Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders News

Hello Riders,

we hope you're all doing well! It's great to see that you all still enjoy the demo so we wanted to give you fair warning that we will turn off the multiplayer for the Snow Riders Demo on Monday the 16th. So if you are still working on that Level 10 outfit, this weekend will be your last chance!

You can still play the Singleplayer and go for the leaderboard best-times but we have to do some server work before the release. More news on that will come on Monday as well!

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

Your Megagons

[h2]Hey Riders,[/h2]

It was great seeing you all play the demo over the last two weeks! We are tremendously grateful for all the positive feedback and your bug reports, ideas and suggestions! We have already put a lot of things on our list to improve for the full release.

As we still see lots of new players trying out the game we decided to keep the demo - multi- and singleplayer - online for a while longer to give fresh players the opportunity to also earn the unique Steam Next Fest outfit. Besides that, it’s also just fun watching all the demo streams and let’s plays.

We will inform you ahead of time when we feel it’s time to take the demo down again.

Best wishes and see you on the mountains!
Your Megagons

Hey Riders,

it’s great to see you’re all enjoying the time on the Lonely Mountains! Again, thank you all for your feedback!

We received feedback that it currently takes too long to reach Level 10 in the demo, which is totally understandable considering that you would also like to try out tons of other amazing demos.

So we just put a patch live that rebalances the progression system. You still need to hit the slopes in multiplayer to reach level 10 to earn the special next fest outfit but it should take considerably less time than before. Please download the newest patch to update your level!

Also, if that wasn’t totally clear, you will get the same experience for tours in private lobbies as for the quickmatch tours, so it’s easy to just grab a few friends to level up. We also set up a whole bunch of new channels in our Discord to find friends and private tours.

Other fixes for today’s patch include:
Fixed once again that people get stuck at the finish line (this one is a really persistent little bugger)

• Settings now have a button that deletes current best times & ghosts (important for the people who have best times and ghosts from before the Lynx Rebalancing.
  
• There is now a quality preset for the Steam Deck. Please let us know how the performance on the deck is for you with the new preset!
• ready display in the "ready for next round" display now always shows the correct number of players
  
• The ready button in the Next Screen should now always show the correct state
  
• Fixed a bug that you ended up in a non-respawnable crash state when you were crashed while a host migration happened.
  
• Fixed once again that the end timer in racing mode shouldn't stay on screen anymore
  
• Waiting time in the quick match lobby doesn’t get reset when a player leaves the lobby
  

If you want to know what’s waiting for you at the end of level 10 here is a little teaser.


All the best and have a great weekend on the Lonely Mountains. And as always, it would mean a lot to us if you wishlist and leave a review for the demo as this weekend is super important for the game.

Your Megagons!

[h2]Hey Riders,[/h2]

another day - another patch. This one just went live 5 minutes ago and has mostly some smaller hotfixes.

• Fixed that players are sometimes stuck at the starting line and can’t move
  
• Fixed that the end of race timer didn’t vanish after the race sometimes
  
• Fixed negative experience in the XP bar when reaching level 10
  
• Fixed a bug that players were sometimes joining as spectators when they entered the lobby in the last second
  
• Added version number to start menu
  

That’s it for today. We recommend downloading the updated version before playing multiplayer although both versions should still be compatible.

We also want to thank everyone who wishlisted the game and for all the nice reviews! It really helps us a lot with the visibility and it is super motivating to read all your kind words 💙 💙 💙

Have a great ride,
Your Megagons!

[h2]Hey Riders,[/h2]

We finally managed to set the new patch live. Thank you all for your patience! We are hopeful that future patches will go more smoothly.

You need to update the demo now to play multiplayer! (Sometimes you have to restart Steam for an update to actually work)

Patch Notes:

• We implemented a new end-timer. So in case a player won’t finish the race or will take too long while everyone else has already crossed the finish line a timer will set in and end the race if the person doesn’t finish in time.
  
• We shortened all waiting times (time until a tour starts, time between trails, time between tours).
  
• Leaderboard Navigation will work with mouse controls again.
  
• We fixed that sometimes network messages (like new host, host disconnected, etc) would stay on the screen until you restarted the game.
  
• We improved the rubberbanding / weird movements that sometimes happen when you respawn at a checkpoint in multiplayer.
  
• We fixed the problem where the timer showing when the next tour starts wasn’t always visible and also redesigned it.
  
• We made the last jump on Trail 2 Hard Slope a little bit easier.
  
• In the future, you will be informed in-game if you need to update your version for multiplayer.
  

Let us please know if you experience any issues with the new build.

As you might know, Steam now allows you to leave a review for a demo. If you like the game it would really mean the world to us if you leave us a positive review. The Next Fest is super crowded this time and it would help us a lot to get some more visibility for the game!

Thank you all and see you on the mountains,
Your Megagons