Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders news & patch notes

Hello Riders,

Another month, another big update! And this time it’s a multiplayer one that also comes with a whole bunch of other news. 

• With today's update, you can now finally join ongoing tours in quickmatches. We hope this makes it a little bit easier to find and join online races. 

• Quickmatches as well as custom tours now also support mixed difficulties, meaning that tours can now have blue and black slopes at the same time. 

• And last but not least, we now support beards and hairstyles with actual physics, and we also have a whole bunch of new hair and beard styles that come with the new feature.

Speaking of new customization items. 

We also released two new costume packs today. A cute pawtastic cozy pack and a snow- and ice-resistant mountaineer pack. 

Please let us know if you like these packs and if there are any outfits you would like in the future!  

We also added some new bundles and updated the franchise bundle with the new DLCs. You can check out the discounts here:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundlelist/2545360/Lonely_Mountains_Snow_Riders

We also took this opportunity to update our roadmap for 2026. As you can see, we are now working full force on the official release of the editor, which will hopefully happen early Q3.

All the best and have a great time with the update and the new DLCs!

Your Megagons

PS: Here is the full patch log for today’s update:

v1.4.300

Steam/Xbox/PS5: 20.05.2026 (?)

New Features

• Critical: Join ongoing multiplayer quickmatches

• Major: Support for new customization DLCs (Cozy Pack & Mountaineer Pack)

Changes

• Major: Tours can have mixed difficulty trails

Improvements & Polishing

• Major: New hair and beard styles

• Minor: Physical hair and beards

• Minor: Audio update (general ambient polish & slightly reduced animal noises)

• Minor: General performance optimization

• Minor: Updates to environment audio

Fixes

• Minor: Backwards riding while crossing the finish line counts for badges and points

• Minor: View of backpacks in customization no longer blurred

• Minor: Camera focuses on skis when changing paint jobs

Known Issues

Minor: While waiting for the next run to start in a quickmatch the player list is sometimes not 100% correct.

Hello Riders,

We hope you’re all doing well! We have just released version 1.4.210 on all platforms. This patch mainly consists of two parts: 

We have updated the game to Unity 6 (the game engine that we are using). Although it was quite a lot of work, this shouldn’t actually come with any noticeable differences, but it is an important update as it will allow us to further maintain the game in the future. In case you notice any new bugs or differences, it would be much appreciated if you let us know.   

Secondly, the patch includes a lot of improvements for the Steam beta in-game level editor, ranging from path handling, different day and weather presets, to a lot of smaller UI improvements. 

If you’re playing on Steam and haven’t checked out the editor yet, now is a perfect time. There are already a whole bunch of really, really amazing community maps that you can play! All you have to do is check out the beta branch on Steam.

Right-click on Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders in your Steam Library, select Properties… Navigate to Game Versions & Betas and select the public level editor version. The game will update, and when you start it, you can now select the level editor in the start menu. You can also subscribe to user levels in Steam Workshop and play them in the trail menu. 

As a level creator, you can now also update your levels with custom thumbnails! To update the thumbnail, you have to add a screenshot in Steam Workshop and afterwards reupload your level. The workflow isn’t perfect, but improving it will take more time. 

Last but not least, we have also published a new tutorial series for the level editor on our YouTube channel, starring our Level Designer Juan. Please welcome him and let us know if you feel the videos are helpful and what we can improve. 

FULL PLAYLIST:

All the best,

Your Megagons

Here is the full patch log:

v1.4.210

Steam/Xbox/PS5

New Features

• Critical: Updated the project to Unity 6.

• \ Major: New features for creating paths

  • Paths are selectable by clicking on the terrain in the level. 

  • Align path points in height via a button to create a continuous slope.

  • Snap path points to the height of the terrain via a button.

  • The path’s width can be adjusted on both sides by holding CTRL and moving a width-gizmo

  •  Multiselect paths in the list by holding CTRL and clicking the different entries or by holding SHIFT and selecting a range.

• \ Minor: Presets for different times of day and weather scenarios are now available in the Editor.

• \  Minor: The editor asks you to save your changes before quitting, loading another level or creating a new one.

