The Riftbreaker News

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For the past couple of months, we have been streaming The Riftbreaker in Survival Mode. The goal of each Survival Mode session is to survive a set amount of time on a randomized map. You have to search for basic resources, scavenge rare minerals and build up your base from scratch while defeating wave after wave of hostile creatures. There is always plenty of things to do around the base but in order to make things even more interesting, we have started experimenting with random encounters. Let’s talk about the first of them - Canoptrix Nest.

The Nest is not something that you want to see on your path...

First of all - what is a Canoptrix? Well, it is the smallest and by far the most common Galatean creature you can currently see in The Riftbreaker. We have shown it to you before, but here’s a TL;DR for those who might have missed it: it is a relatively small omnivore. Canoptrix live in packs and aren’t usually aggressive until attacked. When provoked, they attack using their sharp claws and teeth. You can see them scattered across the whole planet and emerge from massive nests.



The nests seem to appear out of nowhere once in a while. Every time it happens, the Canoptrix population skyrockets and the animals become very aggressive. Drawn to energy emissions, they will try to destroy the Riftbreaker’s base at all costs. Not much is known about the nest itself - Ashley will have to do a lot of research to discover its true nature. For now, it seems that the nest is a living organism. Canoptrix seem to be either the spawn of this strange thing or to live in symbiosis with it.

Swarms like these will come at you all the time if the nest is on the map. Make sure you have enough fuel for the flamer.

The Canoptrix Nest has a chance to appear at a random time during the Survival Mode run in The Rifbreaker. When it happens, the base will get swarmed with Canoptrix time and again. The only way to stop the constant stream of attacks is to go out into the wild and destroy the Nest itself. The player is rewarded for doing that with a lot of rare minerals and research samples.

Chop it down ASAP!

This side mission is just one of the ideas we have to get the player to leave the safety of the base and to explore the randomized map. The events and their impact on gameplay will vary, and we will tell you about one more such encounter later this week. Do you have any ideas for Survival side missions? Let us know here and on our Discord - www.discord.gg/exorstudios. We are always on the lookout for new sources of inspiration.

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Our stream from the latest stable build of The Riftbreaker is live. It's the best chance to see some unedited footage from the game and chat with the developers (and also mess with them by sending some natural disasters their way thanks to the interactive stream events).



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As you might have noticed during our streams (every Tuesday and Thursday at 3 PM CET) we have added the loot system to The Riftbreaker some time ago. Killing enemies and destroying objects in the environment has a chance to spawn objects that can be picked up by Mr. Riggs. The objects range from basic resources, carbonium and iron, to rare minerals and alien specimens. All these items can help Ashley immensely during her adventure on Galatea 37.

The amount of loot after the battle is huge. Mr. Riggs will have plenty of sorting to do.

One of the aspects of hack’n’slash games we want to give you in The Riftbreaker is the variety of available weapons and other equipment. The way we are implementing it in our game is through the crafting system. You will collect loot, research equipment blueprints and then craft the item by using the resources you found during your adventure. We chose this approach because it wouldn’t make much sense if aliens dropped human weapons upon death. This way of handling the item progression is much more natural.

Crafting items on your own is also interesting for one more reason - the properties of the item you’ve just crafted will be different each time. The differences in stats are meant to encourage you to try crafting items multiple times, just to see what the results might be. Although we have not implemented this functionality just yet, we can’t wait to see what happens when we finally get the chance to do it.

A newly-crafted item can completely change the outcome of the fight.

Randomized stats is a feature that we are excited for, but will require quite some time in development. We wouldn't want anyone to end up in the situation when a player loses the game just due to RNG. We are working hard on improving The Riftbreaker every day. If you want to be a part of it, make sure to join our streams and our Discord server at www.discord.gg/exorstudios

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Ashley and Mr. Riggs arrive on Galatea 37 with a very limited amount of resources and just a few basic blueprints. While it is enough to lay the foundation of their first base, it does not put them much closer to achieving their ultimate goal - opening a two-way portal back to Earth. In order to do that, they will have to obtain plans for more advanced structures and items. Luckily, hundreds of years into the future the Internet is still a thing! The Riftbreakers can download additional blueprints directly from the database on Earth. Downloading new technologies will be one of your main objectives in The Riftbreaker.

The model for the Communications Hub.

The possibility to download new blueprints is unlocked after building a Communication Hub in the base. This building is equipped with the quantum entanglement data transfer devices necessary to make contact with Earth. It is a very complex operation. The hub itself requires a significant amount of resources for construction, and keeping it operational will stretch out your energy reserves. In exchange, it will provide you with the bandwidth needed to obtain new blueprints. Building more Communication Hubs speeds the process up - two receivers are always better than one.

If you decide to set up a second Hub, make sure to have sufficient power reserves.

Downloading blueprints is not the only way to explore new technologies and expand your research tree. While exploring Galatea 37 you will often come across alien specimens that can be researched in the Laboratory. It is a building that you haven’t had the chance to see during our streams just yet (they happen every Tuesday and Thursday, by the way). Once you collect enough specimens of one kind you can start an analysis in the Lab. We won't tell you what kind of knowledge you'll be able to gain from doing so. Let it be our little secret for now.

The world premiere of the Laboratory!

The research tree is still expanding and anything you see in our streams or in the news can (and probably will) change before the game is released. The best part is that you can influence what happens! Share your feedback, ideas, and requests, here, during our streams, and on our Discord server - www.discord.gg/exorstudios - we analyze all the messages you send us.

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