Lightyear Frontier will be getting a much bigger world, a narrative rework, hazards, and more in an update next month

Shifting gears, literally

Lightyear Frontier launched into aboriginal entree a small implicit a twelvemonth ago, and it mostly seems to person trudged on reasonably good since then. It's not rather acceptable for 1.0 conscionable yet, but a caller update was announced by developers Frame Break and Amplifier Studios earlier this week that sounds similar it'll beryllium bringing successful immoderate overmuch needed changes.

Appropriately titled the Shifting Gears Update, there's 2 large things it's changing. For one, the satellite itself is astir to get a batch bigger. The devs explained that portion a batch of radical liked the "lush quality of the crippled world," it was besides conscionable a spot excessively small. So, the representation is expanding successful size for "large-scale farming", with the main progression strategy receiving a rework for "higher accent connected farming."

Hazards similar tornadoes person been added successful excessively to marque getting astir this bigger satellite a spot much challenging (but you tin besides conscionable crook that disconnected if you're conscionable successful it to relax).

Plus, arsenic antecedently mentioned by the devs, the communicative is getting reworked, namely mostly cutting retired the quality PIP-3R arsenic a changeless dependable successful your ear. Jay Castello called this 1 rather accurately successful their aboriginal entree reappraisal of the farming sim past year.

The communicative isn't going distant completely, and PIP-3R whitethorn look again further down the line. But for present the mode you'll larn astir the communicative is done Inspection Points, which are conscionable bits of flavour substance that look successful definite areas, and Artifacts Findings, which are besides conscionable bits of flavour substance from artifacts you find.

On apical of each of that, there's a batch much features coming similar a caller mod spot strategy to upgrade your mech, automated drone watering, and a batch more. You tin cheque retired the afloat database of additions implicit connected Steam.

The Shifting Gears update isn't excessively acold distant either, arsenic it's presently owed retired June 4th, conscionable nether a mates of weeks away.