FAQ

Team car combat in a steel cage. Rocket-boosted cars jump, roll in the air and drive up the walls and across the roof, and fight with weapons and items picked up from orbs on the floor. Ramming hurts too. It's made by Overboard Games.

Not yet. Hard Diesel is in development for PC. A release date, price and store page will be announced here when there are any. Until then you can apply for the playtest.

Make an account on this site, confirm your email and apply. Testers are let in a few at a time, and you'll get an email when it's your turn. Then download the launcher from your account page: it installs the game and keeps it up to date. The Playtest page has every step.

No. With Steam running, the game uses your Steam name and Steam friends. Without it, sign in with your Hard Diesel account in the launcher, and you can still play with and against people on Steam.

Team Deathmatch online in 2v2 or 3v3, Ranked Deathmatch online in 1v1 or 3v3, Private Matches with your own rules and an invite code, Local split screen for up to four players with bots, and Practice.

From the orbs on the cage floor. A weapon orb mounts a random weapon with a full load, replacing the one you had; an ammo orb tops it up; an item orb hands you a random item; and boost orbs run down both sides. Taken orbs come back after 8 to 14 seconds.

No. The garage changes only how your car looks: body, plow, wheels and rocket. Every car drives, takes hits and hits back the same.

Yes. Invite Steam friends to your party and go into a match together, host a private match and give them its code, or play split screen on one PC. Two players at one PC can also go online together.

Yes. Bots fill the empty seats in Local matches and private matches. They arm themselves, hunt, fight back and use their items.

Yes, and a keyboard and mouse. Every action can be rebound in Options, Keybinds, with two keyboard or mouse binds and one controller bind each.

Yes. Every online and local match is recorded when it ends. Watch it from any driver's view, scrub, change speed, and save the ones you want to keep. The latest 20 unsaved are kept.

It's at the bottom right of the main menu, like BUILD 0.1A57: version 0.1, A for alpha, build 57. Please include it when you report a problem. The Updates page lists what changed in each build.

Email [email protected] with what happened and your build number, for anything from a bug to a launcher that won't start or an account you can't get into.

English, Spanish and Russian. It starts in your system's language if it has it.

It's built to scale: a graphics quality preset, plus separate settings for shadows, anti-aliasing, bloom, particles, scenery and the frame limit. System requirements will be posted with the store page.