All players share one District, hosted on a dedicated server.
Proximity voice chat in the District; volume fades with distance.
M mutes your own mic. Menu > Players mutes other players.
Players you blocked on Steam are muted, and the queue skips games they are waiting in.
Online service connected for schedules and Beta Ranked.
Game menus
New game page for Haha House, Primal Ball, The Drunk Skunk and Kangaroo Court with four tabs: Play, Private Room, a game list, and Host.
The same page opens from the main menu, District doors, the District pause menu, venue pause menus and Primal Ball.
One main button per tab; its label says what it does.
Some choices need a 1-second hold, for example Decline on Match found.
Arrow keys and Tab navigate every menu. Q/E or LB/RB switch tabs.
Button hints for keyboard, Xbox and PlayStation on every screen.
How to play page for each game, showing your own key bindings.
New main menu start screen. My Schedule is always in the main menu.
Matchmaking queue
Queue from any game page and stay in the District while you wait.
Queue box under Giggles shows your wait time and the players in line.
Leave the queue from the pause menu or the game page.
Match found: 10 seconds to accept (20 seconds for Beta Ranked). Decline: hold Esc or B for 1 second. Input is ignored for the first 0.5 seconds.
Three declines in a row: 2-minute queue cooldown.
Queue again prompt after a game.
The queue ends if you enter a Private room or lose the District connection.
Party queue: the leader picks the game, the party stays together, and one decline returns the whole party.
Queued games contain real players only.
Match sizes
Haha House: 1 comic + 3 crowd. After 2 minutes, starts with 1 + 1. "Take the mic?" offer after 90 seconds with no comic. The crowd can join during the show, up to 16. The mic is offered to the crowd if the comic does not arrive within 1 minute or leaves.
Primal Ball: 3v3. After 2 minutes, starts with even teams down to 1v1. Open spots can be filled during the first 2 minutes.
The Drunk Skunk: 1 game master + 2 players. After 2 minutes, starts with 1 + 1. "Host the table?" offer after 90 seconds with no game master.
Kangaroo Court: pairs register a case together; the queue finds a judge, jury and crowd. Solo players can queue as judge, juror or spectator. No rewards or penalties during the playtest.
Schedules and hosting
Host tab: host a game now (Start my game / End my game) or schedule one.
Live list: join a running game with Join as.
Upcoming list in your local time, with sign-up sheets.
Reminders 10 minutes and 1 minute before a scheduled game.
My Schedule screen.
Join by invitation with a 6-character party code.
If the online service is down, schedule and Ranked features show a notice and the rest of the game keeps working.
Primal Ball
New Beta Ranked mode on the Play tab.
Characters that cannot play Primal Ball yet pick Croc or Raccoon on arrival instead of returning to the District. The pick is remembered.
Items Primal Ball cannot show stay at home and remain owned.
Esc, Start and Options open only the pause menu. The controls guide is on Tab, or L1 in the pause menu.
Enter or Create in the controls guide opens the pause menu and never leaves the match.
Controllers work when going straight from the main menu into Primal Ball.
The camera no longer goes under the pitch. Look up to kick higher.
Play pauses on a dead ball.
A tackled ball carrier gets up 1 second after the tackler.
Props and Gimmicks
Prop slot: 7 or tap LT to take out or put away a hand prop.
Gimmick slot: 8 or tap RT to play a sound or throw a throwable. In Primal Ball: 8 or R3.
Works in the District, all four games and Private rooms. Primal Ball has gimmicks only, no props.
Slots fill with your first prop and gimmick. Assign others on the emote wheel: hold T, then press 7 or 8 on an item.
Gimmick cooldown: 5 seconds per player, plus a 2-second room limit.
In a live Haha House set, crowd gimmicks need heckling on. The comic is exempt.
Item bar added to the Tavern and Kangaroo Court HUD.
Shop cards show your actual Gimmick key.
Props that do not fit a character show "Doesn't fit".
Controls and settings
Settings > Controls has a tab per game: District, Haha House, Primal Ball, The Drunk Skunk, Kangaroo Court.
Keyboard and controller columns, swap on conflict, and Reset this game.
F10 opens Controls on the current game's tab.
Primal Ball, Tavern and Court keys are now rebindable.
Mic check moved from F7 to V.
New invert camera option.
The resolution setting now applies.
Other changes and fixes
Removed developer debug keys and console cheats (free camera, world freeze) from player builds.
Kangaroo Court: an empty Judge's throne lowers back to normal height, so the judge can sit again.
The Drunk Skunk has interior music.
Known issues
Party queue checks only the party leader's Steam blocks. Every player's blocks still mute those players.
A Kangaroo Court case needs at least 3 people.
Some props do not fit every character yet ("Doesn't fit").
Queued games only match players on the newest build. If you see "The District is updating", restart Steam to update.