Changes

• \  Minor: Only a certain amount of chunks can be added. This is now signified by a red border when adding new chunks

Improvements & Polishing

• Major: Improve loading when playing with ghosts.

• Minor: Small visual improvements for the first Baifushan trail.

• \ Major: If a screenshot is uploaded to Steam Workshop, it will automatically be used as the trail’s thumbnail after a reupload of the trail. 

• \ Major: Updated the upload-pop-up.

• \ Major: Terrain Interactions Tool restructured.

  • Only one resting spot can be a spectator spot.

    • The spectator spot is marked by an eye-icon in the list.

  • Player positions aren’t created in the middle of the resting spot to avoid overlap with the gizmo

  • The cam, player positions, gear positions and respawn positions can be selected in the UI in addition to the level view.

  • The respawn position of the climbing gear can also be selected in to UI in addition to the level view.

• \  Minor: Path’s gizmos got an update in size, color and selection priority.

• \ Minor: New icons for terrain sculpting and painting brushes.

• \ Minor: The Cam Window can be set to predetermined aspect ratios.

Fixes

• Minor: Fixed the starting positions for the follow cam of the third Baifushan trail.

• \ Major: Fixed the performance of the rivers. 

• \ Minor: Symbols that prohibit saving can’t be used in level names anymore

• \ Minor:  “Display Trails” is applied when adding a prop with the decoration brush.

• \ Minor:  The cam can be rotated around checkpoints when holding ALT and using the right mouse button again.

• \ Minor:  The Smoothing-Terrain-Brush can’t be set to a value above 1 anymore.

Hello Riders,

we just released a small patch today that addresses a few bugs and also got a bigger improvement for the customization screens. Thank you all for reporting any issues.

Fixes

• Major: Ghosts now cannot trigger checkpoints anymore

• Major: Fixed wrong field of view when starting a trail in Behind-Player-Camera

• Minor:  Fixed view direction when switching between camera modes while riding backwards

• Minor: Fixed Depth of Field being way off when starting a trail

Improvements

• Major: Improved customization selection (better readability & colors)

• Minor: Motion Blur is now disabled when resetting the player to avoid visual blur artifacts

Have a great time on the mountains! Your Megagons

Hello Riders,

We just released a small patch that has a few improvements and fixes some issues. 

• Smoother follow camera

• Fixed stuck camera when switching camera in intro or resting spot

• Massive savegame size reduction due to removal of duplicate / invalid data

• Fixed unresponsive error popup

We wish you all a great weekend. 

Your Megagons

Hi everyone,

We just released a small hotfix that is addressing a critical error in the save game system. We got reports that in some cases the cloud storage was almost full - causing the game to not save any further procress properly.

We found that some of the old backups were not cleaned up properly - and that is now fixed. The cleanup will happen automatically when you launch the game.

Cheers,

your Megagons!

Hello everyone,

Happy New Year! We hope you all had a great start to 2026! We used the last two weeks to address some issues that arose during the holidays. Most importantly, you can now choose your depth of field settings per camera (Behind-the-player and Classic), and we fixed a few problems with the ghost system.

Here is the full change log:

Improvements & Polishing

• Major: Behind-The-Player camera now has its own DOF settings

• Minor: Camera toggling by pressing the right stick can be disabled in the options

• Minor: Improved error reporting so we get more insight when things break

Fixes

• Major: Ghosts are unlocked properly again

• Major: Leaderboards and Ghosts are updated correctly when ghosts are active

• Major: Outfits are correctly synced again in multiplayer mode

• Minor: Removed an unintended rock blocking a shortcut in Sierra Gelida 4

• Minor: Several small bug fixes

The patch will also be soon available on the editor branch, tomorrow at the latest.

We wish you all a healthy and successful year and thank you for riding the Lonely Mountains with us!

Your Megagons

Hello Riders,

First, thank you all for the positive feedback on our new alternative Third Person camera. We are very happy to see that a lot of you enjoy it and that all our work wasn’t in vain.  

We have one last big surprise in store to wrap up the year... We have just released our in-game Level Editor on Steam!

