Unrailed 2 just landed a hefty update adding Sandbox and Classic modes, classic Unrailed 1 soundtracks, new cartridges and characters, plus a free weekend. The team also shipped networking tweaks and a long bugfix list. I ran through the highlights and pasted the full changelog below for you.
Sandbox Mode
Sandbox mode lets you configure your train and basically the whole game however you want – try out the mathematically best train setup, spin a slot machine only map, or crank up the player count to eight and give specific tools to players. Who wouldn’t want to test the most chaotic combos?
Classic Mode
Classic mode is a special preset of Sandbox that tries to recreate the Unrailed 1 experience closely. Perfect if you’re kinda nostalgic for the OG setup. The core loop should feel familiar, with the old pacing and gear layout.
Classic Soundtracks
Several tracks from Unrailed 1 are back and remade for Unrailed 2 across different biomes. You can hear new versions of “Steampipe Sonata”, “Desperado Classic”, “Endtrailed” and “Anchoovy” in their respective zones.
If you want to listen to the complete soundtrack, check out the complete soundtrack on YouTube.
Also check the Unrailed 2 soundtrack on Steam if you want to support the composers.
New Cartridges
Three new cartridges are available to unlock for completionists and those who already have everything:
- Meteor: Has a chance to spawn a meteor at the beginning of a map that crashes into the ground and mines resources in a radius
- Wagon Buff: Buffs wagons close to you
- Insta-Crit: Has a chance to instantly destroy an enemy on the first hit
- Grappling Claw (Action Cartridge): Allows you to draw tools and items to you from a distance
New Characters
Two new characters join the roster: Spike the cactus and Bernd the beaver. Theres also a new cardboard hat contributed by Tana from the Discord. Oh, cute hats forever.
Free Weekend
Theres a free weekend starting on 28th August at 7pm CET / 10am PT where anyone can try Unrailed 2 for free. Invite some friends and see how messy train management gets when new people join the chaos.
Changelog
Highlights
– New: Classic Mode
– New: Sandbox Mode (defeat 3 bosses to unlock)
– New: 4 Classic soundtracks from Unrailed remade and added for U2
– New: Cactus & Beaver characters & Cardboard hat added
– New: 3 New cartridges
Claw action cartridge to draw distant items
Insta kill NPCs cartridge
Meteor cartridge
Wagon buff cartridge
Networking
– New: Online settings menu to reduce bandwidth (increases ping though) or force relay servers
– Improvement: Dynamic extra bandwidth reduction & congestion avoidance
– Bug fix: Lobby browser should be stable now https://u2.unrailed-online.com/#/sessions and allows to join when the game is running by clicking the play button in the browser
– Bug fix: Web map browser creates also a lobby when youre in the main menu and clicking the play button in your browser https://u2.unrailed-online.com/#/maps
Balance
– Balance: Ghosted train & fully upgrade a wagon achievement cant be unlocked in a shop anymore (you must leave it once)
– Balance: Players with tools & buckets dont get cocooned anymore from the spider boss
– Balance: Magnet pick & claw cartridge and magnet extension cant pick up from the opposite team in versus anymore
– Balance: Players need to defeat one boss to unlock the Time Mode
Misc
– Improvement: Lobby player count added to the steam rich presence
– Improvement: Buttons that need the privacy policy to be accepted are now hoverable (as they can be clicked)
– Improvement: Default volumes are now all 100%
– Improvement: Better progress bar readability in settings
– Improvement: Cleaner ESC menu
– Improvement: Progress is now shared among all steam users on the device (before the game supported multiple users but it led to confusion)
– Crash fix: Possible crash fix with 8 players
– Bug/Freeze fix: You should now be able to use the keyboard without joining a second player when hovering text fields with the controller. It should probably also fix the freeze issue for some players
– Bug fix: When carrying the cannon cart flag, it was playing the shooting animation even though its not shooting
– Bug fix: Cannon cart is sometimes spamming particles in shop
– Bug fix: Lava blob not visible in shop on storage wagon
– Bug fix: Lava blob ropes not visible when its carried
– Bug fix: Wagon remove bubbles sometimes not deleted when scrolling in a replay
– Bug fix: When using the bucket once with a milk wagon, the longer (milk wagon) effect duration stood even when milking directly an animal afterwards
– Bug fix: Auto-track pickup from a mimic as a crafter did not work
– Bug fix: Transformer drops items with box pull extension
– Bug fix: Bot looped with a transformer with box push and pull
– Bug fix: Controller rumble reenables every restart
– Bug fix: There was a locked non-existing cartridge slot in the cartridge shop
– Bug fix: Game sometimes showed the same unlock pop-ups after starting the game
– Bug fix: Selection in highscore menu sometimes flipping down
– Bug fix: When remapping a split input, it wasnt possible to navigate through the menus anymore
– Bug fix: When remapping a split input and restarting the game, the new mapping got mixed with the default mapping
