The Riftbreaker News

Hello everyone!

We know how eager you are to play The Riftbreaker. We see your comments everywhere, calling for the game to release already. That’s super awesome because it means that you care about the game. It motivates us to work even harder and to deliver the best product possible. It’s going to take some time, but we can assure you - we’re almost done. In the meantime, we’d like to tell you about some new features that we haven’t shown you before - not to tease you, but to prove that we’re still firing on all cylinders! :)

As you know, in The Riftbreaker you have an entire planet to explore, You will be the first human to discover, research, and catalog the unknown fauna and flora inhabiting this wild world. If you are an explorer at heart, we have no doubts that you will spend some time learning all the Galatean secrets. On the other hand, if wandering about and enjoying the views isn’t your thing, we still have a reason for you to go exploring.

A fountain of loot always brightens up the day.

During your exploration of Galatea 37, you might encounter strange objects with unique properties. Initially, they might look like ordinary rocks, cocoons, or creature nests - but they are far from ordinary. Apart from emitting energy waves, they are covered with an anomalous substance of an unknown origin. Initial scans of the substance revealed that it is actually a living organism, pre-dating anything else on the planet. In fact, the objects under the influence of this organism seem to be frozen in time.

The Guardians range from Ultra-strain creatures to unique, one-off specimens.

The Bioanomalies, as we call them, are great at attracting the attention of Galatean creatures. Before you get close to one of the Bioanomalies you will have to face its guardians. Sometimes that will be a pack of Ultra strain creatures. Ultra strains are bigger than regular enemies, deal more damage, and are much beefier. Meeting those is the best-case scenario for you, though. If you venture far enough into the wild, you will have to face off against unique - much stronger, elemental variants of Galatean creatures. You’ll love them. Or hate them…

You never know what you may find inside.

After you triumph over the guardian, you are finally free to uncover the secrets of the Bioanomaly. The mysterious objects can hold items of great value, that will propel your progress. Most often it’s going to be a fountain of resource shards, ranging from carbonium or ironium to the rarest minerals in the world of Galatea 37. With these newfound riches, you will be able to craft items of immense power and develop new technologies.

What, you thought this cache was unprotected? Think again!

Thanks to the unexplained, strange nature of the Bioanomalies, you can also find other materials inside - including mods, that you can install in your weapons to alter their properties. On top of that, some of the materials that you find will allow you to build new decorations for your Riftbreaker base or alter Mr. Riggs’ appearance.

The Bioanomalies scattered around the map, resource caches hidden underground, and a variety of fauna and flora - they are all there, waiting to be discovered. Exploration pays off on Galatea 37 - make sure to try it out! Also remember to explore our Discord at www.discord.gg/exorstudios and our streams over at www.twitch.tv/exorstudios - you can find some treasures there, too!

Hello!

We are thrilled to announce that EXOR Studios Discord server has been accepted into the United Servers of Discord Alliance! The Alliance is a joint effort from several communities, working together to maximize the enjoyment of our members. It incentivizes active participation within the community and encourages the discovery of new, high-quality servers.



This is all made possible through the use of several bots that help with cross-server communication. Don’t worry though - they are confined to their designated channels and won’t bother you with any pings or DMs unless you specifically ask them to. Let’s have an overview of what this brings to the EXOR Studios server.

First of all, there is the #alliance-chat channel. All messages you send in this channel will be copied and embedded in partnered Discords. This way we can all communicate with each other, without server-hopping and completely seamlessly, all thanks to the Alliance Chat Bot. A team of moderators monitors the chat to make sure that everyone follows the Code of Conduct (available on EXOR Discord in the #important-stuff channel).

Next, we have the #alliance-trivia channel. Every 8 hours, at 12 AM, 8 AM and 4 PM UTC the bot will pick another member of the Alliance for us to go against in a battle of trivia. Everyone can participate! The team that reaches 25 points the quickest wins. It’s a great way to show off your knowledge, learn something new and win bragging rights (and perhaps some other prizes as well).

Then, we come to the real star of the show: #alliance-events channel. This is where you will get the chance to participate in both EXOR Studios and other Alliance members’ events. These events are an opportunity for you to get to know people from other servers a little better PLUS win some amazing prizes, such as Discord Nitro subscriptions and Steam game codes.

