Update 1.04 is making its way to Steep and with it comes the Steep World Tour Tournament, a set of new challenges, and the release date for the Alaska map has also been revealed.
Think you’ve got what it takes to beat out the competition in Steep? If you do, then you can get into the new World Tour Tournament right now. The monthly tournament series will be available for everyone and the first competition is already underway:
“Backcountry”, will start today with the qualification phase: a challenge in the cursed mountain for skiers and snowboarders, who will have to reach 5000 points to make it to the 2nd phase, the Tournament. The 32 best players on each platform during the Tournament phase will make it to the finals, where they will confront each other to win Steep credits.
For some tips straight from the developers on how to do well in the tournaments, take a look at this video:
In a mix of community and developer created challenges, players can compete for the best score in the Community Challenges feature. Achieving the highest score will reward players with reputation points and players will also have the chance to beat the scores of the development team themselves.
Have a quick look at this patch overview video followed by the full list of fixes that will be coming in the patch. The Update will include new features, improvements and plenty of bug fixes:
NEW FEATURES
- Welcome Dashboard - Displays the most important in-game news and suggests content for players’ current game session.
- Live Page – Provides more info on the Steep World Tour and current series going on, as well as which Community Challenges are available to play.
- Steep World Tour – A recurring competitive tournament open to all Steep players. Check out the Live Page for more details, including tournament phase and ranking information.
- Community Challenges – Challenges made by the Community, for the Community! Selected trail challenges created by the community will be highlighted and made available to all players as a Community Challenge to beat. Look for them in the new Live Page!
- New Customization Items – Shhh… they’re a surprise! More will be revealed in due time.
- Director Mode – Provides more freedom and Replay Mode options (such as camera types and ambiance) for players to get even more creative in their replay videos.
- Hide HUD – And last but not least (and because you asked for it!)… You now have the option to hide the HUD while riding or creating replay videos. You can toggle the HUD display by going into OPTIONS -> VIDEO.
IMPROVEMENTS
- G-force System
- We’ve improved the G-force system to make its function clearer and more accurate. Some riders expressed confusion concerning how/why they would fall while riding. The biggest hits will now activate the black-and-white dizziness state rather than triggering a fall, as was previously the case. The next hit, however, will trigger a fall.
- New Jump Behavior
- The jumping system has been improved in order to make jumping more accurate. We noticed that certain complex logical sequences sometimes prevented players from being able to jump. This is no longer the case: when pressing the jump button, riders now actually jump!
- Character Barks are heard less often, as requested by the community.
- Mountain View Display has been improved. Now, only activities from the highlighted region appear, as requested by the community.
- Music Track no longer changes when retrying a challenge. Instead, the same track is played again, as requested by players.
- Display of Players’ Icons has been improved with increased visibility.
- Challenge Ghosts are now tracked more efficiently in order to better monitor challenges for potential cheating.
BUGS FIXED
- Players remain visible at more than 1000 meters.
- Some crashes occur.
- Players remain stuck on small hills while trying to ride forward.
- Riders spawn into a rock after teleporting to Butterfly Challenge.
- Memorable Moment “1st Daily”, “1st Weekly”, and “1st All Time” needed for 100% completion of the game.
- First snowboard push-off is stronger than skiing (not intended behavior). Fixed per community request.
- “NEW” message appears on several already completed Challenges, Mountain Stories, and Legendary Quests.
- The score displayed on the challenge panel is not the one from the ghost played.
- The subtitles of the ‘Winter Wonderland’ Mountain Story inaccurately refers to the “Atacma” desert instead of the correct “Atacama”.
- The Friends Leaderboard displays inconsistent ranking information when you have less than 3 friends.
- Info Panel score resets to its default setting when joining a group, even though the player has already completed the challenge.
- The character will remain in a standing position when the installation of the game is completed during a ride.
- A non-functioning “Medals” button appears on the challenge menu after sharing a private challenge.
- When playing a challenge with a logo, the next played private challenge will also display the logo.
- Mountain Story Barbegazi Ski Orienteering (“Find the BARBEGAZI”) objective won’t update on the Quest Info Panel if doing clue #2 before clue #1.
- Mountain Story LE GROS ROGNON DU GEANT can only be completed only after hitting the iceberg at the end of the race.
- Teleport to another player in the player’s group does not work.
- The Memorable Moment “Score more than 1,000 Freeride points in one ride” does not trigger when the player reaches the required score.
- When selecting a challenge or quest from the Progress Menu while the character is in fixed view, the player can see outside of the world.
- The message “You are close enough to unlock a Drop Zone” pops up after discovering a new Drop Zone.
- The Objectives panel of two Mountain Stories continues to display in Mountain View even after completion (“Mountain Scraper” in Switzerland, “Bird of Prey” in Mont Blanc).
- For a few Mountain Stories, when the player selects it from the Progress Menu he/she is spawned on an incorrect challenge.
- [XB1] Low fps in game while in a 4-person coop session.
- [XB1] All challenges completed during onboarding will lose their scores after finishing the onboarding.
- Wrong rules are displayed for Snow Snake Challenge.
- Icons and panels flicker when the player moves the RS button on the menu after switching between “Rider Tab” or “Profile” and “Progress Menu”.
- A second helmet is attached to the backpack when a wingsuit costume is equipped while the wingsuit helmet/ backpack sub-menus are selected.
- The sound becomes briefly corrupted when the user opens the Sports wheel or changes the camera.
- The “GoPro Be a HERO” writing on the paraglide starts flickering when the character swings.
- The “Black and Orange Snowboard Shoes” appear two times in the shop.
- Transporting to a challenge does not occur when selecting it from the “Progress Menu” if the menu was opened while the binoculars were equipped.
- The objective to “Create Challenge” in the onboarding can be validated if the user presses d-pad left and moves the cursor on a trail challenge.
- Slightly glitchy clouds at night during “Say Hi!” Challenge.
- The strong coop session icon appears for a user that’s not in the party, under certain circumstances.
- The player will lose the ability to change or play any sport after manually entering ragdoll state inside the wicker basket of a hot air balloon.
- Minor display issues - Thanks for reading this far and see you on the mountain!
Lastly, we have a single screen showcasing Alaska and all of the new snowy goodness that will be coming with it:
The first Branded Challenges and free Alaska open-world map will release everywhere in Steep on February 10th.
