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Steam News15 May 20242y ago

Update Notes for May 15th

Hello everyone! I was off to a games festival for a couple of days, it really refreshed my batteries! So here are more fixes for the bugs submitted by players like YOU.

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Full Surmount: A Mountain Climbing Adventure update

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Hello everyone! I was off to a games festival for a couple of days, it really refreshed my batteries! So here are more fixes for the bugs submitted by players like YOU.

What changed

3 fixes4 additions3 changes0 removals
  • Gameplay
  • Fixes
  • Maps
  • UI and audio
addedChangesCan now suspend your game from any base camp. Just select Go to Main Menu from either New Tully or a base camp on the mountain!
fixedChangesFix for a bug that would sometimes not save your gems and items when you suspended your game.
addedChangesAdded a new character to every base camp that will allow you to preview which story characters are currently on the mountain. This costs a small fee and will make a certain tough achievement more easy to get.
changedChangesAdjusted spawn positions for a bunch of chunks to make it less likely players spawn in weird positions at the beginning of a route.
changedChangesReduced faint timer of Pulse Crystals in Zone 4.
addedChangesNew algorithm for finding a way out when the player gets stuck inside geometry, making it much less likely it could be used to skip large sections of the map.

Surmount: A Mountain Climbing Adventure changes

addedCan now suspend your game from any base camp. Just select Go to Main Menu from either New Tully or a base camp on the mountain!
fixedFix for a bug that would sometimes not save your gems and items when you suspended your game.
addedAdded a new character to every base camp that will allow you to preview which story characters are currently on the mountain. This costs a small fee and will make a certain tough achievement more easy to get.
changedAdjusted spawn positions for a bunch of chunks to make it less likely players spawn in weird positions at the beginning of a route.
changedReduced faint timer of Pulse Crystals in Zone 4.

Changes

  • Can now suspend your game from any base camp. Just select Go to Main Menu from either New Tully or a base camp on the mountain!

  • Fix for a bug that would sometimes not save your gems and items when you suspended your game.

  • Added a new character to every base camp that will allow you to preview which story characters are currently on the mountain. This costs a small fee and will make a certain tough achievement more easy to get.

  • Made saving behaviour more consistent.

  • Adjusted spawn positions for a bunch of chunks to make it less likely players spawn in weird positions at the beginning of a route.

  • Reduced faint timer of Pulse Crystals in Zone 4.

  • New algorithm for finding a way out when the player gets stuck inside geometry, making it much less likely it could be used to skip large sections of the map.

  • Fixed a bug that made it impossible to retry the Balloon Festival Mission.

  • Fixed a bug that would cause a softlock when pressing the Steam Deck button on the bulletin board.

  • Unlocked character features are no longer all marked as NEW when restarting the game.

  • Made the hand magnetism work independent of framerate, which would cause weird issues of people flying past ropes/ladders/treebranches on higher framerates.

  • Made meteorite spawning in Zone 4 more fair.

  • When you are playing Surmount on Steam, it will show on your friends list in which Zone you are!

  • Various text fixes.

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Steam News / 15 May 2024

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