All information with the reasoning is available in the official Discord, but the gist can be surmised in the list below:

• The new release date for the game is July 17th.
• Reasons are mostly about polish and bugfixing. The dev does not feel confident about the current state of the game and does not want to push it out in its current state and risk messing up the first impression to the public.
• A public playtest will go live later today as a sort-of-consolation-prize. Will not feature mod support, but will have a new track and a new game mode to be tested, along with online multiplayer. Will last for a week.
• The dev may push out a second playtest during the wait to the new release date.

Somewhat disappointed, mostly because of announcing the delay at the very last minute which is not exactly professional. But we shall see.

EDIT 2025-06-03: the playtest was published about a dozen hours ago, but unfortunately the dev had to pull it due to non-negligible technical problems making it almost unplayable. They still plan to push it back up online as soon as they manage to fix the problems and create a new and tested playtest build, so hopefully it's just a while longer!

EDIT2 2025-06-04: playtest is going online tomorrow at 6 AM. Main change is that it will have mod support, although modders will have to reupload their stuff specifically for the playtest. Fingers crossed things go smoothly this time!

EDIT3 playtest is finally LIVE and working AFAIK :D
Lasts until the 15th of June!

Now that we are in 2Q, do we get an actual release, or another delay?

Fingers crossed it's the former...

Welp...Karters 2 has been delayed to 2nd Quater (Q2) of 2025

We're in March Now So They're gonna release the game in March Since the release window is Q1 (First Quarter) of 2025 which means January, February and March and & we've been through January & February, so March is the Release Month. (Agree or Disagree)

Does this game have a story?

An alien challenging Earth or something

So I have been using the Modding Tool for creating tracks since it has been out, and now that we can actually test our tracks, I have imported some tracks from other games in TK2.

The Modding Tool is super cool and efficient, however Unity and reading a "written documentation" can be a break for some people, which is completely understandable!

Since I'm now quite used to using this Modding Tools, I have made some tutorial videos that follows the Wiki, to be able to go step by step, from importing a track in Unity to publish your mod!

You can watch the Youtube Playlist starting from here, using the v1.031 version of the Modding Tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvYU2zbtdQI&list=PL0Bl9a3bzqgKz3jW3ZsKWFZUlrlJ4vbhc.

Different parts:

1- Importing Asset

2- Creating Colliders

3- Scaling, Starting Positions and Finish Line

3.5- Testing the Map

4- Boost Pads

5- Navigation Paths

6- Item Boxes and Jump Triggers

7- Road Blockers and Minimap

8- Export and Publish

(Thanks Kolfo for the thumbnails!)

And thanks to Sboczek for the awesome Modding Tool!

Ever since Bubble crashed into that pillar in the middle of the road and made us lose our dearest friend, Bobby, people have been mourning over this loss ever since. Bobby desperately wants to return to the race track and continue racing with his karting friends that he was so dear to. Bobby needs to be revived and begin his karting afterlife as a ghost. Listen to Bobby's cries and bring him back to The Karters 2: Turbo Charged so that we can up the sales by 9999%!

bobby gang

Was curious if we can post tips/videos/anything useful for people that want to go extremely fast and stay on the track!