It’s been practically eight years since we launched Astroneer into Recreation Preview on the Xbox platform. This week, we’re proud to present an early have a look at our first ever large baddie, Lyn, to be featured in our upcoming Glitchwalkers Growth!
Glitchwalkers – Our First Growth
Astroneer has turn into greater than we ever may have imagined. We’ve had the chance to replace the sport dozens of instances with each group requested options and our personal creations. From Jetpacks and Pets, to Rails and Customized Modes, we’ve all the time tried to make the sport higher along with your assist, and this time is not any completely different.
Through the years, we’ve gotten numerous requests for brand new locations to discover… So, this enlargement is concentrated on a brand-new planet in a brand new photo voltaic system, Aeoluz! One other frequent request is to make Astroneer a bit tougher. That‘s the place Lyn is available in.
Lyn Is In Management
Lyn is a disgruntled techniques professional from the E.S.S. Elysium crew who’s created her personal actuality within the Astroneer universe. On this actuality, you’re at her mercy. A talented hacker, Lyn can manipulate the planet itself, altering its biomes and environment all the way down to the roots. Regardless of the planet’s rising instability, she’s continued to make it an increasing number of hostile to ensure nobody interferes along with her ploy. Alongside the planet itself, she’ll make use of a number of completely different viruses and reality-shaping instruments to repel potential interlopers.
Creating Lyn
We had lots of enjoyable with this one! It’s been a brand new and distinctive expertise to create a personality who’s a part of the crew, whereas nonetheless setting them aside as a troublemaker. Following our traditional course of, we began with lots of fast sketches targeted on shapes, silhouettes, and key options. As soon as we had a stable group, we picked completely different fine details that we favored and fused them collectively as extra refined 2D turnarounds. Trying on the ideas, Lyn’s ultimate design is a mixture of Possibility Okay and Possibility O proven within the picture beneath, incorporating a hood, however with Lyn’s bodily look wanting digitally hacked collectively — similar to the remainder of the planet.
Sticking to Our Roots
Let’s be clear: Even with some added problem, the sport you understand and love remains to be there. Crafting, constructing, and exploring with pals are at core of Astoneer. And whereas the enlargement itself is chock full of recent content material, there will even be a free companion replace to the bottom sport. Anybody can leap proper in and expertise one thing new!
We will’t anticipate you all to face off in opposition to Lyn and discover the brand new planet in Astroneer: Glitchwalkers. We’re working onerous in the direction of our ultimate launch date, which is able to land on Xbox and Home windows 10 later in 2024. Wishlist at present!
ASTRONEER
System Period Softworks
$29.99
$23.99
Xbox One X Enhanced
PC Recreation Move
Xbox Recreation Move
Discover and reshape distant worlds! Astroneer is about through the twenty fifth century Intergalactic Age of Discovery, the place Astroneers discover the frontiers of outer house, risking their lives in harsh environments to unearth uncommon discoveries and unlock the mysteries of the universe.
On this journey, gamers can work collectively to construct customized bases above or beneath floor, create automobiles to discover an enormous photo voltaic system, and use terrain to create something they’ll think about. A participant’s creativity and ingenuity are the important thing to searching for out and thriving whereas on thrilling planetary adventures! In Astroneer you’ll be able to:
•Reshape the bottom beneath your toes as if it had been made from clay.
•Survive on and discover rigorously crafted planets that may be completely deformed and traversed.
•Snap collectively parts and objects to construct bases and automobiles.
•Play with pals in 4 participant on-line drop-in/drop-out co-op.
•Uncover and uncover the mysteries of the photo voltaic system
•••Deform & form all the things round you•••
In Astroneer, gamers use their deform device to dig, accumulate, form and construct something they need. Use this capability to dig to the middle of the planet, construct a ramp into the sky, or make megaliths simply through the use of terrain!
•••Discover a whole photo voltaic system•••
Our huge photo voltaic system contains 7 wondrous planets that gamers can journey between and discover each inch of, from the complete spherical floor, by treacherous layers of caves, all the way in which all the way down to mysterious the core. Every of these planets has distinctive and difficult floor and cave biomes that supply a mess of challenges for gamers on their journey.
•••Customise & construct on the fly•••
Gadgets that Astroneers craft and discover on this planet might be snapped and related collectively to create distinctive creations for any scenario. Customise and enhance your bases, automobiles, and Astroneer.
•••4 Participant co-op•••
Astroneer is best with pals. Group up with different gamers and work collectively to create large industrial bases or to create enjoyable video games within the intensive inventive sandbox.
•••Survive & harness the facility of the planets•••
As soon as Astroneers are prepared, they might select to aim to know and presumably harness the facility behind mysterious constructions discovered on this planet.
Astroneer started as a Recreation Preview title and wouldn’t be right here at present if not on your help, suggestions, and concepts all through that course of. Now that we have now hit 1.0 we’ll hold our pledge to proceed constructing on the inspiration that’s Astroneer with free, ongoing content material updates. Should you’re curious concerning the route we’re aiming for, you’ll want to go try our roadmap, and our growth vlogs to maintain up to date on what we’re engaged on!
