SnowRunner Season 12 release date confirmed

Oh yes, the SnowRunner Season 12 expansion – last of the Year 3 Pass – now has a name and a release date. Here is everything else you need to know plus some good news for Xbox players.

Hello and welcome to A Tribe Called SnowRunner Season 12 has a release date for you to put in your diary, Filofax or have your servant note down. That date, to save you time but ruin my average retention, is the 31^st of January 2024.

The Season 12 release date includes PC and consoles though there may be a few hours or so difference between each because store variation. So keep those flaming pitchforks unlit for now unless things change.

As the video title reveals, Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment have named the Year 3 Pass finale Season 12: Public Energy. Not Public Enemy, which is the famous hip-hop group from Long Island, New York.

Please note: This is the script from my YouTube video, click play above to watch or click here.

Dreaming of a nuclear winter

As opposed to fighting the power or assisting in a Chernobyl clean-up as previously speculated, Season 12 has you heading to North Carolina. As with all multiples of four in SnowRunner expansions (Season 4 Amur, Season 8 Grand Harvest), you get four maps: Pineline Bay, Reactive Zone, Oviro Hills and Flatland.

Tasks are undertaken for the Pineline Bay Administration, of which there are 22 contracts, Geodetic Guidance, which has 14 contracts, and Pineline Energy Generation LLC, which rounds things off with 16 contracts.

As you complete all 50 contracts and various side-quests across the four 2x2km maps, you will be helping build a nuclear power plant, cooling towers and connecting the area. Expect a garage in every map except the Oviro Hills.

New terrain assets (including leafy trees) help make Season 12 feel as fresh as its forest air, unlike Season 11, which was about as Scandinavian as a Wetherspoons pub.

Difficulty is perhaps a little on the easy side for those hoping for Amur 2.0, however contract variety and strong map design should keep you busy for tens of hours. Tarmac trunk roads are plentiful, yet there is plenty of opportunity to go off-road and large bodies of water can make progress trickier.

King of kings

There is also a multi-wheeled reason why Season 12: Public Enemy, sorry, Energy is worth considering. Though the MTB 8106 (Rock Grinder) is a bit weedy and reminiscent of the Neo Falcon 2000, that gigantic FEMM 37-AT is a monster.

Find its engageable diff-lock upgrade or not. Either way, you can go anywhere while carrying anything. I managed to get eight slots of cargo up that steep Orestoke slope where its Hollywood-esque letters live.

Though you have to drop to seven slots if you want a crane, the FEMM 37-AT is basically as versatile as it gets. So much so, in fact, that I shall be reviewing it. While I am here, new stickers related to Season 12: Public Energy have been added. Living the dream!

I can also let Xbox players know that the source of the Xbox stability issue has been found, according to SnowRunner game director Mr Esorokin (not his real name). “Found it, but it took a while,” he said, adding that the fix, “will be part of the Season 12 update”.

Hopefully that means the first Season 12 update, as in on the 31^st of January, and not mid-season. Though given how long many of us have waited, just knowing a fix is finally happening should go down like a fine Wetherspoons beer. Other pubs are available.

He reiterated that the “main issue I want [the] team to fix right now is Xbox stability,” after which the “next step would be to finally fix co-op” though no timeframe was mentioned nor whether the cause has been identified.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my Season 12 montage taken from a previous video. Like, subscribe, join my Patreon if you have some spare pennies and ‘bring the noise’ in the comments.