Patch 0.3.1 was released today for all players. Please update your game when you see that this update is available to receive the following fixes and changes:

MAJOR ISSUES

• Fixed crash when placing grid-based buildings (Walls, Foundations, etc.)
• Improved reliability of friend search in the server browser.

GAME

• Fixed issue with conversations not triggering properly
• Hedge area art polish
• Added impact VFX for Ice Cap mints and webbed door
• Web sacs wiggle when hit
• Made sticky webs easier to hit while webbed
• The teens will sometimes verbally express their excitement when using a zipline
• Fixed durability not randomizing between which armor piece gets deducted from when hit

WILDLIFE

• Fixed soldier ants red eyes not appearing when angry
• Removing "venom" from Orb Weaver loot

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It wouldn't be a proper content update without a new vlog! Join Shyla, Obsidian's Social Media Manager, as she walks you through some of the new changes and fixes, exciting new content, and spooktacular surprises released with today's update!

You can find more information on what was included with this update by going to the September Content Update notes on our website here.

Tomorrow, September 30th, we will be releasing Update 0.3.0 around 10am PDT / 1pm EDT. Included in the patch are the following changes and fixes we've made to the game:

New Features

• The Hedge has been revamped with new content
• New Building: Zip-lines
• New Building: Spinning Wheel
• New Building: Signs
• New World Landmark: Frankenline
• Halloween Additions: Jack-o-Lantern landmark, Candy Corn food item
• Localization for French, German, Spanish, and Italian (more to come at a later date)
• New spider webs that stick to unsuspecting players and critters

Changes/Game Tuning

Engine

• UE4 Version Upgrade

Combat

• Ant Soldiers have a set of new attacks
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🏡 Join Shyla, Obsidian's Social Media Manager, as she takes you around to look at the busy life in the backyard. In this vlog you'll gain insight into how the insects spend their days and nights while you aren't around. From finding food to making themselves happy, the backyard is full of life and personality day in and day out. Just take a look!

The next content update will be released on September 30th! Until then, stay safe, stay healthy, and stay Grounded!

Today we are excited to announce that we have opened up a Grounded public test for our community! This test will allow players to hop into the game to help us test out new changes, features, and content for Update 0.3.0 before it is released for everyone.

While this test is currently only available to players who own the game on Steam, the team understands the importance of having as many players in the test as possible and are working hard to include players on all platforms in the near future through the Xbox Insider program.

For more details on how to join the Public Test, ...

Hello everyone!

Today we released hotfix patch 0.2.2 for all players. This patch includes the following change:

• Fixed an issue introduced in 0.2.1 that caused some saves to fail to load for some players.

We want to thank you all for your patience while we worked on a fix for this issue, and we want you to know that we are working hard to find fixes for the other issues you have been reporting.

To stay current with the commonly reported issues and to follow their status, please visit our Grounded Issue Tracker Trello Board, or you can bo...

Hello everyone!

Today we released patch 0.2.1 for all players. Please update your game when you see that this update is available to receive the following fixes and changes:

TOP COMMUNITY ISSUES

• The chat log will now show your own messages in the lobby and in the game.
• Ants will no longer be able to steal items from containers out of reach from them.
• You can now overwrite saved games.
• Save Games are grouped by playthrough in the Save / Load menu.
• Fixed an issue where the camera would go inside the player while in the 3rd-person camera when near specific building structures.
• Grub audio has been adjusted.

PERFORMANCE

• Better render performance when dealing with dynamic shadow culling.

MAJOR

• Added a message that will notify PC players when their system clock does not match the server clock. This issue prevented the...

The August Content Update has arrived, bringing with it many gifts for the players!

Along with the bird, which players can expect to see feathers appear in the backyard to use for crafting, there are plenty of other goodies waiting.

Players can now expect to see two new categories of quests available from BURG.L: Chipsleuth quests that will ask players to explore to find missing BURG.L chips and the Artificer quests will ask players to craft specific items. Both quest types reward the player with Raw Science, which can then be used in BURG.L's Tech Chip Swap Shop to purchase upgrades, blueprints, and a new perk: Meat Shield.
Perks are another new feature included with this update. These perks allow the player to select up to 3 different mutations to apply to their character to help them survive the backyard.

These and more are waiting for you, and you can see everything included today by viewing the ...

Update 0.2.0 is now available to download. Included in the update are the following changes and fixes we've made to the game:

New Features 

• Bird! - Includes new crafting materials and recipes from bird feathers. 
• Perk system with 13 unique perks to discover! 
• New BURG.L Quest types: Artificer (crafting quests) and Chipsleuth (quests asking you to locate BURG.L chips). 
• Added Fence buildings (Sprig and Acorn). 
• Added Table buildings (Grass and Clover). 
• Added Water Flea ambient insect to flooded biome.

Changes / Tuning

Combat

• Buffed damage on the Spider Fang Dagger so it's on the higher end of tier 2 weapons.
• Buffed damage on Spike Traps significantly.
• Spiders learned a new set of attacks to choose from instead of just their basic bite.
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Hello everyone!

It's been an exciting 17 days so far, and we have been wowed by all of the feedback and suggestions you have shared! We have also been so grateful for all of the reports we have been receiving. These reports have been showing us what we need to continue to work on and what we need to fix to continue to enhance your gameplay during this Xbox Game Preview / Steam Early Access development.

While we wait to see what the Grounded team has in store for us on August 27th, I wanted to take some time to share a few things with you that we are working on to improve the community and the communication between all of you and the team!

First on the list, we are in the works of building a road map for you all! We are very excited to share this with you once it is finished, and this road map will allow the Grounded team to share with you all the exciting backyard content they are working on to release into the game.

