Right, stop eating your mate for a minute. Peak‘s had a big update from developers Aggro Crab and Landfall Games, and it adds a new Monument Valley-esque location for you to scale the cliffs of.
Before you can go mountaineering among the sandy cacti and roaring tornadoes, though, you’ll want to put on some suncream. Yes, I know you now do the cannibalism thanks to co-op climber’s most recent patch, but you’ve still got to take your skincare seriously. Come on, at least take a parasol.
The Mesa biome is Peak’s first alternative to its standard Alpine island, with the two set to settle into a rotation once Mesa’s had an initial week in the sun. “Explore the sandy terrain under the blistering sun… alongside plenty of mysteries that lie within the shade,” the devs write of what to expect. It appears one of these hidden surprises is waiting for you inside a kiln (nobody tell the Aunty Donna boys).
You’ll be trying not to succumb to the heat, while dodging the likes of whirling tornadoes and tumbleweeds, which the update’s trailer seems to suggest are more lethal than you might expect of your average meandering plantlife. That’s in addition to the age-old Peak threat of just falling to your death from a great height, something I’d imagine won’t be helped by the fact the update adds in sticks of dynamite that you and your fellow climbers can run across and make go boom. Hey, at least you can now point at a fuse whenever someone starts licking their chops at the idea of chewing your fingers.
Among the other new items added in are balloons, scout cannons, parasols, sunscreen, and aloe vera. So, it seems the devs have popped into their local health and beauty shop after raiding Wile E. Coyote’s ACME surplus. Armed with this stuff, you’re tasked with earning a bunch of new badges that dish out fresh gear.
The Mesa update also adds an optional no-insects mode for creepy crawlyphobes, makes some performance improvements, and dishes out some bug fixes. Among the latter are tweaks that prevent legs getting stuck in luggage, as well as one that stops you fiddling with your backpack after you’ve passed out.
“A lot of you are asking about future updates and to be as honest as possible – we aren’t quite sure yet,” Aggro Crab and Landfall wrote to close out the update’s notes. “We don’t want to promise a bunch of stuff and not deliver. BUT we will continue to update the community on what we’re cooking as soon as we can. At this stage, keep expecting bug + stability patches for now!”
Right, off you go to climb those buttes. You’d better not come back glowing pink or your mum’ll be furious.
