Thank you for every report since 0.3.5. This update is a big one: new ways to ride and score your runs, new forests and a proper ski-area boundary, new lines and better acting in the story, and a long list of fixes.
Highlights
- Five scores on every run. Speed, Flow, Control, Style and Survival, on the screen as you ride.
- Achievements. 15 Steam achievements to earn.
- Skis to choose. Five pairs, in Free Ride and on the Skier page in Settings.
- A terrain park. Five jumps in Meadow Glide by day: leave the piste at the Park Entrance.
- Meadow Glide at night. It now rides under a full moon, with moonlight and moon shadows beyond the floodlights.
- New forests. A natural forest floor in all of Front Valley, the far shore and Lost Valley, and the bare dead trees are gone. There is more to discover off the marked runs, too.
- A real ski-area boundary. The edge of the ski area is now a rope on poles, as at a real resort, in place of the invisible push that turned you back.
- The story, sharper. New and rewritten lines across Chapter 1: Josef at lunch, the morning ride with Oread in full view at sunrise, Astrid's advice on the chairlift, the end of Last Light and the ride up to the race.
- People. Odile has a new look, Josef's shirt and collar are rebuilt, and Rook and Astrid stand more naturally in scenes, with their poles resting on the snow.
Also new
- Free Ride: finishing a run shows your time and saves it, and you ride on; the clock starts again at the start line. The board leads with each run's rating, says what makes it hard and lists the easiest first. Meadow Glide now reaches the chairlift, and its snow shows its texture in daylight.
- Accessibility: a new Settings page with six settings, and the line meter now shows its states by shape too.
- Mouse look: hold the right button or use free mouse, in Settings.
- Tips: choose how long they stay on screen, and press T to show the last one again.
- Skier page: your skier now stands in the ski rental shop.
- Skiing: Rook and Astrid relax on straight glides, and skiing on Valmont's roads is no longer possible: take your skis off at a ski rack.
- Saves: progress is now kept as files, and graphics settings are remembered per machine.
- Signs: every sign in Valmont and on the pistes is repainted, and the ski rental is much sharper.
- Cinematics menu: the scenes play straight through, with previous, play and pause, and next.
- The ice axe: Rook's grip on the axe in the opening is redone.
- Performance: a better frame rate in Front Valley, and 6 GB graphics cards keep full textures.
Fixes
- Getting stuck after the chairlift: holding forward while facing uphill or across the slope now turns Rook toward the fall line, and pressing forward on the flat at the top moves you off.
- The top lift hut no longer throws you when you ski off its deck.
- F8 now opens the bug report from the menus.
- No more tree ghosting at speed, tree shadows hold still as you ski, and plants sit on the snow on every Free Ride.
- Rook's goggles no longer streak, and his jacket no longer opens at the armholes.
- Hands stay out of the bar and the tables, and skis and poles clear the ski rack's low rail.
- Valmont's boundary rocks are solid.
- The jump's take-off sound is quieter.
- Level 5 counts any trick you land without falling.
- People on the slopes answer a bump in a voice that suits them.
- Josef no longer lets you walk into him at the bar, and two floating shelves at the lodge are gone.
- A change aimed at a rare freeze on some AMD graphics cards. If your game still freezes, please tell us your graphics card.
Known issues
- Pale shapes can appear under some trees as you ski past.
- After Astrid leaves you to practise, she can still be standing at the end of the run.
- On the chairlift in scenes, the ski poles can shake.
- Riders on the chairlift can sink into the seat, most as they get off.
- Level 3's morning run starts under cloud straight after the sunrise.
- On Mac OS, the glow round the sun on the sunrise ride can show faint rings.
Keep the reports coming: press F8 in the game, post in the pinned thread, or find us on Discord.