Bright Future brought a whole meteorite’s worth of new content to the island, and we hope you’ve been having fun exploring it so far. We’ve already been collecting lots of your feedback on the update and what you’d like to see next, and we’re looking forward to sharing more on that after the event.
Today, we’re kicking off Week 2 of Respawning Day with a new batch of challenges and rewards, a new Super Animal breed to unlock, and the Thomas Sledison Makeship Plush launching this Friday, April 10th!
Respawning Day Week 2
Super Animals are no strangers to getting their paws dirty, and Week 2 of Respawning Day is here with a gardening-themed batch of challenges and rewards that trade sowing chaos for sowing seeds.
The new Super Grass Capybara has sprouted from the Research Lab. Whether it was engineered that way or just sat still long enough for grass to grow over it, the island may never know, but like all event breeds it’s a permanent addition.
5 challenge rewards to earn
- Handkerchief Hat | Collect Super Eggs (1200)
- 1500 XP | Chop Grass with a Giant Emu(150)
- Rake | Deal Melee Damage (200)
- 750 Carl Coins | Drink Health Juice with Cupgrade (200)
- Adhesive Bandage| Heal Teammates or Giant Emus with Darts (250)
New Super Animal breed
- Super Grass Capybara (Available at Level 50)
And thanks to oh_ghost on Discord for the Handkerchief hat suggestion!
Thomas Sledison Plush Launches This Friday!
We’ve been busy, busy in the workshop with our friends at Makeship getting our newest plush campaign ready: the Thomas Sledison plush! Sledison has been a fan favorite for a long time, and with his big role in Bright Future, this felt like the perfect time to finally give SAR’s busiest inventor a plush of his own.
The plush features a fully detachable coat and hat, and every order comes with a coupon code you can redeem for the in-game Sledison Plush Emote, which lets your Super Animal carry around its very own little Sledison plush (ideal for bringing your own tiny backseat inventor into Sledison’s workshop).
The campaign goes live this Friday, April 10th, and we also have giveaways running now on our Twitter and Instagram from now until the campaign begins, so follow us there if you’d like a chance to enter.
Check out the Thomas Sledison plush campaign on Makeship!
Bug Fixes
We’ve also rolled out a few fixes since launch:
- Fixed Hot Mode showing progress ticks from the previous day.
- Fixed Chinese text input bug on Switch.
And the following fixes are also already live on Steam and will roll out to consoles in a later patch:
- Fixed an issue where friends would occasionally not have the Join Hub option.
- Fixed the cross-play party Kick button not working, though consoles will still need a patch for the fix to fully roll out.
- Fixed an issue causing quest auto-tracking to revert on the client UI.
We’re also working on a few other known issues. We’ve identified the cause of one where some cross-play parties with a Switch 1 player can fail to connect to matches, and a fix is already on the way in the next Switch patch. Thanks for bearing with us in the meantime!
Upcoming Server Testing
Over the next week or so, we’ll be testing new server providers and trying a few different server setups as we explore potential improvements. We’re cautiously optimistic that this could lead to a better experience overall, but we’d love to hear your feedback on how matches feel during the trial.
We’ll be monitoring things closely throughout the test period and comparing how the different options perform. Once we’ve had time to review the results, we’ll share more about what we learned and what we plan to roll out more broadly.
Read the Full Patch Notes
If you want to catch up on everything that landed last week in the Bright Future Update, including all the details on Respawning Day and its Week 1 challenges and content, read the full Steam patch notes here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/491594085843338837?l=english
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Thanks so much for all the excitement and kind words around the Bright Future launch. It’s meant a lot to our dev team as we get back into the swing of regular quarterly updates. See you on the island, Super Animals!