Good day everybody, I’m Chris Mallinson – Co-founder and Sport Director at Caged Component, and I’m right here with Jon Doughty, our Lead Fashion designer and Degree Fashion designer. As of late we’re excited to announce that the loudest, maximum Orky racer round is roaring onto Xbox, launching Would possibly 21!
Velocity Freeks is a high-orktane battle racing recreation set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Be expecting brutal, high-speed races, deep car customization, and an absolutely are living advent mode the place you and your mates can soar right into a clean map to construct and play your creations in combination in actual time.
With our earlier identify Grip being a religious successor to Rollcage, we’ve at all times had a comfortable spot for this taste of racer and Xbox has at all times been a herbal house for action-packed multiplayer. With Velocity Freeks, we’re hoping to deliver that very same power to you and perhaps even spark an Xbox revival for battle racers. It’s a style that merits extra consideration, and with the whole lot we’ve added, particularly Introduction Mode and pass platform play – this seems like the easiest position for it.
At its core, Velocity Freeks is a full-on car shooter; one thing you don’t see too frequently. We pulled inspiration from the entire very best bits of vehicular battle: agile stunt automobiles flipping in the course of the air whilst firing, heavy tanks keeping strategic positions, after which we layered in some correctly wild Orky concepts. You’ve were given such things as murderer trikes, huge Grot tanks with mechanical methods, even airborne threats with the Deffkopta. It’s a chaotic combine, nevertheless it all comes in combination in some way that feels balanced and extremely amusing, while importantly – being 100% lore correct to the broader 40k universe.
Agility and motion have at all times been an enormous focal point for us, letting gamers actually categorical talent thru mobility. Curiously, a large number of what’s in Velocity Freeks got here from gamers experimenting all over building. We noticed what they have been doing and leaned into it to provide the similar more or less ‘excessive talent ceiling’ that video games comparable to Rocket League or Apex Legends supply.
Automobiles can shift momentum nearly in an instant when grounded and even on partitions. While you get started combining skills like Sprint with handbrake turns and propulsion boosts, it turns into extremely fulfilling to grasp.
It’s no longer all about excessive tier motion tech even though, there’s a number of techniques to play Velocity Freeks and simply benefit from the chaos (no longer the heretical type), from immediately up Deff Rally racing the place you’ll make a selection to hurry thru checkpoints and be first to the end, or just throw as a lot dakka as conceivable on the enemy to prevent them – to Kill Konvoy, a method that began as a twist on Seize the Flag, however we flipped the theory. As a substitute of stealing flags from a base, you grasp explosives from the middle and ship them to the enemy’s base, which in order that occurs to be a large, strolling Stompa mech.
Since the base is continuously shifting, it creates this dynamic battlefield the place roles naturally emerge. You’ve were given gamers specializing in high-speed bomb runs, others protecting, some clearing paths, or even devoted blockers guarding the Stompa. If you happen to’ve performed fast moving CTF modes in video games like Tribes, and even trendy hero sort FPS video games with role-based skills comparable to Valorant or Overwatch, you’ll acknowledge that very same more or less power – it simply feels other while you’re screaming ork talk down a microphone.
Our most up-to-date replace on PC got here immediately from the neighborhood within the type of advent mode. Avid gamers stored pitching inventive, over-the-top Orky concepts for environments – and as we began to toy with the theory of giving them our modifying gear.
It developed into one thing actually particular.
You’ll soar out and in of classes whilst a degree is being constructed, riding round mid-construction and from time to time getting hilariously taken out by way of items being positioned in actual time. It’s chaotic, social, and in reality inventive in some way that brings us again to the outdated Forge modes in Halo.
We additionally added a workshop machine the place you’ll add your maps for others to check out, whether or not solo or on-line. It got here in combination sooner than we anticipated, and it’s transform probably the most distinctive portions of the sport.
Warhammer is an improbable IP. Wealthy lore, iconic visuals, and an excessively passionate fanbase. On the identical time, it comes with duty. There are transparent obstacles round how issues must feel and look, particularly while you’re doing one thing new like a battle racer. We labored very shut with Video games Workshop to make sure that the in recreation fashions are an identical and lore correct to the minis, and that we integrated as many customization choices to your automobiles and pit boss as conceivable, from exchange guns, further package pieces to bolt onto the automobiles, and naturally, a lot of paint choices.
The comments from each the neighborhood and Video games Workshop has been actually certain. We got down to seize that uncooked, chaotic Ork power and I feel we were given there
Thank you for testing Velocity Freeks. If this appears like your more or less chaos, make sure you Wishlist it on Xbox and rally your group, as a result of this one’s very best loved loud and with as many Gitz as conceivable! We’ll see you on Would possibly twenty first!
Waaagh!
Warhammer 40,000: Velocity Freeks
Stressed Productions
Prime-octane battle racing within the Warhammer 40,000 universe! Race and customise buggies, tanks and helicopters, mastering complex motion and explosive weaponry. Release equipment, customise your rides and use the Introduction Workshop to create, percentage, and play customized maps with the neighborhood!
Extra velocity. Extra dakka. Sign up for da Speedwaaagh and tear thru war-torn tracks, racing solo, towards bots, or with other folks on-line throughout a couple of recreation modes. That includes pass platform crossplay reinforce with PC and different platforms, that means you’ll Krump yer’ buddies anyplace they play!
Turn out you’re the quickest git in Deff Rally, an 8v8 battle race the place, velocity, kunning and aggression mix prior to an all-out dash to victory.
Use Orky ways in Kill Konvoy as groups protect their massive mechanical Stompa whilst sabotaging the enemy’s one, with each and every fit erupting into chaos as you struggle to the end line. Each and every car performs in a different way, rewarding gamers with various talent, kunnin’, and brutal strats.
When the mud settles, soar into construction your personal chaos – the use of a formidable degree editor with over 400 property. Create racetracks and battlefields both solo or with pals in actual time, then percentage them at the Workshop the place you’ll additionally obtain different wild creations by way of the neighborhood.
