Caleb.Ereal question is when is it going to launch for free on steam.... IM STILL FUCKING WAITING
The games in alpha at the moment, that's like two stages away from being finished. It's not going to be finished for ages, there's three people making it. If you really are 'STILL FUCKING WAITING' then quit being a little bitch and buy the game. You know, actually support the developers rather than sitting in the corner like an 8 year old screaming at a his parents because they won't give him another slice of cake.
I have it, here's some things:
-mountain has potential, but it's a little repetitive. There's like one type of tree, one type of cliff, one type of ice etc.
-rails are almost awesome. So much fun
-off axis tricks are almost impossible, flat/rodeo 5s and switch flat 3s are the only ones that I can get consistently. Might be easier with a controller.
-ski tracks look awful.
- halfpipe is impossible, apparently they're fixing that by the time the B&E park comes out
-Most of the cliffs are so big Jamie Pierre wouldn't have hit them. Still fun to throw triple fronts off though.
-pillow lines are possible and really good if you get them right.
-the forest is one of the most fun spots they have, it consists of smaller cliffs and woodland rails. IMO it's more fun than the main park, although my framerate always takes a hit when I go in there.
-The game doesn't actually require that good a computer to run it. I know everyones bitching because you can't run it on mac (you know how difficult it is to run across those two platforms?), but most people who's computers can't run SNOW couldn't run any modern game at all. I have a low end gaming pc (AMD FX6300, 8GB RAM, R7 260X) and I play on 1080p, I get high frame rates.
-BUGS. Lots of them. As many as you'd find in the cheapest hotel in a third world city.
-IT'S SO MUCH FUN. Steam tells me I have 14 hours on it, sure that isn't many but I'm still finding loads of new lines down the mountain. It's fun to start at the summit and hit as many cliffs as possible until I get to the bottom, trying to get to the park.
Conclusion: this game is not at all finished, but it's ambitious to expect AAA quality. That's said, recent AAA games have included AC:Unity which has wayyyy more bugs in it than SNOW (worth noting that Ubisoft's recent failings are considered to be due to the management imposing too tight deadlines on the dev team).
Anyone who wants the team to race through to finishing the game is a moron. Making games takes time.
