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Wreckfest 2 Enters Steam Early Access, Full Release Likely 2026
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Never played anything on Steam Early Access in my entire life, but this will undoubtedly be the game that changes that for me, and rightly so! 
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- breeminator
- breeminator
I'm picking it up day 1 of early access, Wreckfest was one of the best driving games of the last decade IMO. Steam Early Access can be very mixed, I've played some games in early access that were in a better state than some full releases, but others can be pretty bare bones at first, e.g. AC EVO, and it sounds like Wreckfest 2 will be more like that.Never played anything on Steam Early Access in my entire life, but this will undoubtedly be the game that changes that for me, and rightly so!
AC was really bare bones when it was in early access
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- timekiller001
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- PrecisionVI
I wouldn't take too much stock in it. After all, they have been removed now, but they were the next best thing to go off given that the current Steam page shows very basic requirements.
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- timekiller001
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- timekiller001
OK, so it's here now.
Content wise it's not much - Early Access, right?
Only Quick race and Custom races available. 4 tracks (one of which is called Testing Grounds and is a huge area just for Demolition Derby), 4 cars.
Servers seem to have trouble too so difficult if not impossble to join an online match
Oh, and the requirements have been updated. Only a slight increase to those posted earlier
Content wise it's not much - Early Access, right?
Only Quick race and Custom races available. 4 tracks (one of which is called Testing Grounds and is a huge area just for Demolition Derby), 4 cars.
Servers seem to have trouble too so difficult if not impossble to join an online match
Oh, and the requirements have been updated. Only a slight increase to those posted earlier
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- 3,025
- Columbus, Ohio
This'll certainly be on my list to pick up once it's more feature complete, even though they've got publisher backing from the start on this one I still have too many bad memories of the first one's development cycle to really be an early adopter. That said, "the first game but better and with more stuff" is a perfectly fine way to approach a sequel like this so it's looking quite promising.
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These are very early impressions.
- Can't bind pedal inputs so wheel/pedal set-up is a no go right now
- Controller works fine - but no vibration
- Looks to be capped at 60fps
- Runs on ultra fine for me at 1440p, with circa 75% GPU load and a full grid of 24 cars (PC specs in sig - GPU: RTX 4070)
- No crashes so far
- Destruction is great
- Video review to follow....
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- breeminator
- breeminator
It isn't capped at 60fps for me, I have the opposite problem, the game has no setting for frame rate cap so my 4080 is maxed out all the time I'm playing it (I could address this by capping the frame rate in the driver, but I'm not going to mess about like that for one game). I have it set to windowed with vsync on, with a 360hz monitor, so I assume it will be capped at 360fps, but the 4080 isn't fast enough to reach that with maxed out quality settings at 1440p.
In terms of value for money right now, the game is terrible value compared to some other games when on sale, but obviously we're expecting to get free updates that fill it out. Right now it has a roughly similar amount of content to Exocross which was recently on sale for 1/4 of the price of Wreckfest 2, and the difference in quantity of content compared to a game like The Crew Motorfest, which is £2 cheaper than Wreckfest 2 when on sale, is absolutely vast. This isn't a problem for me, I'm happy to spend the money now to be able to try the game out, and only get real value back in the future, but some people might have limited funds and prefer options that get them a lot more right now.
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- timekiller001
Despite the lack of content, the online races are still very fun though (and a bit more challenging with the updated damage model). Too bad joining servers is very difficult still
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- The US of A
I have to admit, I didn't realize how much it'd cost to get Early Access for this game until the article was posted and I unfortunately don't have enough on my account to buy it right now, otherwise I'd be playing it right now. Hopefully, this won't be a problem for much longer and I'll get to experience it soon.
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- breeminator
- breeminator
Some thoughts on how "sim" the game is...
In the description on Steam they say:
"Developer Bugbear went all out, rebuilding its true-to-life physics simulation engine to take full advantage of modern hardware. Wreckfest 2 features even higher crash fidelity, more intricate component damage simulation and many more improvements across the board!"
To me, the phrase "true-to-life physics simulation engine" suggests that they intend the game to be pretty sim, and I think it is indeed pretty sim.
In a wider context, I feel like the general trend is for all driving games to have physics with more fidelity and accuracy, even games that would traditionally have been seen as arcade or simcade. Most people can drive cars in real life just fine, so I don't think there has ever been a need to make driving games unrealistic to be accessible. Giving people the same level of control of the car in a game as they have in real life should only make the experience more accessible and intuitive. Looking at games like FH5, FM23, TCM and now Wreckfest 2, these all increase physics fidelity and accuracy compared to previous titles, and I think this is a good thing.
In the description on Steam they say:
"Developer Bugbear went all out, rebuilding its true-to-life physics simulation engine to take full advantage of modern hardware. Wreckfest 2 features even higher crash fidelity, more intricate component damage simulation and many more improvements across the board!"
To me, the phrase "true-to-life physics simulation engine" suggests that they intend the game to be pretty sim, and I think it is indeed pretty sim.
In a wider context, I feel like the general trend is for all driving games to have physics with more fidelity and accuracy, even games that would traditionally have been seen as arcade or simcade. Most people can drive cars in real life just fine, so I don't think there has ever been a need to make driving games unrealistic to be accessible. Giving people the same level of control of the car in a game as they have in real life should only make the experience more accessible and intuitive. Looking at games like FH5, FM23, TCM and now Wreckfest 2, these all increase physics fidelity and accuracy compared to previous titles, and I think this is a good thing.
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Im liking it, love the first one this is great..
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- Neil Pearl Jam
- NEILPEARLJAM
Cheers for that vid fella, the lack of wheel support is disappointing to say the least but I’m sure it will be sorted hopefully sooner rather than later, I’ll probably buy it as all things considered it’s going to be considerably more come full launch so getting it at this price point will seem like a bargain knowing how good the first one was.
I must say every video I’ve watched so far looks stunning, the first one was quite the looker but this seems to have improved massively, and seeing as we both have the same GPU I’m hoping you can confirm this 😁
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- Fezzik-GT
- Fezzik1983
It's definitely more of a looker than the first game, at least the console versions vs the new one on decent PCs. Hopefully the eventual PS5 release can match it.
I hope it's not too sim, the first one hit the sweet spot for me and I'd like that again. You're driving sofas/buses/lawnmowers, it should be more toward the arcade end of the spectrum in my opinion.
I hope it's not too sim, the first one hit the sweet spot for me and I'd like that again. You're driving sofas/buses/lawnmowers, it should be more toward the arcade end of the spectrum in my opinion.
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