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Hi all, When we launched the Project Existence Testing Environment (lovingly known as PETE) in 2020, it was designed not so much as a game for visitors to play, but a proving grounds to test and/or break potential features that might make their way into our upcoming massively mul
Hi all! We recently concluded a milestone playtest in our newly renamed Project Existence Testing Environment (PETE). It was a twelve-hour test, with participants establishing outposts, gathering resources and working together to rebuild a monument. This was essentially the same
This latest update introduces a new resource, more outpost units and multiple improvements to UI. Participate in today's playtest by hopping in and playing through the tutorial mission, we'd love to hear your feedback! Feedback Form Bug Reports
UPDATE: The servers will be live at 2pm GMT, or two hours later than originally announced! Sorry for the inconvenience. Hey all! On April 5th (Wednesday) beginning at 1pm GMT, Arctic Theory will begin a 12 hour playtest period in the Project Existence Testing Environment (PETE),
Hi all! Once again, members of the Arctic Theory team jumped into the Project Existence Testing Environment late last week for a new playtest adventure. We have a brief update below. _____ MARCH 16, 2023 PLAYEST GOAL / DESCRIPTION Just as last week, this playtest was designed wit
Hi all! As we move through early development of our upcoming MMO, codename: Annex , we will be providing consistent playtest updates occurring in the Project Existence Testing Environment here on Steam. This will allow you who participate in and/or following our progress (thanks,
Hey everyone! Project Existence will be live for the next few days for network tests. We’ve recently upgraded to Unreal Engine 5, so while we continue working on a new gameplay update, we decided to keep the prototype live and running to fix bugs, stability and connectivity issue
Happy (late) new year! The team is back at the office after a lovely holiday break. Looking back at the past year, we are super happy with what we achieved, but even more excited about what’s coming next. Arctic Theory was founded with the ambitious goal of pushing the boundaries
Hello everyone! We'll be taking the servers down for maintenance over the next few days, while we work on some pretty cool changes that are coming to Project Existence. We want to make sure Project Existence has the room to showcase different aspects of our work as we continue de
Fixed log spam on server Fixed performance issues with the settlement blockout (level unloaded) Fixed performance issue with RTV (track simulation moved to client side) Update to the bridge environment Cave added to the world (Landscape visibility, hole test) More information add
- Added notifications to indicate mission progression - Implemented physics-simulation for harvestable fields - Walking towards trees or rocks will change it to a dynamic element - Improved our internal logs to catch bugs and errors more easily - Started work on upgrading the bri
- Mission sequence! There are a few missions now that can be completed one after the other - Missions now have a better overview - Pressing G will open a window showing your active missions and the steps you have completed - Updated the emote system - There are now 9 emotes that
- You can now remove trees and rocks from the world - Added the first version of an emote system! Interacting with other players will bring up a menu where - - You can select the emote you want to use - Further adjustments to the weather and day & night cycle - Added an autoh
- Added a new test mission - Added framework for accepting, completing and turning in missions - Added textures to the Remnants area - Made adjustments to the weather system - Added more details to the landscape - Increased the number of trees in the world
Adjusted the weather system so that it changes more frequently Improved the landscape textures and added a bit more details like grass, moss and smaller rocks Enabled arrow keys for movement (works alongside WASD) You can now adjust the camera distance from your character by usin
Hello everyone! It’s been a while since we’ve released an update and we’re well aware that Project Existence has been quiet (and slightly broken) for a bit. That might sound like a negative thing, but for us it’s quite the opposite! For those of you who have been with us for a wh
We’ve released a new update, focusing on the visual aspects of our game world along with some new and/or improved features! Project Existence has always been a sort of development sandbox for us to test out the things we are working on, and explore ideas we have for our upcoming
It’s time for a new dev blog - and this time it’s all about the visuals! Our team has grown quite a bit since our last update, with three talented artists joining our creative team last month. After releasing the Valley of Sand update to Project Existence, we wanted to focus more
The Valley of Sand is here! This update brings a lot of changes to Project Existence and should give an idea of the direction we’re going to as we move forward. We consider this to be the start of phase two of development here at the studio, and to kick things off, we’ve complete
Hey everyone! It feels like it's been forever since we put out a development update, so here goes. Somehow, we're already halfway through March! Time flies when you're completely overhauling the graphics and working on large features having fun. Our studio started with an ambitio