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Peak was one of the surprise successes of last year. What was originally meant as just a simple game jam project turned into a huge hit as hundreds of thousands of players gathered around the foot of the mountain with their friends with the aspirations of scaling it and escaping the deserted island.

Since then the game has gone through some updates and changes with the recent update adding a bunch of custom settings including an option to turn on "Grapple Mode (stupid)", alongside an April Fool's update that replaces the help reaction with a Spartan kick. But apparently not even Grapple Mode (stupid) isn't enough for some players.

Because apparently three major updates, over 30 patches, nine hotfixes, and four minor updates is completely outrageous for a game that's been out for less than a year, costs $8 (but is regularly on discount), and was made by two non-live service studios just trying to have a bit of fun.

"Peak has had sooo many updates tho," one of the developers, Landfall replied. "Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios, any update is a bonus not a right. We just made a huge update for customising runs, but full customisation is a big ask. However if there are specific suggestions we'd love to hear them. [Redgarding] modding, we have a great connection with the modding community, when asking if we should add [a] workshop etc they didn't want it."

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[–] astutemural@midwest.social 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is why you make your game easily moddable so people can just do it themselves

[–] TanneriusFromRome@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

[Regarding] modding, we have a great connection with the modding community, when asking if we should add [a] workshop etc they didn't want it."

Umm?

[–] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

True, if only that making a game modable wasn't infinitely harder... There are many, more expensive games out there that rely on 3rd party hooking for a flourishing modding scene that's almost synonymous with the game e.g. Bloons TD6, Geometry Dash, Beatsaber, Minecraft.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

they arent wrong. seems they released a nice game which is "complete" by any of today's standards. they arent slaves to forever release free addons

[–] RION@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I'm a little annoyed that Peak is what got Aggro Crab to blow up instead of Going Under. Man I love that game. Roguelite Soulslike with corporate-art characteristics

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i think Another Crab's Treasure helped quite a bit too kril-bashful

[–] RION@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah I just started it recently and have been enjoying so far!

[–] RION@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

I hear video game mods got added to the straight edge ban list and it's fucking me up.

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

They just released a big update a couple of days ago too

give peak a hiking pass that you pay 9.99$ for monthly to get weapons and skins.