Lost Isle's first round of public playtesting is only one day away! The primary focus of tomorrow's test is to assess network and server performance with 20+ players in a single server simultaneously harvesting resources and building individual bases. Participants who are approved as playtesters will receive an access key to the Steam build that will be available to download and join on Friday, May 3rd, 7-9 pm ET.

If you're interested in participating in this round of playtesting, or any future testing, all you have to do is follow the simple sign-up steps below - this process should take <2 minutes to complete:

1. Join our Discord[discord.gg] community
   
2. Navigate to the "playtest-sign-up" channel in the General Hub. Review the requirements, fill out the fields, and submit this form for admin review
   
3. When approved, you'll receive a message with instructions to navigate to the "playtest-embargo-agreement" form. Review the terms and, if you agree with them, complete and submit for admin review
   
4. After your embargo agreement form has been reviewed and approved, you will automatically be given the role of "Playtester" and have access to the "playtesters" chat channel which will serve as the hub for all playtesting participation

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out in the Discord and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you for your willingness to participate in playtesting - this is an extremely important part of the process of making our game the very best it can be.

We look forward to surviving together with you, and against you, very soon.


-The Lost Isle Team

As the date approaches for our first round of public playtesting (ALPHA STARTS NEXT WEEK!!) a main focus for our team has been bringing the open world to life. Let's jump right in!


Our animal AI systems have been completely overhauled from the ground up. Between having new models, animations, sound design and custom AI behaviors, the final result is a truly immersive interaction with wildlife. Whether you're doing the hunting, or being hunted, we hope you'll appreciate the attention to detail each animal has received.

Animal types can be broken down into three base categories: critter, prey, and predator. Each have unique behaviors and detection settings, including a different detection radius based on whether the player is standing or crouched, and increased detection in front of animals vs behind them.

What does this mean? This means that even if a player is starting out fresh with only a primitive dagger as a weapon, it's still possible to stalk your target - crouched and very carefully - and get within close enough proximity to deliver a surprise attack before it flees (if it's a critter or prey animal) or tries to kill you (if it's a predator animal).

If you're up to speed on the lore behind Lost Isle, you'll know what lies beneath the surface of the island - a fallen, imprisoned celestial god named Mauroth whose cosmic energies seep through the earth - and you may be asking yourself: Why are the animals normal? Where's the fantasy? Without spoiling too much... you'll just have to wait until the sun goes down to see how Mauroth's influence changes the wildlife.


To help players more easily understand where areas with higher concentrations of loot are located, we've added procedural roads that lead to and connect major world monuments that are bordered with fences, lamps, walls, small structures and more. In combination with roads, there is also a trail system that connects to smaller points of interest.

Another addition to the open world is the implementation of a procedural river system that connects major waterways like lakes and ponds to the oceans.

• Improvements to deployable machine functionality and crafting
  
• UI and HUD updates
  
• Bird AI flock behaviors and perch points added to points of interest
  
• Player controller updates including many new animations
  
• Optimizations for materials, textures, audio and more

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