Changelogs

This is a copy of change log messages from the official Discord Server.

v-264-4003196

21 September 2024

• Improvement: Simplified privacy policy UI
• New: Added error message when the game can’t access the internet (this is for the beta only)
• Bug fix: The lobby browser UI broke with many lobbies
• Bug fix: Crash dumper wasn't working
• Bug fix: Tutorial did not progress when the privacy policy wasn’t accepted
• Bug fix: The cartridge shop didn’t display cartridges that had been found already
• Bug fix: The cartridge shop now tells you that you can’t buy a second slot in the beta
• Bug fix: Key giveaway QR-code blurry
• Crash fix: Crash when putting conveyor belt masts on conveyor belts

v-264-8ea917b

21 September 2024

• Regression fix: Join by lobby id UI fix
• Crash fix: Crash on startup related to Discord

v-265-3229692

22 September 2024

• Improvement: Adapted shadow, tone mapping and outline settings
• Bug fix: Tutorials with pointer-bubble and buttons were shown for non-local players
• Bug fix: Private lobbies could be joined by random matchmaking
• Bug fix: Random matchmaking created invalid lobbies (without session ids)
• Bug fix: Only the player picking up a cassette unlocked the song; now all joined players will get it unlocked
• Bug fix: Removed “switch tabs” buttons in game end menu
• Bug fix: “Join by Session-Id” did not accept [space] to enter
• Bug fix: Wagon descriptions sometimes cropped
• Crash fix: Potential crash fix when inserting text

v-265-0c831ed

22 September 2024

• New: Added beta questionnaire to the main menu
• New: Choo-choo sound when dashing the engine
• Change: You can't pick up items out of the hand of other players anymore
• Bug fix: Negative range extension led to a range increase
• Bug fix: Milk plunger offset of frog was wrong
• Bug fix: Wagon extensions did overlap you extracted 3 out of a wagon
• Bug fix: Dynamite and torpedo outlines were wrong

v-287-648e4b0

14 October 2024

• Improvement: Better error logging on start-up
• Bug fix: Demo started with wrong steam related settings

v-287-6a312c7

14 October 2024

• Improvement: Korean language can now be selected in the settings

v-287-e25a172

14 October 2024

• Bug fix: probably fixed the issue that some players had to launch with ++ --debug

v-287-c5591f8

14 October 2024

• Improvement: Added safe mode as start-up option launching in dx12 and with the lowe-end graphics backend. Try to make use of this option if your game doesn't launch (anymore). Note that you need to restart back to the normal mode to apply the changes made in the safe mode.
• Improvement: Same or colliding tasks should not appear at the same time anymore

v-288-b296536

15 October 2024

• Improvement: Improved crash handling
• Improvement: Added brightness/contrast settings
• Crash fix: Crash when picking the carriage wagon in the train
• Bug fix: Potentially fixed steam input (under DirectX)
• Bug fix: Wrong light direction in menu fix
• Bug fix: When deactivating the clouds, there was no night layer

v-291-087ca37

18 October 2024

• New: OpenGL & ANGLE compatibility renderer support
• Improvement: Shadow improvement
• Improvement: Better wagon/extension/cartridge sampling in versus (avoiding doubles and recent samples)
• Improvement: Better task distribution in versus (avoiding recent tasks)
• Improvement: Loca fixes
• Change: Disable Function keys debug functionalities
• Bug fix: “Q” rendered like “O” in the tutorial for asian fonts
• Bug fix: Questboard task changes after resetting
• Bug fix: Auto-Dropper not dropping mixed stacks (eg from collector) (not affecting the crafter)
• Balance: Slightly increased start speed in swamp
• Balance: Each water wagon upgrade gives +8 sec (instead of +5)

v-292-27d2c47

19 October 2024

introduced a new crash and was rolledback and another rebuild

• Crash fix: Potential crash fixes related to particle emitters (on dx12)
• Improvement: Improved crash handling
• Improvement: Tree mining models should look clearer
• Improvement: Water supercharge disabled for some wagons (Ghost, Box, Conveyor, Milk, Brake)
• Bug fix: Water supercharge only draining when the wagon is active/working
• Bug fix: Instead of smoke there was already fire (even though the wagon was not burning yet)
• Bug fix: Torpedo and Dynamite wagon crafting resetting when it starts burning

