April 16, 2024
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Hey, Grounded followers! The yard is buzzing with pleasure, and it is all due to our newest replace, “Totally Yoked” – and sure, it is as huge because it sounds! We’re not simply speaking large; it is bulging with a ton of recent content material, options, and quality-of-life updates! This Totally Yoked replace is right here to show your yard into an epic journey like by no means earlier than. Let’s dive into the wonders ready for you on this colossal replace!
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New Neighbors: Ant Queens and Your Choices
The royal Ant Queens have arrived! These regal creatures are greater than only a new face; they convey a brand new vibe to the yard. When assembly them, it gained’t be about ‘flexing your muscle mass’ in fight however extra about flexing your decision-making abilities; it’s about decisions and penalties – ally with them and acquire highly effective mates, betray them and brace for some extreme ant-itude, or you are able to do the third possibility, which is [REDACTED]! These selections echo throughout your total expertise, so select your path correctly and watch your journey unfold with these new influential neighbors.
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And the thrill doesn’t cease there – prepare for 12 new Ant Queen-inspired buildings, just like the grand Ant Queen Chaises and Chandeliers because the ‘bench press’ of ant structure. Plus, for pet fanatics, there is a heartwarming twist – the possibility to undertake a child ant pet. Keep in mind, each selection within the ant world carries weight, shaping the relationships inside this tiny, but ‘mighty’, kingdom.
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Yard Adventures: Remixed!
Get able to ‘raise’ your journey to new heights with our ‘New Sport+’ mode. After you conquer the mightiest of foes just like the Broodmother and the Wasp Queen, you will unlock the REMIX.R, main you to alternate dimensions with remixed challenges. Each playthrough is a novel expertise with creatures showing in new spots, extra demanding bosses, and hidden secrets and techniques.
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However beware – some creatures are infused with Uncooked Science, making them stronger, quicker, and more durable to struggle. Overcome these challenges to gather particular trinkets with distinctive properties. Plus, do not miss out on the brand new ASL content material, Milk Molars in randomized places, and the all-important Yoking Station for that additional energy increase in remixed yards.
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High quality of Life: It is All In regards to the Expertise
We’re at all times listening to our neighborhood, and this replace brings quality-of-life enhancements that make the yard extra pleasing. Multiplayer followers, rejoice! Hosts can now change saves and not using a hitch, retaining the journey flowing. Misplaced a pet? Our ‘Recuperate Pets’ function ensures they will discover their manner again residence. For our builders and creators, the brand new object capability meter is a godsend for optimizing efficiency and sharing your world creations.
Talking of creation, the Playground mode now gives much more management and choices for crafting your distinctive yard. Report rule-violating Playgrounds, shortly establish trinkets, and delve right into a trove of recent content material – it is all a part of enhancing your Grounded expertise.
Hulking Content material: Extra Objects, Extra Enjoyable!
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“Totally Yoked” will not be holding again. The replace is filled with over 20 new objects and tools, from the Termite King Pipe Organ to ornamental rugs. Achievement hunters put together for brand new challenges and the game-changing ‘Antbassador’ mutation. And we did not overlook about Playgrounds as they acquired contemporary information props so as to add extra potentialities for creativity.
Wrapping Up This Last Content material Replace
To assist present you ways Grounded is now beefier than ever, proceed studying the patch notes beneath! The ‘Totally Yoked’ replace brings infinite potentialities to your yard escapades. The sport has advanced in some ways, similar to including full Japanese VO for all gamers to take a look at. On prime of that, the sport can now be performed on a number of platforms, together with the newly added PlayStation 4|5 and Nintendo Swap. Now, gamers throughout all platforms can expertise this Grounded: Totally Yoked version of the ultimate recreation, collectively.
Lastly, an enormous thanks to our unimaginable neighborhood. Your help and keenness have formed Grounded into what it’s in the present day. As our final deliberate content material replace, we promise to maintain refining and perfecting your expertise within the recreation so that you and your pals can play within the yard.
Keep secure, and as at all times – keep Grounded!
Hey Grounded followers! We’re proud to current to you the “Totally Yoked” 1.4 replace: the premiere Grounded expertise swole with new content material.
Every of the three ant colonies now has a royal chief residing deep inside their respective hills. These new Ant Queens are usually not fightable bosses. They as a substitute give you a selection: both befriend or betray with a tasty providing. Which you select impacts the rewards you obtain and the way the colony reacts. Some decisions have cascading results that are not instantly obvious…
Subsequent up, we have remixed your yard! Introducing the New Sport+ mode: an entire overhaul that provides layers of complexity and problem. As a substitute of ending the sport, you should have the choice to enter an alternate dimension by way of the brand new REMIX.R system. Every playthrough on this mode remixes the yard in a number of ways in which offers you new challenges and rewards.
