Content Update 4: Below Us is Live

[p][/p][p]Caretakers,[/p][p]Content Update 4: Below Us is now live for The Last Caretaker.[/p][p]This is one of our largest updates so far. It expands the world, adds new tools, opens new locations, introduces new traces of the past, and includes another major round of fixes, optimization, and polish.[/p][p][/p][p]▶ INCOMING DIRECTIVE - WATCH CONTENT UPDATE 4: BELOW US TRAILER[/p]

Highlights

• [p]You can now take to the air with the Salvage Gyro.[/p]
• [p]You can discover Gyro Service Towers and recover lost gyro blueprints.[/p]
• [p]You can enter Seed Vault Eden Cradle.[/p]
• [p]Project Canticle.[/p]
• [p]And the world now remembers more of what happened before.
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[p]The Ocean Opens Further[/p][p]The world of The Last Caretaker has always been about systems, distance, purpose, and choices.[/p][p]With Content Update 4, we wanted to open the world in new directions.[/p][p]That is where the Salvage Gyro comes in. The Salvage Gyro is a new light utility aircraft built for reaching high platforms, deep pits, service towers, and isolated locations.[/p][p]
Content Update 4 also adds Gyro Service Towers.[/p][p]These are high field-service platforms built for maintaining and repairing Salvage Gyros. The towers contain lost gyro blueprints, tools, parts, and field-service equipment.
They were never showpiece infrastructure. They were practical places where tired crews kept one ugly little aircraft alive because it could still lift a pump, battery, cable bundle, or machine part when nothing else could.
This is also why the blueprints survived there. If a gyro broke far from a proper workshop, the tower had to contain enough information to patch it, rebuild it, or fabricate missing parts locally.[/p][p][/p][p]Seed Vault Eden Cradle[/p][p]Eden Cradle is a new maze-like Seed Vault area with separated chambers and deeper links to humanity’s survival systems.[/p][p][/p][p]Project Canticle[/p][p]Project Canticle opens a new area connected to the deeper mystery of the world.[/p][p]We do not want to over-explain this one here. [/p][p]It is better found than described.[/p][p][/p][p]HoloMemory[/p][p]The update also introduces HoloMemory.
A new system that reveals visual traces of past events in select world locations. More than collectibles, echoes are fragments of what came before, moments left behind in the world, waiting to be seen.

New Tools[/p][p]Content Update 4 also adds several new practical tools.[/p][p]
Decoy Pod
A new tactical deployable pod for redirecting threats and creating space when direct fighting is not the best answer.[/p][p][/p][p]Drone Charging Station
A new module that supports longer and more useful drone scouting.[/p][p][/p][p]Hook Cables
New cable functionality that can attach to structures and expand physical interaction.[/p][p][/p][p]New World Areas[/p][p]This update adds and improves multiple world areas, including:[/p]

• [p]New Silo locations, Methane Conversion Pits[/p]
• [p]New and updated areas across Lyra[/p]
• [p]New Salvage Gyro-related service platforms[/p]
• [p]New environmental passes in existing locations[/p]
• [p]Updated loot placement and exploration rewards[/p]

[p][/p][p]The Methane Conversion Pits are deep vertical climate-engineering shafts, reaching more than 180 meters down, with machine rooms and methane pipe systems below.[/p][p]They are large, industrial, and not especially friendly.[/p][p]Good luck.[/p][p][/p][p]Weather, Audio, and Atmosphere[/p][p]We also made a broad pass on the world’s atmosphere.[/p][p]This includes:[/p]

• [p]Improved weather behavior[/p]
• [p]Reduced fog density in certain conditions[/p]
• [p]Better underwater visibility through glass[/p]
• [p]New environmental visual effects[/p]
• [p]Improved glass visuals and refraction[/p]

[p]The world should feel more alive, even when no one is there.[/p][p][/p][p]F.E.L.I.S.[/p][p]F.E.L.I.S. has received updates based on player feedback.[/p][p]F.E.L.I.S. is now cheaper and more customizable, with improved audio behavior and visual presentation.[/p][p][/p][p]Under the Hood[/p][p]Content Update 4 also includes a large technical pass. This includes improvements to:[/p]

• [p]CPU performance[/p]
• [p]GPU performance[/p]
• [p]Physics performance[/p]
• [p]Vehicle stability[/p]
• [p]World streaming[/p]
• [p]Collisions[/p]
• [p]Environmental stability
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[p]Save Export / Import[/p][p]Content Update 4 adds improved save game management, including backup restoration options, save import, and save export.[/p][p]This helps players share game states, send reproduction files, and recover from certain save-related issues more easily.[/p][p]For Early Access, this matters a lot.[/p][p][/p][p]You can read the full patch notes here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1783560/discussions/0/844005830910046317/
[/p][p]Join the community
▶ Discord: https://discord.gg/channel37[/p][p]▶ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastCaretaker/[/p][p]
We hope you enjoy all of the new content!

Safe travels.
–Channel37 [/p]