Speaking of sharing...

Patch 0.1.2 has been released. Included with it are the following changes and fixes we've made to the game:

MAJOR ISSUES

• Better handling of dismissing profile selection at the Main Menu on Xbox One and Windows 10 Store versions which will help prevent saved games from going missing for players on the Xbox console and Windows 10 store.
• Fixed an issue where if you had the "Kill Mosquito" quest prior to the patch 0.1.1 release where it wasn't removed properly and would crash if you killed a creature while that quest was active.
• Fixed crash with approaching a base with traps that have an insect being damaged by one when the player arrives.
• Resolved an issue that would cause random crashes with juice drop combining when approaching them.

GAME

• We cleared out excess larva from games that still had large numbers of larva in their game from the infinite larva respawn issue prior to pat...

Hello everyone!

We have just released patch 0.1.1 which includes some changes and fixes to enhance your gameplay.

Changes/fixes that you will see made to the game:

MAJOR ISSUES

• Made changes to make finding, joining, and hosting games with friends more reliable.
• We adjusted the handling of joining game failure (the game is full, the game no longer exists, etc.).
• Added a way to allow players to resolve the issue of the game logging the player into the wrong Xbox Live account on PC.
• Fixed issues with Windows 7 and Windows 8 users crashing when attempting to login. Those users should be able to load into the game after updating.
• Fixed crash when saving or loading and the "Autosave Count" number in the options is set to 0.
• We have implemented a fix for players who were getting stuck on the welcome popup screen and unable to move past it.
• Fixed characters not being saved occasionally i...

We are completely blown away by how many of you joined us in the backyard this week! To be exact, over 1 MILLION players made their way into the backyard in the first 48 hours!

To show his thanks, Grounded's Game Director, Adam Brennecke, has a special message to share with you all!

Hello everyone! While we are still working on finding resolutions for all of the issues reported, I would like to let you know that Steam will be receiving an update soon that should help resolve the logging in issues for players playing on Windows 7 and Steam.

If you are on Windows 7, have updated your game, and still experience this login issue, please contact us here: https://support.obsidian.net/

Ready to look the part for your backyard adventures? Then be sure to check out the awesome Grounded merchandise available now in the Microsoft Store!

Grounded Max Dino Tee, Grounded Hoops Color Block Hoodie, and Grounded Willow Sad Stab Tee available in sizes small to 3XL. Be sure to purchase yours today!

The moment you have been waiting for arrived: Grounded has released and you can now explore the backyard!

In Grounded, you find that you have been shrunken down to the size of an ant, and the backyard has turned into a place where the mundane has become fantastical! You will need to gather, craft, explore, build, fight, and survive the backyard either solo or with up to 3 friends!

Grounded is included with Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass for PC, and is available for purchase through Xbox Game Preview, the Microsoft Store, and Steam Early Access for $29.99!

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Hello everyone,

We are getting closer to the release of Grounded, so to help you prepare we would like to share with you the current release schedule!

Grounded is expected to release at the same time across all platforms on July 28, 2020, at 10:00 PDT (UTC - 7). To help those of you playing from other regions, below you will find a list of when the game will approximately be available to play through Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass for PC, and to purchase through Xbox Game Preview, the Microsoft Store, and Steam Early Access:

• July 28, 2020 - 10:00 PDT
• July 28, 2020 - 13:00 EDT
• July 28, 2020 - 14:00 BRT
• July 28, 2020 - 18:00 BST
• July 28, 2020 - 19:00 CEST
• July 28, 2020 - 19:00 SAST
• July 28, 2020 - 20:00 MSK
• July 29, 2020 - 01:00 SGT
• July 29, 2020 - 03:00 AEST
• July 29, 2020 - 05:00 NZST

If you do not see your time zone listed, you can use any one...

Grounded is excited to include a variety of accessibility features for both our console and PC players to provide the best backyard experience possible.

GENERAL

Arachnophobia Safe Mode

A slider scale can be located in the game's Options Menu that allows players to change the look and sounds of the spiders. Gameplay and difficulty remain unchanged.

Options:

1. No changes to spider visuals.
2. Reduces number of spider legs to four.
3. Removes all spider legs.
4. Removes all spider legs. Removes spider fangs.
5. Removes all spider legs. Changes spider mesh to simple shapes.
6. Removes all spider legs. Changes spider mesh to simple shapes. Changes spider materials to simple colors with shiny textures.

Colorblind Mode

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Today we are excited to announce the voice actors who will be bringing to life your new favorite characters, along with announcing the talented Michael Chu (Overwatch) who has joined the team to help develop the narrative experience!

The cast includes:

• Ozioma Akagha (“Runaways,” “Teen Titans Go!”) as Willow
• Josh Brener (“Silicon Valley,” “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) as BURG.L
• Charlet Takahashi Chung (Overwatch, “Carmen Sandiego”) as Hoops
• Zachary Levi (“Shazam!,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) as Wendell
• Max Mittelman (Spider-Man, Final Fantasy VII Remake) as Pete
• Luke Youngblood (“Community,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”) as Max

You will be able to hear all of their work on July 28^th, when the game releases on Xbox Game Preview and Steam Early A...

We are proud to reveal an all-new trailer for Grounded, our upcoming survival adventure game! On July 28th, go big or never go home.

Grounded is included with Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass for PC, and will be available for purchase through Xbox Game Preview, the Microsoft Store, and Steam Early Access for $29.99

You can pre-install Grounded through Xbox Game Pass today, and you can wishlist Grounded on Steam.

The backyard is waiting and ready for you to explore on July 28^th!

Join our communities!

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