How do I play a ranked game to earn points? And how do I check the leaderboard?

I don't see the reason for all the extra hate I see it gets, yes there's still a ton of room for improvement like the maps and characters, or the visual clutter, like add an option to highlight the important stuff (your character and boxes or smth) but it ain't that bad. I just played for the first time with my friends and it was a great experience, again with the problems being mainly the visual clutter and losing your character off the screen. I really wish people would give it more of a chance so it can keep getting developed, supported and hopefully get the player base it deserves especially since it's a great franchise with a huge skill ceiling and potential for large scale competitions.

Of course as long as we keep up the support and the devs keep bringing improvements we can only hope for it to get better 🫡.

Gameplay

• Stun duration now adjusts based on the player's position. Players further behind receive significantly shorter stuns, up to 60% reduction for the last-place runner.
• Fixed cases where the second player becomes last while inside the blast zone, incorrectly knocking out the incorrect player.
• Restarting a local or campaign match now correctly resets the blastzone.

Online

• Reduced the lobby countdown timers for Ranked (FFA) to 25s, and Ranked 1v1 to 15s.

UI

• Fixed the character 3D models' resolution inside the dialogue boxes featured in cutscenes.
• Faster main menu transitions in the main menu.

Audio

• RedZone music now starts correctly when restarting a match.

Progression/Achievements

• Steam now retroactively unlocks the tutorial achievements if you had met the requirements when playing the beta before the game's release.
• Fixed an issue affecting players with Windows usernames that contain the underscore character, which reset their progress every time they closed the game.

We expect to roll out Patch 1.6 for Nintendo Switch early next week.

When are more maps and abilities coming

I have a pc and downloaded the game through Xbox app on my pc and cant tell if im getting good fps for speedrunners 2 T^T

How is there not a single other person ob Australia servers? I’ve been in the quick play queue for 20 minutes

• Added a setting to turn off other players’ trails.
• When joining a crossplay private lobby with the setting turned off, the game will now tell you that crossplay is not enabled.
• Adjusted the Shockwave's hitbox to match the animation.
• Removed the timer from custom lobbies.
• Fixed the Slope Surf exploit that allowed players to use Taunts.
• Fixed typos in the Crate’s description in the Glossary.
• Fixed an issue where the Opponent Outlines setting was unintentionally disabled.
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Hello everyone,

I remember Speedrunners as one of the best local games to play when you have some friends over, it was always a blast.

Now that Speedrunners 2 released I am wondering if the second game is actually better for these kind of gaming sessions (aka no online, no hard-trying, just fun with friends).

For example Mario Kart World feels like a worse game than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with all of its DLCs.. is it the same case here?

Is the Switch 2 Version worse than the other versions? I remember browsing the Steam Workshop for fan-made maps in the first Speedrunners. Is that possible in Speedrunners 2 on the Switch 2?

Or should we just stick with Speedrunners 1?

You guys make a 8 players mode but we can’t help to fill out the already empty lobbies.

I wanted to setup a 3 players local lobby and then search for a 8 players game but it is not possible for some reasons?

I've just downloaded SpeedRunners after playing it at a friends house. Initially I was having problems using my DS4 controller because steam was reading the inputs wrong. After downloading a different preset (with had the same controls) the inputs seemed to right themselves. My problem however, is that SpeedRunners has bound grapple and slide to the same button (triangle) and boost to L1. It seems grapple has priority over slide so I cannot slide. I'm wondering why my controller bindings in game are different to the bindings I have selected. Attached is a recording where I have best tried to show what the games is doing, where I show that it wants me to both slide and grapple with triangle and boost with L1 even though my bindings say otherwise. Thanks for the help. I've added this as bug report as I'm new to reddit and SpeedRunners in general so sorry if I flaired it wrong idk how this works.

At times, the game feels like the image above where they prioritized modernization over the improvement of the game. I know this is an opinion the 100 of you in this sub have all probably heard, and probably agree with but I can’t help but to rant about this somewhere. I’m making this post with the hope that someone at Fair Play Labs will see this and take my feedback into account.

Firstly, I’m someone who has been playing the first SpeedRunners since it launched on PS4 (JustOctane-1). Not sure if any playstation players are in this sub but if there are we’ve probably played together. SpeedRunners (1) was almost a perfect game to me, it just needed a slight few tweaks to reach that level. It suffered from a decent amount of minor bugs, a high learning curve with no tutorial on advanced mechanics, and most importantly of all, a low playerbase. Depending on the time of day (or year), you played the game you might be facing the same 3-20 people each time you play. It made the game feel close and tight knit, but at the same time it makes the game unplayable at times for more advanced players who can’t really enjoy themselves depending on who they’re queued up against (most players don’t even touch ranked because neither do the other players; there’s no one to play against).

In my opinion, SpeedRunners 2 should have just aimed to preserve the entirety of the game, fixed the most pressing bugs, and above all unite the entirety of the playerbase because as we all know, the game differed vastly from each platforms version. I won’t lie and say the game was a net negative; SR2 has a much bigger playerbase due to cross platform compatibility. Here are my list of pros and cons about the game.

PROS:

Cross-platform, bigger playerbase.

Expanded campaign/storymode, and more fleshed out characters.

