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 out 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 all the time tried to make the sport higher along with your assist, and this time is not any totally different.
Through the years, we’ve gotten numerous requests for brand spanking new locations to discover… So, this enlargement 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 techniques professional 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 environment right down to the roots. Regardless of the planet’s rising instability, she’s continued to make it increasingly hostile to verify nobody interferes together 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 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 common course of, we began with lots of fast sketches centered on shapes, silhouettes, and key options. As soon as we had a stable group, we picked totally different fine details that we appreciated 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 under, incorporating a hood, however with Lyn’s bodily look trying 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 and love remains to be there. Crafting, constructing, and exploring with mates are at core of Astoneer. And whereas the enlargement itself is chock full of latest content material, there can even be a free companion replace to the bottom recreation. Anybody can bounce proper in and expertise one thing new! We will’t await you all to face off in opposition to Lyn and discover the brand new planet in Astroneer: Glitchwalkers. We’re working arduous in the direction of our closing launch date, which can land on Xbox and Home windows 10 later in 2024. Wishlist right this moment!
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 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 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 have been fabricated from clay.
•Survive on and discover rigorously crafted planets that may be totally deformed and traversed.
•Snap collectively elements 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 every thing round you•••
In Astroneer, gamers use their deform instrument to dig, gather, form and construct something they need. Use this skill to dig to the middle of the planet, construct a ramp into the sky, or make megaliths simply by utilizing 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 way of treacherous layers of caves, all the best way right 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•••
Gadgets that Astroneers craft and discover on this planet might 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 mates. 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 ability of the planets•••
As soon as Astroneers are prepared, they might select to aim to know and presumably harness the ability behind mysterious constructions discovered on this planet.
Astroneer started as a Recreation Preview title and wouldn’t be right here right this moment if not in your assist, suggestions, and concepts all through that course of. Now that we now have hit 1.0 we’ll maintain our pledge to proceed constructing on the muse that’s Astroneer with free, ongoing content material updates. In case you’re curious in regards to the route we’re aiming for, you should definitely go take a look at our roadmap, and our growth vlogs to maintain up to date on what we’re engaged on!
