ECOLOGY: INTRODUCING UPDATE 5.0
Explore a universe teeming with life like never before in update, 5.0, ECOLOGY! This is Part 1 in a 3-Part Update Series. Introducing multiple biome planets, rivers and waterfalls, and improved physics. Discover tense encounters with boss-like creatures and rescue survivors of crashed freighters in brand new discoverable quests waiting to be unearthed, new tactical ground combat- and much more! Building on previous updates, many systems have been improved to provide greater depth, allowing you to leave a bigger impact on a universe that feels more alive than ever before!
TERRAIN GENERATION OVERHAUL
Planetary terrain generation has been reworked to create natural points of interest across landscapes. A totally flat plain covered only in sand as far as the eye can see, except for a giant mountain range in the horizon. On the other side, more sand for awhile until it becomes a bit more rocky. Followed by dunes and cliffs. Then more sand, then finally desert with more flora and wildlife. Buildings, settlements, and other encounters can be more easily stumbled across through the joy of exploration. There is more reason then ever to wonder what's over the next hill or on the other side of the mountain.
TERRAIN GENERATION OVERHAUL
Planetary terrain generation has been reworked to create natural points of interest across landscapes. A totally flat plain covered only in sand as far as the eye can see, except for a giant mountain range in the horizon. On the other side, more sand for awhile until it becomes a bit more rocky. Followed by dunes and cliffs. Then more sand, then finally desert with more flora and wildlife. Buildings, settlements, and other encounters can be more easily stumbled across through the joy of exploration. There is more reason then ever to wonder what's over the next hill or on the other side of the mountain.
INTENSE CREATURE BATTLES
On flat desert plains, on snowy mountain tops, deep in forests and caves, lurk fearsome megafuna. Confront them to earn valuable trophies and materials.
TARGET TECHNOLOGY IN COMBAT
When fighting sentinels and other robotic enemies, cycle through their various components to view their abilities and weaknesses. Mark a specific component to take aim. Destroy weaponry, shields, and movement technology modules to gain the upper hand in combat. Remove parts of their outer shell to reveal components. Each component will be vulnerable to a certain type of damage, so choose your weapon carefully.
RIVERS, WATERFALLS AND WAVES
Introducing improved water physics like never before in Introducing planets with multiple biomes, rivers and waterfalls, and improved physics that make the universe feel more alive than ever before!
DYNAMIC CREATURE BEHAVIOR
Creatures now appear in 5x as many variety, with improved variety in behavior and beautiful new animations. Watch creatures go for a drink in the river, climb trees, find places to sleep and more. Watch packs of creatures march across terrain in unison. Different creatures have different diets and may respond positively, negatively, or unexpectedly to certain offers of food or pats. Theyre diet is largely based on their environment, biology, and ecology.
DYNAMIC CREATURE BEHAVIOR
Creatures now appear in 5x as many variety, with improved variety in behavior and beautiful new animations. Watch creatures go for a drink in the river, climb trees, find places to sleep and more. Watch packs of creatures march across terrain in unison. Different creatures have different diets and may respond positively, negatively, or unexpectedly to certain offers of food or pats. Theyre diet is largely based on their environment, biology, and ecology.
TAMING COMPANIONS
Many creatures now require more than just creature pellets to take them. The more powerful / rare the creature, the more difficult it will be to tame. You may have to figure out the right food, catch it by surprise, or even engage in combat with it before adopting it as a companion.
EVASIVE MANEUVERS
Install new jetback tech to dash forward, back, left, or right with all new player animations to get the advantage in combat.
IMPROVED SCANNER UI
New scanner animation cycles through icons representing age, each aspect of the species. Scan the outline of the flora or fauna like paint-by-numbers to complete the scan. Initial scans may be incomplete, requiring you to scan multiple life forms of the same species before recording complete Intel.
IMPROVED SCANNER UI
New scanner animation cycles through icons representing age, each aspect of the species. Scan the outline of the flora or fauna like paint-by-numbers to complete the scan. Initial scans may be incomplete, requiring you to scan multiple life forms of the same species before recording complete Intel.
IMMERSIVE FLYING IN STORMS
Extreme storms will affect your ability to maneuver your ship. You have to fly carefully to not spiral out of control. Electrical storms and other extreme weather conditions may cause lightning to strike your ship and temporarily be disabled. Watch out that your ship doesn't spiral out of control, cause a spectacular crash landing and damage some of your ship systems!
IMMERSIVE FLYING IN STORMS
Extreme storms will affect your ability to maneuver your ship. You have to fly carefully to not spiral out of control. Electrical storms and other extreme weather conditions may cause lightning to strike your ship and temporarily be disabled. Watch out that your ship doesn't spiral out of control, cause a spectacular crash landing and damage some of your ship systems!