Accessing New Sport+ requires defeating the Broodmother, Mantis, Wasp Queen, and finishing the Javamatic struggle. When getting into this mode, your entire present bases, objects, recipes unlocks, and so forth. will carry over with you.
New Sport+ Options
Infused Creatures
In Remixed backyards, creatures will be infused with the facility of Uncooked Science. Not solely have they got extra well being, do extra harm, and assault quicker, however additionally they have distinctive properties that make them additional difficult.
New Trinkets
The excellent news is that infused creatures can drop particular trinkets which can be additionally infused with Uncooked Science. These new trinkets even have particular randomized properties. Ominent Badges will be collected once more, and have new properties, and each BURG.L Chip awards a brand new BURG.L Chip Trinket, they too may have randomized properties to offer you extra choices on construct your character.
Yoking Station +10
The Yoking Station, out there on the ASL in a remixed yard, permits you to improve your weapons to much more highly effective ranges. To improve your weapons, you will want to seek out new supplies and sources solely present in remixed yards.
Slurp the Core with Extra Molars
Molars will be gathered as soon as extra, and you will want to proceed to gather them to remain as swole because the creatures of the yard. In a remixed yard, the molars at the moment are in new, randomized places.
New ASL Additions
There are a lot of new additions to the Science Store. Take a look at the ASL for a brand new signal set, the Yoking Station, new weapons, tools, and extra, that may solely be bought in a remixed yard. To assist with buying the brand new objects there are new Uncooked Science spawn places, and MIX.Rs have elevated rewards.
Even Extra
There are different modifications which can be made to the yard in a remixed world, together with extra loot chests, completely different sweet, and another surprises.
The sport can now be performed further platforms, together with the newly added PlayStation 4|5 and Nintendo Swap. Gamers throughout all platforms can expertise this Grounded: Totally Yoked version of the ultimate recreation, collectively, with crossplay!
“Bugs Struggle Every Different” Customized Sport Possibility
- By default, pure enemies will struggle one another if they’re close to one another, and impartial creatures will struggle one another if struck unintentionally. This will now be turned off (helpful in Playgrounds when designing encounter rooms for the participant).
Hyperlink Colours
- Hyperlinks now have 5 coloration choices for distinguishing them whereas enhancing.
Multiplayer Load Sport
- Now you can load a save whereas in the midst of a multiplayer session. All related shoppers will load into the brand new world as soon as the load is full.
Recuperate Pets
- A brand new Sport Restore button has been added to get well any pets that aren’t presently following you.
- Pets allotted to a pet home may also teleport to their home, in case they’re outdoors of the terrain.
Object Capability
- An object capability meter will be discovered on the pause menu that tells you what number of objects, both in a Playground or a regular recreation, you might have in your degree. That is helpful to know if you’re sharing worlds with decrease finish machines to verify the sport will be performed reliably on all {hardware}.
- When you have no intention of getting your yard be as crossplay appropriate as attainable, this capability restrict will be modified within the Sport Settings menu to match your platform’s steered restrict or haven’t any restrict in any respect.
Playground Hyperlink Copy/Paste
- There at the moment are buttons out there to repeat and paste the configuration of a Hyperlink in a Playground.
Playground Browser Filtering
- Neighborhood Playgrounds will be filtered by key phrases, participant rely and style whereas searching.
Reporting Playgrounds
- Neighborhood Playgrounds will be reported by gamers in the event that they violate guidelines.
New Buildings
- 12 Ant Queen-related buildings
- Chaise Lounges
- Chandeliers
- Stuffed Queens
- Head Mount
- Yoking Station
- New Ground Rugs
- Termite King Pipe Organ
- REDACTED
New Pet
- 3 new Child Ant Pets to befriend.
New Tools
- Over 20 new objects and tools.
- Over 20 new trinkets.
Lots of these will probably be discovered solely in New Sport+
New Mutations
- Antbassador – Grow to be one with the ants of the yard.
New Indicators
- A brand new sign-set that may solely be bought in New Sport+
4 New Achievements
- 2 for the bottom recreation
- 2 for New Sport+
Full Japanese Voice Overs
- The sport now has full Japanese voice over, together with voices for the teenagers, BURG.L, cutscenes, and audio logs. Choose Japanese Voice Over from the Sport Choices menu to allow this function.
