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Ylands Is Set To Launch On December 6th In Steam Early Access

Ylands Is Set To Launch On December 6th In Steam Early Access

Ylands is coming to Steam Early Access in December, alongside the game's largest update which brings some massive new features.

The newest update to Ylands – 0.6 "Countless Colors" will be the game's last update before the Steam release, and the team is requesting that beta players and Early Access adopters provide feedback over on the Ylands forum.

The newest update is called "Countless Colors" for a reason. From now on, most of the game's objects can be painted, which absolutely gives you license to create pink penguins, a multicolored Jackson Pollack-style boat, whatever you like.

The new update also features padlocks which will enable players to protect most of the interactive objects in the game. So now you can put your stuff on lockdown and prevent it from being destroyed with either a key or passcode.

There's still a lot more to be explored in the latest update and we encourage you to check the details below:

  • Special containers. You can now craft things like material containers, herb pouches, key chains, pigment jars and others that can be used to store specific items, thus freeing your inventory space (when picking a suitable item, it gets placed into the appropriate container if available). Key chains can be placed in the hotbar and used just as a normal key with locked objects – the proper key is found and used automatically.
  • Labels. Game scripting just got much more powerful with the introduction of "labels". You can attach labels to entities and later affect only those. You can use labels to track the progress of your game or certain objects and much more. What can be done is demonstrated by some of the games we are now running on our dedicated servers, and we'll be covering this in depth in one of the future Dev Diaries.
  • New animations and character controller. Many animations have already been improved, more are coming soon. The character controller allows for a more precise controls. Please note that because of the new system some actions may be temporarily unavailable – most notably jumping in the newly introduced "combat mode", which will be added shortly in a patch, and also that these changes are 3rd person view only – FPS mode will get improved in one of the future updates as well.
  • New environment audio system. Ambient sounds are now fully 3D and take into account your surroundings so, for example, when it rains you can hear the raindrops hit leaves of a tree near you.
  • Store. New store is accessible via coyn symbol both from the main menu and ingame. It contains first small batch of items, with Decorations to become available (as well as avatars and pets).
  • Radial Menu. First iteration of the radial menu – you can access all emotes available to you via RM and assign seven of them as your favorites. You can conveniently access features like placing mode trigger or horse summoning. We can now design objects in the world to have more possible interactions because all secondary ones are then available via RM. General rule is – all interactions with the objects focused in the world are under the leftmost button, while actions of the item you hold under the rightmost. If instead of a single action the active item has more elaborate settings (like a terraformer or a paintgun) you can conveniently access those directly by keeping the RM open button held a little longer while skipping the root level.
  • Dedicated server testing. We have created some dedicated servers running games for you to play. Give them a try and tell us what you think!
  • Known issues. Some of the newly added features (excluding radial menu – you may need to map its toggle to some button first, though) do not fully support gamepad. That should be fixed before coming to Steam.
  • Tech tree update. We went over existing formulas, ingredient counts and pace how players uncover new ones and made changes to make the experience more enjoyable.
  • Explore mode "respawn". When character dies in the Explore mode now, they start as a successor, one that gets keys, maps, knowledge, tamed animals and other things from the deceased avatar.

Or check it out in action below. Ylands is coming to Steam Early Access on December 6th, 2017.


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Madeline RicchiutoAbout Madeline Ricchiuto

Madeline Ricchiuto is a gamer, comics enthusiast, bad horror movie connoisseur, writer and generally sarcastic human. She also really likes cats and is now Head Games Writer at Bleeding Cool.
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