You can access the game version that includes the level editor by right-clicking on your game in the Steam library, going to properties -> betas, and selecting the leveleditor beta branch in the beta participation drop-down. When you start the game now, you should see an editor button in the start menu as well as a new button in the trail selection called “User Trails”. 

Why beta?

Some words about the current state of the level editor. 

This is a very early release of the level editor. Think of it more as an Early Access Alpha version. In this first release, you can only make levels, play them in single player, and share them with the community via Steam Workshop. There is no multiplayer support yet, but it is high on our list for next year.

This editor itself is pretty much the same editor we are using ourselves to build all the trails in the game. We spent a lot of time this year cleaning it up, improving the UI, and smoothing some of the workflows to make it more user-friendly, but it is a full real game development tool, and so it might look a little complicated on first glance. 

This is where you come in. We would love to get feedback from you on the current state of the editor. Do you understand and enjoy the tools, UIs, and workflows? Do you feel comfortable working in it? What can we improve, what features are missing, etc? 

You can find a manual for the editor here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16DQP4ZKNTaGuZz8Xp8gKlaew3uWCCZyxFc6gjDKpicg/edit?usp=sharing

and we're also working on a small video tutorial series that we will release over the coming weeks. 

We feel like the holidays are the perfect time for the community to play around with the editor and let us know how you feel. The best way to give us your feedback is on our Discord

(https://www.discord.gg/lonelymountains), but we will also monitor the forums. As we are all on vacation, please forgive us if it takes a while for us to answer. 

We hope you enjoy creating your own levels. We are all super excited to see what crazy, fun, challenging, or beautiful trails you all will come up with. 

We wish you a lot of fun and happy holidays!

Your Megagons

PS: We have also taken some time to update the roadmap. We didn't manage to do everything we wanted this year but overall we are pretty happy.

Hello Riders,

We have a big Snow Riders surprise update for you today! After ten years of reading the same feedback we decided to try and do something about it. 

Please say hello to our new ALTERNATIVE THIRD PERSON CAMERA MODE!

As you all know, we are big fans of the way we handled the camera in our Lonely Mountains games. But as it is the absolute number one complaint of players, we decided a few months ago to give it another try and to see if we can implement a good alternative camera.

And - to our own surprise - the game is actually a lot of fun with a third-person camera. This is unfortunate for us because it means that we also had to update all the mountains and trails in the game to ensure they are now working properly from every camera angle. 

But we are happy to say that this work is done now (thanks to our amazing team of artists!) and the update went live this morning. 

So please try out the new camera mode. You can super easily switch cameras by pressing the right stick on the gamepad or TAB on the keyboard.  Please let us know what you think and if you prefer the new camera over the old one. We feel like both versions have their pros and cons, but we would love to hear what you think and if there is anything we could further improve. 

Much love!

Your Megagons

PS: Thanks to everyone who bravely defended us and our camera in the Steam Forums, in Discord discussions, and on social media the past few years. It meant a lot to us!

Hey Riders,

We just released a patch for the game that addresses quite some heavy although on PC mostly rare bugs. Here's what has changed for the Steam version:

Fixes

• Major: Fixed crash bug in host migration scenarios.

• Major: Fixed rare bug that blocked users from joining a multiplayer sessions.

• Major: Fixed rare crash bug caused by multiple achievements being granted at once.

• Minor: Partially fixed the “ready state” synchronization in private multiplayer lobbies

While none of these fixes by themself are super exciting this patch under the hood also lays the foundation for another update we hope to be able to release soon!

All the best,

- your Megagons

Hello Riders,

We have just released an update to Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders on Steam and Xbox. The main purpose of the update is to prepare all platforms for crossplay with the upcoming PS5 version. As you might have seen today we unfortunately had to push the PS5 release but we are hopeful that you can finally play with your Playstation friends soon. 

Besides the cross-play update there are also a bunch of other things that got fixed or improved, most importantly the crashes on Xbox. 

New Features

• Major: Cross-Play with PS5 support (SOON!)

