Great news for those of us who’ve been looking on from the sidelines, clutching our DualSenses and Joy-Cons as the folks with Xboxes and gaming PCs go on grand, pint-sized adventures in the backyard with Obsidian’s excellent Grounded – it’s out now on PS5, PS4 and Switch!
Not only that, but it launches alongside one last major content update, bringing it up to version 1.4 and branding the entire package as Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition.
Other than finding a home on new platforms (with cross-play!), Grounded’s latest update also adds some exciting new features like Ant Queens that players can choose to ally with or betray for far-reaching ramifications, a New Game+ mode with a ton of new features to find, a heap of quality-of-life updates and added content, Playgrounds tweaks and improvements and more.
You can find Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition on the PlayStation Store here and on the Nintendo Switch eShop here.
GROUNDED: FULLY YOKED EDITION PATCH NOTES
Hey Grounded fans! We are proud to present to you the “Fully Yoked” 1.4 update: the premiere Grounded experience swole with new content.
ANT QUEENS
Each of the three ant colonies now has a royal leader residing deep within their respective hills. These new Ant Queens are not fightable bosses. They instead offer you a choice: either befriend or betray with a tasty offering. Which you choose affects the rewards you receive and how the colony reacts. Some choices have cascading effects that aren’t immediately apparent…
THE BACKYARD, REMIXED (NEW GAME+)
Next up, we’ve remixed your backyard! Introducing the New Game+ mode: a complete overhaul that adds layers of complexity and challenge. Instead of finishing the game, you will have the option to enter an alternate dimension via the new REMIX.R device. Each playthrough in this mode remixes the yard in a host of ways that will give you new challenges and rewards.
Accessing New Game+ requires defeating the Broodmother, Mantis, Wasp Queen, and completing the Javamatic fight. When entering this mode, all of your existing bases, items, recipes unlocks, etc. will carry over with you.
NEW GAME+ FEATURES
INFUSED CREATURES
In Remixed backyards, creatures can be infused with the power of Raw Science. Not only do they have more health, do more damage, and attack faster, but they also have unique properties that make them extra challenging.
NEW TRINKETS
The good news is that infused creatures can drop special trinkets that are also infused with Raw Science. These new trinkets also have special randomized properties. Ominent Badges can be collected again, and have new properties, and every BURG.L Chip awards a new BURG.L Chip Trinket, they too will have randomized properties to give you more options on how to build your character.
YOKING STATION +10
The Yoking Station, available at the ASL in a remixed yard, allows you to upgrade your weapons to even more powerful levels. To upgrade your weapons, you will need to find new materials and resources only found in remixed yards.
SLURP THE CORE WITH MORE MOLARS
Molars can be gathered once more, and you will need to continue to collect them to stay as swole as the creatures of the yard. In a remixed yard, the molars are now in new, randomized locations.
NEW ASL ADDITIONS
There are a large number of new additions to the Science Shop. Check out the ASL for a new sign set, the Yoking Station, new weapons, equipment, and more, that can only be purchased in a remixed yard. To help with purchasing the new items there are new Raw Science spawn locations, and MIX.Rs have increased rewards.
EVEN MORE
There are other changes that are made to the yard in a remixed world, including more loot chests, different candy, and some other surprises.
NEW PLATFORMS
The game can now be played additional platforms, including the newly added PlayStation 4|5 and Nintendo Switch. Players across all platforms can experience this Grounded: Fully Yoked edition of the final game, together, with crossplay!
ADDITIONAL NEW FEATURES
“BUGS FIGHT EACH OTHER” CUSTOM GAME OPTION
- By default, natural enemies will fight each other if they are near each other, and neutral creatures will fight each other if struck accidentally. This can now be turned off (useful in Playgrounds when designing encounter rooms for the player).
ADDITIONAL PLAYGROUND FEATURES
LINK COLORS
- Links now have 5 color options for distinguishing them while editing.
QUALITY OF LIFE FEATURES
MULTIPLAYER LOAD GAME
- You can now load a save while in the middle of a multiplayer session. All connected clients will load into the new world once the load is complete.
RECOVER PETS
- A new Game Repair button has been added to recover any pets that are not currently following you.
- Pets allocated to a pet house will also teleport to their house, in case they are outside of the terrain.
OBJECT CAPACITY
- An object capacity meter can be found on the pause menu that tells you how many objects, either in a Playground or a standard game, you have in your level. This is useful to know if you are sharing worlds with lower end machines to make sure the game can be played reliably on all hardware.
- If you have no intention of having your yard be as crossplay compatible as possible, this capacity limit can be changed in the Game Settings menu to match your platform’s suggested limit or have no limit at all.
PLAYGROUND LINK COPY/PASTE
- There are now buttons available to copy and paste the configuration of a Link in a Playground.
PLAYGROUND BROWSER FILTERING
- Community Playgrounds can be filtered by keywords, player count and genre while browsing.
REPORTING PLAYGROUNDS
- Community Playgrounds can be reported by players if they violate rules.
NEW CONTENT
NEW BUILDINGS
- 12 Ant Queen-related buildings
- Chaise Lounges
- Chandeliers
- Stuffed Queens
- Head Mount
- Yoking Station
- New Floor Rugs
- Termite King Pipe Organ
- REDACTED
NEW PET
- 3 new Baby Ant Pets to befriend.
NEW EQUIPMENT
- Over 20 new items and equipment.
- Over 20 new trinkets.
A lot of these will be found only in New Game+
NEW MUTATIONS
- Antbassador – Become one with the ants of the yard.
NEW SIGNS
- A new sign-set that can only be purchased in New Game+
4 NEW ACHIEVEMENTS
- 2 for the base game
- 2 for New Game+
FULL JAPANESE VOICE OVERS
- The game now has full Japanese voice over, including voices for the teens, BURG.L, cutscenes, and audio logs. Select Japanese Voice Over from the Game Options menu to enable this feature.
PLAYGROUNDS NEW CONTENT
There are a number of new props that are now available to be placed in Playgrounds. This includes the Jack o Lantern, Ice Caps Box, Big TazT, Big Dice, Wendell Chair, Big SCA.B Mesh, Stump Bark and Pulp, Rash, Yoked Girth and Yogi Swole, Quarter, Garden Light, Milk Molar Bottle and Lid, Gnome, Baseball Bat, Trash Bag, Pink Slip, Anarchis, Lab Dome, Pink Flower Petals, Cattails, Honeycomb, Lilypad, Shovel, Cacti, Charcoal Bag, Moldorc’s Castle, the Bird Bath, and more.
OTHER CHANGES / TUNING
COMBAT
- Attack speed slow effects no longer stack.
ANIMATION
- Stagger animations for all ants and stinkbugs now physically displace them.
ARMOR AND WEAPONS
- Increasing scythe attack speed by 15%.
- Lowering attack speed bonus granted by battle axe combo finishers by 5%.
- The Mighty upgrade path now applies an additional status effect to weapons, much like the Sleek upgrade path for armor.
ITEMS
- Trinket items that previously appeared as brown bags now have a new shared trinket model.
- Gold cards are not required for 100% on the Report Card.
UI
- Quest objectives on the map show the quest name now when hovered over.
- Trailer Marker names are shown on the map when hovering over a Trail Marker icon if a name is set.
- Improved image quality of item icons on lower end hardware.
AUDIO
- New audio track added for New Game+
PLAYGROUNDS
- Ziplines created in Playground edit mode cannot be recycled or renamed in Play mode.
OPTIMIZATION
- Significantly reduced the CPU load of the game.
- Significantly reduced the CPU load during defense events.
- Reduced memory usage across the game.
- Saving the game is now faster.
