COMING SOON - Score Rebalance 🌟
One month!
☝️That's how long it took you to break SNØ's scoring system. For us it has been a real pleasure seeing our community discover the best scoring strategies (strategies we couldn't even imagine), and search for mountains providing the best scenarios for exploitation.
Two weeks ago (exactly one month after SNØ's release) Nevir posted this on our Discord:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
The Godspin
We realized quite early after the release of SNØ that we would have to do a score balancing patch at some point. The "Godspin" (demonstrated in the video above) quickly proved itself to be a superior scoring strategy. It exploits the fact that full spin rewards grows exponentially, and for weeks we have seen Godspin dominate the leaderboard.
But we want SNØ to be fun for everyone, and allow for a wide range of playstyles and viable scoring strategies. So in service of the game - and everyone playing it - we have finally decided to go through with the rebalancing patch.
We have been reluctant to go through with it, both because we didn't want to spoil the fun for our top players, and because rebalancing comes with a couple of "kjipe"* consequences for everyone. The point is, we don't take this lightly, but with Nevir's score overflow run we feel there are no reasons left to not go through with it.
Consequences of rebalancing
To ensure everyone doesn't end up with unobtainable leaderboard scores and personal bests, the patch will include:
Since the next update will reset all scores, we just wanted to give you a heads up. We hope you understand why we do what we do, and if you are a competitive player we also hope you are a bit excited for a fresh start.
More details about the specifics of the rebalancing patch will be posted in the patch notes as the update goes live. We're aiming for this weekend 🙏
Best
Alex
SG
*Kjipt = Norwegian word for sad, unfortunate, lame
☝️That's how long it took you to break SNØ's scoring system. For us it has been a real pleasure seeing our community discover the best scoring strategies (strategies we couldn't even imagine), and search for mountains providing the best scenarios for exploitation.
Two weeks ago (exactly one month after SNØ's release) Nevir posted this on our Discord:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
The Godspin
We realized quite early after the release of SNØ that we would have to do a score balancing patch at some point. The "Godspin" (demonstrated in the video above) quickly proved itself to be a superior scoring strategy. It exploits the fact that full spin rewards grows exponentially, and for weeks we have seen Godspin dominate the leaderboard.
But we want SNØ to be fun for everyone, and allow for a wide range of playstyles and viable scoring strategies. So in service of the game - and everyone playing it - we have finally decided to go through with the rebalancing patch.
We have been reluctant to go through with it, both because we didn't want to spoil the fun for our top players, and because rebalancing comes with a couple of "kjipe"* consequences for everyone. The point is, we don't take this lightly, but with Nevir's score overflow run we feel there are no reasons left to not go through with it.
Consequences of rebalancing
To ensure everyone doesn't end up with unobtainable leaderboard scores and personal bests, the patch will include:
- Wiping the global leaderboards
- Clearing local high scores for Score Attack and Infinite Run (Longest Zen Distance will be kept).
Since the next update will reset all scores, we just wanted to give you a heads up. We hope you understand why we do what we do, and if you are a competitive player we also hope you are a bit excited for a fresh start.
More details about the specifics of the rebalancing patch will be posted in the patch notes as the update goes live. We're aiming for this weekend 🙏
Best
Alex
SG
*Kjipt = Norwegian word for sad, unfortunate, lame