Steam darling Peak’s latest patch adjustments the sport for Steam Deck gamers and speedrunners who love nothing greater than glitch.
Peak model 1.25.a makes a couple of main adjustments and a bunch of minor ones. The largest alteration is that the sport is now Steam Deck Verified.
“Lastly…..the sport is sweet on Steam Deck,” the crew wrote within the patch notes. “Deck gamers will know it has been good for some time! The Mesa Replace added the final of controller assist wanted and with this patch we have added some textual content changes wanted to get the Verified badge.”
There are a complete bunch of fixes and changes as effectively. Most prominently, it is a lot more durable to glitch your solution to the highest of the mountain than it has been over the past couple of weeks.
“Made fog partitions taller so you may’t shoot over them to win the sport in a minute with the Scout Cannon exploit,” Group Peak wrote. “Numerous you requested us to not change the Scout Cannon however no guarantees had been made concerning the map.”
Beforehand, gamers may use the Scout Cannon to blast themselves so excessive that they had been in a position to clear all 5 of the sport’s biomes and attain the purpose on the peak. With the fog wall change, cannons can nonetheless ship gamers ridiculously far underneath the fitting circumstances, however they’re now more likely to smack into the wall of shifting fog that separates every biome and fall to their deaths. That mentioned, we did handle to make use of the cannon to clear not less than a few biomes earlier than crashing again to earth when testing the replace, so ridiculous cannon stunts stay attainable.
Curiously, this patch additionally added the flexibility to toggle off The Looker, a personality who may randomly seem behind sure rocks, and who would disappear should you bought too shut or checked out them for too lengthy. Even should you do go away the characteristic enabled, the character’s look might be extra uncommon shifting ahead.
One situation many Peak gamers have run into is {that a} bunch of the sport’s advantage badges, tied to its Steam achievements, do not appear to unlock, even after doing the whole lot required to earn them. These points have been resolved for the Cool Cucumber, Plunderer, Clutch, and First Help badges.
Different points addressed on this patch embody issues with beehives (insect phobia textures work now, and you may’t put beehives into your backpack anymore), alongside a number of steadiness adjustments (sizzling rocks within the Kiln now injury gamers accurately, the Treatment-All merchandise can treatment some thorns within the Mesa biome, and the Magic Beanstalk is quicker to climb).
Peak is the most recent and among the best examples of the style that players have started to lovingly (or not-so-lovingly) as “friendslop”–relatively easy co-op-first video games that embody a component of humor, resembling R.E.P.O. and Deadly Firm. Attending to the highest of Peak’s mountain requires talent and data, however issues like exploding spores, the truth that you may lose consciousness and fall off the mountain, and many different hazards, are undeniably meant to trigger laughter.
Peak has bought over 10 million copies on Steam in line with Geoff Keighley, and has lately added options like a Mesa biome, cannibalism, and extra.