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Early access: read what's developers say - scroll down the description page for more information.

Notice: This initial Early Access version of the game only supports 64-bit Operating Systems.

Watcher Pack includes:
Earliest Access to Nether (Closed Beta)
Participation in Forums to Define Upcoming Game Features

Nether is a first-person urban survival gaming experience unlike any other. Nether forces players to make quick life-saving decisions in an unforgiving environment. In this post-apocalyptic urban world, death is waiting around every corner, at the top of high-rise buildings, and in the grasp of powerful teleporting creatures known as Nethers. To navigate this high-tension environment, players must use skill and craft in order to obtain food, weapons, supplies, and other resources necessary to survive in a desolate and dangerous city. Players will need to choose whether or not to team up with others or go at it solo against the Nethers, other players, and unpredictable, treacherous world objectives. In the end, players must decide if they will Prey or Pray.

Features:

1. A vast and vertical urban/city environment, where players can access nearly all of the buildings, including multi-story skyscrapers


2. First-person perspective creates a true survival experience


3. The need to fulfill a world objective, coupled with scarce resources encourages emergent and cooperative gameplay


4. Meld of PvE (player versus environment) and PvP (player versus player)


5. Survival needs, such as hunger and stamina that players will need to maintain to live


6. A variety of dangerous enemies with different skills and behaviors


7. New weapons and items become available as players explore the game world


8. Safe zones that need to be defended from Nethers and where players can purchase, sell, trade and store items


9. Up to 64 players per game server


10. Single purchase, downloadable client allows full game access without subscription

1. Removed bottom 3 character slots in order to greatly speed up player spawn times


2. Added informational message and fix "spinning camera" while waiting to spawn


3. Improved server stability, should no longer crash every few hours


4. Fix some inventory bugs, global/player inventory should now be more reliable


5. Fixed players sometimes having the wrong weapon pose


6. Fixed junk items not appearing in your global inventory at times


7. Add a delay upon logout - player must wait 5 seconds before exiting the game


8. Fixed some bugs and added some better error messages when attempting to run the game without the launcher


9. Server name is now shown above the chat box


10. Moved large message text from center screen to bottom of screen


11. Added better error messages to launcher explaining login issues


12. Fixed some login problems related to nonstandard characters in username/password


13. Fixed some bugs with the chat window disappearing at inappropriate times


14. Fixed some sliding enemy animations


15. Rebalanced level tables to make it slightly harder to reach max level


16. Crawling/proning should no longer allow you to clip the camera through the ground


17. Speed up charge attack for all weapons


18. Added full/empty server filters in the server list


19. Prevent the player from attempting to join full servers by greying out the play button


20. Fixed black screen issues by reloading the server list if joining a server failed


21. Added error messages when failing to join a server


22. Added several additional graphics options to settings screen - AmbientOcclusion, VSync, DynamicLights, DyanmicShadows, Bloom


23. Player position will now be appropriately saved upon logout


24. If player cannot spawn upon logging back in they will automatically be respawned at a known spawnpoint


25. Launcher will no longer improperly report full hard drive


26. Launcher will now automatically run as administrator to prevent issues with downloading


27. Various art fixes for z-fighting


28. Various texture improvements


29. Fixed some floating objects - fences/cars/etc


30. Fixed a bunch of world collision issues

"Nether is officially in early access, and those brave enough can test their skills in this unique, first-person urban survival game where danger lurks around every corner.

With the early access, players will receive a solid, but not yet final version of the game. It will be fun as hell, but don't expect that it will be perfect 100 percent of the time. Since it is early access, Nether is also not ready to be reviewed.

As one of the first players in the game, your feedback will play a vital role in helping us create the best survival gaming experience possible. We'll be regularly updating Nether with new content, fine-tuning game play and adding community-selected features. To make sure changes don’t blindside you, we’ll post what’s new with each update on this page as well as our social media channels.

Don’t be afraid to share your feedback - all of it helps and will only make the game better. You can send your thoughts and ideas to us via social media or on our forums at forums.playnether.com.
Visit the Forums to see the latest roadmap of features which include:

Please visit forums.playnether.com to help us determine what's important to you and to see sneak peaks of our planned features!

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