Hey there, drivers and tinkeres!
The wait is finally over!
Screw Drivers is out now in Early Access!
Get your tools and start building! There is a new complete map, new challenges, and new records to beat! Who will take first place on the leaderboards?
Screw Drivers lets you explore your creativity, without limits on what you can create. Combine various parts and create a quick racer, or maybe a big bulldozer that can take down the harshest obstacles in the new map.
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NEW MAP[/h3]
With the Early Access release, we will introduce a new map to explore. The map features different spawn points, which you can discover, as well as new building blocks and part colors hidden throughout the island.
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NEW CARRER[/h3]
We have added a brand-new single-player career mode and challenges. Instead of the old "Speed King", "Stunt Queen", and "Crash King" tracks, we now have new types of challenges. We have built an entire career around these new challenges on the first island. You need to earn a bronze medal in each challenge to compete with one of the five monarchs to unlock new building blocks and additional challenges.
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NEW GARAGE UI[/h3]
We've redesigned the garage UI for the game. Your vehicles are now arranged in a grid, and you can organize them into up to six categories.
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MULTIPLAYER[/h3]
We have added a multiplayer feature! You can now host your own dedicated servers and join with friends to drive around freely, create your own challenges, or compete in the existing career challenges. We are also working on new multiplayer game modes, which will be available soon!
Check out this guide on how to set up a dedicated Screw Drivers server. [previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
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Supporter Pack[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2999730/Screw_Drivers__Supporter_Pack/
The game is Free-to-Play, but if you want to support us and the continued development of the game, you can buy the supporter pack for 3,99€ / 4.99$. All items included are cosmetics and do not give any advantage or are required to play and enjoy the game:
- Gold Chrome
- Purple chrome
- Zebra
- License Plate
- Confetti Canon
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Share your creation! [/h3]
Share your creations with the rest of the community via the Steam Workshop. Or why not try out someone else's build for some inspiration?
If you need help our find new opponents to challenge why not join or Screw Drivers Discord Community where we host weekly challenges, community play sessions, and much more!
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FULL CHANGELOG OF V0.3.9.1 [/h3]
New Features
- New map: The map is now an island with completely new roads, beautiful water without physics and two glorious tunnels.
- New career: There are now five monarchs you have to beat. In order to challenge them, you have to gain the
- bronze medal in all previous challenges. After beating a challenge, you will gain new building blocks.
- All over the map there are small white flags. If you discover them, you unlock a new spawn point which allows you to jump into free drive at the new location.
- There are now also some treasure chests hidden on the island. They contain even more building blocks which you can find and unlock
- The car classes have changed to ranks now. Your car automatically gets assigned a rank between F and S+, based on all the computed properties like max speed, acceleration, weight etc.
- Accordingly, there are also leaderboards for each challenge and for each rank, as well as a global leaderboard for each challenge.
- We created a whole new UI for the garage and the car selection. This arranges the vehicles in a grid, and you can organize them in up to six categories.
- New movement in building editor: Now the camera will not follow your mouse movements directly anymore. Instead, you can move the mouse freely and rotate the camera by holding the right mouse button down.
- Added a small UI panel showing all the building controls and keybindings. It can be hidden and shown by pressing F1.
- Added an interactive early access roadmap to the main menu.
The New Challenges
- Ghost race: Race against the three medals: Bronze, Silver and Gold. There are no collisions with the ghosts, so you just have to drive the track as fast as possible
- A to B race: Drive through the first checkpoint, and then try to reach the goal checkpoint as fast as possible. It doesn't matter with route you take, just get there as fast as you can.
- Long jump: Jump over the ramp in front of you, and try to jump as far as possible.
- Destroy opponent: There is an AI car driving away from you. Try to stop it as fast as possible, before it reaches its destination. Crash into it, drive it off the road.
- Transport challenge: A couple of boxes and goods will be dropped onto your vehicle. Transport as many of them as you can to the destination as fast as possible.
Multiplayer
- Added multiplayer in general
- You can now host your own dedicated server from the main menu. Make sure to forward the given ports in your router like described in the short explanation in the main menu. You can now send your car to other players in multiplayer.
Minor Changes
- Added FPS limit and V-Sync options to the graphics settings menu.
- The camera now adjusts its angle when driving up or down a steep hill.
- Added a retry button to the result screen of a challenge.
- When you're standing still for more than a couple of seconds, a small hint is displayed showing that you can repair or reset with 'R' or DEL.
- When you've unlocked a new building block, a small "New" panel will be shown in the parts menu.
- When browsing the Steam Workshop in the game, you can now sort the vehicles by most recent, most popular, most subscribers and only show the items created by your friends.
- We added some spinning objects on the map, that can destroy your vehicle if you come too close
- The checkpoints in races now have a slightly glowing and half transparent arch to make them more visible.
- The air control has now moved towards the numpad. This way you can control the car in the air independently from the WASD keys.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bluetooth engines. Before, you could build vehicles with detached engine blocks. The engine blocks would fall down when spawning, and you were able to drive away with full power, but without the additional weight of the engines. This is no longer possible. The car will now show errors, if you build such a car, and you first have to attach the engines to the rest of the car.
- Added a new settings entry in general settings, where you can change the input device mode. This allows you to switch between auto detecting input device, or force the game to use keyboard or controller input. This should prevent some of the issues the game has with automatically detecting controller input.
- If no car is selected in the garage, you can no longer click the "Edit" button, which caused the game to go into a bugged state.
- Reduced the insanely high bloom (light reflections) in the building editor. Now you won't be blinded as easily anymore.
Enjoy your stay in Screw Drivers! ːsteamhappyː
Marc and Simon / Creactstudios
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1279510/Screw_Drivers/
