Dear Steep Players,

We’re proud to present our big, awesome (and free!) game update that includes a completely new mountain range, Alaska’s Mount Denali! Of course, like with any major update, we’re also bringing you new features and improvements to make your Steep experience even better.

Your feedback is extremely important to us, so please keep sending your comments our way!


The wonders of Alaska’s Mount Denali await! Travel from the Alps to the other side of the world where you’ll experience an array of environments, from glistening seas and plunging cliffs to lumberyards and seaside towns.

You’ll find a selection of Alaska highlights in the map below.



With as many kilometers/miles to explore and ride as the Alps, the Steep Alaska update includes 21 new Challenges, 2 Invitationals and 1 Mountain Story that immerses you in the lore of the highest peak in North America, Mount Denali.



Finally, with the arrival of this Alaska update and all the new challenges it brings, the game’s Level Cap has been raised from 25 to 30.


Branded Challenges give players the chance to take on a trail challenge sponsored by our partner brands, enhancing the “real-life” authenticity of the Steep experience.



We’ve also made some important updates to our Community Challenges. From now on, players earn XP when playing a Community Challenge and the ghost of the leaderboard’s top player will be displayed so that you can learn from the best.

You can visit our Creating Challenges FAQ for a step-by-step guide on how to create, replay and share challenges with other players.


We hope you’ll enjoy this brand-new Alaska mountain adventure as much as we enjoyed designing and building it! Let’s hear from a couple members of the development team as they talk about what Alaska has in store for players in this Steep Game Update #2 video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQUf3sklmg
You can find the full Steep Game Update 1.05: Alaska Patch Notes in the forums.

Thanks for playing Steep and see you on the mountain!

- The Steep Team

Dear Steep Players,

We’re proud to present our big, awesome (and free!) game update that includes a completely new mountain range, Alaska’s Mount Denali! Of course, like with any major update, we’re also bringing you new features and improvements to make your Steep experience even better.

Your feedback is extremely important to us, so please keep sending your comments our way!


The wonders of Alaska’s Mount Denali await! Travel from the Alps to the other side of the world where you’ll experience an array of environments, from glistening seas and plunging cliffs to lumberyards and seaside towns.

You’ll find a selection of Alaska highlights in the map below.



With as many kilometers/miles to explore and ride as the Alps, the Steep Alaska update includes 21 new Challenges, 2 Invitationals and 1 Mountain Story that immerses you in the lore of the highest peak in North America, Mount Denali.



Finally, with the arrival of this Alaska update and all the new challenges it brings, the game’s Level Cap has been raised from 25 to 30.


Branded Challenges give players the chance to take on a trail challenge sponsored by our partner brands, enhancing the “real-life” authenticity of the Steep experience.



We’ve also made some important updates to our Community Challenges. From now on, players earn XP when playing a Community Challenge and the ghost of the leaderboard’s top player will be displayed so that you can learn from the best.

You can visit our Creating Challenges FAQ for a step-by-step guide on how to create, replay and share challenges with other players.


We hope you’ll enjoy this brand-new Alaska mountain adventure as much as we enjoyed designing and building it! Let’s hear from a couple members of the development team as they talk about what Alaska has in store for players in this Steep Game Update #2 video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQUf3sklmg
You can find the full Steep Game Update 1.05: Alaska Patch Notes in the forums.

Thanks for playing Steep and see you on the mountain!

- The Steep Team

Dear Steep Riders,

The hot topic this time is, of course, the addition of the Alaska mountain playground, including lots of improvements and fixes to get excited about! This update will be implemented during today's maintenance.

As always, please let us know what you think because your feedback really does matter to us – Thanks!

NEW FEATURES

• ALASKA: a brand-new mountain playground! – In addition to the Alps, you can now ride on the steeper mountains of Alaska! This new world includes 21 additional challenges, 2 Invitational Challenges, and a Mountain Story. Oh, and the cool thing? The Alaska massif is as big as the Alps and it’s an entirely FREE update for Steep players!
  
• Level Cap Increase – This one should please achievers and competitive players. With Alaska and new challenges coming your way, we’ve raised the level cap from 25 to 30.
  