v-293-9b0b8ce

20 October 2024

replaced by #v-294-c3d3e8a

v-294-c3d3e8a

21 October 2024

• Crash fix: Potential crash fixes related to particle emitters (on DX12)
• Crash fix: Crash with brake wagon (regression)
• Improvement: Improved crash handling
• Improvement: Tree mining models should look clearer
• Improvement: Water supercharge disabled for some wagons (Ghost, Box, Conveyor, Milk, Brake)
• Bug fix: Water supercharge only draining when the wagon is active/working
• Bug fix: Instead of smoke there was already fire (even though the wagon was not burning yet)
• Bug fix: Torpedo and Dynamite wagon crafting resetting when it starts burning

v-294-34b2a07

21 October 2024

• Change: DirectX is now the default driver on Windows

v-311-af31141

07 November 2024

• Crash fix: Crash when not accepting the privacy policy
• Crash fix: Crash fix for a certain languages (probably in the menu)

v-311-7c28bcd

07 November 2024

• Bug fix: Potential fix for those getting network errors on start-up

v-311-0e57bc3

07 November 2024

• Improvement: Improved polish font rendering
• Crash fix: Certain usernames caused crashes

v-311-0e57bc3

08 November 2024

• New: Basic Keyboard remapping in the settings UI. Elements like emojis menu will be added soon
• Improvement: When the game crashes due to a graphics driver, we show a confirm dialog suggesting to run with the game with the different driver
• Improvement: Less likely to receive a “Can’t connect to servers” on startup
• Improvement: Localization fixes

While advanced key-remapping was originally planned for a later update, we added a basic version already as many players requested it. Note that not everything can't be changed in the UI yet since we don't want that players can misconfigure their game such that no menu is usable anymore. Also note that some things are missing like emoji remapping since they need advanced rules in the UI. However you should be able to remap everything via the actual settings files.

In %APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata\Unrailed2 on windows or ~/Library/Application Support/Godot/app_userdata/Unrailed2 on macOS, you'll find keyboardremapleft.txt, keyboardremapright.txt, keyboardremapsingle.txt (for split), Switch.txt, PS4.txt, Xbox.txt and Xbox_left.txt Xbox_right.txt etc for split controllers once you did some remapping ingame. Here you can edit the files yourself.

Here is an overview of how remappings look like: Key-Remapping in Unrailed 2 - Indoor Astronaut

v-312-0451273

08 November 2024

• Regression fix: The last update removed Japanese
• Improvement: Loca improvements

v-313-3ff5719

09 November 2024

• Improvement: Added missing characters for Brazilian
• Improvement: More resilient save of progress (hopefully mitigating the chance of losing progress in crashes)
• Crash fix: Crash in lobbies with certain usernames
• Crash fix: Crash when having corrupt progress files
• Crash fix: Crash when opening corrupt save states

v-315-e3a4a75

09 November 2024

• Improvement: Improved auto-graphics driver detection when starting the game; fixes also the safe mode for on Linux/SteamOS
• Improvement: Added some missing font characters
• Improvement: All D-Pad keys now by default for bot shortcuts (help is now left stick press)
• Change: Lobby by default offline (except when created via matchmaking)
• Bug fix: Maps with cassette had wrong bolt statistics at a station
• Bug fix: Publishing maps was not always possible
• Bug fix: Wagon printer were releasing wagon in biome transitions that could not be picked up

v-316-0d48b59

12 November 2024

• New: Savegame recovery: Savegames can now be created when starting the game after it crashed
• Improvement: Track outline will now be coved from the train (even if deactivated)
• Balance: Toy engine doesn’t loose bolts anymore
• Balance: Toy engine saves can be loaded multiple times
• Bug Fix: Credit flickering
• Bug Fix: Center save game images
• Bug Fix: Remove duplicate savegames
• Bug Fix: Hexnut bubble in endscreen fix
• Bug Fix: Infinite restarts on crash
• Bug Fix: Controller remapping perk menu fix
• Bug Fix: Crash dumper works again
• Bug Fix: Game not focused on start (This led to confusion since then controller inputs are not working)
• Crash Fix: Controller remaping crash
• Regression fix: The game continuously re-opened when it crashed on startup

Hey everyone! Base on the most pressuring feedback, we provide another patch! For those playing with the toy engine, we tried to make the game less frustrating since bolts should not be removed anymore. Also savegames with the toy engine can be loaded multiple times. Above that and since the game is not everywhere stable yet, we added a savegame recovery functionality, allowing to restore savegames after the game crashed. For that, just restart the game and you should be asked whether you want to restore the last save. Let us know if these changes help and if you have any other issues!

