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 massive baddie, Lyn, to be featured in our upcoming Glitchwalkers Enlargement!
Glitchwalkers – Our First Enlargement
Astroneer has turn into greater than we ever may 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.
Over time, 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 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 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 environment right down to the roots. Regardless of the planet’s rising instability, she’s continued to make it an increasing number of hostile to ensure 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 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 ordinary course of, we began with a whole lot of fast sketches centered on shapes, silhouettes, and key options. As soon as we had a strong group, we picked totally different fine details that we appreciated and fused them collectively as extra refined 2D turnarounds. Wanting on the ideas, Lyn’s ultimate design is a mixture of Possibility Ok and Possibility 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 you understand and love remains to be there. Crafting, constructing, and exploring with associates are at core of Astoneer. And whereas the enlargement itself is chock full of latest content material, there will even be a free companion replace to the bottom sport. Anybody can bounce proper in and expertise one thing new!
We will’t anticipate you all to face off towards Lyn and discover the brand new planet in Astroneer: Glitchwalkers. We’re working arduous in direction of our ultimate launch date, which can land on Xbox and Home windows 10 later in 2024. Wishlist as we speak!
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 beneath floor, create autos to discover an enormous 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 beneath your toes as if it had been product of clay.
•Survive on and discover fastidiously crafted planets that may be totally deformed and traversed.
•Snap collectively parts and objects to construct bases and autos.
•Play with associates 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 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 the complete spherical floor, by means 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 enhance your bases, autos, and Astroneer.
•••4 Participant co-op•••
Astroneer is healthier with associates. 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 might select to aim to know 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 as we speak if not to your help, suggestions, and concepts all through that course of. Now that we’ve got hit 1.0 we are going to preserve our pledge to proceed constructing on the muse that’s Astroneer with free, ongoing content material updates. Should you’re curious in regards to the course we’re aiming for, remember to go take a look at our roadmap, and our improvement vlogs to maintain up to date on what we’re engaged on!