It’s been almost eight years since we launched Astroneer into Sport Preview on the Xbox platform. This week, we’re proud to provide an early have a look at our first ever large baddie, Lyn, to be featured in our upcoming Glitchwalkers Enlargement!
Glitchwalkers – Our First Enlargement
Astroneer has turn out to be larger than we ever might 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 along 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 enlargement is concentrated 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 techniques 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 environment all the way down to the roots. Regardless of the planet’s rising instability, she’s continued to make it increasingly more hostile to verify nobody interferes together 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 plenty 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 normal course of, we began with plenty of fast sketches targeted on shapes, silhouettes, and key options. As soon as we had a strong 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 closing design is a mixture of Choice Okay and Choice O proven within the picture beneath, incorporating a hood, however with Lyn’s bodily look wanting 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 buddies 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 recreation. Anybody can leap proper in and expertise one thing new! We are able to’t look forward to you all to face off towards Lyn and discover the brand new planet in Astroneer: Glitchwalkers. We’re working laborious in the direction of our closing launch date, which is able to land on Xbox and Home windows 10 later in 2024. Wishlist right now!
ASTRONEER
System Period Softworks
$29.99
$11.99
Xbox One X Enhanced
PC Sport Move
Xbox Sport 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 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 beneath your ft as if it had been made from clay.
•Survive on and discover fastidiously crafted planets that may be solely deformed and traversed.
•Snap collectively elements and objects to construct bases and autos.
•Play with buddies in 4 participant on-line drop-in/drop-out co-op.
•Uncover and uncover the mysteries of the photo voltaic system
•••Deform & form the whole lot round you•••
In Astroneer, gamers use their deform instrument to dig, gather, form and construct something they want. 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 complete photo voltaic system•••
Our huge photo voltaic system consists of 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 all the way down to mysterious the core. Every of these planets has distinctive and difficult floor and cave biomes that provide a mess of challenges for gamers on their journey.
•••Customise & construct on the fly•••
Gadgets that Astroneers craft and discover on this planet may be snapped and linked collectively to create distinctive creations for any state of affairs. Customise and embellish your bases, autos, and Astroneer.
•••4 Participant co-op•••
Astroneer is best with buddies. Group up with different gamers and work collectively to create huge 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 aim to grasp and presumably harness the facility behind mysterious buildings discovered on this planet.
Astroneer started as a Sport Preview title and wouldn’t be right here right now if not on your help, suggestions, and concepts all through that course of. Now that we’ve got hit 1.0 we’ll preserve our pledge to proceed constructing on the muse that’s Astroneer with free, ongoing content material updates. For those who’re curious concerning the route we’re aiming for, remember to go try our roadmap, and our growth vlogs to maintain up to date on what we’re engaged on!