Between the 23rd and 29th of January we’ll be running a Closed Alpha playtest, and here’s everything you need to know if you want to be part of it!

To sign up all you have to do is join our Discord and head over to #closed-alpha-signup
All the information is contained there. Or if you'd like to find out more right now, keep reading!



Below you can find the complete feature list, content list and conditions for the playtest!


Detailed below is everything contained in this build in terms of features and content.

• A complete survival game, with cold, thirst and hunger. Make a camp, survive the weather, wild animals and undead enemies.
  
• Build a complete, self-reliant Viking village using bushcraft/pre-metal technology. Players will have access to the complete Tier 1 Technology Tree.
  
• Organize and command AI Villagers. Build and furnish their homes, ensure they stay warm and well fed. Give your Villagers jobs, like Woodcutter, Gatherer, Stonecutter, Toolmaker, FIsherman and much more.
  
• Construct Houses, resource gatherers and toolmakers. Your industries are inter-connected, allowing you to automate and optimise your village’s survival.
  
• Hunt, fish and forage for food. Venison, a wide variety of fish species, and a diverse seasonal flora form the basis of your survival.
  
• Fight a variety of undead enemies in skillful stamina-based 3rd person combat. Perform light and heavy attacks, combos, dodges. Includes a complete melee and ranged combat system. Use one handed and two handed weapons, shields, and bow.
  
• Craft a variety of stone tools and weapons, as well as a linen outfit.
  
• Explore old ruins, fight their inhabitants and obtain valuable resources.
  
• Tame wolves and turn them into companion Dogs.

Feature List

• Explore a large procedurally generated world, complete with a day/night cycle, realistic weather system and seasonal vegetation.
  
• Chop trees, mine rocks and gather resources from bushes
  
• Craft various tools, weapons and clothing
  
• Make a camp, survive the first nights and slowly build up your settlement
  
• Build camps, houses, production buildings, walls and fences
  
• Gain complex AI Villagers, assign them jobs, houses and make sure they have food.
  
• Villagers talk to you, sharing their issues and asking for help.
  
• Have your Villagers build structures and gather resources.
  
• Organise their schedule, balancing Work, Leisure and Sleep hours to optimise production.
  
• Set up automated production lines for food, resources and tools.
  
• Experience a complete melee and ranged skill-based combat system
  
• Defend against small occasional incursions of Revenants or wild animals. Fight alongside your Villagers.
  
• Hunt wild animals
  
• Fish a wide variety of fish species
  
• Face a variety of undead enemies and wild animals, each with their unique behavior.
  
• Build houses and decorate them with furniture and storage using a grid system.
  
• Flight System - Take the form of a raven and fly anywhere you want
  
• Proficiency System - The more a character does an action, the better they become at it
  
• Tame wolf pups and turn them in Dog companions
  
• Customize clothing with various colors
  
• Contract illnesses and heal them using the appropriate ingredients
  
• Locate and highlight valuable resources with a “detective mode” area search.
  
• Discover and cook a wide variety of seasonal food items.
  
• Discover caverns and mines
  
• Discover enemy-infested ruins

Content

Below you can see all the things you'll be able to build in this Closed Alpha Build.

• Stone Axe (one handed & two handed)
  
• Stone Pickaxe (one handed & two handed)
  
• Shortbow & Arrows
  
• Flimsy Shield (1st tier shield)
  
• Flimsy Club (1st tier weapon)
  
• Wooden Hoe (Terraforming Tool)
  
• Wooden Hammer (Building Tool)
  
• Flimsy Outfit (T1 armor: Hood, Shirt, Gloves, Pants)
  
• Stone Knife (Skinning Tool)
  
• Torch
  
• Fishing Rod
  
• Fish Bait (Fish-based, meat-based, veggie-based)

• Woodcutter’s Pit
  
• Woodcutter’s Hut
  
• Stonecutter’s Pit
  
• Stonecutter’s Hut
  
• Gatherer’s Pit
  
• Gatherer’s Hut
  
• Peat House (larger housing; allows the player to place furniture)
  
• Flimsy Fence (Tier 1 Fence)
  
• Hedge Wall & Gate(Short/Long Segments)(Tier1 Wall)
  
• Hedge Tower (Short bastion-like fortification)
  
• Watchtower (A tall tower featuring a climbable ladder; provides a vantage point)
  
• Workshop (Villager automated tools & weapons production)
  
• Workshop Addon - Dyer (Color the Flimsy Outfit parts (hood, shirt etc))
  
• Workshop Addon - Weaver (Convert fibers into fabric)
  
• Resource Gathering Markers
  
• Mine Entrance
  
• Kennel (allows the player to create Dog Companions out of Wolf Pups)

Why we are doing this

The goal of this playtest is to see early interactions with the game from people that are completely unfamiliar with the project. We want to find out:

• what the flow is, what player instincts kick in and how they approach the game.
  
