A new picnic table and rubbish pile will give players more scope for platforming, puzzling, exploration, and resource gathering, while the new black ant hill takes fearless explorers deep beneath the surface.Īccessible via a giant tunnel in the sand, the "really big and massive" black ant hill is pitched as being the equivalent of Grounded's first dungeon. Grounded's new expansion doesn't just stop at the sandbox, though, it spills out into the surrounding areas. Treasure can still be located at night, but with no form of guidance, it's likely any discoveries will be accidental. Useful items are buried all about the sandbox and can be dug up using the new space tool and the sun's reflected light will cause them to glimmer from afar during the day. Visiting the sandbox at night will, of course, mean players don't need to contend with the sizzle, but they'll potentially miss out on another new addition: treasure. You'll periodically need to retreat to the shadows during the daytime to avoid succumbing to the sandbox's sizzle. Luckily, there are various ways to mitigate the threat of the blazing sun taking on the sandbox's new ant lion enemy will provide the materials needed to craft armour that's impervious to sizzle, but until that point, players wanting to venture into the sandbox during the day will need to stay cool by retreating to the shadows - all shifting dynamically as the sun rises and falls.
Here, players will need to contend with a new gameplay mechanic known as the "sizzle", which steadily increases player temperatures to the point where they'll simply drop dead. It's the sandbox - a cheery, bright red plastic turtle complete with its own sandcastle and succulent-studded oasis - that's the focus of the update, however, cleverly introducing what's essentially a new desert biome to the otherwise green and verdant yard.
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Hot and Hazy, though, promises to be Grounded's biggest update yet, expanding the sandbox map with a literal sandbox that introduces new weather-based mechanics, adding the game's first dungeon in the form of the black ant hill, and delivering a host of gameplay revisions and improvements for some of its core systems. Grounded's sandbox tale of 80s kids shrunk to the size of ants and forced to brave the perils of their now jungle-like backyard - exploring, battling bugs, and scavenging resources to fashion handy items along the way - has received a host of new additions since launch, including flying and aquatic bugs, a majestic koi pond, boss fights, new building items, pets, and more. Since Grounded's stellar launch last year - it attracted a million players within two days and 5 million within four months - the team, still relatively small at only 20 people, has continued to expand on its appealingly diminutive premise. It's been just under 11 months since Obsidian launched inch-high garden survival adventure Grounded into early access for Xbox and PC, and as its one-year anniversary approaches, the team is readying Hot and Hazy, its "largest update yet", for a 20th October release.
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