Developer posts and news about this game.
Roadmap AREAZ has a roadmap again, and after the Autumn Sale the price goes up. If you own the game, nothing changes for you. Done DX12 + DLSS 4.5 - the game runs on Unreal Engine 5 with a modern renderer. Crafting Simplified - Autocraft builds straight from your backpack, and a
Hints and Stacking Two things you asked for: carry more, and know what a key does before you press it. Both are in 0.59.300, and both came straight from player feedback. Bigger stacks This one started on our Discord and in Steam reviews. Carrying capacity was the real limit, even
Crafting in AREAZ was too hard, and you told me - in reviews, on Discord, in bug reports. This update makes crafting easier at last, and nearly everything in it is here because players took the time to write down what was in the way. Thank you, all of you who did. Crafting Autocr
You can now rebind every key, and you can play the whole game on a controller - the view, the menus, the inventory and the crafting screens. Controls settings The Controls page was reworked. You can customise key inputs for keyboard, mouse and controller in one place. Axis invert
Menu Overhaul Most of the screens you open outside the game have been rebuilt, and there is a lot more you can change now. Survival tips with twelve videos built straight into the game, and a menu that behaves the same on the title screen and mid-run. One menu, everywhere Rows ar
Older AMD card and AREAZ would not start? Try this first Since the DX12 update on August 28, some older AMD cards crash while compiling shaders and never reach the game. R9 300 series, RX 400 and 500, and integrated Radeon are the ones reported so far. Older NVIDIA cards are not
Video settings are rebuilt. You can now set resolution and display mode, pick your upscaler, switch on frame generation and tune the jungle separately - most of the controls that decide how the game performs were either missing, or in two cases quietly broken. Your video settings
Update 0.58.1 - what the DX12 launch showed us, and what comes next The DX12 and DLSS 4.5 update did what it was meant to do. The jungle hitches are gone on every card we have seen, and the game now runs on machines it never ran on before, from a 2014 workstation card at 720p to
DX12 and DLSS 4.5 are live The renderer is rebuilt. AREAZ now runs on DirectX 12 with DLSS 4.5, and on modern hardware the difference is not subtle. What you can expect: RTX 30 series - DLSS upscaling, more stable frame times, noticeably smoother traversal RTX 40 and 50 series -
Hey survivors 👋 I’ve been working on improving the Crafting / Inventory UI in AREAZ, with a big focus on helping new players better understand the two-hand crafting system from the start. Note: The crafting system itself isn’t changing — this is purely about clarity and usabilit
New Update 0.57 is here! This one moves the game over to Unreal Engine 5.6 . It’s a pretty important step for future development, because the next stop is the freshly released Unreal Engine 5.7 . That version finally gives us access to the new Nanite Foliage and improved procedur
Hi, updated the game to new Unreal Engine 5.5 version. That allowed me to fix bottle neck when moving the whole physics volume for ocean to simulate tide. This was causing GPU to wait for CPU, and so GPU not being fully utilized and resulting in low FPS even on better rigs. Curre
Hi, based on your reports I have made audit on sound settings. Its turned out that sound classes got overwritten when adjusting the individual sound class in Sound Settings. This was not easy to found as the code to adjust, save and load sound settings looked properly and simple
Hi, just fix on UI - character statuses and crafting menu. Should be now more responsive and work properly on higher resolution. At least what I have managed to test. For lower resolutions there might be still problem as especially crafting menu requires a lot of width. Will try
Hi, small update - updated to newest version of Unreal Engine 5.4.2 As game seems to run smoother and also render looks smoother I decided to push it into live branch for you as well. Additionally these finally seems to be a good stable candidate for next Inland map, so started o
Hi, implemented UDS Weather to game. Can be used for various weather effect, replacing those from UE4 version. Currently rain and storm are implemented. Added and slightly increased chance for rain and storm even for Eden game mode, and they can occur during the first day already
Hi, Bringing you the game update on newest UE 5.4.2 version. This fixed several issues we had due the previous UE version and were not caused by game logic itself. To improve performance in UE5 we have moved as much foliage as we could from instanced foliage to terrain automateri
Hi, it has been a long time. Finally I have managed to get a stable game build on Unreal Engine 5.3. This works quite nice and will provide sound platform for future development, while providing us new long awaited tools for game development and especially level design. Additiona
Hi it has been an very difficult time for me both professionally and personally. Anyway things are getting slowly better, so I would like to restart the development. Its quite metaphoric - with reptiles update - as development was on turtle speed... On the other side, it hard she
Hi, fixed following issues in game - items in back will not duplicate on ground after loading the savegame (players reported) - when died with open inventory/menu - this will be closed (players reported) - cut harvested palm leafs will be scattered on ground, to prevent highlight