• what players enjoy or dislike about the game
  
• if they get stuck, bored or get absolutely hooked on a certain aspect of it.
  
• what's intuitive and what isn't. Where our design holds and where it breaks.

What we're not particularly interested in is:

• Minor balance issues
  
• Minor, non-game-breaking bugs

We’ll be selecting 50 more playtesters to join our existing 50. With each future test we’ll keep adding to that number.

That's it for now, hope to see you on our Discord and in the Alpha!



No worries! You can always watch our Friday streams to see actual gameplay and get answers to your burning questions!

Hayo Zookeepers!

Update 1.12.3 is now available for download. Just update your game before you play! This update contains various bug fixes - you can read more below:


This update contains bug fixes

General Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Animals
  • Fixed "moving multiple selected animals" in the exhibit info panel not always moving the selected animals
  • Fixed Raccoons passing through scenery to interact with enrichment toys
  • Fixed an issue where animals interacting with burrows were teleported across the park
  • Removed the possibility for animals in burrows to stand idle for long periods of time
  • Fixed the navigable area heatmap not updating when the selected animal had to be reset to the habitat gate
  • Fixed an issue where animals could not enter or exit a burrow correctly
  • Fixed an issue where animals were temporarily considered escaped from their habitats, particularly when climbing
  • Increased the size of skeletal remains left by juvenile Emus that decomposed in a habitat
  • Added interspecies enrichment bonuses between Emus, Red Kangaroos and Red-Necked Wallabies
  • Fixed Raccoon's whiskers and fur disappearing if viewing from specific distance
  • Fixed Formosan Black Bear Juvenile eyes floating if viewing from specific distance
  • Fixed Nine-Banded Armadillo teleporting when exiting burrow
  • Made Scarecrow Feeder more accessible for Blue Wildebeest
  • Fixed some sharp edges on the Maned Wolf sleeping animation
  • Fixed leg flickering on the Emu walking animation
  • Fixed overextended front upper legs on the Blue Wildebeest Female walking animation
  • Adjusted animation when the Striped Hyena shakes
  • Adjusted animation when the Nine-Banded Armadillo turns
  • Updated Striped Hyena animal icons for both Male and Female
  • Updated Striped Hyena Zoopedia images
• Facilities
  • Fixed Tour guest wellbeing being rated much lower than expected
  • Fixed "Educational item placed too far from target species" alert on Tour Points not assigned to an Animal Talk
  • Fixed some habitat objects being incorrectly considered scenery objects when using the bulldozer tool
  • Fixed an issue where ride stations sometimes do not get fully deleted when using the bulldozer tool
• Franchise
  • Fixed the Automated Exhibit Population Management rules showing the "Release to wild" option in franchise mode
• Game Modes
  • Height map zoos created in the following places now use their matching flat skirts:
    
    • Africa Savannah
    • Antarctica Tundra
    • Asia Tropical
    • Europe Tundra
    • North America Savannah
    • North America Temperate
    • Oceania Tropical
  • Path added to Temperate Europe Sculpted map entrance
  • Loans are now available in Sandbox mode
• Guests
  • Enabled moving tour guests onto staff paths during their tour
  • Added feedback for inaccessible Tour Points in tours
• Habitats
  • Fixed habitat shelter heatmap not displaying correctly
  • Fixed incorrect animal accessibility message on climbing frames
  • Fixed habitat object accessibility considering irrelevant animals' accessibility
  • Improved habitat object accessibility algorithm
  • Fixed an issue where terrain around a burrow interior could be edited
  • Removed possibility to place burrows in lakes
• Localization
  • Added localized string informing players when Tour Points are inaccessible
  • Fixed a spelling mistake in the Red Barn River timed scenario description
• Scenario
  • Foliage removed from beneath terrain in Pumamarca Educational Reserve
• Scenery
  • Fixed some glass construction assets to allow guests to see animals through them
  • Added Temperate biome to Emu's infoboard
  • Adjusted specular response of the Buffalo Dry Grass
  • Adjusted colour variants on the Buffalo Dry Grass, Blue Stem Dry Grass and Red Oat Dry Grass.
• Staff
  • Fixed tour guide gliding away from the Tour Point at the end of a tour
• UI
  • The UI flow for creating and naming tours has been simplified
• Crashes
  • Fixed a crash when placing a quarantine building
  • Fixed a crash when placing a staff building
  • Fixed a crash when placing a habitat gate
  • Fixed a rare crash when getting a welfare notification for Butterflies
  • Fixed a rare crash when Butterflies attempted to land on guests
  • Fixed a crash when species did not have a listed food grade in their habitat

Update 42 brings the big guns in 2023! Let’s check everything out!

1. THE PROVING GROUNDS EVENT
Complete Proving Grounds levels to participate, score points and get powerful rewards in the new event dedicated to the epic PvE battle arena. The more levels and difficulties you conquer, the more points you will get. More points means that you will get closer to unlocking all event milestone prizes and rank higher in the overall players' leaderboard, allowing you to win better and better rewards based on your placement.

