Wreckfest — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Wheels Off, Chaos On: Wreckfest 2 Smashes into Early Access! | 2025-03-20 | Wheels Off, Chaos On: Wreckfest 2 Smashes into Early Access! Vienna, Austria / Helsinki, Finland, March 20th, 2025: Ladies and Gentlemen, the next generation of demolition derby madness is here. Wreckfest 2 is crashing into Early Access on Steam today, bringing next-level car destruction, slicker graphics, improved physics, and a whole lot of new features to fuel your inner petrolhead. And yes, it’s once again developed by Bugbear Entertainment – the masters of metal-mangling mayhem. Just like its predecessor, Wreckfest 2 will keep evolving throughout Early Access, with fresh content and features rolling in regularly. Bugbear and THQ Nordic a |
| Demolition King Wreckfest 2 Goes Early Access in March! | 2025-02-04 | Put the Pedal Through the Metal: Demolition King Wreckfest 2 Goes Early Access in March Vienna, Austria / Helsinki, Finland, February 4th, 2025: Wreckfest 2, the next evolution of full-contact racing, crashes into Early Access on PC on March 20, 2025. Developer Bugbear has overhauled its physics engine to deliver the most intense crashes, deeper component damage, and absolute vehicular mayhem. Race on high-speed circuits - or tear through a junkyard filled with, well, junk! Take on wild jumps, try to dodge oncoming traffic at chaotic intersections. Good luck with that! Or embrace total destruction in derby mode, where chaos reigns, and every |
| PC Crossplay Update OUT NOW! | 2024-03-22 | Howdy folks, We're thrilled to announce that Wreckfest now supports PC multiplayer crossplay. For the first time ever, you can join the same lobbies with your comrades across Steam, GOG, and Epic Game Store platforms, uniting the playerbase. So from now on, it doesn't matter where you bought the game – you can now smash and crash your way to victory with all your friends and foes! And wait, there's more. We're admittedly big fans of crashing here, but cars and of course not servers, so we've also gone and given the engine under the hood a fresh change of online oil in an effort to further improve server stability and make sure the servers can |
| Minor Update | 2023-01-20 | Hello everyone, It came to our attention that the server CPU usage was increased after the previous update and after some investigation we identified the culprit - luckily it turned out to be something that was quick enough to address so we decided to release a hotfix right away so that weekend events could be saved. In addition to that aforemention fix, the server ping display in the server browser should be more reliable now. Thanks for the feedback and happy wrecking! |
| Minor update | 2023-01-18 | Howdy folks, Another year, another rocking Wreckfest update! This admittedly minor update will resolve a number of online related issues we've become aware of as well as make it possible to bind keyboard keys again. The full list of issues addressed is as follows: - It's possible to bind keyboard keys again. - Server ping is now shown correctly in the server browser. - Steam Friends > Recently Played With is now working correctly. - On Steam Deck, game no longer frequently crashes when entering Quick Match. - OpenSSL was updated to resolve vulnerability in the previous version. We hope that the New Year is off to a fine start for everyone! |
| Happy Holidays from Bugbear! | 2022-12-23 | Ho ho ho, wreckers and racers! As the year comes to a close, we want to take this opportunity to wish you a great holiday and happy New Year. We are super grateful to everyone who has been playing our game and it still continues to amaze us how much love you all are showing for it. We hope that you and your close ones will have a relaxing holiday and that 2023 will bring you many wonderful things. Indeed, this year might be coming to an end but you can rest assured that you will be hearing from us in 2023 so stay tuned for exiting news. Until then, drive hard and die last! Happy Holidays from the Bugbear team! |
| Minor Update | 2022-11-29 | We just pushed out a small update, containing the following enhancements: - Creating a LAN server now works correctly. - Avatars are now displayed correctly in lobbies. - Server name and message are now displayed correctly. Thanks for all the feedback and happy racing! |
| Minor Update | 2022-11-16 | Howdy folks, We hope everyone is doing great today! It's been a while but today we're releasing a minor update today that paves way for some exciting things. In the not-so-distant future, everyone who owns any of the PC versions of Wreckfest available at different platforms such as Steam, Epic, Xbox Game Pass and GOG will be able to join the same multiplayer servers and play online together! That time is not just yet, but today we're releasing an update that contains the technical, behind-the-scenes work that will make it possible soon. This work naturally affects multiplayer functionality, and while we don't expect any issues please don't he |
| Introducing Solo Tournament | 2022-09-06 | All the best tournament challenges are back! In case you're still missing some of the goodies from the tournament shop or just started playing, we have some great news to you: to give more players chance a chance to earn tournament points and reap the rewards, we are retiring the leaderboard based challenges and replacing them with solo challenges that will challenge you to best scores set by us. What this means in practice is that from now on you can complete tournament challenges at your own pace and earn fame to empty the tournament shop. And it's now easier too to score gold since we're pretty shoddy players so what's not to love? As usua |
| Wrecking Madness Tournament Update | 2022-07-05 | HIGHLIGHTS New tournament: Wrecking Madness New free reward bundle for Warwagon We're excited to announce the availability of a new tournament! This time we're taking you back to Wrecking Playground so it's time for Wrecking Madness! The monthly event challenges you to score points by wrecking your car, destroying objects and getting airtime, all without without worrying about getting wrecked since resetting the car will repair it instantly. The weeklies offer an entirely different challenge, being timed events in which you need to collect the special Bugbear coins littered around the level as quickly as possible. The tournament shop has been |