MILLING TECHNOLOGY
Use rivers as a power source for your base with all new milling technology! Harness the energy in rivers to produce more power depending on the size and flow of the river and the efficiency of technology. Unlock improvements to milling in the new technology tree.
BEAST HUNTING STORY LINE
Discover parties of beast hunters near planetary landmarks light caves, mountains, forests, valleys, and more. Speak with them to find clues about nearby megafauna. Join them on their hunt, or take the hunt for yourself!
BEAST HUNTING STORY LINE
Discover parties of beast hunters near planetary landmarks light caves, mountains, forests, valleys, and more. Speak with them to find clues about nearby megafauna. Join them on their hunt, or take the hunt for yourself!
MANIPULATE OBJECTS
New beam technology allows you to pull all kinds of objects, hold, and move them. Allowing for brand new ways to play. Move all the gravatino balls into the river and watch them float down a the waterfall, while the sentinels go nuts! Throw a plant at a sentinel or creature, pick up small to medium-sized creatures and move them to a room inside your base, and much more.
MANIPULATE OBJECTS
New beam technology allows you to pull all kinds of objects, hold, and move them. Allowing for brand new ways to play. Move all the gravatino balls into the river and watch them float down a the waterfall, while the sentinels go nuts! Throw a plant at a sentinel or creature, pick up small to medium-sized creatures and move them to a room inside your base, and much more.
IN-DEPTH FAUNA FIELD STUDY
Tag a creature with a marker after earning its trust. With this new tool, you can track where a single creature or packs of creatures travel. This will allow you to greatly understand their behavior and ecology of the planet. It may also lead you to interesting discoveries, like hotspots, outposts reclaimed by nature, hidden treasure and more. Share these studies with researchers for rewards. Occasionally, these may reveal shocking discoveries about the planet - such as flora that is actually the egg of fauna, or fauna that contribute to volcanic eruptions.
IN-DEPTH FAUNA FIELD STUDY
Tag a creature with a marker after earning its trust. With this new tool, you can track where a single creature or packs of creatures travel. This will allow you to greatly understand their behavior and ecology of the planet. It may also lead you to interesting discoveries, like hotspots, outposts reclaimed by nature, hidden treasure and more. Share these studies with researchers for rewards. Occasionally, these may reveal shocking discoveries about the planet - such as flora that is actually the egg of fauna, or fauna that contribute to volcanic eruptions.
POINTS OF INTEREST MARKERS
Leave icons for minerals, vistas, fauna, flora, deposits, buildings/sites, crashed ships, etc and more on every planet. View these markers through the menu or on your freighter planetary scanner. Return quickly to points of interest without having to construct a base.
MELEE MULTI-TOOLS COMBAT
Multi tools now come in even greater variety with laser sword multi tools. With new laser technology, staffs and sword multi-tools can now be used as melee weapons. Learn a variety of different heavy and light attacks to defeat sentinels, creatures, and other enemies in creative ways.
MELEE MULTI-TOOLS COMBAT
Multi tools now come in even greater variety with laser sword multi tools. With new laser technology, staffs and sword multi-tools can now be used as melee weapons. Learn a variety of different heavy and light attacks to defeat sentinels, creatures, and other enemies in creative ways.
IMPROVED PLAYER ANIMATIONS
Reloading, switching multi tools, activating cloaking all have beautiful new animations. Some secondary weapons, such as cloaking now show the animation of your character activating the tool using a non multi-tool wielding hand, resulting in a more immersive experience than ever before.
IMPROVED PLAYER ANIMATIONS
Reloading, switching multi tools, activating cloaking all have beautiful new animations. Some secondary weapons, such as cloaking now show the animation of your character activating the tool using a non multi-tool wielding hand, resulting in a more immersive experience than ever before.
STRANDED NPCS
Find survivors left behind in abandoned outposts, crashed freighters, small crashed fighters and more. Guide them to the nearest outpost, or to your ship to take them to their destination on another planet. But watch out! You never know who you might pick up, where their allegiances lie, or what cargo they are carrying. Defend them from mercenary ambushes, pirates, swarming creatures, and more.
STRANDED NPCS
Find survivors left behind in abandoned outposts, crashed freighters, small crashed fighters and more. Guide them to the nearest outpost, or to your ship to take them to their destination on another planet. But watch out! You never know who you might pick up, where their allegiances lie, or what cargo they are carrying. Defend them from mercenary ambushes, pirates, swarming creatures, and more.
IMPROVED FLYING CREATURE BEHAVIOR
Flying creatures may now walk on the ground, stand in trees, or float in the water. Some may be startled and take flight when you approach. Shoot them down for minerals you wont find from land creatures, or call them towards you with bait or creature calls!