The event will be available as both a standard Solo event and as a Faction Solo variant, with surprises coming in the near future.

2. NEW OFFENSIVE COMMANDER ITEMS:
Four new Offensive Commander items are coming:
- Two inspired by the force of the Lunar New Year
- Two inspired by the cold-blooded Prototype Corps Renegades

Keep reading for more information about each one.

Update 42 will also bring new offensive items, armor material and a powerful general chest.

3. THE LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
Enjoy ten days of absolutely festive fun on the World Map and at your base:
a) LUNAR DASH CHAIN EVENT: Join in the special events of the holiday season and get stunning rewards by fighting your way to the top of the leaderboard!

b) SPRING FESTIVAL MINI-GAME: Hunt the army of Pagodas all over the World Map. Gather them to get our holiday currency: Golden Coins! Exchange them with the Festive Trader (only available only during the Lunar New Year event) and he will give you exclusive prizes.

c) TWO NEW OFFENSIVE COMMANDER ITEMS
The R.A.D.A.R. Overload will improve the offensive potential of Commander Walker’s army, as well as its gathering capabilities.

The "Qīnglóng Protection" will
- Increase Armored Damage to make Commander Volsky’s tanks even stronger
- Provide random attack properties to boost his army even more


d) NEW DEFENSIVE COMMANDER SKIN
The Lunar New Year Defensive Commander Skin will give you 15% bonus Building Speed.

e) TWO NEW ADDITIONS TO THE LUNAR GEAR SET
- Electronics
- Weapon System
The Defensive Commander will be focused on Unit Health and Armored Damage, providing a good combination of attack and defense random properties.

f) Plus, new additions to the Lunar vanity Items:
- 1 Base Decoration
- 2 Avatars
- 2 Emojis


4. THE PROTOTYPE CORPS RENEGADES
The Prototype Corps Renegades are bringing:
a) TWO PROTOTYPE CORPS OFFENSIVE ITEMS

The EO Targeting Supreme Item will improve:
- Maddy Kopka’s commander stats
- The attack of her units

The "Coeus" Module will provide a mix of attack and defense to boost Commander Grahn’s units.

b) TWO POWERFUL ADDITIONS TO THE PROTOTYPE CORPS GEAR SET
- Prototype Attachment implant
- Skirmish Drone Companion
Both items will improve your Modernization Speed as well as your Repair Speed.

c) PROTOTYPE CORPS RENEGADE BASE (BOSS)

d) TWO STUNNING AVATARS

1. Increase the God-killing mission to 30 stars
2. Slightly increase the difficulty of killing gods

1. Reduce Elite Difficulty (adjust stats)

2. Greatly increase the number of seeds obtained by research technology for spiritual planting

3. Repair the abnormal number of homes, buildings and jobs;

4. Adjust the output ratio of spirit fields, now it is easier to plant spirit plants and produce more;

5, reduced the elite monster attributes, elite monster is easier;

6. Fixed the repair room problem, now the property will repair the building;

7. Fixed some Phleboscope crashes.

8. Fixed the problem of the Dreamland Settlement getting stuck;

9. Optimize the default opening of backpack when entering fantasy

10. Drag the room card in the optimized fantasy to explain the axis roll away

11. Adjust the hit value of common attack in Fantasy

12, merchants [secret] added "equipment", other props to sell (ordinary merchants no longer sell secret, secret merchants sell secret probability is very high)

13. Adjusted hit and Dodge stats of equipment "shoes" (improved)

14. Adjust the upgrade effect of the "Adventure" room (keep only after adjustment: Chance of casting any skill reduced by all skill CDS)

15. Adjusted the Level 4 upgrade effect of the "Fairy Encounter" room to increase the restored Qi and blood by 20% each time you pass through the room

16. The number of rooms cleared in Chapter 3 has been changed from 30 to 50

17. Improved save slot names, now saves the name of the door and the name of the owner, and the time

18. Fixed the BUFF [Rock Shell], it now works normally

19. Fixed techniques and skills, now you can release the Sword of Xuan You normally

20. Fixed an issue where Broken Jade could not inflict damage

21. Fixed the issue where [Ling Yun Hetie] Zhou Tian was not enhanced

22. Fixed some issues where the effect did not disappear after the end of the rule time

23. Adjust the consumption of spirit stone in Foreign Affairs Hall to refresh the order list

24, adjust the planting cycle time of spirit field

25. Adjust the refining time of the refining furnace

26, adjust the attributes of different levels of feeding elixirs

27. The number of tasks released by the office can be improved when upgrading Zhtiandian

28. Adjust part of the building model

- There were some boulder objects at around 20% that weren't loading properly but that is fixed now.

- Also tweaked the fall speed for the early platforms which start fall once you step on them.

Save Data bug has been fixed!
The auto save is function again now. Thank you for your patient!

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We look forward to your continued support of "Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 2".

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