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Beach Buggy Racing 2 — patch notes and updates

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Update notes for 2025.03.032025-03-04D'oh! We fixed the bug that failed to award achievements. IMPORTANT: The game should grant you any achievements that were unlocked previously. However, you might have to play and finish a race first -- once you do that, you should be granted any backlogged achievements.
Update notes for 2024.12.122025-01-15Hi everyone! Long time no see! The biggest change here is that we added localized language support for: - Simplified Chinese - Traditional Chinese - Japanese - Korean - Russian - Dutch - Portuguese - Swedish - Indonesian Also a few various bug fixes. And a couple of new decals. That's about it (for now!)
BeatBot plush campaign is GO2024-12-05Earlier this year we announced a campaign to fund a Rez plush doll. Well now a new contender has entered the crowd-funding octagon: BeatBot! Every stitch of this plush has been lovingly designed with the close supervision of the Vector Unit artists to make sure it conforms to the highest standards of robot plushdom. This is your chance to help us make real the dreams of EDM-crazed robot lovers worldwide. We need to sell 200 of these to kick off the campaign, and the clock is ticking! Head over to Makeship today and secure your very own soft and cuddly robot DJ! PS. from Matt: The bonuses for the plush campaign are super mobile-centric: you un
Exclusive Rez plush toy now available!2024-03-17We are excited to announce a first for Beach Buggy Racing: A brand new, limited edition Rez plush toy! We are crowdfunding this toy on Makeship now through April 5. Order your Rez plush today! Several months ago we asked Beach Buggy Racing fans on our Discord Server to find out which character they most wanted to see as a plush toy. Rez won the vote, and we went straight to work with our friends at Makeship to design a toy that perfectly captures Rez's smirky attitude. Here's how the crowdfunding works: We need to sell at least 200 copies of the toy for it to go into production. To make the deal even more sweet, we’re offering a special gift
Update Notes For 2023.09.142023-09-14Changed order of cars in the collection.
Update 2023.09.122023-09-13This is a pretty minor patch, just fixes some broken links for the DLC. Enjoy!
Race the devs live event2023-09-06Join Matt, Ralf, Timm, Brandon, Tom and Candace for a special live event on Saturday, September 9, 2023. We'll be on YouTube Live from 9-10am Pacific Time, posting our best leaderboard times on a selection of Steam-exclusive tournaments. Here's a link to the livestream: https://youtube.com/live/HXLZreyetvI?feature=share Join us during the event to chat, ask questions, and post your scores alongside the Vector Unit team to see who triumphs! These leaderboards will be intimate affairs, only available to players with the most recent update of the game. Right now, that's only Steam players! (Well OK, Apple TV also but nobody plays on Apple TV.) W
Double DLC release and a patch update2023-08-24Turbo Titans Car Pack and the High Octane Moto Pack drop today. The Turbo Titans pack brings five count'em FIVE new cars, and the High Octane pack introduces motorcycles! Both these DLC packs are on sale for their first week out the gate, so get them while they're hot! We've also patched the base game with a number of fixes that you, our beloved community, helped us track down. These include: Fixed wheels on Candy Coupe gold skin Fixed invisible spears on Waste Rod and Spear Chaser gold skins Fixed collision bugs in Octane City Added powerups to Sun City Strip Firework Fury Placed new decal paint cans for unlocking Oh AND -- there are 3 new m
Surprise update!2023-08-10Hey everyone. Long time no talk. Guess what? We have a massive new update for you! The most highly anticipated, top-secret, frequently asked-for, totally unanticipated update to Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure is here! BBR2:IA version 2023.08.08 brings a ton of new content and important tuning updates to the core game as well as improvements to the Hot Wheels DLC and two brand new DLC packs (coming soon). Island Adventure Upgrades Top of the list of improvements to the Island Adventure base game is the addition of a new character, Commander Nova. Nova is a canine space explorer with a love of adventure and a passion for liver treats. H
Vote for Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure!2021-11-24Hey friends! Please help us win the Better With Friends Steam award for BBR2IA! Awards help us get more eyeballs on our game, and that helps us in creating more content and DLC. We'd really appreciate your votes! Thanks for your support! - The Vector Unit Team
SURPRISE! The Oddball Car Pack is now available2021-09-16You may have recently read our surprise announcement that the super-fun and ultra-wacky Oddball Car Pack is shipping out in a couple of weeks. Maybe you were excited! Maybe you thought, "Man, I cannot wait to get my hands on that massive Commander tank car and smash me some rocks and yeti." Perhaps you said to yourself, "Jehoshaphat! The only thing that could make my custom Cars that Go Boom race events any better would be if those cars were all toilets!" Mayhap you entertained a notion such as, "Tarnation! What I wouldn't give to race a pizza delivery car against a flying saucer through a bubbling caldera of lava!" Well... the surprises neve
Countdown to Toilet Cars2021-09-10Hey Beach Bums! We just announced a new DLC for Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure. The Oddball Car Pack lands first in the world on Steam, coming to you hot and smashy on September 24. The new car pack comes with four kooky new vehicles, including a huge tank that can smash through obstacles without slowing down, a hovering UFO with plenty of boop-beep-boop, a pizza delivery wagon with extra flair, and last but not least a... well.... it's kind of a... OK fine it's a toilet. For more information check out the Oddball Car Pack page and be sure to pop that Wishlist button!
