Unrailed 2: Back on Track just pushed a fresh experimental update, and it’s packed with some handy improvements and fixes that players will wanna check out. If you’ve been frustrated by connection issues or bot behavior, this might be your moment. It’s all still in testing, so your feedback could actually help shape the final version.
Accessing this experimental version is pretty simple: just right-click on Unrailed 2 in your Steam library, hit settings, then Betas. You’ll get a sneak peek at changes that are still a bit rough around the edges and might shift based on what players say. So, yeah, they’re listening.
One of the big quality-of-life tweaks is the new connection progress indicator showing a percentage while joining a game. Ever waited forever, wondering if you’re stuck? This should help. Plus, the connection timeout has been bumped to 90 seconds. That’s useful, especially for high-distance games where the host’s upload speed might slow things down.
There are also quite a few bot-related improvements that caught my eye. Bots can now throw tracks or tools directly to players by using emojis, which sounds like a fun way to communicate without typing. They also get smarter about placing buckets on milk wagons and milking animals when you apply the bucket emoji. Oh, and bots will keep one commodity on the carriage wagon to help you control what’s being carried. Handy, right?
Several bugs have been squashed too. For example, players respawning in the main menu or after restarting a map won’t happen anymore, and bots won’t pick animals that are already attached to the milk wagon. Some weird jiggling of wagons caused by certain extensions has been fixed as well.
Check out the full changelog below to see everything that’s been tweaked and fixed:
Changelog v-577-d8d7419:
- Improvement: When connecting, there is now a progress displayed in percentage,
- Improvement: The connection timeout is now 90 seconds. When joining a high distance game, the initial state transfer can take some time (especially when the uplink of the host is slow). With the new progress you see whether the game is still loading.,
- Bug fix: There might be very rare network errors from unclean reconnections,
- Bug fix: Players sometimes respawned in the main menu or when restarting a map,
- Improvement: Ping paths get cleared when entering and exiting signposts,
- Bug fix: Rounding error for the custom map stats
- Improvement: Bot can throw tracks, or tools to any player when placing the track or tool emoji on the target player
- Improvement: Bot places the bucket on the milk wagon in manage wagon mode
- Improvement: Bot can milk animals when applying the bucket emoji on an animal
- Improvement: Bot should always keep one commodity on the carriage wagon (with that you can better control what is being carried)
- Bug fix: Bot wasn’t able to find tools on the train
- Bug fix: Transformer and box wagon could jiggle with push, pull and magnet pick extensions
- Bug fix: Bot picked animals from the carriage wagon that were already attached to the milk wagon
- Bug fix: Bot didn’t consider both sides of the carriage wagon
- Bug fix: Cartridge slot unlocks via boss defeats were not working
Got thoughts on these changes? Hit up the discussion here or jump into the Unrailed Discord to share your feedback. It’s kinda cool that the devs are letting players help prepare the game this way.
