Hello Riftbreakers!
At the end of the previous month, we officially sent out all the remaining beta invitations to users who signed up via our Google Form. Thank you for being a part of this test! We’d also like to remind you that email isn’t perfect—some invites might have been blocked or lost altogether. If you haven’t received a message with your beta keys, feel free to contact Void at [email protected]. If you were on the original list, we’ll sort it out for you.
We took this opportunity to update our loading screen artworks. Here's the new "unoccupied" Desert art.
Now, let’s move on to this week’s exciting updates!
Earlier this week, we released an update to the Multiplayer Playtest version that includes the Radioactive Desert biome Survival mission. This is a major milestone for the beta test, as all the biomes you know from the single-player modes are now available to play in co-op. It’s no accident that we’re releasing this biome last. Thanks to your help, over the past few months of testing, we’ve managed to find and fix hundreds—if not thousands—of bugs and errors that plagued all the other biomes. The Radioactive Desert is, by comparison, the least complicated one, so we expect smooth sailing with this biome. That doesn’t mean it’s perfect, though—we’re still monitoring your feedback and implementing fixes daily. Keep the reports coming!
Visit the Store Page and click the button to sign up for access!
New Invite Wave – and You Can Invite a Friend!
We also have good news for those who signed up for the playtest via our Steam Store Page. We’ve sent out the first wave of invitations and will keep expanding the player pool over the coming weeks. Thanks to an experimental Steam Playtest feature, you can now invite one of your Steam friends to join the test! They’ll gain permanent access—and so will the person they invite. Over time, we’ll expand the number of invitations available to each player. Thanks to this system, it only takes one person in your group to get access—and from there, everyone can join in. Each invited player can bring in another friend, so it’s easy to assemble a full squad and dive into co-op together. (One small caveat: you have to be friends for at least 30 days before you can send out invites to each other!)
Once you get access to the playtest, you will get notified about this by Steam. Then, you can invite others via the Library Page, just like in the example above. Image courtesy of Valve.
And this is what your friend will see. Image by Valve.
Endgame Story and Voiceovers
Alongside major technical improvements, we’re also making huge progress in terms of game content and design. It’s an exciting time for us—we’re finally filling the game with high-quality assets and seeing it in its full glory after months of placeholder content. This week, we finalized the full list of voice lines for Ashley and Mr. Riggs that will carry the story of the Endgame expansion in Campaign Mode. It looks like the free Expanded Story Campaign will enrich the main campaign with almost as much content as the original main storyline. It might sound like a lot, but these lines bring the expansion’s long-term goals into focus and lead you to the game’s “true” ending. And since we’re talking about voice lines—some of you were concerned that the beta version contained AI-generated dialogue. We use those only for prototyping. Rest assured—these placeholder lines are just a tool. Only the real voices of Francesca Meaux and Ryan Laughton will appear in the final version.
Here's the loading screen you'll see after you have constructed an outpost in the Desert.
Stay Connected!
That’s a wrap on this week’s news! If you have any questions about The Riftbreaker or EXOR Studios, feel free to ask in the comments or join the conversation on our Discord: https://www.discord.gg/exorstudios. You can also catch us live on Twitch—we stream every Tuesday and Thursday at 3 PM CEST at https://www.twitch.tv/exorstudios.
See you there!
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