Changes

• Major: Reduced level at which Free Ride is unlocked to level 30

Improvements & Polishing

• Minor: Some localization improvements

• Minor: Fixed UI to show longer names properly in multiplayer

Fixes

• Critical: Switched to RenderTextures for reflection rendering to fix frequent crashes during level loading

• Major: Made parts of the level loading asynchronous to fix intermittent application hangs

• Major: Fixed bug that causes multiplayer connection issues in connection with unstable internet connections

• Minor: Fixed exceptions in tracking service

• Minor: Fixed customization validation

• Minor: Fixed news display showing gray box instead of image in some cases

• Minor: Fixed a rare bug in error handling during ghost saving

• Minor: Player name on leaderboards is now updated on login

Please let us know if this patch improves your playing experience. We would be especially interested in hearing whether you still experience black screens, as we haven’t been able to reproduce that reliably. 

All the best,

Your Megagons

Hey Riders,

We just released another hotfix addressing some issues reported by players.

Improvements & Polishing

• Minor: Some menus now support looping from bottom to top and vice versa

• Minor: Reduced memory usage by skipping unnecessary mipmap generation

Fixes

• Major: Fix crash at the end of the level loading sequence caused by too skybox generation

• Minor: Fix a specific pop-up dialog not reacting to controller input

• Minor: Shading fixes for ice props and ice on ground

As always thanks for reporting & see you on the mountains!

- your Megagon

Hey Riders,

This hotfix is fixing four issues present in yesterday's update, most importantly making multiplayer after host migration stable again. Here's what has changed:

Fixes

• Critical: Fixed issue that after a host migration the run ends

• Major: Fixed “Wrong turn, right find” achievement not being achievable

• Minor: Fixed some level design issues on "Loch Rioghail"

• Minor: Fixed missing activity icons for the new trails on Discord

Hope you all enjoy the new mountain. And as always feedback is very welcome!

- your Megagons

Hello Riders!

Our first DLC “Highlands” is out now on all platforms! Inspired by the beauty of the Scottish Highlands, you can now carve your way through the golden forests of Ben Fiadhein. Discover ancient ruins, ride along the shores of mighty rivers, find your path through foggy swamps and explore the mysteries of Castle Rioghail.

The DLC features 

• 4 new trails with blue and black slopes. 

• New challenges for time trials, trick and free ride 

• New rewards featuring comfy autumn clothing, classic highlands kilts or even some medieval armor. 

• New leaderboards for all modes

• Full Multiplayer Support

The Highland trails are all available as part of the public quickmatches, but only DLC owners have access to the singleplayer modes and private tours to ski with your friends.

The DLC comes with a 10% release discount and is also available in the franchise DLC with a further 15% discount.

We wish you all a great time on Ben Fiadhein and see you on the new mountain!

Your Megagons

PS: The DLC also comes with an Update to version 1.3.1.

New Features

• MAJOR: NEW DLC HIGHLANDS IS NOW AVAILABLE TO BUY AND IN QUICKMATCHES

Fixes

• Minor: “Best OWn Ghost” achievement gets now triggered at the correct point. 

• Major: End timer quickmatch is now working again. 

• Major: Player List in racing is now sorted correctly. 

Improvement 

• Minor: Snow Visuals slightly improved

Hello Riders,

We hope you all are doing great. We are happy to announce some awesome news today.

First, we have released a big multiplayer update a few hours ago for all platforms. Thank you all again for helping us test it in the multiplayer beta. We made a lot of changes to the netcode over the last few months, and the multiplayer experience should be much smoother now. The update today also comes with lots of performance improvements and a highly requested new feature - friends leaderboards. You can read the full patch log at the end of the news.  

The second news is that we can finally announce a date for our first big mountain DLC: 30th of October!

We don’t want to spoil the biome yet, but here is a little teaser for you. 

Can you guess what mountain awaits you?

The new mountain will come with four trails, two difficulties per trail and support for all modes and leaderboards.

So mark October 30th on your calendar and see you on the mountains soon!

Your Megagons

PATCH LOG for 1.2.401

New Features

• Major: Added option in leaderboards to filter by friends & following

Improvements & Polishing

• Critical: Rewrote netcode for way smoother multiplayer matches

• Critical: Optimized host selection logic while keeping migrations to a minimum

• Major: Performance optimization on all quality levels

Fixes

• Critical: Unity update containing a critical security fix

• Major: Fixed reflections often not being displayed correctly

• Minor: Fixed “new” marker not being saved for freshly unlocked content

• Minor: Fixed several small UI layout issues

• Minor: Fixed issues with Japanese font rendering

Known Issues

• Major: Displayed ranking in multiplayer races can be off sometimes

Hey Riders,

This is a short one: we fixed a serious performance regression introduced in the last patch - sorry about that! We hope everything is back to normal now!

