2XKO – Developing The Climb

Summary

Welcome back to the Weekend Warmup.
Before we get into the fun stuff, I want to address some of the console crashing issues many folks have been seeing. We’ve tracked down the cause, but it’s pretty systemic (related to the amount of content we’ve been adding recently) and not something that can be fixed with an easy one-shot. The team is working on a solution now, and we aim to release a patch in July. Thanks for your patience.
In the meantime, 2XKO’s new PVE mode is live, and y’all have been hitting The Climb hard, giving us great feedback, and domain-expanding your way through randomly-augmented runs.
I sat down with 2XKO’s design director, Brad “Bradido” Merritt, and product lead Alison “Jaredan” Hawkes, to get the scoop on how The Climb came to be.
While 2XKO has had a lightweight PVE mode (Bot Beatdown) since launch, we’ve heard requests for a way to play against bots with more unlocks, progress, or story. The Climb came together in a few months, built on a prototype Survival mode we had lurking in 2XKO’s development backlog. As such, what you see in The Climb today is our first attempt at bringing some of that sauce together, knowing there are still a ton of updates we could make as a next step.
Bradido emphasises that the mode is not intended to replace a standard Arcade mode, but to be a playground for breaking the rules of the game.
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