|OT| Trailmakers - v1.0 releasing on September 18

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https://www.playtrailmakers.com/

Trailmakers 1.0 launches on September 18th on PC and Xbox.

Building a car, airplane, helicopter or walking robot is as easy as playing with blocks. Take your machines on exciting rally races, race them against your friends, or build the craziest contraptions you can imagine in our huge sandbox.

• Build intuitively with modular blocks - it is easy to get started, and the possibilities are almost infinite.
• Go on breakneck rally races with vehicles of your own making.
• There is always something to do: Join the Trailmakers Rally, take on challenges, play in the sandbox, race your friends or shoot each other to bits.
• Create without constraints in two sandbox maps full of jumps, half pipes, an aircraft carrier, catapults and other crazy obstacles.
• Compete on the global leaderboards in rally and race mode.
• Four player drop in drop out multiplayer game modes.
• An active and growing community with tons of premade vehicles ready to test.

Journey over grueling mountains, hazardous swamps, and bone-dry deserts on a distant world far from civilization - it is just you, your fellow adventurers and the amazing, jet-powered hover-buggy you built yourself. Explore, crash your vehicle, build a better one, and get as far as you can with whatever spare parts you find along your way.

Trailmakers is about building very awesome vehicles and machines, but you don’t need an engineering degree to get started. The intuitive builder will get you going in no time. Everything you build is made from physical building blocks. Each block has unique features like shape, weight and functionality. They can be broken off, refitted and used to build something new. Individually the blocks are fairly simple, but combined the possibilities are endless.

Expedition Mode is the challenging campaign mode of Trailmakers. You are competing in an off-world rally expedition with only a few building blocks to get you started. You must build, tinker with and rebuild your machine to progress. Journey through a big world, overcome deep gorges, angry wildlife and dangerous weather to progress and find new parts that will juice up your machine. The world in Expedition Mode will test your survival skills and ingenuity.

Sandbox Mode is where you want to head for an unrestricted, sandbox, vehicle-building experience. Here you can build anything you can dream of, and play around with it in the world of Trailmakers. It is a great place to test out crazy machines, and experiment with the physics engine. With tons of different blocks, hinges, thrusters and interactive vehicle parts - the skybox is the limit.

Trailmakers is even more fun if you play it with other people. Build cool vehicles and compete in mini-game modes with your friends or other Trailmakers online. Build a helicopter, send it to your friend, and shoot them out of the sky. Put two seats on a tank, and let your friend control the turret. As we get further in Early Access development Expedition Mode will also be adapted to multiplayer.

The 1.0 launch is also our biggest update yet, which is why it has been so long since we last updated the game. We wanted to make something that was deserving of a 1.0, and lives up to your high expectations. The update adds a new game mode that is bigger both in terms of world size and playthrough length than the old Expedition game mode. We’ve also added a lot of new features, blocks, optimizations and bug fixes.

Moving from 0.X to 1.0 can seem like an arbitrary decision, because when is a sandbox game like Trailmakers ever really “done”? We have received so many feature suggestions (find many of them on the Community Suggestion Trello) that we could keep working on this game for 50 years. We are calling this update 1.0 because it’s the biggest one yet, and adds a grand campaign. In our opinion, Trailmakers 1.0 is a complete game.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/585420/announcements/detail/1582374841937436248

 

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The 1.0 update is the biggest and greatest update to Trailmakers we have ever made. For returning players, it will feel both familiar and like a brand new game as we have added tons of new blocks and a brand new massive campaign. For new players, it has never been easier to get into Trailmakers with better tutorials and help menus.

NEW CAMPAIGN - STRANDED IN SPACE

• On your way to deliver a not-so-precious cargo of Space trash, you are hit by an asteroid and stranded on an alien planet. You must explore the planet and recover the space trash. Each part you salvage can be used to build new means of transportation and ultimately a spaceship that can bring you back into orbit and home again.
• You collect the lost salvage and unlock new blocks by delivering it to the Recovery Drones. This is not always easy as the salvage can be stuck in holes, at the bottom of the sea or even highly explosive!
• To help you recover the salvage, we have added a new block to the game: The Electromagnet. After you find this block in Stranded in Space, salvaging will be a lot smoother. You can read more about this block in the New Blocks section of the update notes.
• There are new ways to earn coins, that you can spend on accessory blocks. If you find a Nugget Thief make sure to chase them down and take their gold.
• There is an unprecedented amount of new wildlife and fauna to find on the planet in Stranded in Space. Explore above and beneath the surface to find them all.
• Unlike the old Expedition game mode, Stranded in Space is available as a MULTIPLAYER mode in its entirety. Your progress carries over if you join a multiplayer game, and you can collaborate to recover some of the trickier salvages.