Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders News

[h2]Hi Lonely Mountaineers,[/h2]

A huge thanks to everyone who tried our teaser demo already! Your feedback is super helpful and it’s wild to see what times some of you managed to pull off already. 😀

Today, we launched the full demo with a huge update that adds the following:
2-8 online multiplayer (racing)

• Added a whole new mountain track to explore (single and multiplayer)
  
• Improved physics. We took your feedback to heart and tweaked the physics a little bit. Initial pushing is now stronger, less air resistance at low speeds but stronger resistance at higher speeds and landing sidewards is more forgiving now.
  
• Due to the new balancing, we also cleared the leaderboards because previous records might not be achievable anymore.
  
• Tons of fixes and improvements but most importantly:
  
• - The infinite loading screen should be gone
  
• - The crash some people experienced when starting the game should now also be fixed
  

You can download the demo on our demo Steam page right now!



This is the first time we are testing our online multiplayer, and we are super curios to hear if you like it! This time we are testing the racing mode for up to 8 people but the full version will also have a co-op mode. The team already had the best time testing the racing mode, as going on the slopes with a few friends adds a ton of fun and competitive chaos!

We are likely leaving the demo up for the whole duration of the Steam Fest (until the 21st October) but might remove it afterward again for a while to polish it up. So jump in while it lasts! 🙂

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As always, if you enjoy Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders, please add it to your wishlist or follow our developer account as that helps us a lot to make the game more visible on Steam. We would also be super grateful if you leave a review for the demo.

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

Your Megagons

One of the most important lessons in skiing is, presumably, to look where you're going. You wouldn't want to ski with your eyes closed or while viewing yourself from a drone pointed back at the mountain from above. That'd be daft.

Or maybe not. Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is the frosty followup to the mountain biking original, Lonely Mountains: Downhill, and like its predecessor it's about going fast while barely able to see what's coming. Yet also like its predecessor, initial frustrations melted away until I was eagerly hitting the slopes in the Snow Riders demo for just one more quick go.

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[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