• New Customization Items – In order to give you a more authentic feeling of riding in Alaska, we’ve added a bunch of new “American-inspired” items to the Store! More will be coming soon over the next few weeks.
  
• Branded Challenges – These additional challenges are now displayed on the Live Page! Check out now The North Face Challenge we’ve just added, and keep your eyes open for new Branded Challenges coming every 2 weeks.
  
• Community Challenge Rewards – Now, every time you beat a Community Challenge you’ll be rewarded with XP.
  
• Community Challenge Ghosts – Each Community Challenge now features the ghost of the player currently at the top of that challenge’s leaderboard.
  
• [PC] Additional trail added in Alaska for the Benchmark. Now players can activate benchmark with different trails and test their PC for each massif. Trails are selected automatically based on the active massif.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Player Display Fade-out – There’s no longer a “pop in/out” effect when the player display appears/disappears.
  
• Player Display Border was added for better visibility.
  
• Improved Camera Behavior in tight areas (for example, rivers and canyons) and steep inclines.
  
• Completion UI Now on Progression Page
  
• [PC] Updated preview images for the shadow quality option.

BUGS FIXED

• A few players get stuck in the onboarding after the Rooftops challenge.
  
• Some players’ progress gets blocked during the onboarding phase.
  
• In certain instances, there is an additional replica of the character in coop replay.
  
• The "Steep World Tour" logo is sometimes missing from the pop-up while in fixed view.
  
• Not able to watch medal replays in public challenges.
  
• Players’ final rankings are not displayed on the Live Page after the SWT Finals phase has ended.
  
• "My Shared Dare" is included in the Welcome Dashboard featured activities.
  
• Players receive no notification when they earn Steep Credits.
  
• Players receive no notification when they win Steep Credits during the Tournament phase of the Steep World Tour.
  
• When player is looking up at the sky in Free cam mode and then switch to Look-at mode. Camera stays focused on the sky.
  
• The Follow Camera seems to run behind when using Slow Motion.
  
• The camera is in the wrong position after spawning for the first time on an Invitational Challenge.
  
• Characters in coop replay will disappear if the player rewinds the replay video from the middle back to start and switches the camera to another character.
  
• The audio of Gold countdown still plays even if the challenge is completed.
  
• When ending a coop replay, the camera stops following the group member it was focused on.
  
• Subtitles continue to display even after player has skipped the end of the onboarding cinematic.
  
• Wrong camera behavior when the player opens the menu during the onboarding.
  
• HUD element “Unmark Drop Zone” continues to display if the player closes his binoculars while still being locked on to a Drop Zone.
  
• Creating a challenge on the last point of a trail breaks the trail interaction flow.
  
• The Santa Claus costume doesn't trigger its special taunt sound, “Ho, ho, ho!”
  
• In the last two phases of the Tournament, the notification showing the number of tries left contains a curly bracket in Portuguese.
  
• Saved trails are lost when rebooting the game.
  
• [PC] Group disbands when one of the party members starts downloading a challenge and leaves the group.
  
• [PC] Wrong position of UI elements when a player starts another player's dare.
  
• [PC] Wrong position of the Today's Suggestions on the Welcome Dashboard.
  
• [PC] Several localization issues.
  
• [PC] Character's shadow flickers on Low and Medium quality.
  
• [PC] Flickering of shadows from the rocks.
  
• [PC] Wrong position of the ghost markers when riding in GOPRO mode.
  
• [PC] Wrong resolution autodetects when default monitor changes from 21:9 to 16:9 using multimonitor configuration.
  
• [PC] "GPU usage" does not display in the Benchmark report when AMD crossfire is turned off.

Dear Steep Riders,

The hot topic this time is, of course, the addition of the Alaska mountain playground, including lots of improvements and fixes to get excited about! This update will be implemented during today's maintenance.

As always, please let us know what you think because your feedback really does matter to us – Thanks!

NEW FEATURES

• ALASKA: a brand-new mountain playground! – In addition to the Alps, you can now ride on the steeper mountains of Alaska! This new world includes 21 additional challenges, 2 Invitational Challenges, and a Mountain Story. Oh, and the cool thing? The Alaska massif is as big as the Alps and it’s an entirely FREE update for Steep players!
  
