SpeedRunners News

We're super excited to announce that we've just released the first of our upcoming free updates; the Team Update!

This addition adds TEAMPLAY to SpeedRunners. You can now play 2v2, as well as 2v1v1. Simply pick a teammate in the lobby and you're good to go! Here’s how it works:

• Teammates share their boost bars
  
• Teammates can swap their items
  
• Score 4 points as a team to win
  

Additionally, we've just released a new character pack as DLC! It has four new characters that you can play as; Showtime, Cannon Fyodor, Diamond Diva and Dashwell!









More details here!

NB: the update is completely free, you do not need to buy the DLC to access the teamplay features.

Enjoy!

We all know that speedrunning is about two things; SPEED and RUNNING. But which of the two is more important? Is the competition all about getting the highest SPEED, or is it one’s skill in RUNNING that ultimately decides the winner of a race?

That’s a question that’s been creating quite a controversy in New Rush City, where two opposing factions have formed; TEAM SPEED and TEAM RUNNING. “For sure it’s all about speed”, says Buckshot, spokesmammal of team speed. “I mean, you win races by being the speediest of runners - it’s called SPEEDrunners for a reason!” Gil wholeheartedly disagrees, saying “you can’t get speedy without running first. It’s obviously pronounced speedRUNNERS!”.

As the emotions are heating up between our speedy heroes, it’s become clear that each and every one of us must pick a side. So, which side are you on; team SPEED or team RUNNING? Decide quickly, because ON JULY 19th WE’LL BE RELEASING THE TEAM UPDATE!

This (free) update will add TEAMPLAY to speedrunner matches. You’ll be able to play 2v2, as well as 2v1 or 2v1v1. Pick a teammate and pick a team (team speed or team running) and work together to win races! Here’s what we’re planning:

• Teammates share their boost bars
  
• Teammates can swap their items
  
• Score 4 points as a team to win
  
• Coming July 19th!

Alongside this completely free update, we’ll be releasing a new character pack as optional DLC. This pack will add 4 new runners to the roster, which we will talk more about in the upcoming weeks.

Winter is coming, the jolliest ELO season of the year! The Elo Winter Season will start a bit early, Monday December 18th 2017 and will run throughout the entrie winter until March 20th 2018.

It has been more than half a year ago since we last did an ELO season, so here is a link to an announement to get you up to speed.

By the end of the season everybody who participated will gain the Winter ELO Season badge of the league tier you ended up in by the end of the season.

All players that are in Diamond league by the end of the season will get the unique Snow trail which will be the only way to ever get this trail in your inventory.



Based on what we have learned during the ELO Beta Season we made some changes for the Winter ELO Season:


In the previous season certain close games could give as few as 1.5 points or something underwhelming like that. More points are given this season, but the league requirements also have gone up!


During last season the best tactic was pretty much to reach Diamond league and not play anymore after that. Furthermore if you had not played for a while the system would assume your skill level was still the same. If you don't play on average 1 game per day over a period of 14 days in the Winter Season you will start losing 100 points every day.


The start of previous season was pretty rough for a lot of players because players of all skill levels started with the same ELO rating. For the Winter Season we use the ratings from the previous Beta season to offset the initial rating a bit. This way the matchmaking system can actually find matches of your skill from the very start.

We hope you will enjoy the season.

Happy Holidays,
DoubleDutch Games
ːSpeedRunnerːːUnicːːCosmoːːHotHeadː

P.S. There will be a small surprise in the game during holiday season starting from December 21th 2017! Make sure to speculate obsessively below ːHotHeadː!

Winter is coming, the jolliest ELO season of the year! The Elo Winter Season will start a bit early, Monday December 18th 2017 and will run throughout the entrie winter until March 20th 2018.

It has been more than half a year ago since we last did an ELO season, so here is a link to an announement to get you up to speed.

By the end of the season everybody who participated will gain the Winter ELO Season badge of the league tier you ended up in by the end of the season.

All players that are in Diamond league by the end of the season will get the unique Snow trail which will be the only way to ever get this trail in your inventory.



Based on what we have learned during the ELO Beta Season we made some changes for the Winter ELO Season:


In the previous season certain close games could give as few as 1.5 points or something underwhelming like that. More points are given this season, but the league requirements also have gone up!


During last season the best tactic was pretty much to reach Diamond league and not play anymore after that. Furthermore if you had not played for a while the system would assume your skill level was still the same. If you don't play on average 1 game per day over a period of 14 days in the Winter Season you will start losing 100 points every day.


The start of previous season was pretty rough for a lot of players because players of all skill levels started with the same ELO rating. For the Winter Season we use the ratings from the previous Beta season to offset the initial rating a bit. This way the matchmaking system can actually find matches of your skill from the very start.

We hope you will enjoy the season.

Happy Holidays,
DoubleDutch Games
:SpeedRunner::Unic::Cosmo::HotHead:

P.S. There will be a small surprise in the game during holiday season starting from December 21th 2017! Make sure to speculate obsessively below :HotHead:!

Brace yourselves, speedy runners. Today at 10am PST (7pm European time) SpeedRunners goes into its Free Weekend.

This goes alongside the Xbox One launch of SpeedRunners where the game is free for everyone with an Xbox Live Gold account.

Happy running!

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