It’s been practically eight years since we launched Astroneer into Sport Preview on the Xbox platform. This week, we’re proud to provide an early take a look at our first ever huge baddie, Lyn, to be featured in our upcoming Glitchwalkers Enlargement!
Glitchwalkers – Our First Enlargement
Astroneer has change into larger than we ever may have imagined. We’ve had the chance to replace the sport dozens of instances with each neighborhood 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 together with your assist, and this time isn’t any completely different.
Over time, we’ve gotten numerous requests for brand new locations to discover… So, this growth is targeted 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 programs skilled 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 ambiance all the way down to the roots. Regardless of the planet’s rising instability, she’s continued to make it increasingly more 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 loads 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 ordinary course of, we began with loads of fast sketches centered on shapes, silhouettes, and key options. As soon as we had a strong group, we picked completely different ins and outs that we appreciated and fused them collectively as extra refined 2D turnarounds. Trying on the ideas, Lyn’s closing design is a mixture of Choice Okay and Choice O proven within the picture under, incorporating a hood, however with Lyn’s bodily look trying digitally hacked collectively — identical to the remainder of the planet.
Sticking to Our Roots
Let’s be clear: Even with some added problem, the sport and love continues to be there. Crafting, constructing, and exploring with mates are at core of Astoneer. And whereas the growth itself is chock full of recent content material, there may even be a free companion replace to the bottom recreation. Anybody can bounce proper in and expertise one thing new!
We will’t watch for you all to face off in opposition to Lyn and discover the brand new planet in Astroneer: Glitchwalkers. We’re working onerous in direction of our closing launch date, which can land on Xbox and Home windows 10 later in 2024. Wishlist at present!
ASTRONEER
System Period Softworks
$29.99
$11.99
Xbox One X Enhanced
PC Sport Cross
Xbox Sport Cross
Discover and reshape distant worlds! Astroneer is ready 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 under floor, create autos to discover an unlimited photo voltaic system, and use terrain to create something they will think about. A participant’s creativity and ingenuity are the important thing to looking for out and thriving whereas on thrilling planetary adventures! In Astroneer you’ll be able to:
•Reshape the bottom underneath your ft as if it had been made from clay.
•Survive on and discover rigorously crafted planets that may be fully deformed and traversed.
•Snap collectively parts and objects to construct bases and autos.
•Play with mates 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 software to dig, acquire, form and construct something they want. Use this means 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 your entire spherical floor, by way of 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 the planet will be snapped and linked collectively to create distinctive creations for any state of affairs. Customise and beautify your bases, autos, and Astroneer.
•••4 Participant co-op•••
Astroneer is healthier with mates. Group up with different gamers and work collectively to create huge industrial bases or to create enjoyable video games within the intensive artistic sandbox.
•••Survive & harness the facility of the planets•••
As soon as Astroneers are prepared, they could select to try to grasp and presumably harness the facility behind mysterious buildings discovered on the planet.
Astroneer started as a Sport Preview title and wouldn’t be right here at present if not to your assist, suggestions, and concepts all through that course of. Now that we’ve hit 1.0 we are going to hold our pledge to proceed constructing on the muse that’s Astroneer with free, ongoing content material updates. In case you’re curious concerning the course we’re aiming for, be sure you go try our roadmap, and our growth vlogs to maintain up to date on what we’re engaged on!