Racing

The goal of racing, is to beat the opponents to the finishing checkpoint. However, it is best to achieve personal goals, like reaching the end together as a flock.

Sparrow Country aspires to add more party goals & achievements.

Arcade Single Player Quickstart

• From the main menu

• Press Arcade

• Choose your Track

• The Lobby will now load

• Choose your Character

• (Optionally) open game settings, click the panel at the top right of the screen

  • Tweak game settings, like the number of bots, or change track

• When you’re ready, click the Play button

• Race!

Arcade Online

Hosting

• From the main menu

• Press Create Lobby

  • The default settings allow you to invite friends, and for friends to join your lobby

  • Press Create after reviewing the settings

• The Lobby will now load

• Wait for others to connect

• (Optionally) Tweak game settings, like the number of bots

  • To open game settings, click the panel at the top right of the screen

• When you’re ready, click the Play button

Joining an existing Lobby

From an Invite

• With Sparrow Country running

• You may press SHIFT+Tab (Steam) or SHIFT+F3 (EGS)

  • with the overlay focused

  • find your friends list

  • right click on your friend that is hosting

  • click Join Game

Drop in on a friend

Depending on the hosts' lobby settings, an invite may not be needed and you may be able to drop in using:

• With Sparrow Country running

• You may press SHIFT+Tab (Steam) or SHIFT+F3 (EGS)

  • with the overlay focused

  • find your friends list

  • right click on your friend that is hosting

  • click Join Game

Joining a public server

• From the main menu

• Press Join Lobby

• Public games will appear in the list, if any games are available

• Press the entry you’d like to join

Return to Lobby

After a race has concluded, you will be shown the match results presentation, and a button to ‘Return to Lobby’ lets you pick the next race.

Arcade Settings

Bots

Bots are fun to race against. Crank up the number of bots for a chaotic field.

Don’t fall too far behind, they might leave you in the dust, and currently do not wait up. There is no difficulty setting yet.

Bots do not use all their abilities yet, like Star Burst. If you’re advanced, you may find them a little easy. You may try inviting a friend for a better challenge.

Arcade Gameplay

Race through checkpoints

During a race you must try to pass through as many checkpoints as possible. If you miss too many you will be disqualified (DNF).

DNF (Did Not Finish)

DNF occurs when a racer does not reach enough checkpoints, or the time limit expires and a racer has not crossed the finish line.

Points

Points accumulate as you pass-through checkpoints. In Arcade mode points do not have an impact on the ending awards. The player with the top score will be highlighted in a future version of the game. Points are more useful in Story mode.

Arcade Tracks

• Grassplains

• Beach Aisles

• Indaga Valley