ExtraQuiet fucked around with this message at 07:09 on May 1, 2021

ExtraQuiet fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Apr 30, 2021

Jelly fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Apr 30, 2021

• A complete, functional faction system, you can now form teams on the fly, leave teams on the fly, and decide whether or not you want to coop or PvP on the fly. You don't have to set teams beforehand, all of it is handled ingame. We will of course eventually make it so that the host can force coop or create premade teams while in the lobby, but for the time being, it's all freeform baby!
  
  
• Energy weapons, explosives that damage terrain, and all kinds of other fancy weaponry have been added. We're continuing to refine these, and raiding a bandit lair or another player's base by nuking the crap out of it will absolutely be an option. Conversely, we hope to make it so players can create especially strong bunkers to prevent this.
  
  
• Hazards have been added. Currently there's an ice storm that forces you to seek refuge underground in order to survive. This has made base building more goal focused and also makes venturing out a gamble. Outposts become necessary and so will planning for long treks out with food, ammo and some good old digging implements. We've also adjusted our temperature system to be more reactive to heat sources, while also changing based on how high you are (colder), or how low you are (hotter). Yes we know that's not scientifically accurate but this is a videogame!
  
  
• We have added super special crates with high value loot in them which can only be opened via keycards that vary from Tier 1 to Tier 3. Each progressive Tier requires rarer and more voluminous goods to be exchanged at a Vendor for keycards. Once a keycard has been obtained, you can initiate a hacking procedure at the appropriate chest. During this period of time, for around three minutes or so, other players will be alerted that is chest is being hacked, and you can either invade and try to jack their poo poo, or, in the future, once implemented, help them fend off hordes of enemies that will collapse on the chest. This way functionality is retained for both PvP and coop. You can imagine that along with blizzards, fighting for these chests can get dynamically messy.
  
  
• Weather effects! So far we've got rainstorms and the aforementioned blizzards. The temperature drops during these events and if it's pouring you gotta watch out not to get zapped by lightning. We're glad to have implemented these because we plan on adding so many more of them, and each one will end up affecting the experience in unique ways.
  
  
• A Rimworld style management system. Remember checking those boxes to assign jobs and roles to colonists? Well, we've got that too. All your little doofuses can now be assigned to specific jobs so they don't step all over each other or do things you don't want them to. This was a big step in cinching the management aspect of Outworlder, and we plan to expand it even further from that point on.
  
  
• Points of interest. Random structures will be sprinkled around the map containing loot and enemies. These are fairly rudimentary for the moment and only consisted of bandit lairs of various difficulties, but later on these will vary from isolated cabins with a single lunatic inside of them, large technobases, crashed spaceships, high up observation posts, mining camps, creature infested dungeons, a goon's computer room with biohazardous hair, and so on and so forth. Players will of course be able to help each other clear these out, or heck, take some armed colonists with you.
  
  
• Mobility items. We've got rocket boots, speed boots, double jump boots, wall jumping boots, gently caress man, we've even got the Hulk Hogan meat shoes in here. You can peep some of them in the new trailer. We want to go absolutely nuts with specialized items such as these and later on introduce good old standbys like grappling hooks or even a screw attack.
  
  
• We're Steam integrated now, so that means you don't need to do any port fuckery to host or join a game, it's as easy as pressing a button then inviting people with a code. Our multiplayer is also astonishingly stable compared to how it used to be, so multi hour sessions are entirely possible without too much making GBS threads of the bed.
  
  
• There are fancy shaders now! Lights glow, lazer weapons light up the night sky, muzzle flashes illuminate the room, bright sparks fly out as you mine ore, and you can see the red glowing eyes of creatures in the dark. It's a little bloom heavy at the moment, and we're still heavily adjusting the values, but the game is popping to an extent it just wasn't anymore. Far more visually exciting than it used to be that's for sure.