Thanks for your support and happy track placing!

v-316-0d48b59

13 November 2024

• Improvement: Better graphics driver selection when starting the game for the first time
• Improvement: Online maps are shown first in the custom map menu
• Bug fix: Map gen on islands could take very long (especially extreme)
• Bug fix (maybe): Resolutions on mac sometimes wrong
• Bug fix: Engine and skin building might not appear when playing online only. Now, the engines building appears after connecting to 1 signpost, the skin building after connecting to 5 and the perk building after connecting to 10 (as before)
• Improvement: Lobby browser now doesn’t show full lobbies anymore
• Bug fix: Toy engine is allowed to crash in the credits for good
• Bug fix (maybe): Some players were not able to open the lobby browser or enter any kind of online lobby - let us know whether this fixed your case
• Balance: A slot at the slot station has now 1 - max 4 tries until you win

v-318-5cc4066

14 November 2024

• New: UI Scale option in settings
• New: Replay menu added
• Balance: Removed map rotations as they led to confusion or reduced clarity. Let us know what you think!
• Improvement: Pick from wagon has lower priority when not directly faced
• Improvement: Performance improvement in shops
• Bug fix: Sometimes it was not possible to connect the stated amount of animals to a milk wagon
• Freeze fix: Game could freeze when walking on a waiting area in a shop
• Crash fix: Crash when deleting a custom map

Hi everyone! Another patch before the weekend! Based on the feedback, we added an UI scaling option. Above that and to improve the visual clarity issue, we decided to take out the map rotations - we're curious what you think and whether it helps or not. We also added a replay menu. Note that for now, replays are only working with the version it was recorded with - this might change in the future but currently it does not seem worth the effort to keep the compatibility for those quick iterations.

v-322-85bc6d7

18 November 2024

• Improvement: Nether and Lollipop cartridge don’t cancel anymore but lead to a very easy and very hard path when both are equipped
• Improvement: Torpedos are not grid aligned anymore
• Improvement: Torpedos and crabs can be dropped on low tide
• Improvement: Improved and more precise pickup from wagons (the last version had trouble when stuff is laying around in certain directions)
• Improvement: Next to the version we now also show the run-id
• Improvement: When wagons have multiple stacks and one stack is empty, the other stack will be highlighted when looking at the first stack
• Improvement: Animal attached to the milk wagon should not be squashed as easy as before and should survive biome transitions
• Improvement: “Storage push” extension now pushes to the 2nd next if the first next is full
• Improvement: Small loca improvements
• Improvement: The turret prioritizes trees and rock before canyon-mountains
• Improvement: Taken wagons, cartridges or extensions in versus will now also unlock
• Balance: Octoboss waits slightly before it starts shooting water
• Balance: Octoboss shoots less often water
• Bug fix: Various errors resulting from loading a checkpoint (eg long loading, shifted maps)
• Bug fix (regression): Nether and Lollipop are not included in the slot station anymore
• Bug fix: Infinite extensions when resetting at a station (either from storage or from cartridge toaster)
• Bug fix: It was possible to start from the credits biome and from locked biomes
• Bug fix: Respawning was broken when being killed while riding an animal
• Bug fix (regression): Map generation loading screen missing
• Bug fix: Milk wagon milk effect stacking was broken. Now, as long as there is remaining milk of a certain animal, its effect will remain (like in U1)
• Bug fix: Lava blob plunger ropes to milk wagon were flying all around
• Bug fix: “Storage pull” was taking the first in the order of the train instead of actually taking the closest wagon
• Bug fix: Reduced camera flickering in replay
• Bug fix: Water drains during dialogs
• Bug fix: Hide player out of screen bubbles during loading screen
• Bug fix: Versus wagon was not added to handbook (now it’ll be added the the first versus station)
• Bug fix: Final station was not added to the handbook
• Bug fix: Tools on ground are sometimes invisible

Hi everyone! Another patch is incoming based on your feedback!

On another note, we found out that with the "Nahemic" audio driver (some MSI software), some players could not start the game. We recommend disabling the software, if possible. It might also lead to freezes or other bugs.

v-326-5801a49

18 November 2024

• Improvement: Canyon boss behavior should feel fairer now
• Improvement: Multitool and brute force cartridges work now together
• Improvement: Improved Custom Map menu to copy and edit other maps more easily
• Improvement: Updated EOS SDK to 1.16.4 fixing some potential P2P connection issues
• Balance: Brake wagon reduced the trains speed by 75% instead of halting the train
• Bug fix: Fixed a potential disconnect (you continue playing but you don’t get updates from the other players anymore) after roughly an hour playtime
• Bug fix: Bot did not walk through ghosted wagons
• Change: Disabled boiler badlands in versus for now (we’ll add it again later)
• Bug fix: Magnet pick cartridge didn’t scale with stacking cartridge (picked up max 3 items)

Hey everyone!

