This is an update that aims to fix SNØ's scoring system (read more about why the old system broke in our previous post), plus some fun new additions!
Here are the things that are new in SNØ 1.0.01.61
Additions:
- 👑 POTW Champion slot - New slot on Peak of the Week leaderboard featuring last week's winner
Changes:
- 🔗 Near Miss - Chain bonus for near miss scoring
- 🌳 Land On - Chain bonus for land on obstacle scoring
- 😶🌫️ Full Rotation - Full rotation score bonus now grow at a non-exponential rate
- 🐬 Rotation - Rotation scoring yield more points the more upside down you are
- ⏲️ Score counter linger time - Continuous score counters (near miss, rotation, big air, swooping, grinding and trick) linger slightly longer on screen before cashing in
- ⌛ Multiplier growth - Multiplier now takes slightly longer to build up over time, but...
- ⏩ Multiplier growth - ...you now get a multiplier build up bonus every time a new score counter appears on screen
- 🐇 Rabbit score multiplier - Bumped and extended rabbit bonus multiplier
- 🛠️ Various minor tweaks to some score and multiplier values
Fixes:
- 🛑 Grind scoring bug - Fixed bug causing grinding on objects with no friction (the ones intended for grinding) yielded no points.
- 🎮 Grind Steering bug - Fixed bug that made it impossible to change grind angle by gamepad trigger steering
- 📦 Instant collider activation - Attempt to fix the bug where players sometimes clip through entire obstacles
New achievements:
- 🎿 Reckless Riding II - Achievement awarded for chaining together 10 near misses
- 🌋 The floor is Magma - Achievement awarded for landing on 20 obstacles without touching snow
- 🔥 Apocalypse - Achievement awarded for landing on 50 obstacles without touching snow
Data management
The rebalance makes it harder to reach incredibly high scores. That's why this update also need to do something about the existing high scores. Therefore, as part of this update:
- ⚠️ The global leaderboards will reset
When booting the game for the first time after updating, the game will also
- 🏅 Clear your personal best score for mode Score Attack
- 🏅 Clear your personal best score for mode Infinite Run
Disclaimer:
We know our own game quite well, and we believe that the new scoring system will enable a wide range of viable scoring strategies. However we're a two man team - and we do our best - but we simply do not have the capacity to test every in and out of the scoring system on every available mountain, so we can never guarantee 100 % that our scoring system does not contain overpowered exploits.
The next week we'll be extra open for feedback regarding the new scoring system. If you discover what you believe to be a broken strategy or other things you want to give feedback on, we really appreciate it if you let us know in our Discord!
We hope you appreciate the changes, and we look forward to see you claim your spots on the leaderboard again! ⛷️🏔️🌟
Best
Alex & Christer
SG