Hello fellow brobots!

With the upcoming release of Roboquest on the 7th of November, planned at 15:00 CET, 1.0 will officially be released to the public. We're all very excited about this, but this also means that there's an end to a chapter of Roboquest. The Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview will be wrapped up, which means runs in these versions will no longer be able to be submitted unless you still have old footage.

What does this mean for existing speedruns?

All speedruns that are submitted and verified will remain. They'll still be viewable by anyone with a nostalgic interest in how the game looked before 1.0!

Another important point is that there are some changes in how the difficulty works. They're named differently (knowledge acquired from the revealed Steam achievements) and scale differently too.

What does this mean for new speedruns?

Not a lot will change, I can assure you that. Heroes+6 is being renamed Guardian IV, so if you still want to submit an H+6 Early Access run, please do so under Guardian IV. Do note that the game will wipe your EA/Game Preview save as part of the 1.0 release.

The new class' name has also been revealed: the Elementalist. They have been added as a class to the list for browsing runs in the Solo categories and an indication on the P1/P2 list in the Co-Op categories.

Of course, a massive update means new levels. These will not be added yet as it's kind of a major spoiler (& I personally do know the names of the new levels, but I'm still under NDA until 1.0 comes out). All new routes will be revealed about a day before the game actually launches. I encourage you to play the game without being spoiled though, as I can confirm that it's a very fun and rewarding experience.

I'll still be verifying runs together with GelmoSan. However, I am considering looking for people to verify runs. It'll be just verifying for now, but that can change at a later point if the game becomes very popular! If such a point is ever reached, a Speedrunning Discord server will likely be made too.

Thank you!

For now, I want to thank all of you for taking this journey with us. Early Access was a great choice for Roboquest, as most of you who jumped in before 0.10 can attest to. Thank you all for being great brobots, and I'll see you when 1.0 releases!

Happy smashing badbots :D