

With the Pit People Early Access & Xbox Game Preview launch coming up this weekend, you must be curious as to what we’ll have right off the bat! In our Early Access Announcement post, we gave a quick overview of what modes will be available on both Steam and Xbox One:

The Pit People Early Access experience will include a sizable chunk of the Story mission, plus access to several world maps (yes, there are more than one!), quests, Unfair Challenge against the AI, and Versus mode. The game can be experienced as a single player or two-player cooperative mode. Additionally, versus can be played with up to 4 people in 2v2. All multiplayer modes can be played locally or online!

Now, if you’ve never played Pit People before and want to go in spoiler free then we recommend looking away at this point. Below is a changelist with a majority of the updates we’ve made since the Pit People closed betas in 2016!



If you played the Pit People closed beta, here are changes you may notice, especially if you play through the tutorial again:

Overall bug fixes

Texture optimization

Adjustments to Horatio’s intro level

Papastrella\Pipistrella cinematics updated

Adjustments to Bully Beach

Bridgeside Bandit cinematic added

Help section moved to first layer of pause menu

Help section updated

Survival guide updated

Gore setting adjustments

World Map Wagon animations added

Improvements in artwork for more clear planning phase

More commentary narration in battles (more to come)

Various HUD and UI improvements

More fighter names added

City art updated

Prices of House slots altered

Character animations updated

Hundreds of unlocks added

Kobolds now customizable

Troll Moms now customizable

Rainbow Horses now customizable

Overall balance “nudges” to characters and weapons

More City music tracks

More battle music tracks

Blue Player 2 color changed from Purple to Dark Blue

Damage flags now show Blue Player 2 color and Red Player 2 color

Spectators can now see player cursors

Replays are now saved on disk rather than cloud save

Pixie voice added

Pandora voice added

Rainbow Horse voice added

Added 30 more Bonus Missions

Added 4 more Side Quests

Added 2 more World Maps

Online Arena Lobby anonymity changed from manual control to game-automated

English subtitles updated

A portion of supported languages added in subtitle options

Players can start an online session with a ghost partner team and spectators can join

Notifications are shown when the ghost partner team is activated or deactivated

An “MVPP” is now shown in battle results

The game automatically disconnects from an online session if host player is alone and idle for 5 minutes

The house shows the first local player’s roster count and total kill count

The market refreshes after a vs. battle is finished

Completed quests are turned in to the city immediately, letting you stay on the world map and take on more quests

A warning is shown when a player tries to sell an item or fighter but has maximum gold

Text chat is available regardless of controller mapping

Players can disconnect from a network game via the pause menu

Videos are paused when player switches focus

A cinematics volume setting was added

The comm icon menu can be used whenever the auto-battler is active

Push to talk is on by default

Tournament points are awarded even if the system clock is up to 15 minutes off the server clock

Fighters can still heal fully by accruing enough experience points at max level

Narrator commentary was added in various contexts e.g. when a fighter dies

Players can choose instant text speed

Players can’t have more than 10 of most items now

When a player has the maximum number of an item and receives a new one, they receive 85 gold instead

Gore is turned off by default in Germany and Australia

Steam: The wagon can be driven with mouse

Steam: Clicking anywhere dismisses one-button prompts

Steam: There’s now a button to open the replay folder

Steam: Some Nyko and Saitek controllers are now supported

Steam: Players are given items for ownership of Castle Crashers and/or BattleBlock Theater

Xbox One: Players are given items for ownership of Castle Crashers Remastered



More quests, collectible items, story missions, world maps and other polish will be worked on throughout Early Access and those changes will be updated in along the way. The aim for full release is to be no longer than a year but no shorter than a couple months.

We can’t wait to launch on Friday and have you be a part of this journey towards completing Pit People for Xbox One and Steam!