As we move forward, we will come up with more ways for you to find new communities and take part in exciting events. We hope that by joining the Alliance we will improve our Discord even more and provide you with even more entertainment and networking opportunities.

TL;DR - Join us at www.discord.gg/exorstudios - it’s more fun than ever!

Hello Riftbreakers!

We have an exciting new video for you today. It is an overview of the Campaign Mode that you will get to experience in The Riftbreaker. We did our best to give an impression of what the campaign flow is like, its structure, and the scope that you can expect from it. Give the video a watch, it’s spoiler-free!

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TL;DW:

• The main mission in the campaign is to open up a portal back to Earth. In order to do so, you must construct a Rift Station and its additional components.
  
• The components of the Rift Station require rare resources
  
• Rare resources are located all over Galatea 37
  
• You will explore and gather required resources in various biomes, where you can set up additional mining outposts
  
• All bases that you build during one playthrough stay there and keep working as long as they can
  
• You choose the order in which you do things
  
• Maps are randomized, no two playthroughs are the same
  

So, how do you like it? Have you got any more questions? Let us know in the comments or join our Discord at www.discord.gg/exorstudios and ask us directly.

EXOR Studios

Hi everyone!

Today we’d like to take a look at the weapon modding system in The Riftbreaker. It’s a feature that allows you to customize your crafted weapons with various pieces of alien materials that affect the combat properties of your precious toys. Mods can turn the tide of battle by giving your weapons crazy additional stats and abilities. Let’s have a look at how they work, what they require, and where to find them.

A right combination of mods can turn a pretty straightforward minigun into homing chaos machine of doom MK 2.000.000.

As you know, you can craft weapons in The Riftbreaker in four different quality levels. Apart from the base stats, they differ in the number of available mod slots that come with them. The most basic weapons offer no room for modifications, but you gain one with each quality level. In total, you can have up to 3 mod slots in your ‘extreme’ quality weapons. The same is true for defensive towers. You can install mods in them as well. The only difference is that they come in 3 levels, so mods slots are there from the get-go.

When you finally get a weapon with mod slots, it’s time to start looking for something to put into them. Mods can be found by defeating Galatean creatures, investigating objectives, or loot containers. The higher your knowledge about the planet’s creatures, also known as ‘familiarity level’, the better your chance to get a great mod drop. You can increase your familiarity level by either killing or scanning the wildlife and gathering samples.

Flamethrower lacking range? We can fix that, too!

There are three main categories of mods that you can find. The first of them is Damage Increase mods. They come in a couple of forms. They can for example boost your critical hit chance (critical hits deal twice as much damage as the regular ones), or add damage over time effects (often with elemental effects, such as acid or fire damage added on top). And then, there is also the good, old +X% damage mod, that can also come with the added benefit of elemental effects. Easy enough.

Things get more interesting in the second category - weapon properties. These affect the way your weapon handles. They can either increase your weapon range, decrease the ammo cost for each shot, change the bullet spread… There are many possibilities. However, the ones we like the most are “increase projectiles per shot” and “increase projectiles per burst”. The first one will fire more projectiles every time you pull the trigger, and the second will fire an additional salvo with each click. Combine them and you may get interesting results.

Today, dear Riftbreakers, we learn the true meaning of 'excessive force'.

The last category is projectile properties. This is where you can turn your bullets, or rockets, or plasma bolts, whatever you like into auto-aiming, homing harbingers of doom. If that’s not enough, you can also grant your projectiles the ability to pierce through targets, explode in a larger radius, or even spread into additional projectiles on impact! You will surely find a combination that suits your needs.

Not all mods fit every weapon, though. Decreasing spread on a flamethrower or giving the railgun even more piercing properties wouldn’t make much sense. For that reason, we hide all the mods that are not available to use with your current weapon. However, you can always browse through the list of all the cool stuff you’ve collected through your inventory screen.

Pay attention to hidden treasures on Galatea 37. You can find lots of goodies in them!

You can already check the mods out in the Prologue, and if you’d like to play with them some more, then join our Discord to get opportunities for Beta access - www.discord.gg/exorstudios. See you there!

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