It’s been practically eight years since we launched Astroneer into Sport 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 Enlargement!
Glitchwalkers – Our First Enlargement
Astroneer has change into larger 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 together with your assist, and this time is not any totally different.
Through the years, we’ve gotten numerous requests for brand 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 more difficult. 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 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 totally different viruses and reality-shaping instruments to repel potential interlopers.
Creating Lyn
We had numerous 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 numerous fast sketches targeted on shapes, silhouettes, and key options. As soon as we had a strong group, we picked totally different ins and outs that we favored 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 under, 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 continues to be there. Crafting, constructing, and exploring with associates 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 sport. Anybody can leap proper in and expertise one thing new!
We will’t watch for you all to face off towards Lyn and discover the brand new planet in Astroneer: Glitchwalkers. We’re working exhausting in direction of our ultimate launch date, which is able to land on Xbox and Home windows 10 later in 2024. Wishlist in the present day!
ASTRONEER
System Period Softworks
$29.99
$23.99
Xbox One X Enhanced
PC Sport Go
Xbox Sport 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 area, 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 enormous 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 may:
•Reshape the bottom underneath your toes as if it have been made from clay.
•Survive on and discover fastidiously crafted planets that may be fully deformed and traversed.
•Snap collectively elements 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 the whole lot round you•••
In Astroneer, gamers use their deform device to dig, gather, form and construct something they want. Use this capability 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 entire 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•••
Gadgets that Astroneers craft and discover on the earth will 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 associates. Group up with different gamers and work collectively to create huge industrial bases or to create enjoyable video games within the intensive inventive sandbox.
•••Survive & harness the facility of the planets•••
As soon as Astroneers are prepared, they might select to try to grasp and presumably harness the facility behind mysterious constructions discovered on the earth.
Astroneer started as a Sport Preview title and wouldn’t be right here in the present day 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. In case you’re curious in regards to the route 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!
