# PEAK THE FINAL ASCENT - Product: PEAK (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/peak) - Vendor: Team PEAK - Date: 2026-08-11 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3527290/view/676254354515165309 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/peak/releases/2026-08-11-the-final-ascent What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Added GLOOM and THE CITADEL biomes that randomly replace CALDERA and THE KILN on some maps - **added** — Added Ascent 8 - **added** — Added 10 new Badges and cosmetics - **added** — Added Clown Luggage type that contains wacky items - **added** — Added Jetpack item that can be equipped in place of a backpack and fueled with assorted items - **added** — Added Warp Fungus item - **added** — Added Glider item for crossing horizontal distances - **added** — Added Traditional Chinese localization - **changed** — Changed Ascent 7 from preventing player revival to starting cursed with increased curse from revival - **changed** — Changed Lollipop, Cannon, and Balloon Bunch to spawn in Clown Luggage instead of Climber Luggage - **changed** — Changed auto-save behavior to only delete when run ends instead of deleting when loading an existing auto-save - **changed** — Decreased radius of spore mushrooms in ROOTS significantly - **changed** — Made beetle behavior in ROOTS less aggressive and prevented them from conspiring to trap a scout - **changed** — Increased average time between windstorms in ROOTS - **changed** — Made campfires give Morale Boosts to solo players - **changed** — Lowered MESA height to match ALPINE - **fixed** — Fixed annoying bug that causes random fall damage when grabbing wall with no stamina - **fixed** — Fixed issue where items from previous run could spawn randomly for players who joined later - **fixed** — Fixed issue where being prompted to grab pitons would sometimes not work ##### **THE FINAL ASCENT** Hey Scouts! It’s finally time!! **We’ve been hard at work crafting PEAK’s final Major Update, and can’t wait to share it with you. This update comes with new variant biomes: GLOOM and THE CITADEL, which will cycle out with CALDERA and THE KILN!** Alongside that, there are new items throughout the game, a variety of bug fixes and updated mechanics, and something SUPER SECRET, only for the most determined scouts… As always with biome updates, the next TWO WEEKS will exclusively feature maps containing the GLOOM and THE CITADEL. After that, like other biomes, it will be random whether the CALDERA/KILN or the GLOOM/CITADEL spawns in a daily map. ##### Patch Notes v2.0.a ##### **NEW BIOME:** - Added **GLOOM** and THE **CITADEL**, randomly replacing CALDERA and THE KILN on some maps. ##### **But wait, there’s more** - Mysterious statues have begun appearing all over the island… no one is quite sure, but they seem to have a connection to the Scoutmaster’s original lost troop… and that’s all I’m gonna tell you! Have fun! ##### ** Additional Features** - **THE FINAL ASCENT** - Ascent 8 has been added. The description is a bit of a spoiler so we’re gonna let you guys discover it on your own 🙂 - **Ascent 7 has been changed.** - We felt that preventing players from reviving, while it did make it a challenge, made this Ascent less fun and was not in the spirit of the game (and its meaningless in a solo run!). Instead of “You cannot revive the dead” it's now “Start cursed and take more curse from revival” to properly punish repeated deaths without locking players out of the rest of the run entirely. - **New Badges** - There are 10 new Badges to unlock and new cosmetics to go with them! For you completionists, don't worry, this is the last time we’ll be messing up your 100%. - **New Luggage Type: Clown Luggage!** - Open one to get a bunch of wacky items! - The Lollipop, Cannon, and Balloon Bunch will now spawn in Clown Luggage instead of Climber Luggage. - Loading an existing auto-save will no longer delete the save - they will now only delete when the run ends, regardless of winning or losing. Rejoice, save scummers! - **New Items:** - **Jetpack**: Equip this in place of a backpack and fuel it with assorted items to reach new heights! - **Warp Fungus**: A strange new form of fungus growing on the mountain. Try throwing it to see what happens! - **Glider**: Extremely effective at crossing horizontal distances. Just don’t run out of stamina! - And more we won’t tell you about… - **The game is now localized in Traditional Chinese!** ##### **Major Fixes** - The annoying bug that causes random fall damage when grabbing the wall with no stamina has been fixed. Read more about the changes to sliding fall damage under Balance Changes! - Heavily reduced the frequency that arms would twist unnaturally when holding an item in your hands. - Fixed an issue where items from a previous run in the same session could sometimes spawn randomly for players who joined the game later. - Fixed an issue where being prompted to grab pitons would sometimes not work, especially when directly on top of the piton. ##### **Minor Fixes** - Fixed an issue where throwing an egg at a surface would only stick it to that surface for the host. - Fixed an issue where some badges would clip into the sash and not be visible. - Fixed an issue where, using controller, Player 1 becomes unresponsive after selecting an item in a backpack while a Player 2 is equipping it. - Fixed issues where players would receive poison damage after using a non-food cooked item. - Fixed issues related to incinerated Scout Cookies giving poison damage incorrectly. - The Anti-Rope Spool no longer makes sound while it's in the backpack. - Fixed issues with the blindness affliction duration. - Carried scouts will now be affected by the Remedy Fungus healing AoE. - Dozens of other bits of polish that aren’t worth mentioning! ##### **Bala _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3527290/view/676254354515165309]_