Animal Crossing: New horizons - 15 things you need to know

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Nintendo's crazy life simulation series comes to the switch - that's why we are excited.

Although it is a game where it comes to catching insects, talking to animals and repaying house loans - or maybe that's why it's just something irresistible Wildwechsel. It sinks his claws in you and refuses to let go and immerse yourself so thoroughly into what it has to offer that it's hard to think of something else.

Soon it will be like that if animal crossing: new horizonte is started on the switch. And as it was the case with the Switch debuts almost all major Nintendo franchise companies, it looks like this would probably be the best _Wildwechselze.

In this function, in the run-up to the start of the game, we take a look at fifteen important discussion points of the game, which you should know. So let us immerse easily.

FRAME

Wildwechsel, the players always brought in the middle of picturesque small towns, which serve as a backdrop for a peaceful virtual life. This time things are different. In Animal Crossing: New Horizonte with the kind permission of the Nook Inc. Deserted Island Getaway packets you will - you have guessed - visit a lonely island where you live and build your life.

Build your island

Building your life on the island and on the island itself will not be a quick process. When the game starts, the island will be thinly populated and you will barely have more than a tent and camping equipment. Slowly, overtime, you will unlock more things, so that more residents can move into new buildings and structures (like a business and a museum) are opened, existing buildings are improved and much more.

Transform your island

You have much more control over your island and your physical features in neute horizonte than in the past Wildwechsel games. Right at the beginning of the game, four island templates are randomly created, from which you can choose. From there you can choose every time a new resident feeds, where your house is to be built. Further important new features are, for example, the basic terra forming or the possibility to attach roads and paths themselves.

Extension of your house

Of course you will also expand your own house as you do it in everyone Wildwechsel game. As already mentioned, start with a tent, but can finally buy a house. As always, you can always expand this house, add new rooms and increase older ones while repaying loans for each new extension. With a refined new feature, you can control the camera for free while editing things like moving and turning furniture in your home. In the New Horizonte, your house will also come with built-in memory, and as Wildwechsel The players will know that this will be crucial in the course of the game.

HANDCRAFT

One of the biggest new features introduced in Animal crossing: new horizontal tinked. With resources like wood and stones that you find and collect all over the island, you can produce items and items on the craft workbench in Tom Nook's office. From spades to fishing rods and axes to chairs and tables and much more you can do a lot of crafts. In addition, the manufactured material has steps that determine the quality and durability of the object. Therefore, they must constantly work to improve the craft. All this happens by the production of recipes that you can acquire in different ways, e.g. B. by discovering new items on the island or talking to other villagers. Both the recipes and the objects themselves can also be bought directly in business.

NOOK Telephone

Upon arrival on the lonely island, Tom Nook gives you a device that will accompany you throughout the game - the Nook Phone. The phone has different apps, eg. For example, a map of the island or an app to store all craft recipes purchased from you or a camera to record photos that you can then edit with different filters and facial expressions. Nintendo has announced that the game will be added after the start further apps.

Nook Miles

Another thing you can access through your Nook Phone are Nook Miles. What exactly are Nook Miles? You are a kind of optional progress system that can make the normally leisurely display indefinite Wildwechsel experience in a more focused. Essentially, you will receive nook miles for any imaginable activity, of talks with NPCs and finding objects up to the production of new things or the expansion of your house. With Nook Miles, you can then buy tickets for other abandoned islands where you can find unique beetles, flowers, craft materials and more. Nook Miles can also be exchanged against rewards in the game (like Nook Inc. Merch, which can carry your character), while you are also used to repay your first loan at the beginning of the game for the escape pack (though all loans then still with bells paid).

Character adjustment

Like everything else New Horizonte, players also offer the appearance and adaptation of their own characters. While Wildwahl has given the players simply different character templates to choose from the players, New horizontal lets you create your character from scratch. Hairstyles, the color of her eyes, hair and skin, the shape of her nose, eyes and her mouth are options that are customizable. In addition, you can change the gender and appearance of your character at any time.

different other improvements

There are many more detailed improvements in quality of life New Horizonte also makes. For example, you can now set up furniture outdoors, trees can be uprooted and then red planted in different places, and players can jump over rides. The weather mechanics was also adjusted and the game now indicates whether you play on the northern hemisphere or the southern hemisphere. The seasons in the game change themselves based on it.

More improvements

There are many other subtleties. The items in their inventory are now stacked (about damaged time), and they can sell things they want to throw away in the shop against particularly handy bells while they can also be stung by scorpions. After that you need to take medication. Windy weather was also introduced while the youngest direct showed some interesting sights like the night, such as: B. a spirit or northern light.

New and returning signs

A large part of the charm in every wild change game is the anthropomorphic animals that become their virtual neighbors, each with its own bizarre and unique personality. Many new characters are introduced in New Horizonte Of course, but also some older ones will return. Some who have been confirmed are Tom Nook (Of course), Isabella (which will help you expand your house), Mr. Resetti (which will play a different role due to the now automatically stored game), Gulliver, Kicks, WISP, Label, Angus and more.

No sky-saving

The cloud created by Nintendo saves a standard feature in your game with the introduction of Nintendo Switch, but some of your major versions, such as Z Pokémon and SPlatoon 2, do not support this feature. Animal Crossing: New Horizonte. In the meantime, the game allows only one island (or a storage) per switch console, regardless of how many copies of the game or how many different switch accounts you use.

Local Co-op

Online will also be a big deal Animal Crossing: New Horizonte. Local Koop can live up to four players together on an island on a single switch. During the local coop, a player is chosen to lead the group's leader, which means that all other players have to follow. However, the group leader can be changed at any time.

ON-LINE

Online cooop is also supported. When you play online, up to 8 players can be on an island at the same time. When other players come to their island during the online game, all items that allow you to destroy the environment (eg blades or axes) are automatically deactivated. So if you play with ridges, you do not run danger you ruin your island. However, if someone plays on their list of the best friends in the game with them, he can use all desired items.

Post-launch support

In recent years, Nintendo liked to take it to support his games with new updates and content after their publications, and they will do that too Animal Crossing: New Horizonte too. Although they did not go too much detail, they said that they will add seasonal events for free to the game at regular intervals, such as some who coincide with real holidays and festivals.