After 15 months, and more than half a dozen major updates, Descenders is ready to leave Early Access. Thanks so much for taking this journey with us, and prepare yourselves for what the full Descenders experience has in store for you!

Here's what you can expect when The Multiplayer Update drops on May 7.


Imagine this: You boot up Descenders, into the brand new central hub (more on this below). All of a sudden, a bike goes flying by... then another... and another!

When you boot up Descenders, and anytime you go back to the main lobby, your hub will be filled with other players. You can ride around with them, check out high scores, explore the outskirts of the hub, whatever you like.

When you dash off into a Career session, you won't be alone either. You'll encounter random riders, playing the same seed as you in real-time. There are no collisions so you can't smash into each other, but you can race through the world and explore together.




If you're not a fan of stranger danger, you can choose to start a Casual Lobby with friends. Invite your friends via Steam, and they can join up with you, and race through any of the worlds in the game.

It's up to you whether you race, explore, compete for score, mess around together, see if you can line up 7 riders and jump over all of them...

How you play Descenders with your friends is up to you!


Was five worlds not enough for you? How about four brand new worlds you've never played before?

Introducing CareerPlus Mode. When you've collected enough Rep, you'll unlock this mode which essentially gives you a whole new Career to play through, complete with four new worlds.

Check out the gifs for a sneak peek. And speaking of new areas...




Whenever you boot up the game or finish a run, you'll be booted into the new central hub area. It's much, much bigger than the original hub, and features a bunch of really cool areas to explore.

You can still find The Shed, and your team's tent, but you'll also find other useful areas, like a giant leaderboard that updates to show your best scores.


New music! New options! New sounds! New items! New bikes! New achievements! Play as a man or woman! New everything!

When the 1.0 Update hits on May 7, Descenders is going to feel like a very different game -- and we can't wait to share it with you.

See you all next week!

Love
RageSquid + No More Robots

Hey all,

The DESCENDERS MULTIPLAYER BETA has arrived!

This is what it entails:

- All 5 original Descenders environments.
- A casual lobby mode in which you can ride with friends and randoms.
- Or meet other riders while playing the regular career mode.

If you still want to join go ask us a key on our Discord:

https://discordapp.com/invite/descenders

You do not need to have purchased the full game in order to get a multiplayer beta key!

Have fun and much love fellow Descenders,

RageSquid & No More Robots

Hey everyone!

The Descenders Multiplayer beta is coming next week!!

- Ride through Career Mode alongside other people
- Make a lobby and ride with friends

Simply sign up here, and you'll receive a Steam key on March 21st: https://goo.gl/forms/IUzS2rxikQXeMCvg1

Love,

No More Robots & RageSquid

Hey everyone!

Can you believe it's been one whole year since Descenders launched on Steam? What a ride it has been... and as we come to the end of that ride, with the upcoming 1.0 Multiplayer launch, we wanted to look back over the last year with you.

Thanks again, all -- and have a 20% off sale on us! Click here to expand the image!

Hey all,

It's been a while since you've heard from us so we're here with a tiny Christmas special!
This special is a small update with a winter themed overworld and several winter themed unlockables.

With this small update we'd also like to tell you our plans for Descenders next year.
The full launch is getting closer each day and we wouldn't be RageSquid if we weren't planning to go out with a bang.

We're not spoiling everything but here are some BIG things:

• At the moment we're working very hard on the multiplayer and several modes that come with that.
  It may not be a surprise but playing Descenders with a group of friends is a blast!
  
  
  
  
• Rosie has also been working hard on several new environments which will also come with the full launch in some form.
  Some of these are really tough so if you want to nail these down you better get practicing.
  
  

Release wise it's too soon for us to set a date but you can expect an Q1 - early Q2 full release.
Don't worry though, we WILL do some multiplayer testing in between! EXCITING.

We wish you all a merry Christmas and happy holidays.

PS: try redeem code: MERRYCHRISTMAS

As always
Much love,

RageSquid and No More Robots

Happy Halloween!

Something we've been asked non-stop since the Early Access launch is if we could implement more tricks. Well, today is the day! We've worked on the animation system so that it can now handle tricks like No Handers, Supermans, Can Can, and others. While we were working on the animation system we updated bails and the character collision at the same time. Falling off your bike has never looked better.

For Xbox One players this update also includes the previous Steam update. (Replay system, Volcano Bonus level, and a new batch of unlockable items)

Changes:

• Tricks:
  - Holding Left Shoulder Button (or C on keyboard) and point the Right Stick (Arrow keys on keyboard) to one of the 8 directions will trigger one of the new tricks. Tricks only work while in-air.
  
• New Bonus level:
  - We've added a 5th bonus level. Each of the environments now has their own bonus level. It's the perfect place to play around with the new trick system, go find it!
  
• New unlocks:
  - Added several new items of all rarities to unlock. This includes some special Halloween items.
  
• Misc:
  -Character now has collision. Try not to bump your head on the Firewatched jump.
  -Bail system improved.
  -Advanced replay options (Steam only). Hit Start/Escape during a replay and enable the advanced settings from there. This enables keyframe and camera path controls.
  -Keybindings menu updated.
  -Several sound effects updated/added.
  -Shuffle music option. Currently the game has different music for each environment. Enabling the shuffle option in the audio settings mixes everything up.
  -Build crew persons added to the build crew selection/game over/loading screens.
  -Sponsor office leave team button moved so it isn't pressed accidentally as easy.
  -Bugfix (Xbox): Flow and Best Time leaderboards should work again.
  -Bugfix (Xbox): Friends/Global distinction on leaderboards fixed.
  -Bugfix (Xbox): Mph/Kmh distinction now added to the bonus objectives.
  -Bugfix (Xbox): On-screen keyboard doesn't cut off popups anymore.

Community
If you want to keep up to date with the known issues and our current plans, join our Discord, or have a look at the Roadmap! As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts!

Spoopy love,
RageSquid & No More Robots

Hey all,

Just a quick heads-up / warning.

With the new update it is very well possible that your replays will not work anymore. If you want to save them I would recommend recording them with some third party software.

We're looking forward to the new update, see you on Monday!

Hey everyone!

Ready for another massive Descenders update?

Descenders will become that little bit trickier next week, when the Trick or Treat Update adds a whole host of special tricks you can pull off to boost your combo. The Trick or Treat Update, coming to both PC and Xbox One on October 29, will add tricks like the Superman, No Hander, Candy Bar, and more.

Here's a new trailer to show that we mean business:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5nH2zPkx6U
And hey, with these new tricks, how about a brand new skate-park environment to mess around in? Plus, as the name might suggest, this update comes just in time for Halloween. Expect spooky goings-on, and special items to find...

We know you've all been waiting for tricks for a little while now, so we can't wait to get them into your hands next week <3

Cheers
RageSquid + No More Robots

We had an amazing Descenders community day on Saturday, here's a group photo! <3

Hey everyone,

It's been a few weeks since we launched the replay mode update. We've had some good feedback from our community so we've added and fixed some minor stuff!

Changes

- Advanced camera controls. With these you can now create camera paths and change the depth of field distance.
- Fixed broken replays with modifiers.
- Some UI SFX added and tweaked.

We're working hard towards our big update around the end of this month, so stay tuned for more!

Love,

RageSquid & No More Robots