Thanks a lot to everyone who reported this and as always please let us know if you run into any issues.

- your Megagons

Hey Riders,

As we announced in the last update, we have reworked our multiplayer netcode over the last few months and need some help testing it today.

Therefore at 12pm CEST today we have start a 24 hour beta test on Steam and would be super grateful if you could take some time and help us test the new code before we roll it out on all platforms.

You do need to own the game on Steam to participate.

Here is how to enter today's beta:

• On Seam select Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders in your Steam library.

• Make a right click and select properties.

• Select the Betas Entry from the list.

• In the drop down menu select public_beta.

Your game will update now and afterwards you can start it normally to participate in the beta. If you don't see a beta branch in the branch selection you have to restart your Steam client first.

If you have any problems, questions, feedback, etc please let us know in the Steam forum or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/lonelymountains.

Thank you all for your help!

Your Megagons

Hello Riders,

We have released version 1.2.204 today, which mainly improves the backup system for save files and a few other smaller bug fixes, as well as trail changes. You can have a look at the full change log below. 

We also worked a lot on netcode improvements over the last few months and we would like to invite you all to a Beta Test on Monday the 22nd of September. The test will start at 12pm CEST on a Steam beta branch (Instructions how to join will follow on Monday) and will be live for 24 hours. The improved network code should greatly reduce lag and rollbacks but we would like to get more feedback from the community before we can put it live for everyone. This is also a rare chance to play against the Megagon team as most of us will participate in the test as well. 

We would really appreciate it if you could take some time next week to join the test!

All the best,

Your Megagons

PATCH LOG 1.204

Changes

• Critical: The game now saves multiple backup save files and creates a new one at the beginning of each day. 

• Critical: If the main save file can’t be loaded players are now notified and can decide to try again or load the backup save file. If both fails players can choose to reset the game to a clean save or quit the game. Please let us know in our Discord or via [email protected] if your backup save game also doesn’t work. 

Fixes

• Major: Fixed a bug that players could return to a resting spot after crashing inside it. 

• Minor: Fixed an edge case in which the Recover-UI wasn’t displayed correctly in team mode. 

• Minor: Fixed bug that the free ride achievement was triggered too early. 

• Minor: Fixed game stuck on loading screen when a 2nd monitor wasn’t turned on. 

• Minor: Fixed wrong sound played at the start of trick mode. 

• Major (Xbox Only): Fixed that the How To Play Screen for the team mode was missing on Xbox.  

• Minor (Xbox Only): Fixed a bug that the PC input settings were available on console.  

Changes

• Speedrunning Critical: Adjusted some ramps that were added in the Freestylers level updates that may interfere with optimal racing lines that existed previous to the update.

  • Eisige Allee: Updated a stone in front of a ramp in section 2 of the black slope

  • Weinender Wald: Adjusted two ramps in Section 2 (blue slope) that may make the optimal racing line harder

  • Grimmiger Hang: Removed one ramp in Section 5 (blue slope) that obstructs the most optimal shortcut

  • Donggu: Adjusted two ramps in Section 3 that blocked two different shortcut options

Hey Riders,

This is a quick one: We got reports of an exploit that allowed some clever players to get more points on certain maps. This is a fix to prevent this.

Fixes

• Critical: Only move trick mode points from unsaved to saved when hitting the next active checkpoint - not ANY checkpoint you cross.

Thanks for reporting this and as always - happy riding!

- your Megagons

Hello Riders,

We finally found the bug that causes the blue slope time trials leaderboards to be flooded by seemingly random best times - and fixed it with today's patch.

With that done we were able to clean the leaderboards the following way:

• We rolled back Time Trials scores to a backup from last July 2nd to make sure everything's clean and fair again. This means new blue slope time trials records over the last week will be lost, black slope times will be restored next week.

