🚀 RVClient Voice Chat — v1.7.78 (Update)

Apply to join the RVClient team from the launcher, new badges, a smoother start after taking over a bot, a fix for games that kept closing at start-up — and a big server kit for hosts.

📥 Download

https://rvclient.com — grab RVClient-VoiceChat-v1.7.78.zip from the site, or update through the launcher.

🛡️ New: Staff Application

• A new Staff Application page in the launcher menu. When applications are open you can apply to help on RVClient: pick a role, tell us when you're usually around and answer a few questions.
• You can save a draft, change your answers after sending until your application is recommended, and follow where it stands on the same page. Messages from the team show up there too.
• When applications are closed the page says so, with a message from the team when there is one.

🏅 Badges

• The team can now hand out new badges — they show next to names on the Friends list, Stats and leaderboards, like the existing ones.

🤖 Taking over a bot

• Smoother start — your game now keeps the server's messages while it is still loading after a takeover, so the ring timer shows and you land on solid ground instead of dropping through the floor.

🎮 Game keeps closing at start-up

• The launcher switches between DirectX 11 and Vulkan when the game won't start. Before, one crash or a quick quit could mark a graphics mode as broken for good, and some players ended up with "closes in both DirectX 11 and Vulkan".
• Now a mode that worked before gets another try first, a failed mode is tried again after 12 hours, and picking a mode yourself in Settings → Game starts over clean.

🖧 Server hosts — kit 2026.11.14.3

Everything below runs on your own server once it has the kit. Update from RV Modes or the panel when your server is quiet.

• Taking over a bot — no more dropping through the floor right after a takeover: the player is held until the floor is there. Players on an older rVclient no longer get pulled back while walking.
• Team modes end properly — when only one team is left the match ends and they get Top 1; when only bots are left the match ends too. The "teams alive" count on screen is right again (it could show an extra team after a takeover).
• Playing alone in Duos, Trios or Squads — the barge cannon works again.
• Stuck bots — a bot stuck in the sea or in its launch flight by the barge is moved inland or removed (it could win the match), and a bot stuck climbing a wall lets go or is moved.
• Last team vs bots — when only one team of players is left, the bots come and fight; bots that can't reach anyone are removed so the match can end. A bot that does nothing all match is removed too. A bot on a team with a player is never removed.
• Final circle — the last circle always moves now (it sometimes never travelled).
• Fewer crashes — fixed a server crash after bot takeovers.
• Long matches — a long match that is still being played is no longer restarted by the server's automatic recovery.
• Busy matches — on busy servers, players near you in a fight are updated first. FightFirstReplication=false in Config.ini turns it off.
• Items stuck in a player's hand — for example after an interrupted eat — are now put right automatically instead of only being logged. HeldItemFix=false in Config.ini goes back to log-only.

🔐 File hashes (MD5)

Check your download matches before you run it:

• Windows — RVClient-VoiceChat-v1.7.78.zip 8b3edd02f041d11091c533254d6f1157
• Windows — rvclient-launcher.zip e52d1784a3884b7bf0ed79b36542f8a7
• Linux — rVclient-x86_64.AppImage e5a22e180e7ea5bb3b5de3faffb1d4a2
• Linux — rvclient-launcher-linux.tar.gz ba64b5163a1d50429fc678377f774f59
• Linux — rvclient-linux-setup.sh 9a108300db68c3416254d7d964e98f4b
• Mac — rvclient-mac-setup.zip e2591da2f9b05746964a610abf16ad46
• Mac — rvclient-launcher-mac.tar.gz b9ff556ff0bb335e7bb04d6257f0a43b

⚙️ Updates

• Version 1.7.78 in Client.dll and the launcher, on Windows, Linux and Mac. Includes everything from 1.7.77.
• rVclient won't open? Open Command Prompt as administrator, run taskkill /F /T /IM rVclient.exe, then start rVclient again.

📥 Updating

Open the launcher and go to Settings → Updates → Check for updates. Accept the update and it restarts itself on 1.7.78 and installs everything. Or download the latest version at https://rvclient.com.