Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders News

Hey Riders!

Good news Our cross-platform leaderboards are finally working again!
Please let us know if you have any further issues with the,

Unfortunately, a lot of entries did not get through to the database over the last two days so it might be that you need to do some of your best times again and that there is a difference between your local best time vs. the time/rank shown in the leaderboards. Sorry for that!

Good luck, Godspeed and Happy Speedrunning!

Your Megagons

Few games place me so betwixt the yin and yang of frustration and flow state as Snow Riders. Here is a compact selection of ski slopes, each one yodeling the promise of my smooth and exhilarating descent over fresh powder. But wait, someone has littered this Ski Sunday with obstacles, forcing me to run a gauntlet of trees, rocks and rivers. I am thrust headlong into each of these obstacles a dozen times before my withered synapses and tired bones internalise these arboreal teachings and I make it safely to the bottom.

As in life, there is joy to be found in this journey precisely because it is hard. Unlike in life, the camera is often facing backwards while you do it.

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[h2]Hey Riders,[/h2]

While the game is not yet verified on Steam Deck yet, we wanted to share some insights on what to expect when running the game on the Steam Deck:

[h3]Performance[/h3]
We test the game a lot on the Steam Deck and while it is not always hitting 60FPS with the "Steam Deck" preset in the graphics settings, it should stay way above 40FPS, often above 55FPS.

However we know that some people reported some serious performance issues, going down to 24FPS and lower. We tried to reproduce that and the only way we could manage was setting the Steam Deck resolution to something like 1440p or more. The game unfortunately doesn't handle that well right now and might display a lower resolution while rendering at 2550x1440. One thing you should try if you are affected is manually selecting a resolution, e.g. the native Steam Deck resolution of 1280 × 800, which should work well.

[h3]Input[/h3]
The game is best played with a controller, so it works well out of the box with the Gamepad preset.

[h3]Roadmap[/h3]
We are working on optimizing the game further and will release updates over the next weeks. Right now we are trying to come up with a roadmap we can commit to, but right after release there is so much going on, that we need to get an overview of the reported issues and focus on the most urgent ones (mostly leaderboards and multiplayer related right now).

Please let us know how the game works for you on Steam Deck and if you have any issues! We are very committed to make the game run really well on the device we all love.

Cheers,
your Megagons

Hello Riders,

Thank you everyone for your support on launch day! We’re all very happy about all the great feedback. We had over 125k players on Day 1 and have an unbelievable metacritic of 92%!

We wanted to give you a little update on the most important things we’re working on.

• Leaderboards: Unfortunately the leaderboard servers didn’t survive the number of players yesterday and we need to do some optimizations before we can bring them back up again. We are working hard on it but we don’t have an ETA for the fix at the moment.
  
• Quickmatch Issues: Although multiplayer works mostly fine we are tracking a whole bunch of unregular issues, especially in the quickmatch. We’re trying to fix what we can at the moment and it would be great if you keep the reports and log-files coming as some of them are really hard to reproduce for us.
  Also please feel free to join our Discord and use the looking-for-tours and become-friends channels to organize private tours as they seem to be a lot more stable. There are also audio channels you can use for better communication.
  
• Racing Timer: For some unknown reason our racing timer (which starts when a player takes too long to reach the finish line) is completely broken. We’re working on fixing this right now.
  

We will keep you updated on these issues and will inform when a new patch will go live in the coming days. In the meantime we hope you still have a good time on the Lonely Mountains and please keep your feedback, ideas and suggestions coming.

Your Megagons

The creators of my favourite extreme downhill biking game, Descenders, went on to make an extreme snowboarding game, and now the creators of my second favourite extreme downhill biking game, Lonely Mountain: Downhill, have made an extreme skiing game. I'm not going to pretend to be surprised by this: all of these sports are good because they're fast and dangerous, especially at sharp gradients...
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