Lightyear Frontier Preview (Steam Early Access)
Lightyear Frontier Preview, is a peaceful open-world farming adventure on a planet at the far edge of the galaxy. Climb into your versatile mech and start your new home on a distant planet with up to 3 friends as you farm alien crops, build your homestead, and explore the untamed wilderness of the world.
Lightyear Frontier Preview Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 2.1GB download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Two versions – Dx11 and Dx12.
- Display settings – display mode, resolution, v-sync, resolution scale slider, dynamic resolution, dynamic resolution, dynamic resolution target fps, DLSS mode, DLSS sharpening, frame rate limit, maximum fps, brightness, first-person fov slider, third person fov slider, shake strength, and view Bob strength.
- Graphics settings – shadows, screen space contact shadows, textures, view distance, anti-aliasing, ambient occlusion, foliage, post-processing, VFX, screen space global illumination, clouds, volumetric fog, motion blur, bloom, and lens flare.
- Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, remap controls, toggle sprint, and vibration.
- Mouse and keyboard settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders for the mouse and rebind keyboard buttons.
- Ui text size – small, medium, and large.
- Single-player and multiplayer modes.
- Ten save slots.
- Adventure gameplay.
- Save when you want.
- Full photo mode support.
- Handy “I am stuck” option.
- Beautiful big colorful open world.
- A full 3D world with 360-degree camera control.
- Tutorial pop-ups and an opening set of missions to break you in.
- Full day and night cycle with different weather effects.
- You can jump into a mech and assign different tools to your arm.
- The building lets you place the outline of the structure anywhere, and then you add the materials to make it instantly.
- Build and sleep in a house/tent to skip the night.
- Tools are saws, a vacuum for picking up materials, a plant seed gun, and an irrigation hose gun.
- Everything you can break has a health bar.
- You can get out of your mech whenever you want.
- The mech is third person, out of the mech is in the first person.
- Having a mech shoot and vacuum materials makes so many mundane tasks fast and kind of fun.
- Your mech holds materials and you as a person can pick up materials and then throw them at the mech to store them.
- Gets very addictive.
- Play how you want.
- Constant rolling tasks and objectives, you can tag and untag them as you go and even create your little mission markers.
- The game relies on you doing things like clearing out areas and finding Artifacts within them.
- Fuel your irrigation gun by using the vacuum to suck up water for ammo.
- You can actually pause the game in solo play.
- The mech has a small jet pack.
- A very chilled-out experience.
- The map fills in as you play and you can place your own markers.
- Create dishes to feed the wildlife and nests of animals.
- Earn and unlock new recipes as you find new materials.
- As you restore areas the world learns to grow and flourish, when an area begins its growth you get a nice flyover of the area.
- Build massive towns and functioning tools.
Lightyear Frontier Preview Cons:
- The tutorial doesn’t always show when needed, obviously only with the Xbox controller being used.
- The mouse cursor has a habit of popping up at random times when using the controller.
- The game doesn’t explain a lot of the mechanics.
- Very slow starter.
- A lot of build this to make that type of game flow.
- Clearing an area can be a frustrating experience as you have a large area to cover but also no help in identifying the missing objective locations.
- The system for swapping arms/tools is not always ideal.
- For some reason your mech will ragdoll, it looks hilarious but it is infuriating.
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Lightyear Frontier:
Developer: FRAME BREAK
Publisher: Amplifier Game
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