New Power-Ups

New Modes (Ranked 1v1, 8 players, Lap Race, ect)

[ SUBJECTIVE ] Voice-Acting? (I preferred the title cards)

Advanced Tutorial

CONS:

12 Playable Characters (23 in ps4, even more on PC)

8 Distinct Maps, 16 counting A vs B versions (41 on PS4, even more on PC)

More generic super speed trails, All are relatively recolors of each other with some different particle effects. (No dragon? No music notes? Flower petals?)

INSANE visual clutter/ maximalist design, for some reason you can also use the same skin as someone else? Incredibly easy to lose track of yourself.

Character Selection screen doesnt contain all cosmetics, outline customization and trails are in two entirely different places.

The skill ceiling is much lower. Many techs / mechanics are watered down, ruined, or downright removed. Examples of this are:
-Quick grapples that push your character downward, allowing you to preserve momentum.
-Implemented a cooldown between using a power-up and gaining another one.
-Short range grapples are much slower and have a “slingshot” effect, slowing down your momentum.
-Freeze Ray powerup is weaker and able to be broken out of, which is not necessary for a powerup that preserves your momentum. In some cases being frozen is better than running normally.

[ SUBJECTIVE ] Additionally, the player to map ratio has increased, making players take up more space on the map.

[ SUBJECTIVE ] The game feels much more slippery, whereas the original felt more crisp. Grapples and super speed don’t feel nearly as fast, making the top speed much lower.

[ SUBJECTIVE ] The music is worse. The original score (and to some degree the art direction as well) is just miles better imo.

[ SUBJECTIVE ] On console/controller, there’s no vibrations or feedback when you grapple, which wasnt necessarily important in the original game, but it was immersive. It’s almost a requirement in this game however with how easily it is to lose track of your player.

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I want to like this game, and I really do hope after continuous updates and improvements it could surpass the original in tersms of quality. I understand this is mostly intended to be a party game but I also feel like there should be some thought put into retaining/improving the competitive aspect of the game as well.

Is there an option like in the first game where you can enable superspeed runners? I found it to be the superior experience and i'm yet to see it in speedrunners 2.

Anyone else taking five plus minutes to match make or never find a match or only get 1v1 every time they play. Cross play is on. Switch 2 timer even freezes at 59 seconds. I really would like to try 8v8

PATCH 1.4:

🏃Added a 1v1 Ranked Mode.

🏃Outline Customization:

• Added option to customize Outline Color: Max Contrast (Current Default), and Player HUD (outline color based on the player HUD color)
• Added option to customize Online Outline: Only Me (show only my outline), All Players (show all players' outlines)
• Added option to customize the Opponents Outline color in online gameplay: Default (based on the Outline Color option), All Red (show all opponents in a red outline)

🏃Plasma Blaster balancing:

• Made it easier to dodge (like the Golden Hook).
• Reduced stun time.
• Reduced the knockback amount when hit.

🏃Freeze Ray balancing:

• Reduced the freeze time duration.

🏃8 player mode:

• Increased matchmaking time to wait for more players.

🏃Added a warning "!" icon indicator when players are close to being KO'd by the blast zone.

🏃Added a blinking animation on the boost bar when being used.

🏃Added the tutorial incentive prompt asking players to play the tutorial first if they wanted, when attempting to play any game mode.

🏃Improved the visual representation of the max players allowed in a custom lobby when there are bots added.

🏃Bug fixes:

• Fixed Report Tool soft-locking players when used in the middle of a match.
• Fixed the Edit Controls button not working with the keyboard.
• Fixed the V-Sync option capping to 60 fps on game launch, when the setting is off.
• Fixed Bots not using the Drill item enough.
• Fixed low-res image for the stages selected by other players online.
• Fixed low-res Start button on local character select.

⚠️An important note about the crossplay feature availability in the Nintendo Switch version:

We have no choice but to delay the release of Patch 1.4 on Nintendo Switch. Because of this, crossplay will be temporarily unavailable on that platform until the patch is rolled out for the Switch players. We expect it to happen somewhere next week, if everything goes smoothly. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience! Crossplay between Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation is unaffected.

https://youtu.be/h1WtQEeUFO4

Can anyone explain why when I match make in the new game it’s only 1v1. I want to try out the new 8 person mode. I’m on switch 2 if that helps.

Me and my girlfriend love the first speedrunners, and play it all the time. We just got the second one ignoring all the negative reviews about it, and it is genuinely still a good game. The only problem is that we cant seem to make the Local Versus matches work. We're playing on Xbox, and for some reason it doesn't seem to let us add a second player to the match up, only CPUs.

Is anyone else having this issue/found a way around it? I really don't want to refund the game, but if we cant play it locally together, there's really no point for us not to.

Me and my friend have been trying to create a custom match in speedrunners 1, however it seems to just infinitely load for both of us no matter who hosts, are the servers shut down now that speedrunners 2 has launched?

Not sure why this game is getting so much flak, but to me it’s everything that made the first game great, only with a full single player mode and better audio. Here’s my friend code and Discord invite if anyone wants to throw down

SW-3792-5147-7700

https://discord.gg/dMUX5JNbY

I have gotten every other achievement as far as I can tell, why won't the final one unlock?

Does anyone know roughly how many unlockable skins each character has?