Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders News

[h3]Hello Riders,[/h3]

On Monday (7 pm MEST/ https://notime.zone/O9-Ym_uX7364j) the Steam Next Fest starts and we will open up the 2-8 players Racing Multiplayer and a second trail. We are all super excited to finally roam the mountains with you together!

We also took your feedback to heart and rebalanced the Lynx ski for the Next Fest demo.

• Initial pushing will be stronger
  
• The air resistance will be weaker for lower speeds but stronger for higher speeds. This means you can better accelerate at the beginning but in general, Lynx won’t be as crazy fast anymore.
  
• Landing slightly sideways will also be more forgiving so you don’t crash that easily.
  

Due to the balancing changes, we will start with fresh leaderboards on Monday as some of the current speedrunning strategies won’t be achievable anymore.

We wanted to give this warning ahead of time so you don’t wonder where your times will have gone on Monday.

Though we are thinking about ways to immortalize the Top 10 Total Time for the Blue and Black Slope of the Pre-Demo in the game, to honor all the amazing runs we have seen over the last week!

We are pretty confident that we have finally fixed the crash bug some people experience when starting the game and we will upload a patch on Monday.

Thank you all for your feedback. We are super grateful for all the positivity around Snow Riders and hope to see you all Monday evening on the Lonely Mountains!

Your Megagons

If you haven’t checked out the Pre-Demo yet and want to enjoy some smooth carving over the weekend here is the link:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3238120/Lonely_Mountains_Snow_Riders_Demo/

Hey Riders
we released an update this morning that should address the endless loading screen issue. If you had the issue please let us know if it works for you now.

Concerning the crash-on-start issue that a few people are experiencing. We're still not sure what's causing it and updating the burst compiler didn't seem to have fixed it.
You might want to try to remove the Plugins\x86_64\lib_burst_generated.dll in your Snow Riders folder and see if you can start the game without it.

Have fun on the mountains!
Your Megagons

[h2]Hello Riders,[/h2]

thank you all for the tremendous feedback on the Demo. We’re so happy that many of you enjoy the Lonely Mountains once again.

We just released a patch that tackles some of the reported initial issues.
[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed crash when opening the leaderboards
  
• Fixed switching pages sometimes not working on the leaderboards
  
• Fixed localization issues in the Control Explanation screen
  
• Fixed that ghosts don't start after respawning at checkpoint without moving
  
• Fixed a bug that time was registered as zero when crashing on the checkpoint line
  
• Fixed a bug that players were able to respawn when entering a resting spot
  
• Updated Burst compiler which might fix that for some players the game crashed on start

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• Leaderboard Filters can now be directly switched with left/right
  
• B now also exits the pause menu back to the game
  
• Some text improvements for the special Steam Next texts
  
• Increased size for some of the checkpoint lines
  
• Reduced glossiness for background mountain in the menu scene

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]

• Leaderboard filters don’t work with mouse controls.
  
• The game is stuck in loading on start. We are still investigating that one. We added additional debug information to this build to get a better understanding of what might happening here. If you are still experiencing the error please send us your log file which you can find here: C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Megagon Industries\Lonely Mountains - Snow Riders Demo\LMSR_Custom_Log,log to [email protected]

Thank you all for your feedback and have a great week on the snowy Lonely Mountains!
Your Megagons

We have a favour to ask!

In a few weeks time, Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders will be participating in the Steam Next Fest with a free demo.

We want to make sure the Steam Next Fest demo is as good as it can possibly be before releasing it to the world. That’s why we’re currently collecting feedback on it - right now!!

We just uploaded a demo to Steam to test! It has no multiplayer yet and less trails than the actual Steam Next fest demo (think of it as a demo of a demo). When the next fest starts on October 14th we’ll be adding an extra track and 2-8 person multiplayer.

PLAY HERE:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3238120/Lonely_Mountains_Snow_Riders_Demo/


We’d love you to check it out and let us know what you think! 🙂 Best channel for feedback is our Discord but of course we will also be active in the forums.

All the best and have a great ride on the snowy Lonely Mountains!
Your Megagons

[h2]Hello Riders, [/h2]

We hope you’re all doing great!

Gamescom is still in full swing and we’re super grateful and excited about the positive reaction to Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders!

In case you missed it there was also quite a bit of new info on the game in the past few days



We did a little narrated trailer taking a deeper look into the gameplay of Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders and explaining all about the new multiplayer modes.
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If you want to check out some raw, uncommented multiplayer mayhem with lots of crashing developers then these videos might be for you!

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You won’t believe how many takes it took to get these right without anyone of the dev team crashing at the wrong moment :D So we hope you enjoy them!


We are still at gamescom until Sunday evening so please feel free to drop by and play the Snow Riders demo! You can also win a limited poster! We’re located at the Indie Arena Booth, Hall 10.2, Booth F010g - E019 Section 1 No 8.



And as a final reminder. We will have an interview with IGN Germany tomorrow (it should air around 12 pm to 1 pm CEST) and we will live stream the game in the Indie Arena Booth Stream on Sunday at 11:25 am CEST https://www.twitch.tv/indiearenabooth

We wish you all a great weekend and see you on the mountains!

Your Megagons