Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks News

OI, just a quick one with some fixes below that we felt necessary to patch

Fixed crash related to player states
Fixed issue with game browser not updating
Fixed accessories issue in the Kustomize menu
Fixed players not getting scrap from solo matches
All maps autoselect now when creating a new game
Bots are enabled by default when creating a new game
Added number of players in public lobbies to the bottom of the Game Browser
votekick response window changed to 20 seconds

Have a good weekend ladz ːsteamthumbsupː

Just dropped a small patch before the weekend. Please be sure to restart Steam to make sure you've got it!

NOTE: You may see less games in the game browser until more people download the update, as there will still be some people playing in the previous build. Those games won't show up in the latest build and vise versa



Here's whats up:

• improved skill calculation (and thus team balancing)
  
• Players can now switch to the losing team at any point in the match as long as the losing team has equal players or less
  
• Prevention of players to be able to join games that are in their ending phase to avoid issues. Games in ending phase now show up greyed out in the game browser,
  
• Game browser now dynamically updates,
  
• Prevented votekick being able to kick host
  
• Crash bug fix relating to player challenges
  
• Longer challenges now show HUD popups more frequently (every 10% instead of 25%),
  
• Rukkatrukk Blood Axes kit gets hidden since its not supposed to be unlockable until later
  
• Fix for Trukk skulls kit texture issue,
  
• Fix for PLAY GAME screen explainer not accepting keyboard/gamepad inputs (Steam Deck suffered from this),
  
• Da Gorge map has expanded boundaries now, lighter nighttime version
  
• networking clean-up, more solidity,
  
• Progression data storage improvements,

Major things up next:

• Host "migration" so that if a host leaves or gets disconnected for any reason, the lobby of players is not disbanded, but instead is put in a game together with the same settings with a new host
  
• Hit reg improvements
  
• Warbands system (clans/clubs). This was meant to go into the launch version but just had some UI still left to do on it

Happy krumpin!
Some of us devs should be playing over the weekend a bit so looking forward to SMASHIN' SUM GITS togetherːsteamthumbsupː

We've tested this latest build thoroughly and it's zoggin' great 💪👍

Please restart Steam to make sure Speed Freeks updates to latest

[h3]Things FIXED:[/h3]

• Not being able to join games properly, whether through Quick Match, or the Game Browser 🎉,
  
• Not seeing all regions in the game browser 🎉
  
• Not being able to create a game 🎉
  
• Not being able to perform actions after a failed attempt at joining a game. Now the game will tell you if it's still processing a previous request
  
• Servers now listed in order of lowest ping in the Game Browser
  

Cheers for your patience with the game being pretty broken 🛠️
Obviously it was a pretty messy launch with these unforeseen connection issues popping up, but honestly we've had a really quick response to it thanks to our lead programmer (and only networking expert), the Wired QA testing team, and our community members for helping us test too.


[h3]Issues still happening:[/h3]

• Performance issues/stuttering when using Full Screen Windowed mode in the display settings.
  Workaround: Please instead use WINDOWED mode with your native resolution, or try FULLSCREEN mode instead,

• Fatal error crashes. We've done some work on this so hopefully it's better, but these are the types of deep crashes that are hard to reproduce and diagnose. We'll continue to work on it
  Note: try to run as few things in the background when playing the game as possible

• Game browser can sometimes - but rarely - show nothing, or a loading icon
  Please just restart the game if this happens, and try not to refresh the game browser constantly or it will bug out

• There's an issue with servers using the same name and it confusing the game,

[h3]What's coming soon❓[/h3]

• Improvements to team balancing and team switching,
  
• Improvements to hit reg 🙏
  
• Vehicle balance improvements
  
• General improvements and fixes
  
• Warbands, which are like a clan/club feature. This was supposed to be in for launch but didn't make it in time.
  
• looking into reimplementing some kind of
• *party system** (previous one died with the conversion of the multiplayer backend. You can join games with friends through the game browser in the meantime though)
  
• Upcoming roadmap of potential features and content
  

Thanks for sticking with the game everyone. Been chaos the past couple days but we've now nailed it we think.

[h2]Happy RACIN', STUNTIN' and KRUMPIN'![/h2]

(this announcement is now outdated)

[h3]EDIT: Since this was posted, there has been a major fixes update to the game and the connection issues are resolved![/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2078450/view/515210714689832129



Hey folks.

Today we officially launched Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks on Steam, and whilst the game is now officially out of Early Access, we know the transition has not gone smoothly for many of you.

Connectivity problems caused by our shift from dedicated servers to a player-hosted system have made it difficult for players to find and join matches consistently. We deployed an update shortly after launch today in an attempt to address some of these issues, but unfortunately it did not resolve the core problems.

The development team is working through the night to bring the game back to full online functionality as soon as possible and fully focused on identifying and implementing a reliable fix.

We’re hugely grateful to the community for your patience, feedback, and support. Every bug report and shared log is helping us move faster towards a solution.

We’ll continue to provide regular updates as work progresses. Please do continue to report bugs, issues and any hiccups you have had so far & we'll continue to answer questions in the discussions as we see them.

Thank for your your patience.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2078450/discussions/0/591772149598943899/



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This latest patch should fix some network/connectivity issues in the launch build, as well as the game trying to join full matches when it should not.

There's still an issue with seeing games in other regions than your own, but if there's a game up in your region with space to join, you should be able to join it

If you can't seem to join a game in your region that is showing in the browser, please restart the game. This should only be necessary to do once, after loading the new update for the first time



We are still looking into fixing the issue with not being able to see/join games that are outside of your region

Apologies for the issues and we hope everyone's been having a great time, regardless ːsteamfacepalmː

We'll update again once we've done something more with it. Thanks for playing and sticking with the game!