Thread 2016433

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is Sonic Team's newest kart racing entry, made by the devs responsible for the Initial D arcade games. Race, drift, chase and brawl your way through 25+ courses and 15 "CrossWorlds" while utilizing highly customizable vehicles and "gadgets", allowing you to build and adjust your abilities towards your preferred kart racing style. CrossWorlds features a near-complete collection of mainline Sonic characters in addition to crossover characters from video games and TV shows alike, including (but not limited to) Hatsune Miku, Yakuza's Ichiban, Persona 5's Joker, MegaMan, PacMan, Minecraft Steve, and more!

Available on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 (upgrade DLC pending), PC via Steam and Epic Games Store PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X and Series S.

>Steam store page
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2486820/Sonic_Racing_CrossWorlds/
>third party sales & discounts tracker
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/sonic-racing-crossworlds/info/
>Gadget list and effects
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_B2mHZUP6J6jeZfcwbM2HkLvjkwMYuACE4l6Ktt-UkI/
>Gadget guides and recommendations
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y1rXAYbYNVvCb4WMmTBPrn9Edlsqql69CGKd4utXKVw/
>Misc. game mechanic info (WIP)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WbWKzWYt8f7EjWKwRfRzSxBrHNgS23OfbpXINg6uKTw/

>DLC, festival and patch roadmap for 2025-2026:

All Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds game discussion welcome! Feel free to host and share lobby codes here too! ... or hide in here when you get banned from /v/ or drowned out of /vg/ by mobile games. Whatever works.

see also:
>>>/v/sonic

Thank you for playing!

>servers are down
the fuck did sega do???

>>2020779
There's a large Amazon AWS server outage going on right now; should be fixed later today, hopefully. Finish your single player cheevos and time trials if you haven't already

120+hz when

New interview with series producer Takashi Iizuka during the Brasil Game Show:
https://www.polygon.com/sonic-team-takashi-iizuka-interview/
>[...] “If enough people are coming in and playing it, there's conversations about the game. We have one year of DLC, we could do year two, we could do year three of DLC,” Iizuka says. “Tell us what you want!” Sonic: CrossWorlds being an online game gives room for the team to expand its content in the future. “These are the things we can do because it is an online game. We could add new gadgets, we could balance the game differently.” [...]

>>2020918
Physics calculations are tied to the frame rate atm, so probably never :/

Joker will be released later today (in 11 hours).
Joker's festival starts tomorrow.
They have also made changes to make completing the festival faster and more consistent, along with increased ticket rewards. Finally, they claim to be implementing improved matchmaking. Whether that will fix the all of the game's connection issues remains to be seen.

I expect most lobbies will be shared in the >>>/v/sonic thread, but I may share a few here.