| Minor Update | 2022-05-12 | This minor update contains the following enhancements: - Fixed game often crashing when loading Torsdalen. - Improved Torsdalen checkpoints to prevent cheating. |
| Racing Legends Tournament Update | 2022-05-03 | HIGHLIGHTS New free track: Torsdalen Circuit New tournament: Racing Legends New tournament reward bundles We're excited to announce the availability of a new tournament! And it's not only the tournament, but there's new free track too! As some of you might have already guessed, the name of the track is a homage to the ever-prolific modder Tor Ole Lerbæk who is perhaps better known in the community by his alter ego Very End, whose handiwork this gorgeous rallycross style track is for the most part. The track comes in two layouts, main and short, in both forward and reverse configurations. In keeping with the spirit of the new epic track, the t |
| Minor Update | 2022-03-02 | This minor update contains the following enhancements: - Rocket right side window glass is no longer missing on lod1. - The server command now also shows the in-game track names. - Cars are now listed in alphabetical order when using server command. - Added an ability to sort the grid by cup points in both ascending and descending order. - In Qualifying Lap session results, total time is replaced by player status (finished/wrecked). - In Qualifying Lap session results, Best Lap is now shown as a delta time relative to the leader (e.g. +0:01:039). - During Qualifying Lap, text "Qualifying Lap" in shown in the top left corner for until player p |
| Getaway Chase Tournament Update | 2022-03-01 | HIGHLIGHTS New tournament: Getaway Chase New tournament reward bundles We're excited to announce the availability of a new tournament! This time around we're taking you back to Hillstreet, racing flat out through the sprawling downtown streets from checkpoint to checkpoint in a race-prepped Tristar. In the event, the better you do between each checkpoint the more time you save, but with each successive lap you're given less and less time and at the same time the taxi cabs do their best to block you from taking the perfect line. How far can you make it? As for the weekly events, this time around they are a mix of neck-to-neck demolition racing |
| Winter Fest Tournament Update | 2022-01-04 | HIGHLIGHTS New tournament: Winter Fest New free reward paint bundle We're excited to announce the availability of a new tournament! No winter would be complete without snowy fun so it's time for the annual Winter Fest event! The old guard already knows how the traditional Wreckfest winter festives are played out: driving around with a toy car, unleashing giant snowballs that wreck anything in their path. Let's see who's going to be the meanest snowball fighter this year! The weekly events offer a selection of winter-themed fun with demolition races, demolition derbies and time attacks guaranteed to offer sideways going, sheet metal tearing wi |
| Banger Brawl Tournament Update | 2021-12-07 | HIGHLIGHTS New tournament: Banger Brawl New tournament reward bundles Multiplayer Cup Mode and spectator slots We're thrilled to announce the availability of a new tournament! After storming the twisting woodland roads during the Rally Trophy tournament last month, it's time for some more crashing action and what would fit the bill better than banger racing? For the next month we're going to crashing our way onto leaderboards in banger and stock car racing themed events, and the shop has been restocked with new Dominator banger racing paint job as well as a toxic Big Rig paint. In other news, we have some exciting additions for the multiplaye |
| Rally Trophy Tournament Update | 2021-11-02 | HIGHLIGHTS New tournament: Rally Trophy New free Rally Trophy track New tournament reward bundles We're thrilled to announce the availability of a new tournament, and it's something very special! It's been 20 years since the historic rally simulation Rally Trophy developed by us was unleashed to the rallying masses, and we thought it would be a perfect way to commemorate the 20th anniversary to bring the game back! Well, obviously not completely but as a special tournament event in Wreckfest. To challenge the would-be rally drivers is a long special stage winding through countryside fields and woodlands, and with times clocking in at around 6 |
| Autumn Carnage Hotfix #2 | 2021-10-08 | This release contains a number of improvements and bug fixes, with release notes as follows: RELEASE NOTES Game version PC: 1.280689 Motion blur is now rendered correctly. Using mouse or keyboard while mapping controller inputs no longer changed the controller. Many thanks for all the feedback! |
| Autumn Carnage Hotfix | 2021-10-07 | This release contains a number of improvements and bug fixes, with release notes as follows: RELEASE NOTES Game version PC: 1.280658 Fixed a common input system related crash. Improved collisions on Firwood to reduce the chance of vehicles ending up floating in the air. Many thanks for all the feedback! |
| Autumn Carnage Tournament Update | 2021-10-05 | HIGHLIGHTS New tournament: Autumn Carnage New tournament reward car: Hotbomb New tournament rewards paints We're excited to announce the availability of a new tournament! This release also contains a number of enhancements and bug fixes. Please check out the release notes below for a summary of items added, fixed or improved upon. RELEASE NOTES Game version PC: 1.280419 TOURNAMENT New tournament season: Autumn Carnage New tournament reward car: Hotbomb New tournament reward paintjobs for Doomrig and Schoolbus GAMEPLAY On Little Thrasher, the stock pipes are now correctly removed when installing upright pipes. Hunter Panther rear axle and brak |