This update brings speedruns to HWS Connect+, adds map routes you can follow in game, and makes the Orbital Factory’s recipes easier to understand. There are also changes to Daily Loot and reward delivery.
Speedruns: race, replay and follow your progress
Start a run at an enabled POI and race through its course. You can join a runner, check your status or cancel your participation with the in-game speedrun commands; /speedrun opens a help popup.
Checkpoints must be passed by each player in order. The run finishes when the runner reaches a goal and everyone still in the run has completed the checkpoints.
The 3D replay shows player routes, movement and splits, and lets you play, pause, scrub and follow a player. You can also see when someone died and respawned. Course zone shapes are visible to admins; players still see checkpoint and goal labels and checkmarks.
Your in-game map points to your next checkpoint, then the goal. Joined players keep their own progress, and the bookmark clears when their run ends or they cancel.
This update brings speedruns to HWS Connect+, adds map routes you can follow in game, and makes the Orbital Factory’s recipes easier to understand. There are also changes to Daily Loot and reward delivery.
Speedruns: race, replay and follow your progress
Start a run at an enabled POI and race through its course. You can join a runner, check your status or cancel your participation with the in-game speedrun commands; /speedrun opens a help popup.
Checkpoints must be passed by each player in order. The run finishes when the runner reaches a goal and everyone still in the run has completed the checkpoints.
The 3D replay shows player routes, movement and splits, and lets you play, pause, scrub and follow a player. You can also see when someone died and respawned. Course zone shapes are visible to admins; players still see checkpoint and goal labels and checkmarks.
Your in-game map points to your next checkpoint, then the goal. Joined players keep their own progress, and the bookmark clears when their run ends or they cancel.
Boards show player avatars, and each POI’s podium shows the prizes for the selected solo, co-op or group category. Some prizes can include items delivered to your OCD.
Use Request a speedrun POI on the board to suggest a course and add a note. You can make up to five requests per UTC day; duplicate open requests don’t use up a request.
Universe map: plan routes and follow them in game
The Universe map now has a Routes panel for creating and sharing named routes through systems, sectors and POIs. Start a route to follow its stops in game, or open its link in the Steam overlay to keep track as you travel.
Add stops from the map or Registry, or generate a route from Registry POIs within a distance you choose.
Share routes with your faction. An active route is drawn in blue on the map.
Starting a route puts a bookmark on your current stop in game. You’ll get a toast as you reach a stop; skip a stop or end the route whenever you like. If bookmark syncing needs a token, the page explains how to send one.
The old Stations and Tour panels are replaced by Routes; the old Route tab is now Warp.
Orbital Factory: see the recipe and what’s missing
The craft panel now shows an item’s in-game recipe as a tree, so you can see what each ingredient is made from as well as what you still need to gather. The items the factory crafts, consumes and delivers have not changed.
Smaller changes and fixes
Daily Loot: you can claim one box per calendar day (Berlin time), always receiving the next box in the sequence. If you miss a day, that box is still next; Patreon auto-loot also claims one box a day instead of catching up with several at once.
Rewards and trading: while you’re in Cross Server Warp, rewards wait until you leave, and the HWS Trader and Marketplace won’t trade there. Cross Server Warp is also no longer offered or accepted as a player-event arena.
Speedruns: the Speedruns navigation link only appears when the server has an enabled speedrun POI.
Speedruns: starting a run now gives a clear message if the game connection isn’t ready.
Questions, bugs and wishes are welcome here or on Discord. Thank you for playing on HWS! ❤️
Boards show player avatars, and each POI’s podium shows the prizes for the selected solo, co-op or group category. Some prizes can include items delivered to your OCD.
Use Request a speedrun POI on the board to suggest a course and add a note. You can make up to five requests per UTC day; duplicate open requests don’t use up a request.
Universe map: plan routes and follow them in game
The Universe map now has a Routes panel for creating and sharing named routes through systems, sectors and POIs. Start a route to follow its stops in game, or open its link in the Steam overlay to keep track as you travel.
Add stops from the map or Registry, or generate a route from Registry POIs within a distance you choose.
Share routes with your faction. An active route is drawn in blue on the map.
Starting a route puts a bookmark on your current stop in game. You’ll get a toast as you reach a stop; skip a stop or end the route whenever you like. If bookmark syncing needs a token, the page explains how to send one.
The old Stations and Tour panels are replaced by Routes; the old Route tab is now Warp.
Orbital Factory: see the recipe and what’s missing
The craft panel now shows an item’s in-game recipe as a tree, so you can see what each ingredient is made from as well as what you still need to gather. The items the factory crafts, consumes and delivers have not changed.
Smaller changes and fixes
Daily Loot: you can claim one box per calendar day (Berlin time), always receiving the next box in the sequence. If you miss a day, that box is still next; Patreon auto-loot also claims one box a day instead of catching up with several at once.
Rewards and trading: while you’re in Cross Server Warp, rewards wait until you leave, and the HWS Trader and Marketplace won’t trade there. Cross Server Warp is also no longer offered or accepted as a player-event arena.
Speedruns: the Speedruns navigation link only appears when the server has an enabled speedrun POI.
Speedruns: starting a run now gives a clear message if the game connection isn’t ready.
Questions, bugs and wishes are welcome here or on Discord. Thank you for playing on HWS! ❤️