We pushed another patch for the weekend! The biggest change is related the canyon boss which should feel fairer now: The tracks are now disconnected once they’re placed in the worm area (during a rumbling) and if there was enough space in front of the train. If there was not enough space in front of the train, the game will keep an evasion path open. After the worm created a whole, building into a deadlock scenario is still possible if players decide to build in a direction without keeping space for a path back.

Thank you for all the feedback and happy trackbuilding! PS: The bot will get more love soon

v-329-da71584

25 November 2024

• Bug fix (regression): Internal number of perks got mingled around
• Bug fix (regression): New cartridges could not unlocked anymore
• Bug fix: Achievements were shown for every player even if only one player unlocked something
• Freeze fix: Potential freeze in swamp biome
• Improvement: Small performance improvement when having many commodities on the map

Hi everyone! Here is a quick patch for some regressions (and more).

v-333-93c3f0b

29 November 2024

• Crash fix: Crash when the train crashes with a frog attached
• Bug fix: A tool could go completely missing if no valid respawn point was to be found
• Bug fix: Frog sometimes invisible
• Bug fix: Frog plunger was missing when attached to milk wagon
• Bug fix: Multiple memory leak fixes (might improve the DX12 stability and might fix the missing destruction particles on longer runs)
• Bug fix: Canyon boss doesn’t keep any path open when visiting it multiple times
• Bug fix: Slot stations could show no speed reward when the train was already at base speed. Now slot stations are only sampled once the train is fast enough
• Improvements: Lava blobs and crabs now follows the milk wagon
• Bug fix: When joining within a shop of a game that has been saved in this shop, cartridges could get lost when present reset
• Balance: Active bombs will be removed when entering a shop in versus
• Balance: Magnet and collector can’t access the opposing team’s map anymore
• Balance: The 2nd visit of a biome has a lower start speed than before but the boss appears +3 stations later for each visit
• Improvement: Best of 3 (5) will finish earlier if the other team can’t win anymore

Hi everyone!

Next to some general improvements, there are some milk and versus related fixes this time. Since most glitches should be fixed now, we cleared the highscores and added categories for the different engines.

Check it out here: Unrailed 2: Highscore

v-351-1af9f81

17 December 2024

General

• New: Santa Hat and Gingerbread Skin added and Snowfigures appear randomly in endless and unlock both (during winter season only)
• New: Winter themed main menu track (during winter season only)
• New: New input system allowing for up to 8 connected controllers but fixing also not recognized controllers and other input related issues
• New: Ghost engine added it has a fixed number of wagons but increases the wagons’ extension capacity by one and plus one additionally for each two biomes
• New: You can now preview skins or items you have not bought yet
• New: New soundtrack during the Credits
• Balance: Toy engine now automatically unlocked with the engine foundry (the steam engine now will only be displayed once the building is unlocked)
• Balance: Crocodiles have health 9 in instead of 3
• Improvement: Upload button in replay menu (to re-upload if the upload failed after crashing the engine)
• Improvement: Jukebox track titles added
• Improvement: General performance improvements (reduced memory allocations)
• Bug fix: The last two Junkyard tracks were never unlocked in the jukebox
• Bug fix: Waterbar and loading bar of wagon printer overlap
• Bug fix: Cartridge toaster and wagon printer sometimes did not yield a reward when used in combination with the supercharger
• Bug fix: Run-Id on the replay screen now correct
• Bug fix: Sandworm spawn-area hit & debris sounds were missing
• Bug fix: Lagging issues when a checkpoint has been loaded (especially with toy engine)

Editor

• New: You can place now extensions on wagons to pre-equip them
• New: You can place now cartridges on players to pre-equip them
• Improvement: Added pusher and ghost engine
• Improvement: Added missing NPCs
• Improvement: Added water tower from boiler badlands
• Improvement: train can now loop for preplaced tracks
• Improvement: Engine speed independent of players and the speed can be changed via placing the speed tracks on the engine (similar to the cartridges on spawn points or extensions on wagons) and a countdown has been added

Bot

• Improvement: Bot should be more precise when avoiding explosives (less walking back and forth, waiting longer)
• Improvement: Bot takes tracks from crafter only until level 3 in Wagon-Mode
• Improvement: Bot can now get water in badlands
• Improvement: Bot can build bridges in badlands
• Improvement: Bot can destroy moles, webs, bones or canyon mountains if they’re on the marked path to reach the mining goal
• Improvement: Bot automatically extinguishes the train in wagon mode if nothing else to do
• Improvement: Bot can now handle the supercharger, collector, magnet, compactor, transformer, carriage, slot and brake & piggy & wagon printer (For brake, piggy and wagon printer, the ping needs to be explicitly placed on the wagon)
• Improvement: Bot can use throwing, multi-mine
• Improvement: Bot now avoids getting killed from the sandworm and sandworm boss
• Improvement: Bot now handles the spider boss gameplay
• Bug fix: Bot sometimes operated far off screen

Hi everyone ☀️ !

