Arctico News

Before the changelog for 1.0 I want to write a thank you message to everyone who has played Arctico through its early access phase. I read every single one of your comments, feedback, bug reports and encouraging messages, and I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to help this project, for buying the game when it was far from finished, for being supportive and kind with us. Thank you!



After collecting most of the blueprints and documents an ending can be triggered
Improved tutorial
Improved main menu
Added new locations and letters
Added new logs from Dr. Garcia
Extensive work done on the caves system
Improved misc. builder design and functionality
Improved building system space limit calculation
Improved ore and crystals design
Increased player’s interaction distance
Increased drill functional distance
Improved drilling icons design
Improved day/night cycle
Improved inventory resources UI design
Improved map menu
Character’s speed was slightly increased
Improved handheld drill design
Improved sled collision with locations and buildings
Fixed replacing objects while holding drill would activate the drill
Fixed parachute sometimes activating after getting off the sled
Objects cannot longer be placed in sled fast travel spawn location
Fixed potatoes amount not showing the first time that you open the inventory
Fixed letter/logs count system

-Added new locations and decorative items
-Added more letters
-Lots of work done to the cave’s terrain and locations
-Improved sled physics
-Added sun shafts fx
-More clouds were added to the skybox
-Clouds are now reflected on water
-Improved logs reading UI
-Improved misc. builder UI
-Improved map menu visuals and performance
-Improved color palette and light settings on some phases of the day cycle
-Multiple decorative items were reworked.
-Improved main menu visuals

-Improved tutorial with more information, markers, and tips.
-Added deployment animation to the misc. builder.
-Improved misc. builder design.
-Fixed misc. builder bug that would not allow you to discover new objects after finding a specific objects set.
-New misc. builder coffee maker model.
-Improved structures interior space detection when placing objects.
-Adjust mid-day color palette and lighting.
-Many more tweaks and improvements were done to the map and multiple locations.

rctico was previously an Early Access survival game called Eternal Winter, but it ditched all the bleak inevitability of starving to death in the snow in favor of becoming a relaxing exploration game. Whereas in Eternal Winter you might have had to butcher your huskies for food, in Arctico you can pet them, and if they don't get fed they simply grow tired and slow down. Rather than being another brutal game of staring at a hunger meter, it became a cosy game of building an Arctic research base between meditative journeys by sled, kayak, or glider...
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-Many locations were moved and readjusted
-Significant changes to the map’s terrain and layout
-multiple new locations introduced
-New decorative objects added
-Improved handheld drill particle fxs
-Drastically reduced head bobbing when running
-Added a counter with the total amount of letters and documents found
-Adjusted crosshair opacity