Screw Drivers News

Hey there, drivers and tinkeres!

Two weeks ago we released Screw Drivers into Early Access. And ey, we couldn't be happier about how everything has developed in the past days. You can take our word for it!

In the meantime, more than 100,000 players were on the road in Screw Drivers. 100,000! This is MASSIVE, and simply incredible! And on top of that, almost 4,000 vehicles have been uploaded to the Steam Workshop. And the figures continue to rise.

We have received tons and tons of super important and useful feedback from all of you. And please don't stop sharing your ideas and opinions about Screw Drivers with us, because we want to make it the best possible experience for you and for us as well!

Enjoy your stay in Screw Drivers!
Marc and Simon / Creactstudios



P.S. In case you want to support our work on the game, we would be super happy if you would consider to buy our Screw Drivers supporter pack. All items included are cosmetics and do not give any advantage, they are just a small thank you for supporting us:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2999730/Screw_Drivers__Supporter_Pack/

Greetings friends!

After we already released a new update last Friday, which among other things brought the Tech Tree of the demo back into the full game, we have released another update today, which contains some changes and fixes:

[h3]Full changelog of v0.3.9.14:[/h3]

Minor Changes

• Further improvement of vehicle position synchronization in multiplayer

Bug Fixes

• Sometimes the player did not have enough parts to complete one of the tutorials in the tech tree career. This should now not happen anymore
  
• Fixed a small bug that caused the garage window to be in a bugged state, when the game is unable to read some of the save game files. Only occurred in rare cases, but should be fixed now
  
• Fixed the small text not appearing, that says which challenges are needed to be driven, when hovering an unlockable part in the tech tree

Have a great week all! ːsteamhappyː
Marc and Simon / Creactstudios


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Happy Friday, friends!

Right in time for the weekend we've added update v0.3.9.11 to Screw Drivers! And it brings back a featurethat many of you have been asking for: The tech tree! 🥳 And adds more: A bunch of bug fixes, the mini map, ...

[h3]Full changelog of v0.3.9.11:[/h3]

Major Changes

• The Tech Tree is back! We heard your feedback, and we also love our sweet tech tree, so we thought hard and tried to fuse it with the challenges of our current island map. You can now play both career modes independently. Each career has its own progress, so you can always switch back and forth and play whichever you like more. Let us know what you think, we are always eager to hear your feedback on anything!
  
• We just could not hold ourselves back. The Mini Map was planned for much later in the early access, but we were hyped about it, so we added it xD The mini map should help you in the ranklist career to find missing chests easier now. And it looks cool 😄

Minor Changes

• You can now adjust the engine sounds separately in the audio settings menu. This ensures that your ears won’t start bleeding
  
• The PW-Blaze 1000 now has a slight red tone to it, which makes it more distinguishable from the PW-Blaze 600. Same goes for IgnCore-250 and IgnCore-125

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the super blooming flowers by rooting them up. You should now no longer be blinded by our game. Oh well, the bloom in general is still pretty high, we are almost finished fixing that
  
• Fixed game lagging for a couple of seconds when it tries to show the radar trap leaderboard
  
• Some people had slight performance issues since the last update, where we added customizable graphics settings. This should now be fixed again
  
• Fixed the accidental removal of the Axle x6 and Axle x7. They also made a big comeback

Onto a good weekend, everyone!
Marc and Simon / Creactstudios


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Hello all!

Marc and me added another bunch of missing textures, and I accidentally annoyed you all with spamming chat messages in the multiplayer. That should be gone now. 😄 And also, you can adjust your graphics settings now individually. 🥳

Oh and I tried to optimize the lagging in multiplayer. If that worked, or if I broke the multiplayer, we'll find out. 😄
[h3]
Full changelog of v0.3.9.5:[/h3]

Multiplayer

• Fixed a bug, where the chat window got spammed with messages all the time
  
• Improved the synchronization. Maybe now the lagging is improved, when a lot of players are driving around at the same time

Minor Changes

• You can now customize the graphics settings. We still have not added all the possible options there, but instead of the three presets “Low”, “Medium” and “High”, you can now customize some graphics options individually

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some more missing textures
  
• When playing the game with controller, the right DPad button triggered the undo action in the building editor, while the part shop was open. This now no longer happens

Drive safe, friends!
Marc and Simon / Creactstudios


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Greetings everyone!

What an incredible few days since the launch of Screw Drivers. We just wanted to say some words to you.

We are overwhelmed by both you guys and your creations! ❤️ The Steam Workshop exploded with so many new, unique, and awesome vehicles, and it makes us so happy to see your screenshots, videos, and everything in our community Discord!

We have been busy reading all your feedback from discussion and reviews. We have seen many people having issues with the game crashing and the overall performance.

Over the weekend, we have tirelessly turned every piece of texture, water, and UI element upside down and optimized it as much as possible. Version 0.3.9.4 of Screw Drivers is available since Saturday. We hope that it works and that it fixes the issues you are having. Please let us know if it worked!

There has also been a lot of feedback regarding the changes to the campaign and the tech tree, and we are looking into how we can bring it back.

Thank you all again for providing us with so much content and feedback and, of course, playing our game! Please keep the feedback coming so we can keep improving the game.

With love!
Marc and Simon / Creactstudios


[h3]Full Changelog:[/h3]

Performance Optimization We heavily optimized the resources usage and the performance of the game. Some people had problems, where the game wouldn’t load or even crash, so we tried to optimize as much as we could as fast as possible. That’s why currently there are some missing textures in the game, which will be fixed in the next coming patch.

Optimization

• We now optimized the destructible objects in the game. They now use much less memory.

Minor Changes

• If you host and connect to your own server, you are now assigned to be the host of the server, and this does not change anymore if you disconnect. So even if the host leaves the server, he will be re-assigned to be the host when joining the server again.
  
• Added the arrows on the ground of the building editor again (Sorry they went missing)

Bug Fixes

• Air control should now be controlled with WASD as well, because I noticed, that not all keyboards have a numpad. Sorry for that. You can still switch back to numpad if you have one in the general settings.
  
• The server list in the main menu is now scrollable. We never thought that so many people start their own servers this quickly, and since we never tested this, I forgot.
  
• The game should no longer detect any controller input or drifting controller sticks when playing with a keyboard and mouse. To ensure this, you can force the game to use keyboard and mouse only in the general settings menu.
  
• Fixed some more missing textures. There are still not all of them fixed, but some more have been added to the game again.
  
• Fixed the undo button for controller being assigned to left DPad, which is the same button as opening the parts shop. Undo is now assigned to right DPad.
  
• Fixed transport challenge. When being too good and delivering all 12 crates, you did not receive any rewards. Now you do get rewards for being a master at this challenge.
  
• Fixed typo in the first tutorial.
  
• Fixed a bug, where you could instantly teleport to the goal of some challenges by playing them once, then restarting them and immediately pressing ‘DEL’ after the race started again.
  
• Fixed the spawn point of prince of gears challenge, which was a little too high in the air.
  

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1279510/Screw_Drivers/