SNOW Game Update 0.6.2 - Multiplayer is Live

Play SNOW with your friends

The new SNOW update 0.6.2 brings not only multiplayer but fixes to a lot of bugs and performance issues. See full changelog list below:

Multiplayer

Note that Multiplayer is still in early testing, and we therefore have a limited number of servers available. We'll be scaling the number up as stability and network performance improves.

• Enabled MP, now using dedicated servers
• Exposed "connect" command to CVar whitelist
• Exposed new "Say" console command as a temporary way of allowing client chat
• Added leaderboard hooked up to "Tab"
• Players can now spectate and spawn next to each other via the drop point selection menu

Events

• Added support for events that take place at a particular time of day
• Fixed possible crash while playing events
• Checkpoint times are now correctly used and displayed
• Fixed ability to increment time of day in events

UI

• Fixed option acceleration not working correctly using gamepad
• Fixed legend indicator positions not being updated when one was removed
• Fixed rewind not showing penalty in trick history
• Fixed possible view camera issues in frontend
• Fixed close modal possibly restarting its action
• Optimized flash update
• Fixed possible scrollbar crash
• Fixed UI user popups not creating its elements correctly
• Enable cycling drop point areas with left and right arrows (KB)
• Integrated new Xbox icons
• Exposed store info panel to inventory
• Locked drop points now have their icons greyed out
• Removed C from purchase credits menu
• Improved readability of in-game UI text
• Fixed quick restart legend option being displayed even if not possible
• Legend and score now correctly align to the bottom of the screen on portrait-y resolutions
• Fixed cursor not always disappearing when using a gamepad
• Added credits icon to purchase screen
• Fixed severe entity tag performance issues
• Fix table not showing all the columns and scrollbar being on incorrect position
• Fix leaderboards not showing local user as default
• Added new first person death camera
• Added cycle replay controls to legend
• Fix event preview only showing time for medals
• Fix spawning showing previous area along with the new one
• Fix drop point selection arrows not responding to mouse clicks

Sound

• Fixed sending invalid values to sound parameters
• Sound is now serialized with replays
• Add RTPC intensivity to imitate slow-mo effect in replay
• Landed and EnterAir events are now correctly replayed
• Fixed a great deal of sound memory leaks and playback errors
• Fix SoundManager support for multiple entities with the same sound loadout
• Updated FMOD to fix Windows 10 issue with loud sound being played at startup
• Fixed 3D sound panning effect
• Fixed audio system crash on shutdown
• Fix audio doppler effect and velocity calculations
• Added support for key off sounds - Used to improve rail off effect
• Fixed sounds not being correctly stopped once their holders were destroyed
• Fix invalid audio triggers being loaded
• Fixed drone wind sounds
• Improve skiing sounds fade in and out for smooth transitions
• Tweaked sound volume levels
• Added sound effects volume option
• Set default music playback mode to shuffle
• Fix music manager always looping one song

Gameplay

• Fixed rewind removing all score
• Fixed possible anim event impules spam after replay usage - Resulted in massive speed boost
• Score penalties are now all percentage based
• Fixed combo not always being updated
• Fixed perfect landings not being added to trick history
• Distance traveled now awards XP
• Added experimental stamina system to avoid jump / butter spam - This will likely be tweaked or reworked in the future
• Added new Helicopter Pads around the mountain, can be used to spawn at any heli drop (even locked ones)
• Fix bug where player could spawn on locked areas
• Fixed possible physics crash
• Improved rotation tracking for scoring
• Fixed challenges being unlockable in levels other than the one intended
• Fixed the wrong jump animation being used while in switch
• Re-added shifty tweak, now mapped to right shift on keyboard
• Fixed bail penalty always being awarded on crash
• Fixed respawn penalty being awarded while using continue
• Fix close call stall in physics
• Fix particles being paused after using rewind
• Tweaked trick penalty values
• Fixed score being awarded after dying

Replay

• Made replay advanced options persistent during the session
• Decreased detached camera replay option deltas
• Fixed issues with rewinding and score

Sialia

• Added new castle area: Whitehart Castle
• Integrated new physically accurate time of day lighting values

Misc

• Fixed memory leak when opening spawn point selection
• Fixed lifts being reset multiple times in launcher
• Added initial Shared Memory API for third-party usage
• Fixed store crash if asset texture did not exist
• Fixed a bunch of startup errors in the log
• Fixed renderer crash on shutdown
• Updated to CRYENGINE 3.8.5
• Drone will now show a max distance icon on screen when it can not go any further
• One-off grab animations are now queued instead of looped
• Fixed possible ground collider crash
• Extended support for statistics / challenges / achievements conditions
• Analytics HTTP errors no longer trigger fatal errors
• Fixed HTTP timeouts resulting in additional traffic
• Optimized road load time
• Fixed ski trails not being disabled with replay
• Whitelisted additional 3D stereo commands
• Fixed player mannequin queue overflow
• Unified force feedback behaviour; rumble on all gamepads
• Improved visiblity of orange fences, replaced some with piste markers
• Fixed a bunch of localization errors
• Removed AA mode 3 from options
• Removed physics from landing and skiing particles