New Features Introduced in Horizon Update

Brand new wallpaper released for 4x strategy game

Haarlem, The Netherlands – 20 December 2013 -L3O Interactive and Iceberg Interactive’s upcoming 4x space strategy game Horizon (PC), is currently in the late Beta stages of its Early Access program on Steam, where its active community has helped the game make giant strides forward over the past months. Today, an important Horizon update is pushed through the Steam platform including some new, community requested features such as race customization and the ability to play other races.
 
Horizon stands out from the 4x crowd with its focus on the dawn of space ventures of mankind, exploring a vast galaxy with powerful and some ancient races already out there with their own schemes – and is therefore more story driven and engaging by nature.
 
New major Features in the Horizon update:

• Ability to fully customize your race with race templates and unique special abilities
• Don't want to only play as Humans? Select and play as one of seven additional races for a different experience (including 84 new ship models and other race specific assets and technologies)
• You can now design your Starbase just as your ships before building it!
• New Terraforming mechanic allows you to transform planets to become more hospitable to your race. Added ability to clean and restore toxic planets
• Improved race starting colony placements on galaxy generation and more distinct colors
• New displays for Explored Planets, Game Options, Racial Stats and Bonuses
• Updated help screens with tooltips for new players

Developer L3O CEO Raffi Parsekhian says:  “We had planned to have full race customization in Horizon, but we are now also taking the next step by providing gamers the option to play as one of seven other unique races in the game.  Of course, we appreciate all feedback on the new update and encourage all players to give their opinion and advice on the official forum. Over the next weeks we will also be busy with language integrations, achievements and random events, working hard towards Horizon’s final launch next year.“
 
To read more about the new changes and for the full Changelog, please visit the official Horizon forum:  http://forum.horizongame.com
 
This new update comes with a beautiful new wallpaper which can be downloaded here:
 
Horizon is currently in an advanced beta stage and publisher Iceberg Interactive is eyeing an early Q1-2014 launch. Gamers already interested in playing the game before its official launch can purchase and play the game for an Early Access price of $ 24,99 on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/236130.

Read more about Horizon here