• Level Cap Increase – This one should please achievers and competitive players. With Alaska and new challenges coming your way, we’ve raised the level cap from 25 to 30.
  
• New Customization Items – In order to give you a more authentic feeling of riding in Alaska, we’ve added a bunch of new “American-inspired” items to the Store! More will be coming soon over the next few weeks.
  
• Branded Challenges – These additional challenges are now displayed on the Live Page! Check out now The North Face Challenge we’ve just added, and keep your eyes open for new Branded Challenges coming every 2 weeks.
  
• Community Challenge Rewards – Now, every time you beat a Community Challenge you’ll be rewarded with XP.
  
• Community Challenge Ghosts – Each Community Challenge now features the ghost of the player currently at the top of that challenge’s leaderboard.
  
• [PC] Additional trail added in Alaska for the Benchmark. Now players can activate benchmark with different trails and test their PC for each massif. Trails are selected automatically based on the active massif.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Player Display Fade-out – There’s no longer a “pop in/out” effect when the player display appears/disappears.
  
• Player Display Border was added for better visibility.
  
• Improved Camera Behavior in tight areas (for example, rivers and canyons) and steep inclines.
  
• Completion UI Now on Progression Page
  
• [PC] Updated preview images for the shadow quality option.

BUGS FIXED

• A few players get stuck in the onboarding after the Rooftops challenge.
  
• Some players’ progress gets blocked during the onboarding phase.
  
• In certain instances, there is an additional replica of the character in coop replay.
  
• The "Steep World Tour" logo is sometimes missing from the pop-up while in fixed view.
  
• Not able to watch medal replays in public challenges.
  
• Players’ final rankings are not displayed on the Live Page after the SWT Finals phase has ended.
  
• "My Shared Dare" is included in the Welcome Dashboard featured activities.
  
• Players receive no notification when they earn Steep Credits.
  
• Players receive no notification when they win Steep Credits during the Tournament phase of the Steep World Tour.
  
• When player is looking up at the sky in Free cam mode and then switch to Look-at mode. Camera stays focused on the sky.
  
• The Follow Camera seems to run behind when using Slow Motion.
  
• The camera is in the wrong position after spawning for the first time on an Invitational Challenge.
  
• Characters in coop replay will disappear if the player rewinds the replay video from the middle back to start and switches the camera to another character.
  
• The audio of Gold countdown still plays even if the challenge is completed.
  
• When ending a coop replay, the camera stops following the group member it was focused on.
  
• Subtitles continue to display even after player has skipped the end of the onboarding cinematic.
  
• Wrong camera behavior when the player opens the menu during the onboarding.
  
• HUD element “Unmark Drop Zone” continues to display if the player closes his binoculars while still being locked on to a Drop Zone.
  
• Creating a challenge on the last point of a trail breaks the trail interaction flow.
  
• The Santa Claus costume doesn't trigger its special taunt sound, “Ho, ho, ho!”
  
• In the last two phases of the Tournament, the notification showing the number of tries left contains a curly bracket in Portuguese.
  
• Saved trails are lost when rebooting the game.
  
• [PC] Group disbands when one of the party members starts downloading a challenge and leaves the group.
  
• [PC] Wrong position of UI elements when a player starts another player's dare.
  
• [PC] Wrong position of the Today's Suggestions on the Welcome Dashboard.
  
• [PC] Several localization issues.
  
• [PC] Character's shadow flickers on Low and Medium quality.
  
• [PC] Flickering of shadows from the rocks.
  
• [PC] Wrong position of the ghost markers when riding in GOPRO mode.
  
• [PC] Wrong resolution autodetects when default monitor changes from 21:9 to 16:9 using multimonitor configuration.
  
• [PC] "GPU usage" does not display in the Benchmark report when AMD crossfire is turned off.

Dear Steep riders,

We know it’s not the Fashion week yet but if you like to ride in style - with the free Alaska update coming your way - you should be pleased with what follows.

First of all, we’ve just added new customization items to the ingame store – to celebrate the release of the New World. We’ll keep adding more of these “Alaska-inspired” items in the incoming weeks so please stay tuned.