Chrome paints and more!2021-08-11Now building against SDL 2.0.16, in order to fix a new crash introduced with the previous version. The previous version was upgraded from SDL 2.0.12 to 2.0.15 in order to support PS5 DualSense Controllers. This seems to have caused a new crash on start-up for some specific device configurations. But that's all fixed now. OH, and super awesome bonus surprise -- we also introduced a new car paint family, the Chrome Paints! Shiny, metallic, reflective, and oh-so-did-I-already-say-shiny, these new paints will blind your opponents with the awesome power of shine. Enjoy.
Notes for version 08.09.20212021-08-10Hi all! Hope you're having a great summer. This update primarily updates our controller libraries to add support for the PlayStation 5 "DualSense" controllers. Fixed a couple odds & ends here & there too. Enjoy!
On your marks, get set...2021-05-08Hi everyone! This update fixes a few bugs, like that crazy Haze of Confusion one where if you pass through TWO confusion clouds and then crash and respawn your controls are permanently reversed. We thought about calling that a "feature".... but then we came to our senses and fixed it. More importantly, this update paves the way for the Hot Wheels Booster Pack DLC which is going live on May 12. You need this update if you want to get a taste of that sweet sweet Hot Wheels action. You also need this update if you want to see actual Hot Wheels cars on your leaderboard instead of words like "HWRipRod_Default_HWDecal" or whatever. So yeah, just do
Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure Hot Wheels™ Livestream2021-05-07Explore the new Hot Wheels™ Booster Pack for Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure. We'll test drive the blazing new Hot Wheels cars, explore the new tracks, show off Hot Wheels fan art and answer your questions. Join us on YouTube Live! Thursday, May 13, 2021, 3 pm Pacific Time
Quickie update to fix that controller bug2021-04-22Ah, the joys of PC game development. After the last update, we received reports of some players having problems with their controllers. And of course we haven't been able to reproduce those problems ourselves, which makes fixing a challenge.... But our best guess is that in the last update, we included the newest SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) controller mapping, to keep things up to date and also add support for PlayStation DUALSHOCK 5 controllers. Our best guess is that the problem is coming from that. So this update basically just takes that out and goes back to the old version. Which means 2 things: If you were having problems with your c
Update: Bug fixin' and Paint swappin'2021-04-01Hey everyone! Hope you're enjoying the game so far. This is our first major update since the game launched. For the most part we're just fixing bugs and rearchitecting a bunch of stuff under the hood to get ready for a major DLC announcement in the coming weeks. But don't let that stop you! This update still has some good improvements, including: Physics framerate increased to 120Hz. Cars should run a little smoother, and fewer collision glitches. You can now swap and view unlocked car and driver skins in the Collection info popups, and save your preference. Car painting now triggers from inside the info popups. So, go to the Collection, open
LAUNCH DAY LIVESTREAM2021-03-13Please join us over on the YouTubes for a special Launch Day Live Stream event! Vector Unit Creative Director Matt Small and Community Manager Deb Chantson will be playing Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure, showcasing fan art and playthroughs by the development team, and answering questions in the chats. Join on YouTube Live Wednesday, March 17, 3pm Pacific Time Tell your friends! And hope you can join us! - The Vector Unit Team P.S. OK, we know on Steam the game actually released on March 10, but all the other poor saps had to wait until the 17th. Don't make them feel bad.
