🧪 RVClient Voice Chat — v1.7.75 Beta 1

Custom matches, fully playable — as a beta. Create, reserve, book and run your own matches from the launcher or the game's own menus — plus fairer late joins, a Vulkan option, an in-game Servers tab and a pile of fixes. Try it before everyone gets it.

📥 How to get the beta

• Open the launcher → Settings → Updates → turn on Try beta releases → Check for updates → Install beta. The launcher restarts on 1.7.75 beta and installs the beta Client.dll.
• Nobody gets the beta unless they turn it on.

🔄 Back to the stable version

• Settings → Updates → Go back to stable — it installs the current stable launcher and Client.dll and turns the beta switch off. One click, any time.
• Or just turn Try beta releases off — the launcher offers Go back to stable straight away.
• When 1.7.75 goes stable, beta testers are moved onto it automatically.

🎮 Custom Matches

• Create from the game itself — Social → Create Match and Join now work in the game's own menus, and travelling into your match no longer crashes.
• New Custom Match page in the launcher — separate Create, Join and My bookings tabs. Joining only needs the code.
• Invite codes made for you — 6 numbers, the same as the game's Join screen, created when you press Create match.
• Pick the region your match runs in, or leave it on Auto (your Region page choice, or the nearest server). The game's Create screen has the same Region choice, and it stays in step with the launcher.
• Choose your match — Max players, Bots (players and bots fill at most 40 places; in Duos, Trios and Squads the bots play in teams) and Launch when full, in the launcher and on the game's Create screen.
• Join timer — 1 to 10 minutes; the time you pick is the real countdown.
• Let strangers fill the empty slots — optional: players without the code can fill open places.
• Live status — how many custom matches are running and when the next slot frees up.

📅 Reservations & Bookings

• Reserve the next slot — every custom server busy? Create becomes Reserve next slot and you're put in line with your place and the expected wait. The game's own Create button reads Reserve Slot too.
• Book a date and time — up to 7 days ahead, shown in your own time zone. Two people can't book the same time.
• Your turn — you get a notification and 5 minutes to start; miss it and it goes to the next person. Your place is kept even if you close the launcher or the game.
• Bookings are honoured — if the match before yours runs over, you still get your server as soon as it's free.
• My bookings — your booking or your place in line, with everything you chose and your invite code (with Copy), available the moment you reserve, so you can share it ahead and never lose it to a missed notification.
• Change or Cancel — change your settings or your time (switch between the next free server and a set date and time). Changes keep your place in line. Every reserve, change and cancel asks first and confirms when it's done.
• Open the game for me — tick it and the launcher opens the game when your match is ready and puts you straight in.
• Clean start every time — each host gets a fresh lobby on their chosen mode, and a server gets a moment to reset between matches so the next host doesn't hit errors.

⚔️ Matches & Matchmaking

• Late joining — missed the cannon? Jump into the running match by taking over a bot, up to ring 7.
• Full health on takeover — you start at full health, whatever the bot had left.
• No more spawning in the storm — a bot caught outside the ring is moved to safe ground inside it before you take it over, and a party lands together.
• Barges fill with people — a barge no longer leaves early just because bots filled its empty seats; it keeps gathering players.
• The barge countdown is back to 120 seconds from the first player aboard. It only leaves early when it's really full, so friends who queue a few seconds after you still make it.
• Smarter matchmaking — players queueing together end up in the same match instead of spread over several, and the launcher pings every address a server has so you're sent to the closest one.
• More servers where it's busy — busy regions now run a second Solos server, so there's almost always a lobby open.
• Rejoining — if your game really drops you get one reconnect within 90 seconds; leaving and rejoining as a fresh player no longer works.
• End-of-match placement — the results screen shows your real placement and team count.

🎨 Display & Graphics

• Field of view, fair for everyone — choose 80, 85, 90 (default), 95 or 100 in the in-game display settings. Everyone has the same range, so nobody sees more of the fight than anyone else.
• Vulkan graphics option (Settings → Game → Graphics API) — for graphics cards that don't draw Rumbleverse properly through DirectX 11, such as Intel Arc. Controllers keep working, and switching back to DirectX 11 restores the game's own files.
• In-game Servers tab — every server with its ping and player count, plus display settings, right in the frontend menu.

🔧 Launcher

• New installer & update system — RVLauncherSetup.exe and the update helper were rebuilt from scratch:
  • every download is checked against its published checksum; a damaged or tampered download is refused and nothing on your PC changes;
  • updates are unpacked by the installer itself — no hidden helper programs;
  • it never force-closes the launcher or the game: it asks you to close rVclient, and if it's still open the update simply waits for next time;
  • the game no longer starts the installer every time you launch it — only when no launcher is installed yet;
  • proper name, icon and version details in Windows;
  • this should stop antivirus programs wrongly flagging rVclient.
• Match recording is off unless you turn it on.
• Server notifications — "server is online" alerts no longer repeat when two servers share a name.

🐛 Fixed

• The launcher could crash on the Custom Match page while a drop-down list was open.
• "Could not reach the match" no longer pops up when you're simply sent back to the menu.
• A custom match started while the game was still loading failed — it now waits for the game.
• "Don't record my matches" was ignored on the barge.
• The custom match join timer turned 1, 2 or 8 minutes into 10 minutes.
• The Servers tab went empty or closed itself after a match, and lagged while open.
• "Close Rumbleverse first" appeared when only a game server was running on your PC.
• Switching from Vulkan back to DirectX 11 could leave the game without its own controller file.

⚙️ Updates

• Version 1.7.75 beta 1 in Client.dll and the launcher. Includes everything from 1.7.74.
• Something wrong? Tell us here, then Settings → Updates → Go back to stable.
• rVclient won't open? Open Command Prompt as administrator, run taskkill /F /T /IM rVclient.exe, then start rVclient again.

📥 Updating to the beta

Open the launcher → Settings → Updates → turn on Try beta releases → Check for updates → Install beta. It restarts on 1.7.75 beta and installs everything. Back to stable any time: Settings → Updates → Go back to stable.