

The full game is due to launch on December 2nd. The open beta will run from Friday, November 18th through to Monday, November 21st. Completing these challenges and Mountain Stories will also unlock new gear for players to customize their characters." Players will also find nine Mountain Stories – narrative-based challenges that will delve deeper into unique moments in the world of Steep – throughout their journey. Defy and master the worlds most epic mountains. "The Open Beta will allow players to discover the diversity of Steep's world by exploring, riding and completing dozens of challenges through three of the seven regions composing Steep’s massive open world inspired from the Alps – the Aravis, the Tyrol and the Needles. Ride a massive open world of the Alps and Alaska, where the powder is always fresh and the run never ends. Here's what Ubi have said is in the beta: It's set in an open, shared world, with all sorts of races and things going on if you want or you can simply going a-exploring.

Steep is a snowsports game combining the usual skiing and snowboarding with some less conventional deathtrips, like wingsuiting and paragliding. You could hardly take them home with you on the bus, could you? If that sounds big to you, hey, consider how big the Alps are. The beta doesn't begin until Friday but you can now preload the game, which is handy as it's a 19GB download. The problem with this was that you have to do many of the paragliding missions in order to progress overall in the game.If you, like me, fancy hitting the slopes this weekend in the free open beta test for Ubisoft's open-world xXtremewintersportsXx 'em up Steep, fire up Uplay today. I really enjoyed the snowboarding, skiing, and the wingsuit flying, but to me, the paragliding felt really slow-paced and way less fun than the other three.

Each one offers its own set of challenges for you to complete. Snowboarding, skiing, wingsuit flying, and paragliding. One of the cool (that was not meant to be a horrible pun, sorry) aspect of Steep is that it gives you four winter sports to play around with. On the flip side of this, I am sure some people like that kind of thing, and they will wish that the XP you earned had a more “personal” touch to it. I liked this system as sometimes messing around with various stats and pieces of gear can get a little tiresome. The XP does not level you or your gear up, instead, the XP is used to unlock more areas of the world for you to do more stuff in. The idea of Steep is that you have a ton of different missions/objectives/races that you need to do in order to earn XP.
