urgent fixes we did right after Early Access Launch) โ but that was not everything you were talking about in the last 7 days: Aligned to your feedback we reworked a lot of our Discord Server:
Content Ideas Even though we already have some great plans of our own, we still appreciate and value the big Hive Mind โ so keep those brilliant thoughts coming, who knows, maybe you will find your new idea in the game sooner or later.
Streams Since Unrailed! is connected to Discord you can easily stream your gameplay via the Discord Feature โ but if you are streaming on another plattform, feel free to leave us your link, so we can say hi!
Competitive Unrailed! might be a co-op spectacle where you work together to achieve your goal โ but seemingly that doesn't stop you, our community, from trying to test yourself against other players as well. This is why we created a brand new "competitive-section" on our Discord Server, where you are able to share your Distance Highscores or Speedrun Records!
If you already want to test your skills: We found a particularly tricky Seed, which some players of our community declared "unbeatable" โ why dont you give it a try? It is Seed ZH86cCs
Experimental Branch As some of you seem to be crazy scientists in your free time, we want to give you the possiblity to test our newest inventions (balancing and/or small reworks) โ before they are "save". If you dont shy away from possible crashes or bugs, feel free to reach out to "Penta der Panther" or the Developers in our Discord Server.
PAX West 2019
Our trip to Seattle right before the Early Access Launch was a great way of seeing player reactions first hand - especially since some people might say, having your teammate right next to you opens up a whole new layer of "fun". Seeing you interact with each other โ and seeing that the crowd got hyped up watching you wiggle through the maps โ was the most wonderful thing we could have experienced.
This is it for today's Community Recap, but we have a lot of stuff in the pipelines to make this Early Access Phase an awesome experience for everyone involved โ so stay on track, cause this train won't stop!
