It’s been almost eight years since we launched Astroneer into Sport Preview on the Xbox platform. This week, we’re proud to present an early take a look at our first ever large baddie, Lyn, to be featured in our upcoming Glitchwalkers Growth!
Glitchwalkers – Our First Growth
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 neighborhood 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.
Over time, 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 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 programs 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 right 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 totally 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 regular course of, we began with plenty 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 favored and fused them collectively as extra refined 2D turnarounds. Trying on the ideas, Lyn’s closing design is a mixture of Possibility Okay 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 remains to be there. Crafting, constructing, and exploring with mates are at core of Astoneer. And whereas the enlargement itself is chock full of recent content material, there can even be a free companion replace to the bottom sport. Anybody can soar proper in and expertise one thing new!
We are able to’t watch for you all to face off towards Lyn and discover the brand new planet in Astroneer: Glitchwalkers. We’re working arduous in direction of our closing launch date, which can land on Xbox and Home windows 10 later in 2024. Wishlist right now!
ASTRONEER
System Period Softworks
$29.99
$23.99
Xbox One X Enhanced
PC Sport Cross
Xbox Sport Cross
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 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 ft as if it have been fabricated from clay.
•Survive on and discover rigorously crafted planets that may be fully 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 all the pieces round you•••
In Astroneer, gamers use their deform instrument to dig, acquire, form and construct something they need. Use this potential 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 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 mess of challenges for gamers on their journey.
•••Customise & construct on the fly•••
Objects that Astroneers craft and discover on this planet might be snapped and related collectively to create distinctive creations for any state of affairs. 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 facility of the planets•••
As soon as Astroneers are prepared, they could select to try 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 are going to maintain our pledge to proceed constructing on the muse that’s Astroneer with free, ongoing content material updates. In the event you’re curious in regards to the course 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!
