What you must know
- Grounded is an epic open-world survival-adventure title from Obsidian Leisure and Xbox Sport Studios.
- The sport not too long ago launched its full 1.0 replace, finishing the Yard and its narrative marketing campaign.
- On Thursday, Obsidian Leisure started releasing the 1.0.2 patch replace for Grounded.
- The replace brings dozens of balancing modifications, fixes, efficiency and stability enhancements, and extra.
For over two years Grounded quietly amassed a passionate neighborhood whereas Obsidian Leisure constructed out the Yard. Now, the open-world survival-adventure sport is extensively obtainable to all gamers, entire and full, throughout Xbox, PC, and the cloud. On Thursday, Obsidian Leisure started rolling out a patch replace to resolve quite a few points in Grounded which have affected gamers since its full launch.
Grounded is one among Home windows Central’s favourite video games of 2022, and it is now going to get even higher. The 1.0.2 patch replace that is now rolling out to gamers on Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, PC through Steam and the Microsoft Retailer, and Xbox Cloud Gaming could solely measure roughly 607 MB in measurement, nevertheless it’s filled with a plethora of superior fixes and enhancements for the still-evolving survival title.
Highlights of the patch replace embody quite a few balancing modifications to make the Yard really feel extra honest and tweak the issue (particularly for solo gamers), together with elevated sturdiness for many gear, lowered harm and HP for some Tier II creatures, improved reliability for Wolf Spiders sleeping by the day, and far more. There are additionally loads of different fixes for crashes, launch points, and different issues.
Obsidian Leisure has not solely crafted one of many greatest Xbox video games of the 12 months, it has set the benchmark for a brand new survival sport within the rising style. The 1.0.2 patch that is now rolling out ought to make the sport much more approachable for brand new gamers, in addition to resolve lots of the most annoying bugs which were afflicting gamers in the previous few weeks.
The total changelog for Grounded 1.0.2 contains:
Options & modifications
Options
- Added a “Type” button to the Stock and Storage screens
Sport stability & issue modifications
- Doubled base sturdiness of most weapons and armors
- Doubled period / sturdiness of all torches
- Mosquitos within the Grasslands don’t spawn till 1 Tremendous Chip is turned in
- Injury and HP for a number of the early tier 2 creatures have been lowered a bit
- Toxicology Badge now supplies 90% fuel harm resistance as an alternative of full immunity
- Javamatic struggle spawns much less creatures in single participant now to make it easier
Different modifications
- Relocating a constructing will not be canceled if you happen to stumble into fight with a creature
- BURG.L will now solely give Artificer quests for gadgets the participant has not but crafted
- Mant combo assaults not interrupted through excellent blocks
- Mant harm barely elevated
- Quartzite and Marble of all tiers now default stack to 99 (can’t be upgraded additional through milk molars)
- Barely elevated the stamina price of workers assaults
- Spiny Water Fleas now have a really small probability to drop Pond Moss when looted
- Textual content chat messages filter for profanity
- Edible mushrooms positioned beneath all massive mushrooms within the Higher Yard
- O.R.C. EMP Bomb applies a big DoT (harm over time) to to O.R.C. creatures which are hit with it
- The sphere station close to the outskirts of the Stump space has been moved into the Stump itself for larger visibility and utility
- You possibly can take away a Surveyor Useful resource waypoint from contained in the default Map display (not must be at a Surveyor to do it)
- Slime mould mild sources and the Firefly Headlamp mild colour has been desaturated a bit to not forged a very lime inexperienced colour on every thing
- Getting a 100% on the Sport Report Card requires finishing the entire MIX.Rs now
Bug fixes
Crash fixes
- Mounted crash that might occur if a creature is looted or despawns whereas an assault with visible results was about to play
- Mounted crash that might happen when taming a pet
- Decreasing Out of Reminiscence crashes when loading a save
Main fixes
- Xbox and Home windows Retailer gamers can rename Storage chests once more so long as their profile permits Person Generated Content material to be proven
- In case you progressed past the story of receiving the Embiggening Cell, however didn’t get it for some cause, the sport will grant it to you in your subsequent load of the save
- In case you progress to the story level the place you must work together with the Javamatic however the sport is not going to allow you to, the sport will repair up the search state in your subsequent load of the save
- Loading an early entry save will not set off the “Analyze a Pebblet / Analyze Uncooked Fiber” quests when you have already completed so. Fixes 1.0 saves which are caught with this quest as nicely
- Gamers will not disconnect from multiplayer after being on-line for 4+ hours
- Doorways at participant bases will correctly have the door open state synced if the open state was modified whereas a shopper was far-off
- Wolf Spiders will extra reliably sleep in the course of the day
- Addressed some instances the place you could possibly not get a 100% on the Sport Report card
Different fixes
- Addressed further use instances the place creatures may turn into caught within the terrain
- Optimized the Mantis Pollen assault for Low and Medium high quality settings (this contains Xbox One)
- Pinch Whacker now correctly categorized as a membership as an alternative of an axe, not offers chopping harm
- Prod Smacker now correctly categorized as a membership as an alternative of a greatsword, not offers slashing harm
- The “Obtained to Peep Them All” Achievement not requires having all Gold playing cards
- Jack-O-Lantern will not spawn on the porch throughout October when you have any base buildings in the way in which
- Poison immunity has been readded again to Spiders as that was not speculated to have been eliminated
- Backpacks that drop close to the automotive batteries within the Higher Yard shall be teleported to a secure location close by to forestall them from getting caught in immediate loss of life places
- The exercise displays within the Pond biodome will appropriately activate after opening the biodome as an alternative of after turning within the Tremendous Chip to BURG.L
- You possibly can not nab sure gadgets by the partitions or home windows
- Your character identify ought to not hardly ever present up over your personal character
- The textual content filter within the crafting menu shall be utilized appropriately after altering tabs or crafting an merchandise
- Placement of the Sap Catcher supplies higher management over the position angle
- Buildings will now truly show their Protection values within the constructing interface
- Gadgets will now truly show their Stun values in merchandise description bins
- Mantis armor crit results not typically apply themselves to the participant
- Bomb arrows now price stamina to shoot like each different arrow
- Bitter battle axe now correctly thought-about an axe
- Non-diagonal buildings can now snap to diagonal rotations at particular angles
- Mounted varied terrain and foliage and floating filth points
- Loading an early entry save is not going to reset dropped participant backpacks
- This isn’t retroactive for any playthrough that has already made progress on 1.0 from an early entry save
- Mounted some audio quantity points that might trigger abrupt music stoppage
- Utilizing photograph mode not scales up creature harm
- Mutations on previous saves will correctly sync to their right unlock stage based mostly 1.0 worth modifications
- Depositing partial stacks into containers works appropriately