Global Rankings
Players who own the Supporter DLC are now ranked globally across all maps. This rank is calculated every 6-hours at 00:00, 6:00, 12:00, 18:00 GMT and takes ~20 minutes to complete. It is shown in-game and on the website, which features the top-10 players on the homepage.
The Main Menu leaderboard button now defaults to the Global leaderboard
Surf with the devs!
We will be scheduling an event to host a 250 player lobby and answer questions in-game and live on Twitch, please be sure to join the Discord Server to get notified when this is taking place.
Supporter Sale!
During the Steam Sports Festival (Dec 8-15) and the Steam Winter Sale (Dec 18-Jan 5) SurfsUp’s Supporter DLC will be on sale for 25% off.
Please make sure to wishlist the DLC so you'll get notified when it's on sale!
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Happy Holidays!
We’ve themed the main menu and added a limited edition 🎅Santa and Elf character models! Either model has a chance to drop for any player who completes a run during December until the end of the year.
Website Redesign
https://surfsup.website has been rebuilt to be faster and more informative. With the new global ranking calculation we can now serve records directly from our own database instead of relying on Steam’s Web API.
Average page load time has been reduced from 25 seconds to 300 milliseconds.
This redesign features a new homepage, new global leaderboard, and a new profile profile page.
Map Select Redesigned
We have removed the map “star” difficulty ratings. Using the new global rankings we are now counting the clears a level has and giving you various sorting options.
Map Sorting Options:
Alphabetical
Most Clears
Least clears
By Game Mode (Surf, Bhop, Jump)
I’ve Cleared
I haven’t Cleared
Tutorial and Strafecourse are coded to be at the front of the list when sorted alphabetically. While disabled maps not available in today’s rotation are placed at the back in the proper order.
Maps you have previously cleared will show a green check on top the map image
New Maps
We have added 8 new maps created by community members using the SurfsUP SDK Project, including our first indie game collab map featuring the open world from Biathlon Challenge!
Dataflow by Jago
Elementary by soh (song by CloudNinja)
Hexagon by soh (song by gohan420)
Prismatic by soh (song by Twon)
Psychomelon by Spanky (song by CloudNinja)
Synthesis by soh (Song by Obama runtz)
Rivet by any_one (Song by CloudNinja)
Lodge (Biathlon Challenge) by CloudNinja & JC
Biathlon Challenge is currently having an open playtest! Give the game a try and let JC know how you think it feels!
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Null Binds
Input handling has been completely rewritten to allow for “Input Stacking” or “Null Binds”.
Example:
Holding A = Move Left
Holding A → Hold D = Move Right
Holding A → Holding D → Release D = Move Left
Tutorial Prompt
Upon launching the game a prompt to play the tutorial is presented allowing new players to jump directly into a private Tutorial lobby with guided surf enabled while letting seasoned surfers skip it and play as normal.
Guided Surf
Enabled by default, guided Surf is aimed to help new players understand how to play by strafing for them. It creates a replay line for you to follow with the mouse. Some maps have default guided replays that automatically load once the setting it enabled. Otherwise, downloading any replay will generate a trace line.
A prompt will appear when first spawning informing you guided is enabled, and it can be disabled or ignored.
Guided runs do not submit times to the leaderboard.
Bloodthief Collab
If you own Bloodthief and have it installed, you can now play as a Templar Knight in SurfsUp! If you haven’t checked out Bloodthief yet, it’s incredible! It features leaderboards and replays just like SurfsUp.
[dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2533600/Bloodthief?utm_source=SurfsUp"]Cosmetic collab models are now at the top of the drop down and are always shown. If the required game is not installed a tool tip will show saying so. Selecting an unavailable model will open the Steam store to the game’s page.
Quality of Life Changes
Updated SurfsUp logo
Free map rotation increased from 4 → 10
Hosts can now ban players, forcing them to disconnect and prevent them from rejoining the lobby
New error popup when returning to main menu
Windowed mode changed to Windowed Maximized
Starting and ending a run a now plays a ‘beep’ sound
The Discord world record bot has received an upgrade
Tool tips have been added to the player menu (TAB) action buttons
No longer hide the view steam profile for your own player card
Pause menu change map is now alphabetical because we removed Star ratings
While spectating another player you will now see their previous personal best displayed above the timer
We no longer embed the game’s PCK data into the executable, this should make future patches smaller on both Windows and Linux
Optimized Sakura to increase average frame rate from 26fps to 60fps in 4k
Particle Effects can now be toggled on/off under Settings → Video
Toggle Crouch can now be enabled under Settings → Game
The open console key now defaults to ` tilde
The underside of Runes’ starting platform has been reduced
Tutorial map tweaks to improve guided surf
The starting map automatically sets itself to the last chosen map
Credits have been updated
Settings font increased
Bug Fixes
The main menu no longer uses a scaled 1080p subviewport, it now looks crisp and clear at 1440p+ resolutions
Surfer skill group displays on the player menu (TAB) again
Fixed an issue when a player disconnecting during map change could crash the game
Fixed an issue where if a player was connected outside of Global.players (connected to host not to you) if they completed a run your game would crash
Re-entering the start zone after beginning a run no longer triggers Timer Frozen