There are a variety of recent props that at the moment are out there to be positioned in Playgrounds. This contains the Jack o Lantern, Ice Caps Field, Massive TazT, Massive Cube, Wendell Chair, Massive SCA.B Mesh, Stump Bark and Pulp, Rash, Yoked Girth and Yogi Swole, Quarter, Backyard Gentle, Milk Molar Bottle and Lid, Gnome, Baseball Bat, Trash Bag, Pink Slip, Anarchis, Lab Dome, Pink Flower Petals, Cattails, Honeycomb, Lilypad, Shovel, Cacti, Charcoal Bag, Moldorc’s Fortress, the Chicken Bathtub, and extra.
Fight
- Assault pace sluggish results now not stack.
Animation
- Stagger animations for all ants and stinkbugs now bodily displace them.
Armor and Weapons
- Rising scythe assault pace by 15%.
- Reducing assault pace bonus granted by battle axe combo finishers by 5%.
- The Mighty improve path now applies an extra standing impact to weapons, very similar to the Glossy improve path for armor.
Objects
- Trinket objects that beforehand appeared as brown baggage now have a brand new shared trinket mannequin.
- Gold playing cards are usually not required for 100% on the Report Card.
UI
- Quest aims on the map present the search identify now when hovered over.
- Trailer Marker names are proven on the map when hovering over a Path Marker icon if a reputation is about.
- Improved picture high quality of merchandise icons on decrease finish {hardware}.
Audio
- New audio observe added for New Sport+
Playgrounds
- Ziplines created in Playground edit mode can’t be recycled or renamed in Play mode.
Optimization
- Considerably decreased the CPU load of the sport.
- Considerably decreased the CPU load throughout protection occasions.
- Lowered reminiscence utilization throughout the sport.
- Saving the sport is now quicker.
Main Fixes
- Audio logs that had been collected however not displaying up within the Information tab will correctly present up now.
- This was affecting some folks from getting 100%.
- Animations and audio work accurately for shoppers when another person makes use of a dandelion tuft.
- Some buildings positioned in very particular places will now not be unsupported upon loading the save.
- Fastened an issue the place sure stacks of ladders might trigger a saved recreation to by no means end loading.
- Non-grid buildings connected to grid buildings will now seem and disappear accurately on shoppers.
- Bugs will work together with the world round them extra typically (Girl Bugs chasing Aphids, Aphids dropping Honeydew, and so forth.)
Different Fixes
- You’ll be able to steal from aphids whereas carrying glossy aphid slippers.
- “Learn To Me” will now learn constructing customization sliders accurately.
- Buildings can’t be positioned inside stem pallets.
- Digging up Koi fish bones and scales as a shopper now not has them float up shortly and teleport again.
- Weapon improve icons on the HotPouch now not disappear after hitting one thing.
- Black Ants correctly navigate from outdoors the Trash space again to their ant hill.
Playgrounds Fixes
- The constructing distance axis will now be correctly conveyed to shoppers in Playground Design Mode.
- Preplaced grid buildings positioned within the air can now not be induced to break down in Play Mode, except Constructing Harm is enabled.
- Non-building actors positioned on slopes will now not change rotation barely when relocated.
- Positioned objects with simulated physics now accurately simulate physics in play mode and never in edit mode.
- If an object is rescaled whereas being relocated, shoppers will now see the right scale.
- Pre-existing scene objects will now not disappear when loading the sport after trashing them after which undoing the trash.
- In edit mode, destroying a constructing with different buildings connected to it’ll now reliably destroy the dependent buildings as nicely.
- The Toggle Grid Snap radial menu possibility now works even outdoors of placement mode.
- Slime Mould Grass will now not grow to be uninteractable after being relocated.
- Double-clicking a constructing supporting Place Many within the Playgrounds construct menu will now not instantly place a duplicate.
- Buildings positioned on scaled buildings will now not typically seem on the improper peak.
- Mushrooms will now not lose their stems when relocated.
- Undo operations can’t be redone if one other participant makes conflicting modifications to the identical actors.
- The Lab Management Panel now faces the right manner when positioned on partitions.
- Dandelion D can now be positioned and trashed in Playgrounds.
- Cacti can now be copied and relocated.
- Cube can now be copied and relocated.
- Mushroom Curved Doorways will now not rotate and break after cancelling connection from them.
- ASL Terminal and Useful resource Surveyor screens will seem accurately after undoing destruction.
- ASL Terminal and Useful resource Surveyor will truly reappear when destruction is undone.
- Gamers can now not grow to be caught on the Frankenline when transitioning between Play and Design mode.
- Unusual Spore is less complicated to position.
- Desk B can now be stacked.
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