Peak's latest patch fixes invisible chicken bodies crashing the game and lets you toggle off the ability to eat your friends: 'Now that you've all had your fun we're introducing some changes to cannibalism'

A climber skeleton generated by the Everest mod in Peak.

(Image credit: Landcrab, modded by BSMG_Steven)

Peak decided to throw a little more chaos into its mountain climbing adventures last week, adding the ability to become a cannibal and eat your friends if you became slightly too hungry.

The feature was met with a mixed response. Although a slightly troubling number of people were thrilled about their fellow scouts morphing into walking roast chickens, many others were concerned that it would allow trolling to reach new heights. No pun intended.

Thankfully a new patch has now rolled out which introduces the ability to toggle cannibalism on and off. It's switched on by default, so if you really don't want your friends to target you the second their hunger ticks over, you'll need to head into the main menu and switch off "Enable Cannibalism". This means you'll no longer see other players as chickens, and no one will be able to eat you. Back to trail mix and energy drinks it is, I guess.

A few other elements have been tweaked as well. For those brave enough to keep cannibalism enabled, you'll start seeing your fellow scouts as edible once your hunger reaches 70% rather than 60%, so it's definitely more of a last resort. If you do decide to snack on someone, you'll also take a 10% curse status too. Previously, it was only 5%, so there's a little more punishment now for turning on other players at least. Not that it will stop my friends from targeting me the first moment they can.

Kara is an evergreen writer. Having spent four years as a games journalist guiding, reviewing, or generally waffling about the weird and wonderful, she’s more than happy to tell you all about which obscure indie games she’s managed to sink hours into this week. When she’s not raising a dodo army in Ark: Survival Evolved or taking huge losses in Tekken, you’ll find her helplessly trawling the internet for the next best birdwatching game because who wants to step outside and experience the real thing when you can so easily do it from the comfort of your living room. Right?

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