Season pass holders now have early access to the Sasquatch and the Dollar Proximity Wingsuit costumes for free. These items are in the PS4 and PC players inventory while Xbox One players can download it from the Xbox One Store. These two costumes will eventually be available for everyone else to buy with Steep Credits at a later date.



We’ve also pushed 3 packs of items to our Premium stores - on PS4, Xbox one and PC – which can be accessed via the “SHOP” menu page in game. These items are:

• The Alaska look – including the Friendly Beaver Helmet + the Wooden Alaska snowboard.
  PS4 | Xbox one | PC
• The Beaver costume aka “Timber” the Beaver costume.
  PS4 | Xbox one | PC
• The Beaver pack – including the Friendly Beaver Helmet + the Wooden Alaska snowboard + “Timber” the Beaver costume.
  PS4 | Xbox one | PC

AND finally, if you’re wondering who is the red and blue Yeti costume for… Well, we’ll get to that soon :)

Dear Steep riders,

We know it’s not the Fashion week yet but if you like to ride in style - with the free Alaska update coming your way - you should be pleased with what follows.

First of all, we’ve just added new customization items to the ingame store – to celebrate the release of the New World. We’ll keep adding more of these “Alaska-inspired” items in the incoming weeks so please stay tuned.

Season pass holders now have early access to the Sasquatch and the Dollar Proximity Wingsuit costumes for free. These items are in the PS4 and PC players inventory while Xbox One players can download it from the Xbox One Store. These two costumes will eventually be available for everyone else to buy with Steep Credits at a later date.



We’ve also pushed 3 packs of items to our Premium stores - on PS4, Xbox one and PC – which can be accessed via the “SHOP” menu page in game. These items are:

• The Alaska look – including the Friendly Beaver Helmet + the Wooden Alaska snowboard.
  PS4 | Xbox one | PC
• The Beaver costume aka “Timber” the Beaver costume.
  PS4 | Xbox one | PC
• The Beaver pack – including the Friendly Beaver Helmet + the Wooden Alaska snowboard + “Timber” the Beaver costume.
  PS4 | Xbox one | PC

AND finally, if you’re wondering who is the red and blue Yeti costume for… Well, we’ll get to that soon :)

What name do you go by?
MrHyy in Steep, MrHyyTV on YouTube and hyydarkstar on PSN.



What’s your primary Playstyle?
Pro Rider, because I love to improve my time and score in all challenges. That feeling when, after hours of tries, you finally beat a world record only by a few milliseconds is the best thing ever!

Your favorite sport to play in Steep?
Skiing and snowboarding, but if I had to pick just one I would go with snowboarding.



Favorite spot?
I don't really have a favorite spot as I usually spend my time trying to find new lines and exploring the map, but I particularly like Pointe Blanche.

Proudest achievement?
Creating a really difficult wingsuit Community Challenge (“Zigzaghorn”) on the Matterhorn. It seemed impossible at first, but I literally jumped from the chair when I managed to complete it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQDRUqek-1s
What you do besides playing Steep?
I'm studying for my high school diploma and I spend my free time playing video games. I also love to create music with my MacBook. Oh, and I'm the guy behind @Steep_News :)

Your wildest dream about Steep?
Winning the Steep World Tour!

What name do you go by?
MrHyy in Steep, MrHyyTV on YouTube and hyydarkstar on PSN.



What’s your primary Playstyle?
Pro Rider, because I love to improve my time and score in all challenges. That feeling when, after hours of tries, you finally beat a world record only by a few milliseconds is the best thing ever!

Your favorite sport to play in Steep?
Skiing and snowboarding, but if I had to pick just one I would go with snowboarding.



Favorite spot?
I don't really have a favorite spot as I usually spend my time trying to find new lines and exploring the map, but I particularly like Pointe Blanche.

Proudest achievement?
Creating a really difficult wingsuit Community Challenge (“Zigzaghorn”) on the Matterhorn. It seemed impossible at first, but I literally jumped from the chair when I managed to complete it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQDRUqek-1s
What you do besides playing Steep?
I'm studying for my high school diploma and I spend my free time playing video games. I also love to create music with my MacBook. Oh, and I'm the guy behind @Steep_News :)

Your wildest dream about Steep?
Winning the Steep World Tour!