

They are a sapient species with a generally inferior level of technology and possibly magic (albeit in terms of magic I'm mainly thinking of body-enhancing "natural" compounds which the player can later use as well). While not willing to communicate with anyone at the surface, they seek to reclaim the sea and forbid humans from traversing across the surface, let alone diving deep.

Warming and souring of the ocean has also drastically influenced its food chains.īase of the game lore is a number of similar species of sirens coming out of hiding from the depths of the ocean as that got further polluted by humans. Mankind has made universal progress, including some artificial, biological enhancements to themselves, but with 10 billion people they do not keep the oceans clean by any means. The time period would be a couple of decades into the future. Overall the game style is closer to realistic than to stylized or cartoony (it's a 2.5D game to make this feasible in a small studio) and the lore should fit this atmosphere.

You can grab Barotrauma for £21.50/$30/€25 from Steam.I am writing the lore for a currently in-development open-world freediving adventure game and am stuck with trying to keep some things scientifically founded. They haven't said when they're planning on leaving early access. It's still in early access, and it seems most of what's left is exploring outside your lovely, probably leaking, traitor-filled submarine. I'll leave a fuller explanation to prime-goofer Nate, and let Brendy (RPS in peace) explain how this becomes "a spectator sport for ghosts".ĭevelopers Fake Fish and Undertow Games have also popped out a roadmap, though it's less a map and more just a list of things they want to add. It was still a blast, mind, because traitors in any context are delightful - especially when you play with a group where genuine skulduggery is hard to distinguish from your friends just goofing about. I've only dipped into a few rounds of Barotrauma, in an earlier, clunkier build back when there was way less to do. Here's the trailer, and further evidence that all marketing should incorporate the Hall Of The Mountain King. AI bots have become better at their jobs, too.
#BAROTRAUMA GAME CREATURES HOW TO#
Electrical wiring is now less buggy, and people who have the first idea about how to program using logic signs like "sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, modulo, round, ceil, floor and factorial" will be pleased to hear those are a thing now. The server browser's been improved, but more importantly you can now join your friends directly via Steam. The Beasts Within is a big update, with plenty else beside the new submarine and monsters. I doubt the DIY will be enough to save you from all the new horrors I haven't mentioned, but it might well help you drown your pal Dan in the locker room.

It also lets you get up to more electrical DIY.
#BAROTRAUMA GAME CREATURES UPDATE#
Last night's update added that wormy leviathan, a big new submarine, and six new traitor missions. The scariest part is that your best friend might be egging the worms on.īarotrauma is a multiplayer game about piloting a submarine around Europa, except one of your party might be trying to get everyone killed. This flesh then disintegrates, unleashing a horde of what I'm inclined to believe are human-sized parasitic worms. It lurches at you from the depths, headbutting your submarine with its colossal and rotten flesh. There is now a too big monster in Barotrauma.
