Be a part of The Speedwaaagh on Might 21

Hey everybody, I’m Chris Mallinson – Co-founder and Sport Director at Caged Factor, and I’m right here with Jon Doughty, our Lead Designer and Stage Designer. At the moment we’re excited to announce that the loudest, most Orky racer round is roaring onto Xbox, launching Might 21!

Velocity Freeks is a high-orktane fight racing recreation set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Count on brutal, high-speed races, deep car customization, and a totally dwell creation mode the place you and your mates can leap right into a clean map to construct and play your creations collectively in actual time.

With our earlier title Grip being a non secular successor to Rollcage, we’ve at all times had a smooth spot for this model of racer and Xbox has at all times been a pure dwelling for action-packed multiplayer. With Velocity Freeks, we’re hoping to carry that very same vitality to you and possibly even spark an Xbox revival for fight racers. It’s a style that deserves extra consideration, and with every little thing we’ve added, particularly Creation Mode and cross platform play – this looks like the proper place for it.

At its core, Velocity Freeks is a full-on car shooter; one thing you don’t see too usually. We pulled inspiration from all the very best bits of vehicular fight: agile stunt vehicles flipping by way of the air whereas firing, heavy tanks holding strategic positions, after which we layered in some correctly wild Orky concepts. You’ve obtained issues like murderer trikes, huge Grot tanks with mechanical methods, even airborne threats with the Deffkopta. It’s a chaotic combine, nevertheless it all comes collectively in a approach that feels balanced and extremely enjoyable, while importantly – being 100% lore correct to the broader 40k universe.

Agility and motion have at all times been an enormous focus for us, letting gamers actually categorical talent by way of mobility. Apparently, a whole lot of what’s in Velocity Freeks got here from gamers experimenting throughout growth. We noticed what they have been doing and leaned into it to offer the identical form of ‘excessive talent ceiling’ that video games comparable to Rocket League or Apex Legends present.

Automobiles can shift momentum virtually immediately when grounded and even on partitions. When you begin combining talents like Sprint with handbrake turns and propulsion boosts, it turns into extremely satisfying to grasp.

It’s not all about excessive tier motion tech although, there’s a number of methods to play Velocity Freeks and simply benefit from the chaos (not the heretical form), from straight up Deff Rally racing the place you’ll be able to select to hurry by way of checkpoints and be first to the end, or just throw as a lot dakka as doable on the enemy to cease them – to Kill Konvoy, a mode that began as a twist on Seize the Flag, however we flipped the concept. As an alternative of stealing flags from a base, you seize explosives from the middle and ship them to the enemy’s base, which simply so occurs to be an enormous, strolling Stompa mech.

As a result of the bottom is consistently shifting, it creates this dynamic battlefield the place roles naturally emerge. You’ve obtained gamers specializing in high-speed bomb runs, others defending, some clearing paths, and even devoted blockers guarding the Stompa. Should you’ve performed fast-paced CTF modes in video games like Tribes, and even trendy hero sort FPS video games with role-based talents comparable to Valorant or Overwatch, you’ll acknowledge that very same form of vitality – it simply feels totally different while you’re screaming ork converse down a microphone.

Our most up-to-date replace on PC got here immediately from the neighborhood within the type of creation mode. Gamers stored pitching inventive, over-the-top Orky concepts for environments – and as we began to toy with the concept of giving them our enhancing instruments.

It advanced into one thing actually particular.

You may leap out and in of periods whereas a degree is being constructed, driving round mid-construction and typically getting hilariously taken out by objects being positioned in actual time. It’s chaotic, social, and genuinely inventive in a approach that brings us again to the previous Forge modes in Halo.

We additionally added a workshop system the place you’ll be able to add your maps for others to strive, whether or not solo or on-line. It got here collectively sooner than we anticipated, and it’s grow to be one of the distinctive elements of the sport.

Warhammer is an unimaginable IP. Wealthy lore, iconic visuals, and a really passionate fanbase. On the similar time, it comes with duty. There are clear boundaries round how issues ought to feel and look, particularly while you’re doing one thing new like a fight racer. We labored very shut with Video games Workshop to make sure that the in recreation fashions are equivalent and lore correct to the minis, and that we included as many customization choices in your automobiles and pit boss as doable, from alternate weapons, further package objects to bolt onto the automobiles, and naturally, a number of paint choices.

The suggestions from each the neighborhood and Video games Workshop has been actually constructive. We got down to seize that uncooked, chaotic Ork vitality and I believe we obtained there

Thanks for trying out Velocity Freeks. If this seems like your form of chaos, remember to Wishlist it on Xbox and rally your crew, as a result of this one’s greatest loved loud and with as many Gitz as doable! We’ll see you on Might twenty first!

Waaagh!