• Trick mode and FreeRide scores are not affected.

Fixes

• Critical: Zen mode does not submit leaderboard entries for time trials anymore ːsteamfacepalmː

Thanks a lot for all your patience, we hope you enjoy trick and freeride mode while we are already working on our next exciting update.

your Megagons!

Hey Riders!

The Freestylers Update is finally here, adding two new modes to the game! A completely new Trick Mode and also the beloved Free Ride Mode from Lonely Mountains: Downhill is making its comeback!

In Trick Mode, players compete for style over speed, completing over 100 new challenges in a ground-up reimagining of the Snow Riders experience. The mode unlocks at level 20.

Free Ride Mode was a feature in our last game Lonely Mountains: Downhill, now finally in Snow Riders! The ultimate challenge to all speedrunners, Free Ride removes all checkpoints, allowing players to carve their own ultrafast route down the mountain. You need to reach level 35 to unlock this mode.

Both modes come with full leaderboard support and new achievements, and also allow you to reach the highest player level without competing in multiplayer matches.

The Freestylers Update also comes with a wide range of new accessibility features, including auto-brake, auto-accelerate, toggling buttons instead of holding them, and button mapping.

We would be very grateful to hear your feedback on the new additions, especially the difficulty of the Trick Mode challenges.

You can find the full patch log down below.

We also took the opportunity to update our roadmap for this year. The biggest change is that the PS5 version has moved from Summer to Autumn.

Thank you so much everyone for supporting the game!

Happy riding and see you on the slopes!

Your Megagons

PATCH LOG: 02.07.2025 -  v 1.2.100 FREESTYLERS

New Features

• Critical: NEW GAME MODE: Trick Mode is now available as a full solo mode. It unlocks at level 20 and adds a second progression path to the game. It also comes with full leaderboard support and achievements. 

• Critical: NEW GAME MODE: Free Ride Mode has now also been added to the game and unlocks with Level 35. People experienced with Downhill will already know the drill. Free Ride removes all checkpoints and it also uses the Zen version of the trails, allowing for maximum freedom to race down the trails for the best time. It comes with leaderboards and achievements, and full level progression. 

• Major: If you are not the biggest multiplayer fan, you can now reach the maximum level in the game by finishing all solo challenges (time trials/tricks/free-ride). 

• Major: Added custom button/keyboard mapping

• Major: Added auto-brake and auto-accelerate to the accessibility options

• Major: Added option to now toggle instead of holding accelerate/crouch/break to the accessibility options. 

• Major: Added markers to newly unlocked equipment, game modes, gear, trails or slopes. 

• Minor: Added new reward sounds for each trick score threshold.

• Minor: You can now set which gamepad icons you want to use in the game (Steam only)

Changes

• Minor: Reordered the options menu a little bit. 

• Minor: Ghosts are now more transparent when closer to the player. 

Improvements & Polishing

• Major: Changed some particle effects to improve performance. It should be especially noticeable on Baifushan. 

• Major: improved playing with mouse and keyboard.

Fixes

• Major: Fixed front or back flips not automatically landing correctly in some situations.

Hello Riders,

Improvements & Polishing

• Minor: Fixed camera being too far ahead of the player when going very fast.

Fixes

• Major: Fixed a bug handing out invalid XP and snowflakes as reward.
• Minor: Small performance improvement by correctly disabling colliders on startup.
• Minor: Fixed a small bug when restarting a trail in single player.

Fixes

• Critical: Incorrect list of available resolutions.
• Major: Better selection of default resolution.
• Major: Very rare edge case where game could freeze in the resolution selection.

Known Issues

• Major: Steam Deck only: The default settings for Steam Deck are not ideal. Until its fixed please refer to the Steam Deck thread in the Discussions for recommended settings.

Hello Riders,

Changes

• Minor: Checkpoint sounds are now part of the “environment” volume category in the settings and so disabling UI sounds will still trigger them.