CROUCH FOR COVER
Lower yourself to produce less noise and stabilize your weapon fire. Crouching in tall grass is similar to using an invisibility cloak. Hide from sentinels, sneak up on creatures and more.
CROUCH FOR COVER
Lower yourself to produce less noise and stabilize your weapon fire. Crouching in tall grass is similar to using an invisibility cloak. Hide from sentinels, sneak up on creatures and more.
IMPROVED CREATURE RIDING
Riding is more fun than ever with more natural movement, controls & better positioned camera on award/large species. Engage in combat and shoot or mine resources while riding.
HOVERBOARD
Take flight down steep mountains and traverse all kinds of terrain with the new solar-sail hoverboard! Designed for maximum fun, thrill-seekers can deploy this hoverboard off of mountaintops or from your ship in the air.
HOVERBOARD
Take flight down steep mountains and traverse all kinds of terrain with the new solar-sail hoverboard! Designed for maximum fun, thrill-seekers can deploy this hoverboard off of mountaintops or from your ship in the air.
ROUGE AUTOPHAGE BANDITS
Sects of Autophage have taken their affinity to survival too far. Rouge groups of Autophage Bandits can now be found in enclaves on certain planets. They may be hunting or riding creatures, terrorizing local citizens, getting into fights with sentinels and more. Plan your attack carefully, using the weather, creatures, sentinels, and environment to your advantage. If you're careful not to destroy their primary computing unit, you can return them to Autophage camps to be repaired and reconditioned for rewards.
ROUGE AUTOPHAGE BANDITS
Sects of Autophage have taken their affinity to survival too far. Rouge groups of Autophage Bandits can now be found in enclaves on certain planets. They may be hunting or riding creatures, terrorizing local citizens, getting into fights with sentinels and more. Plan your attack carefully, using the weather, creatures, sentinels, and environment to your advantage. If you're careful not to destroy their primary computing unit, you can return them to Autophage camps to be repaired and reconditioned for rewards.
MULTI-TOOL QUICK SWITCHING MENU
With the press of a button, the new multi tool wheel appears allowing you to quickly select the right weapon for the job.
MULTIPLE BIOME PLANETS
Planets may have multiple biomes. Explore and watch as the world transitions from forest to snowy mountain tops & from mountain tops to desert where the riverbed dries up. While only rare planets have such diversity in biomes, all planets benefit from diveristy in terrain, flora & fauna rather then the same textures repeating planet wide.
MULTIPLE BIOME PLANETS
Planets may have multiple biomes. Explore and watch as the world transitions from forest to snowy mountain tops & from mountain tops to desert where the riverbed dries up. While only rare planets have such diversity in biomes, all planets benefit from diveristy in terrain, flora & fauna rather then the same textures repeating planet wide.
TERRAIN MANIPULATION BOMBS
Quickly gain the upperhand in combat with terrain manipulation bombs. Tinker with the dynamic range of bombs and save these techniques as presets to quickly transform the terrain around you; blast a small wall for cover, a small tower beneath your feet, a divider between enemies and more.
TERRAIN MANIPULATION BOMBS
Quickly gain the upperhand in combat with terrain manipulation bombs. Tinker with the dynamic range of bombs and save these techniques as presets to quickly transform the terrain around you; blast a small wall for cover, a small tower beneath your feet, a divider between enemies and more.
CREATURE HUNTING ENCOUNTER
Discover parties of beast hunters near planetary landmarks light caves, mountains, forests, valleys, and more. Speak with them to find clues about nearby megafauna. Join them on their hunt, or take the hunt for yourself!
CREATURE HUNTING ENCOUNTERS
Discover parties of beast hunters near planetary landmarks light caves, mountains, forests, valleys, and more. Speak with them to find clues about nearby megafauna. Join them on their hunt, or take the hunt for yourself!
HORSE-LIKE COMPANIONS
New procedurally generated horse-like creatures make the perfect companions with beautifully animated horse-like gallops and improved behavior.
INCREASED VERTICALITY
Planets now have more sky height before exiting the atmosphere. See floating sky islands, floating pillars, towering mountain ranges, higher than ever before, creating beautiful scenery and exciting terrain for dog-fighting
IMPROVED SAND & SNOW PHYSICS
Leave footsteps behind you as you shuffle through layers of snow and sand! The sand & snow covers your armor and moves in the wind as you traverse desert plains, snowy mountain tops, and sandy beaches.
IMPROVED SAND & SNOW PHYSICS
Leave footsteps behind you as you shuffle through layers of snow and sand! The sand & snow covers your armor and moves in the wind as you traverse desert plains, snowy mountain tops, and sandy beaches.