SnowRunner has added a brand new map, Rift

A brand new space has opened up in SnowRunner with a free replace as we speak, inviting gamers to get caught within the Taymyr’s Rift map. Sounds like an amazing place to take a honking nice truck off-roading, Rift does. The publishers have additionally now picked winners for the primary wad of month-to-month prize cash for folks making widespread SnowRunner mods.

Other options in as we speak’s replace embody a number of save slots, a repair for save corruption that trapped gamers in infinite loading, and extra bug fixes and efficiency optimisations. See the Rift Update patch notes for extra.

You might need discovered your saves have vanished, although. They say they’re engaged on that however you’ll be able to fix it manually too.

“This is just the beginning, as we now look to Phase 1 of content updates, with more maps, vehicles, missions, and more!” publishers Focus Home say. Other newness is coming from mods.

Focus Home this week detailed the SnowRunner Creator Rewards Program, which every month throws some cash on the makers of widespread mods. The 5 Top Mod Creators get €400 (£350) every and the 5 Rising Star Creators get €170 (£150) every. Prizes for mods is a win-win-win state of affairs: the cash’s good for the modders, formally highlighting widespread mods is helpful for gamers who won’t in any other case see them, and mods sustaining and boosting games helps promote extra copies. The modkit is pretty restricted proper now, although future plans embody instruments for options together with making maps and customising automobile interiors. Mods are constructing on a good game.

Jeremy Peel stated in our SnowRunner review that plouging by means of the mud and snow, up hill and down dale, “encourages dogged persistence past the usual bounds of sense, beyond the normal stopping point of patience, toward a zen-like state of obstinance.” The game’s out now, although exclusive to the Epic Games Store.