Improvements & Polishing

• Major: Criteria for network synchronization are a bit stricter now, which should lead to less drastic corrections in high latency (ping) scenarios.
• Major: Increased local buffer size to handle drastic changes in latency towards the host better.
• Minor: Several small UI fixes and polishing

Fixes

• Critical: Fixes rare bug where resolution selection dialog is showing only resolutions in a wrong aspect ratio (PC only).
• Major: Fixed a similar case where in Window mode the window size is reset randomly in fixed intervals.
• Major: Fixed several cases where the local player gets teleported back and forth when crashing/respawning in a multiplayer match with high latency.
• Major: Reduced two cases where sideways shifting happened after respawning far away from the checkpoint.
• Minor: Icons and trail names for the Discord activity for the new mountain Baifushan are fixed.

Known Issues

• Minor: Sideways shifting at the checkpoint still happens when multiple people respawn at a similar time.

Changes:

Improvements & Polishing

• Major: VSync option is now also available in Borderless Fullscreen mode. The sync/refresh rate in that case will will match your desktop setting (you can change that in the display properties in Windows if desired).
• Major: We expanded the available Frame Rate Limit options. You can now choose any value between 30 and 240 Hz or disable the limitation by setting it to unlimited.

Fixes

• Critical: Fixed a barely visible collider under water on Baifushan, Trail 2.
• Major: Resolved invisible characters caused by specific combinations of outfits.
• Major: Fixed tour rewards not being distributed correctly in rare cases.
• Minor: The lines pointing to your character in the customization screen are now back.

Baifushan

Supporter Pack DLC

Changes in v1.1.0:

New Features

• Major: Added a new mountain called Baifushan to the game.
• Major: Added new tour rewards for racing mode. Players now get additional Exp. and Snowflakes at the end of the tour based on total tour ranking. Rewards for individual trail ranks are now slightly reduced, but overall you'll receive more for the same performance.
• Major: Added a Supporter Customization Pack, now available on Steam and Xbox.
• Major: Added an option in lobby settings to enable the “race end timer” for private tours.
• Minor: Added an option to change the HUD size in the settings.

Improvements & Polishing

• Major: Added a loading progress display showing which players have finished loading.
• Major: Added gear information display in the lobby showing what other riders are using.
• Major: Added a confirmation pop-up when leaving a lobby or tour.
• Major: Added a gear display to the trail information section on all finish screens.
• Major: Added a display in team mode to show players when a goal has been reached.
• Major: Added functionality to hold directional input (buttons, keys, or thumbstick) to continuously navigate through menu entries.
• Minor: Added an arrow during the intro sequence to highlight the local player in multiplayer.
• Minor: Reduced the size of level files to improve loading times.
• Minor: Added ghost selection to the gear selection screen.
• Minor: Several small UI improvements throughout the game.

Fixes

• Major: Fixed spectator mode not working correctly in certain situations.
• Major: Fixed a bug where players could appear invisible in the waiting lobby, which could also cause forced disconnections.
• Minor: Fixed a rare case of invisible props in low framerate scenarios.
• Minor: Fixed spelling mistakes for achievements and made some minor localization adjustments.
• Minor: Fixed a bug where the climbing gear display stayed on screen after crashing in the trigger zone.
• Minor: Fixed a bug that broke the controls when a controller was unplugged mid-run.

Roadmap

• New Free Mountain: On April 9th we will update the game with a new full-fledged mountain. It will come with 4 trails, blue and black slopes as well as new challenges, multiplayer and leaderboard support. We don’t want to spoil the biome yet but we believe it’s the most beautiful mountain we’ve done yet.
• Supporter Pack DLC: A lot of you reached out and asked if there is a way to further support the development of the game, so we created a nice cosmetics pack that will go live together with the new mountain. Of course, the cosmetics have no gameplay influence but you do get our eternal gratitude for helping us to keep the game alive!
• New Trick and Free Ride Challenges and Improved Accessibility Update: We don’t have a date yet but we will add two new Solo game modes to the game. One new mode that focuses on doing the most awesome tricks and we will also bring back the classic and beloved Free Ride mode from Downhill. More details on the new modes will follow in the future. We will also add a lot more accessibility options to the game like auto acceleration, button/key mapping, etc.

