Cooperative climbing sensation Peak just dragged a new update to the false summit of its Steam beta branch, adding a couple of new items to the game and making some small but important quality of life changes. But we're going to hike past all of that for the moment, and make a beeline straight for the bugfixes, as the changelog includes an immediate contender for my favourite fix ever.
The update's accompanying Steam post summarises this as "You no longer win if you die"—a line fit to make any passing videogame player skid to a halt on their heels like a cartoon character. Dying is the opposite of winning in 99.9% of games. It's one of the most fundamental rules in the medium. So how has Peak's mountaineering adventure managed to conflate the two?
