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- New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Climbing System Blog - How we created our climber - Part 3
We added a new part of our 'How we created our climber' blog, with insights how we handled the physics and game design of the climbing system in New Heights. For people who like to know the challenges and considerations…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Patch with fixes for reported issues
We released a fixes-patch today! It covers a lot of fixes for reports from both the Discord and Steam forum. Mostly route fixes about checkpoints, star times and geometry fixes on Al Legne, Hanshelleren and Fontaineblea…
Announcement - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Small UI / localization fixes patch
We fixed a few UI & localization issues with this patch. The Dyno tutorial showed the wrong buttons. The workshop menu didn't localize well for non-latin characters. And some other minor things.
Announcement2 changesFixUI/audio - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Full Release! New Heights out of Early Access
New Heights is now officially out of early access! It comes with a gigantic update that has cost us 19 months to develop. This update reworks the climbing system completely, optimizes a lot, includes rope based belaying…
Event7 changesGameplay - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Big Update and full game release date: 26th of February
New Heights will go out of early access with an enormous update featuring the Hanshelleren location and more than a year's development worth of features and fixes. We're working on the last bits. And finishing up the ab…
Announcement3 changesGameplayCompatibility - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Steam Sports Festival Discount - Just before the update
Hello everyone! i everyone! It's Steam Sports fest, and we've joined it with a 20% discount. If you didn't have the game yet, you can grab it for the discounted price, just before the huge update! It was meant to be tim…
Announcement6 changesBalanceGameplay - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
The biggest update yet coming in 2025
The biggest update yet coming in 2025 We have been working hard on the biggest rework and update for New Heights to date. The update will land near the end of 2025, though a beta version will be accessible in September.…
Event6 changesCompatibilityGameplay - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Steam Workshop & More Fontainebleau - Major Update Live!
The Major Summer Update is live! Adding workshop support, 65 new Fontainebleau routes and much more. Now you can really climb on anything in New Heights! You can browse the steam workshop page for user made content, cre…
Store12 changesFixWorkshop - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Full Steam Workshop Support & New Fontainebleau Locations - Update Coming Soon!
A large update with both Steam Workshop Support and three Fontainebleau locations comes out this week, allowing you to create any custom climbing location or route! Here's a quick preview of the three new locations: And…
Announcement3 changesWorkshopGameplay - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Fontainebleau Fixes Patch
Hi people, we have released a new bug-fix patch! Thanks everyone for your bug reports and suggestions 😊 It helps a lot. Fixes include: Ghosts don't turn off (mostly - there were some more edge cases discovered just now…
Event3 changesFixGameplay - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Dyno's and Bouldering in Fontainebleau
The big Dyno's and Bouldering update has arrived! It contains three locations in the boulder-rich Fontainebleau Forest near Paris, many fixes and new features. Plus brand new climbing moves: Dyno's / Jumps! Thanks every…
Event21 changesFixGameplay - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Small bugfixing patch
A new small bugfixing patch is live! Some of the changes in this patch are: Settins & Resolution are now saved correctly Leaderboard loading problem fixed Sometimes not respawning bug fixed UI bugs in travel screen & me…
Announcement5 changesFixGameplay - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Bugfix Patch
We've just uploaded the first Early Access patch. It's focused on fixing bugs. Some of the changes in this patch are: 'L-stick not working' bug with Steam Input is solved Username bugs fixed: error message if you have a…
Announcement7 changesFixPerformance - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Early Access Launch
It's finally time! You can now officially buy and play New Heights, which directly supports us to improve the game and to include as many amazing locations as we can! For who played the demo or the beta: the Early Acces…
Announcement2 changesGameplayCompatibility - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
Early Access Roadmap
We've been hard at work to make sure we have a strong basis of the climbing system and also content with different kinds of challenges in the Early Access release. But of course we won't stop here! We are very excited t…
Announcement2 changesServerBalance - New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
How we created our climber - Part 2
Like we mentioned in the previous article: for New Heights, creating a realistic physics-based human climber was key for making a genuine climbing experience. But how does one create such a thing? Well, having a human c…
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