Since we accidentally released the Supporter Pack already 🤦 (it was scheduled for the 19th and we can’t revert it unfortunately but now you can have a look at it already 😉 ), we had to push a major part of our next big update a few days before schedule, which enables the supporter pack but also much more. There will probably be some hot-fixes during the next days, so let us know any issues you encounter! We push a more detailed announcement on the 19th 🙂

v-352-1f4fdf3

18 December 2024

• Improvement: Snowperson sounds added
• Improvement: Nicer snowperson asset
• Improvement: Better alignment of accessories with the Gingerbread skin
• Crash fix: Crash when adding a character
• Improvement: Waterbars don’t ghost anymore now
• Bug fix: Fixed missing headphones for the turtle
• Bug fix: Bot could wait indefinitely to wait for a player to walk out of the way when picking additional commodities
• Bug fix: Weird wagon extension behavior with ghost engine (sometimes extensions got duplicated or deleted)
• Bug fix: Bot still picked up tracks from crafters > level 3 on wagon mode
• Bug fix: Some items in the Fashion Express not displaying correctly
• Bug fix: Map name text field input not working correctly
• Bug fix: Pressing ESC would exit fullscreen on Mac

Hi everyone! Here is the first patch of hot fixes 🙂 - There will probably be another one soon! Thank you for all your feedback already!

v-353-4ec8e9e

18 December 2024

• New: Achievements added
• Improvement: Commodities on ghosted wagons are drawn opaque now
• Bug fix: It was sometimes possible to get infinite cartridges in reward or extreme stations
• Bug fix: Fixed multiple situations where to bot could stall
• Bug fix: Several wagons could destroy resources on a very high level (eg crafter)
• Bug fix: Collector not collecting anymore on very high levels
• Bug fix: Kill no animals often fails when transitioning to a new biome
• Bug fix: Ghost engine choo-choo triggered multiple times when dashed into it
• Bug fix: Giving milk or other things to other players was broken
• Bug fix: Bot could not throw to a wagon that was not accessible
• Bug fix: Analog sticks should work again for scrolling the menu

Hi everyone! Here comes another batch of fixes and we officially added achievements now 🙂 Concerning the new input-system, we heard that some players had issues with they controllers. If it's not fixed in this version, you can still revert to the original system by using ++ --noSDL as launch parameter (right click on the game, then properties).

v-354-39589f5

20 December 2024

• Balance: Many achievements now don’t trigger in custom maps anymore
• Bug fix: The bot sometimes could not find a path to water on boiler badland maps
• Bug fix: Respawn balloon was not saved after restart
• Bug fix: Versus wagon did always consume water when hydrocharged
• Bug fix: When a wagon was burning next to a wagon with hydrocharge extensions, the heat was not correctly added up

Hi everyone! We just pushed some more fixes for the most recent version 🙂

v-364-71c1355

30 December 2024

• Change: Renamed “Lobby settings” to “Manage lobby and players” as it seemed unclear to some that it lets you kick players
• Bug fix: Animals on storage wagon died sometimes
• Bug fix: Bot tried to get water from ebbed tiles in island
• Bug fix: Milk wagon ropes could get very long in replays
• Bug fix: Players sometimes have a very little drag in blueprint areas (this could lead to accidentally continues and then train crashes)
• Bug fix: Spectators received hexnuts
• Bug fix: The game might restore its old savegame when joining a lobby for the second time (eg you buy something and join the same lobby again, you lost your bought item)
• Bug fix: Removed “Hexnut received” toast in replays
• Bug fix: Temporary cartridges were not handled correctly in overwrite stations
• Bug fix (regression): Fire does not spread to neighbours
• Bug fix: Boss achievements would trigger before defeating the boss
• Bug fix: Achievement “Didn't You Forget Something?” triggering with wagon in storage
• Bug fix: Achievement “Just Buy the Whole Place” triggering in the tutorial
• Change: Removed “Out Now!” achievement.
• Bug fix: Achievement “Conductor” icon missing in the handbook
• Crash fix: Game crashed on very high speeds

Hi everyone! The year is not over yet! We just released another batch of fixes we collected during the last weeks. Thanks as always for your feedback!