• PS5 Version: We’re working hard on bringing the game to PS5 as well. We don’t have a date yet but we are hopeful that it will happen sometime in summer.
• Multiplayer Update: We’re trying to bundle together some of the most asked-for multiplayer features into one big update. You will be able to set your private matches public so that they will also be available in the quick match queue, allowing you to play with your friends against or with the community. We also want to improve the tour system, allowing for tours to feature blue and black slopes together and you will be able to vote together on reshuffling the trails.

• New DLC Mountain: We don’t want to spoil anything yet but we plan to release a new DLC mountain later this year.
• Multiplayer Update: We also plan for another big multiplayer update that mainly features improving the friends and social features in the game along with some bigger changes to the matchmaking system.

• PC In-Game Editor & Community Maps: Saving the best for last! We will release an in-game editor for community maps. When we started the development for LMSR one of the first things we did was to create our own editor that runs in the game and we have been using it ourselves to create all the trails in the game. Unfortunately, it will take us the better part of the year to polish it to a point where we can give it to the public and there is also still a whole bunch of things we need to figure out but we hope we can deliver it next winter.

Next Point: Version 1.0.6.

• Minor: Fixed challenge icons in the trail selection not being updated correctly.

• Major: Improved automatic renderscaler for more stable performance on Xbox S.
• Minor: Improved the settings layout and added options to choose between performance and quality mode in the startup settings on Xbox.

German Video Game Awards

Changes:

Fixes

• Critical: Fixed bug that reverted display settings on every restart.
• Critical: Fixed a bug that players were stuck on "Initialize Graphics” after the latest patch when they had turned off the imposter generation.
• Critical: Fixed various level loading issues that lead to endless loading screens in multiplayer.
• Critical: Fixed level not loading when the ghost file got corrupted. We are still unsure how the ghost files get corrupted though and added more logging to better understand the issue in the future.
• Major: Fixed automatic mode for render scaling, which always chose the lowest resolution in many cases.
• Major: Fixed an issue that the main menu environment scene was sometimes not loaded correctly.
• Major: Fixed an issue that broke the spectator mode when another player left the match.
• Major: Fixed a bug that sometimes host and clients didn’t load the same level or slope.
• Major: Fixed that challenges were not shown as achieved in the endscreen for very close results.
• Minor: Fixed that sometimes the wrong loading screens were shown.
• Minor: Fixed Team Mode video explanations not being available in the How To Play screen in the pause menu.
• Minor: Fixed that environment assets were visually fading in when switching between players in spectator mode or when respawning.
• Minor: Fixed wrong timings for sound effects for challenges in solo mode.
• Minor: Fixed that settings page tab buttons were making the wrong sound.
• Minor: Fixed missing localization for the “Enter Lobby Key” pop-up text field.
• Minor: Fixed that dropdown options sometimes were hard to select.
• Minor: Fixed gloss effect being broken for achieved challenges in the trail selection when hovering between different trails.
• Minor: Fixed that message pop ups for events like host migration would sometimes not appear correctly.
• Minor: Fixed that times on checkpoint lines and on the endscreen were sometimes not in sync.
• Minor: Fixed that ready up button was not selected by default after a multiplayer race.

Improvements & Polishing

• Major: Added support for variable refresh rates on G-SYNC / FreeSync displays.
• Major: Added optional frame rate limit to reduce GPU usage.
• Major: Previously selected screen settings (resolution, fullscreen mode) are now applied right when starting the game, not at some point while loading the menu.
• Major: Simplified display settings to only show quality / performance mode on console.
• Minor: Added settings option to choose a monitor.
• Minor: Confirmation dialog is now shown when critical display settings are changed.
• Minor: Settings options now have explanation texts.
• Minor: Loading screen now shows the name, mountain and slope you will play next.
• Minor: "New best time" display in solo mode when crossing a checkpoint now has a sound effect.
• Minor: The end score display for Team Mode now has a "counting up" sound, and a "threshold crossed" sound for bronze, silver, and gold.
• Minor: The “AFK timer” and “end of race timer” now have a notification sound.
• Minor: The next trail in a tour starting now makes a slightly different sound than before.
• Minor: Polished the Finish screen layout so that it doesn’t overlap with the “end of race” timer.
• Minor: Added controller icons for Switch Pro Controller.
• Minor: You can now also manually override the controller icons used in the game.