Heads up, Loners, we have big news! Atomic Picnic will launch in Steam Early Access on Thursday November 7 at a price of $19.99(USD)!
And that’s not all - we’ve just kicked off our FINAL public playtest. Hit “Request Access” on the Steam page now to get right in. Here’s the new stuff we’re testing out this week:
- New “Cursed Curios”: These new types of Curios are both buff and bane!
- New standard Curios and Evolutions: More ways to build out your character and combine Curios.
- In-game Events and Objectives: More things to do in a Picnic, like taking out Pillars and chasing down Gold Goblins.
- Plus new Mementos, localizations, visual improvements, UI elements, and sound effects!
For full details and patch notes on this playtest, LINKhead to this post all about itLINK. The playtest will run for one week, ending on October 17th.
Back to the big news - launch on Nov 7th! Here’s what to expect when Atomic Picnic hits Early Access:
- Four Hungry Loners: Ash, Hani, Bonnie, and JD are ready to Picnic! Each Loner boasts unique stats and abilities, allowing for varying playstyles. Try each out and find which suits you! Permanently upgrade character stats via Mementos, which are acquired through Discoveries as Loners complete Picnics.
- Mementos and Discoveries: Loners will scour maps for valuable resources that unlock 18 different Mementos: character and gear upgrades for future runs. Completing specific challenges within Picnics will reveal Discoveries, which in turn grant new Mementos, characters, and weapons.
- Three Maps to Picnic On:
- Train Plateau: Set up your Picnic in an abandoned trainyard, ripe for resource scavenging. If you’re lucky, you might find something worth cold cash! You can also come back to the Plateau in night mode, facing off against a different set of even tougher enemies.
- Twilight Dam: What cataclysmic event ravaged this dam? Picnic here to explore this mysteriously wrecked rift, in day or night mode!
- City of Sand: Two dimensions, one city. Explore and Picnic in a glorious city caught within the sands of time…or what’s left of it.
- Curious About Curios: In-run upgrades known as Curios represent the dramatic changes a Loner’s build will go through as they progress a Picnic.
- Standard Curios unleash your Loner’s full potential as its stats and abilities dynamically adapt to every acquired Curios.
- Cursed Curios offer additional boosts but come with a trade-off, potentially lowering other stats!
- Evolved Curios, created by combining standard Curios, represent the pinnacle for a character’s build and provide unparalleled power.
- Floating on Air: Loners need to be mobile in the wasteland to survive - and they have Impulse Gear to fling, dash, and swing at breakneck speed around each map. Use Air Gear to move in the air, and Gear Dash to speed along the ground.
- Picnic Objectives: Within a Picnic run, Loners will tackle a variety of objectives—from defeating a set number of enemies to toppling specific bosses and destroying pillars in different parts of the map. Each Picnic hosts its own set of challenges for players to accomplish in order to progress the run and make it home alive.
- Wasteland Weaponry: Pick your poison: five traditional weapons – an assault rifle, shotgun, grenade launcher, sniper rifle, and pistol – are at your disposal. Tear down the crowd with these firearms, or blast ‘em to bits with four unique grenades!
- Enemies Galore: In the wasteland, terrors lie in wait for unsuspecting Loners. Face off against 11 distinct enemy types, and when you’ve conquered them, take on three minibosses to gear up for the final showdown with two massive and fearsome end-run bosses.
We hope you’ll jump into our playlist, and become Loners with us when we launch in November! Please keep the feedback coming here on Steam and in the Discord.
Oh and don’t forget - we’re giving away an awesome Starforge Systems gaming PC with a custom art case at launch. Join the community at OTK.to/AP to enter to win!
