Developer posts and news about this game.
G'day Rat Racers! This new update fixes bugs, improves performance and adds some goodies that didn't initially make it into the last major update. This update also updates the Game Manual significantly to bring it up to date with the Anniversary update! Improvements: Improved GPU
G'day again, Rat Racers! This small hotfix resolves an issue where CPU players would overzealously avoid obstacles that were well out of the way, making them comically easy to beat in cases where they should have been pressuring a well-performing player a lot more. In particular,
G'day Rat Racers! THE new update has been released; this is part 2 of the Anniversary update, also previously known as the multiple laps update. Yes, it's been over 1 year since Rattus Velocitas Launched! For those reading this who have purchased the game, I thank you all for the
G'day Rat Racers, If you found Laps and Finishes sometimes not counting in online multiplayer, this hotfix resolves this issue. Changes: Fixed a bug where laps/finishes weren't counting when crossing the finish line if at least one player in the lobby had high latency. NOTE: This
G'day Rat Racers, and welcome to part 1 of the Anniversary update! This was originally going to be released as one massive update in April/early May but due to extended development time, I wanted to get these changes out to you all early. In particular, online mode and race varie
G'day Rat Racers, The matchmaking server will be temporarily offline while a new game update is being prepared. The dedicated/GUI servers are currently on updated server versions that won't work with the current live game. This will be resolved with the game update releasing with
G'day Rat Racers! This small update contains two bugfixes for couch/controller players in the online mode: Fixed an issue where the "Leave Rat Race" button wouldn't be refocused properly if the player wasn't the lobby leader upon returning to the lobby after a race, breaking cont
G'day Rat Racers. For people on the demo version, after a game update, it may have completely stopped working around Christmas 2025 for Windows users. This was due to a mistake made during game upload I was only just notified about. This has now been fixed! The demo on Windows sh
G'day Rat Racers, Some critical bugfixes and some goodies from the WIP version of the next patch have been included in this update! Upgraded UnityEngine to 6000.3.8f1: Fixed a startup crash when using -force-d3d12. Please note D3D12 support is still experimental! Fixed an intermi
G’day and belated Happy New Year Rat Racers! Today we’re talking about the content of the next major game update coming; release date is currently TBA but I plan to release it within April this year. I’ll start, once again, with achievements; I can confirm there are now item-base
G'day Rat Racers, This hotfix update addresses a bug where a player's Hat selection didn't correctly save in replay data, resulting in players wearing hats being hatless in the replay.
G'day Rat Racers, With this update, I have introduced the Hats system to the game! As a celebratory Christmas gift, every player that opens the game from the 25th of December until the 6th of January will receive a tiny little Santa Hat to put on their Rat Racer. Currently only p
G'day Rat Racers, A new update has been released with a number of new QoL changes to the game. About the item changes: Standard Missiles were far too common which made it super difficult to catch the first place racer while in second place or less, so their drop rate has been ner
G'day again Rat Racers. This small patch contains a fix for splitscreen audio being quieter than intended in some cases.
G'day Rat Racers! This update contains the following changes: Fixed a bug where shields targeted themselves when refreshing already-existing shields. If your shield wasn't refreshing after using a second one or you were getting "cosmetic" shields that didn't work, this shouldn't
G'day Rat Racers. This update fully resolves a bug where, if Steam Achievements data failed to properly load for any reason, Cheese Rocket Payloads became unobtainable in-game, with players passing through them instead. UPDATE 11/06/2025 AEST: This update has been re-released wit
G'day Rat Racers, This patch improves Missile behaviour in online mode; they shouldn't skip around as much when performing latency compensation anymore. Additional bugfixes: Fixed a potentially game breaking bug with scene loading that caused the game to freeze.
G'day again Rat Racers. I may have accidentally regressed replays, this small patch fixes them so items behave as expected again. All changes: Fixed a bug with CPUs where items were used immediately upon acquisition. Improved item usage heuristic used by CPU racers. Fixed a bug t
G'day Rat Racers! This update contains bugfixes and an adjustment to performance-based CPU difficulty. Introduced win-rate based CPU difficulty adjustment for Quick Race. This replaces performance-ratio based CPU difficulty. Algorithm for this is simple; if you're routinely faili
G'day Rat Racers. This update contains some small bugfixes: Improved Dash Ring boost visuals to match an earlier version of the game's effects. Fixed a bug where Portable Dash Ring boost audio would cut off when the Portable Dash Ring began to fade out of existence right after a