It’s been practically eight years since we launched Astroneer into Recreation Preview on the Xbox platform. This week, we’re proud to provide an early take a look at our first ever large baddie, Lyn, to be featured in our upcoming Glitchwalkers Enlargement!
Glitchwalkers – Our First Enlargement
Astroneer has grow to be greater than we ever might 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 at all times tried to make the sport higher along with your assist, and this time isn’t any totally different.
Through the years, 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 widespread request is to make Astroneer a bit tougher. That‘s the place Lyn is available in.
Lyn Is In Management
Lyn is a disgruntled methods knowledgeable from the E.S.S. Elysium crew who’s created her personal actuality within the Astroneer universe. On this actuality, you might be 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 hostile to ensure nobody interferes along with her ploy. Alongside the planet itself, she’ll make use of a number of totally different viruses and reality-shaping instruments to repel potential interlopers.
Creating Lyn
We had a whole lot 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 regular course of, we began with a whole lot of fast sketches targeted on shapes, silhouettes, and key options. As soon as we had a stable group, we picked totally different fine details that we preferred and fused them collectively as extra refined 2D turnarounds. Trying on the ideas, Lyn’s closing design is a mixture of Possibility Ok and Possibility O proven within the picture beneath, 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 you realize and love continues to be there. Crafting, constructing, and exploring with pals are at core of Astoneer. And whereas the growth itself is chock full of latest content material, there may even be a free companion replace to the bottom recreation. 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 laborious 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 Recreation Go
Xbox Recreation Go
Discover and reshape distant worlds! Astroneer is about throughout 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 autos to discover an unlimited photo voltaic system, and use terrain to create something they’ll 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 possibly can:
•Reshape the bottom below your toes as if it had been product of clay.
•Survive on and discover fastidiously crafted planets that may be completely deformed and traversed.
•Snap collectively elements and objects to construct bases and autos.
•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 every little thing round you•••
In Astroneer, gamers use their deform device 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 complete spherical floor, by treacherous layers of caves, all the best way all the way down to mysterious the core. Every of these planets has distinctive and difficult floor and cave biomes that provide a large number of challenges for gamers on their journey.
•••Customise & construct on the fly•••
Objects that Astroneers craft and discover on the planet may be snapped and related collectively to create distinctive creations for any scenario. Customise and beautify your bases, autos, 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 in depth inventive 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 constructions discovered on the planet.
Astroneer started as a Recreation Preview title and wouldn’t be right here at present if not on your assist, 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 path we’re aiming for, make sure to go try our roadmap, and our growth vlogs to maintain up to date on what we’re engaged on!