Ultimate Chicken Horse News

Hello everyone!

It's been a while since our last announcement, where we mentioned that the online beta would be coming soon. Well, we've got good news for you! It's actually been out for a little while, but previously people had been having issues connecting and had been experiencing game-breaking bugs. This announcement brings some important changes :)

• No more need for port forwarding
  
• Scoring system works properly and games end at the right time
  
• For a full list of fixes, check out the Steam discussion here

There are definitely still bugs though, which is why it's still in Beta. If you're experiencing bugs that aren't on the known list, please submit them here.

• No sudden death when there's a tie game
  
• Two coins can't be picked up at the same time online
  
• For the full list of known issues, check out the Steam discussion here.
  

We're working on making sure that the online play is seamless and there are no game-breaking bugs, so that's the highest priority. We've also started looking into setting up server lists so that you can join a game online without needing to have friends! I mean... without needing to invite friends to play online. This will act as a sort of "matchmaking", and we may look into doing real matchmaking at some point, but that will come later.

For now, enjoy the game, and if you want updates, be sure to follow us on Twitter. Thank you!

Ultimate Chicken Horse will be launching with a fully stable, relatively bug-free local version (in the main branch) and with online multiplayer coming to the beta branch extremely soon. This was a stretch goal that we just barely didn't reach during our Kickstarter campaign, but we decided to do it anyway because we knew people would appreciate it and we knew that it would help us make the game as awesome as it deserves to be.

The online portion of the game will be played by going into the beta branch of the game, but hold off a tiny bit longer on this:

1. Right click on the game in your Steam library
   
2. Go to Properties
   
3. Find the “Betas” tab in the Properties pop-up window
   
4. Click the drop-down arrow under “Select the beta you would like to opt in to”
   
5. Find the beta branch of Ultimate Chicken Horse (there will only be one)
   Instruction screenshots and more detailed instructions here.
   

The reason it’s in a separate branch is because as we add fixes to the online mode, we want to make sure not to break the local mode in the process. Feel free to try it out and be sure to send any bugs you find to contact [at] clevendeav [dot] com with as much info as you can.