Launch Day!2021-03-10Hello everyone and welcome to the first official non-Early-Access update of BBR2:IA! Early Access players, thank you so much, again, for all your advice and playtesting. BBR2:IA has been in Early Access for one year and two weeks, and through that time we've played together, laughed together, squashed bugs together, and—I like to think—we've learned a little something about ourselves. New players—welcome! We hope you enjoy playing the game as much as we've enjoyed making it. All players—keep checking in regularly to play those Tournaments! There are going to be a lot of new folks from other platforms appearing over the next few weeks on our c
Release Candidate Incoming!2021-03-05Hey everyone! We just pushed out a new build that fixes a few odds and ends bugs and is officially, we think, we hope, the build which we're going to push to Full Release next week. That's right, March 10, 2021 is the end of the gestational period of Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure, and the beginning of...its life? (I dunno where that metaphor was going.) Thank you again to everyone who has helped play, test, offer feedback and support to our little cadre of developers while we work on this thing. It's been fun, and we're not done! We're still getting tons of feedback to sift through, and we are hard at work on our first major DLC expa
Trading Cards are here!2021-02-16Just a quick heads up that we have released a badge set for the game that includes a full set of Beach Buggy themed character trading cards, backgrounds, and emoticons. Play, earn, trade, enjoy! We hope you like 'em! Sincerely, The Vector Unit Team
Thank you, Early Access players!2021-02-05Hi everyone! As the days outside grow longer, here in computer land we draw ever closer to the end of Early Access and the beginning of... The Future! (I wasn't totally sure what to put after the ellipsis... "the First Version"? "the Launch Date"? all sound kinda dumb. The Future sounds more awesomer.) First and foremost, this update contains a special gift for all of you Steam folks who have stuck with us during the Whole Entire Year that we've been working on this game in Early Access. Remember a year ago? When we went to PAX and announced this game and released the first Early Access build, and then the world went to hell in a handbasket a
Version 2021.01.152021-01-17Hi folks! Been a while. How's 2021 shaping up for you all? We here at Vector Unit have been busy as bees, tying up loose ends and tuning, tuning. I hope you've been enjoying the game. We have a bunch of small fixes in this update, which you may or may not notice but I'm going to call a few of them out. It would be REALLY AWESOME if you Early Access folks can pay attention to these changes and let us know if you spot any issues: Multi-language font for player names. Great news, 해단 and Владимир! We've added support for Russian, Korean, Chinese and Japanese characters to the font we use for player names, so you won't be looking at ???? when you
Version 2020.12.162020-12-17Have you ever heard people say the last 10% of the work is 90% of the effort? Turns out it's kind of true. We're at the point in development where we are testing, finding bugs, fixing bugs, and grinding some of the rough edges down to a slippery-smooth luster. The most significant change in this update is this: We finally got our translations for French, German, Spanish and Italian integrated! If you're fluent in these languages, let us know what you think of the translations -- turns out there's no word in German for "Cluck-na-do". Also you probably noticed we changed our versioning system. Goodbye, EA-whatever. Hello, 2020.12.16! Technicall
Version EA-5.22020-11-14Folks we are closing in on the end of Early Access. We can smell it. The Vector Unit team is feeling that extra burst of energy that comes when you see the light at the end of the tunnel glimmering... although, admittedly, it might be the energy you feel when you think about eating pumpkin pie and gravy and stuff for four days straight. In any case, we have a pretty sweet update for you. Not a bunch of fancy-pants, think-they're-better-than you, spectacular big-ticket new features. Just a little humble polish items here and there, doing their earnest best to make the game better'n'better. Stats screen update. We added a ton of stats to track
Version EA-5.12020-10-30This week we have new achievements, Tournament improvements, and a whole bunch of bug fixes and polish. 13 new Achievements. We've added a bunch of new achievements for the completionists among you, because shouldn't you get something special for obsessively collecting every single car and driver in the game? Tournament UI polish. Added a total player count, improved error handling for connection timeouts, and more! We also added support for themed tournaments like "monster trucks only". We are trying to track down that bug with gigantic Tournament wait times (18882 days). We think we fixed it? But it's hard for us to test so please let us kn
Verison EA-5.02020-10-24Folks, this is a big one. Like, skip Versions 4.7-4.9 big. It might not seem like much because we've only really got one bullet point, but that bullet's a big one. It's big because we think Tournaments with leaderboards where we can all finally compete with one another and talk endless smack is a big deal. But also because this is the last major feature update we have planned before we are done. ...OK, granted, there's still ton of work to do. Tuning, polishing, fixing. All that. We're not, as our old boss Don Daglow used to say, "done-di-done-done, done", but we're getting pretty close to it. But until then, please enjoy: Tournaments - Yes!
Version EA-4.52020-10-16Ohhhhhh man. We could tell you about all the super awesome stuff that was going to be in this build, but then our schedule just exploded and it didn't all make it, and telling you about it would probably just make you feel kinda sad, and there's too much of that going around these days, so let's talk about the sorta awesome stuff that actually made it. But first, some important alerts! We had to reformat the ghost car data, so your saved ghosts will be lost. But that's actually a good thing because it gives you a great excuse to record them again! We had to change around a bunch of the unlock and skin mission criteria. The good news is that a
Version EA-4.42020-10-03Welcome to the latest installment of our game show "Find That Key!" This week, we have a special surprise for all you contestants -- we actually have a key! The Mr Happy secret Pumpkin Patch is live, for real this time. There is a secret key to unlock it that you can actually find, and all is good. The clues have changed as well, so forget everything you thought you knew about key-finding and give it a try. We're particularly interested in finding the right balance between frustration and fun in this key-hunting-exercise, so try and start fresh and tell us what you think. Mr Happy's Secret Pumpkin Patch Key Hunt Take 2. Yeah sorry about last