Grounded fish update#

This creature owns this area, and you’re just a little speck in it.” That’s what we wanted to get across this thing’s been here for a long time, and it basically owns this area. “We’ve all seen those koi fish that are the big badasses in the pond, and they look so gnarly, like they’ve been there forever,” Brennecke says.

The water is murky and foul-looking, which makes it easy to get surprised by any number of water-based critters. For one, the pond, like the rest of Grounded’s back-yard setting, has entered into a state of neglect. The koi itself isn’t exactly something that glides around a beautiful suburban water feature. “We were like, ‘Yep, that one’s on the list,’ just because we knew, even at that stage, how cool spiders were in the game and how scary they were, and we just wanted to expand on that.” We made a big list of how many creatures could exist in this area, and one of them was the diving-bell spider.” That real-life creature has a remarkable habit of securing air bubbles so that it can breathe while hunting for prey underwater. We were designing and discussing what we could do with this area and make it cool. “The koi pond was designed in November of last year, so that’s how far in advance we were prepping this,” says game director Adam Brennecke. Players who choose to explore the pond’s depths do so at their own peril, thanks to its patrolling koi and, unfortunately, the new diving-bell spider.

Grounded fish update#

Its latest update is the biggest one yet, adding a koi pond and its fearsome fishy resident. Since it hit Xbox Game Preview back in July, the team has added new areas to explore in the backyard, a new zipline travel, and a fearsome encounter against a (comparatively) massive crow.

Obsidian Entertainment has kept its promise so far of using feedback regarding Grounded to make the game a better experience.