Hello Riftbreakers!
Three months ago, we announced our modding competition. Our goal was to popularize modding in our game and showcase it as a great platform for user-generated content creation. Both experienced modders and newcomers to the modding scene took part and sent in their best work to compete for high-end PC hardware, as well as eternal fame and glory.
Today, we celebrate the best of the best. We have hand-picked the mods that impressed us the most in both categories of the competition. We have written short descriptions of these mods, including the reasons why we decided to nominate these entries. You can check them out by following the provided links or installing them from The Riftbreaker’s integrated Mod menu. Your choices will determine the final results of this competition.
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Let's remind ourselves what our contestants are fighting for:
The 1st prize winner in each category will receive a custom-made gaming PC with The Riftbreaker artwork printed on the case.
The 2nd prize winner in each category takes home an AMD Radeon 6800XT GPU.
The runner-up each category receives a Mr. Riggs plushie and a bag of EXOR Studios gadgets.
First, let’s discuss the nominees in the Custom Map category. The entries are presented in the order in which we received these entries.
MegaPack by Frognik
MegaPack is a collection of custom-made missions that push the boundaries of what we thought was possible in The Riftbreaker. In some of them you are going to navigate complex mazes and fight against the ever-growing presence of enemy nests and colonies of acidic yeast. In others, you will enter arenas where you can test your mettle against never-ending waves of enemy creatures. However, two of the custom missions available in this pack deserve special recognition. The first one is Command Override - where you have to take back control of a Riftbreaker base gone rogue, turning the entire premise of the game upside-down. The other is GridLocked, which takes the previously turned upside-down premise of the game and throws it out of the window, turning The Riftbreaker into a Zelda-esque roguelike. We were amazed by the creativity and ingenuity of these missions, often asking ourselves ‘How on Earth is that even possible?’
Get the MegaPack here:
https://mod.io/g/riftbreaker/m/megapack1
akee's Corrosive by akee3
Corrosive is a bundle of sixteen custom-made tiles for the Acidic Plains biome. It doesn’t seem like much at first glance, but you couldn’t be more wrong about that. akee3 has meticulously handcrafted these tiles to make the best use of the Acidic Plains biome assets to breathe new life into it. Apart from gameplay-centric, plains-type biomes where you can set up your base there are also a number of special landmarks. Akee3 even created an artificial waterfall, something that was never seen before anywhere in the Riftbreaker. The sixteen new tiles mix very well with the original set, bringing much more variety and replayability to the new Survival runs in this biome.
Get Corrosive here:
https://mod.io/g/riftbreaker/m/corrosive-acid-biome-tiles
Arctic Map by molch1
Arctic Map takes advantage of The Riftbreaker’s map generation system to provide you with a new level layout every time you launch a Survival run. This means that no two games played on this map will ever be the same. Molch created a bunch of custom tiles, each featuring something special that separates this map from the ‘natural’ formations found in other Galatean biomes. The Arctic Map is a masterclass in utilizing already existing props in new and unconventional ways. Molch combined assets from the vanilla version of The Riftbreaker into awesome, atmosphere-building contraptions. Not to spoil too much, you will find evidence of yet another alien civilization taking interest in Galatea and its inhabitants. The equipment they left behind is still operational - take a walk around the map yourself and try to see what secrets you may uncover.
Get Arctic Map here:
https://mod.io/g/riftbreaker/m/arctic-map
And now for the Game Modification category. Again, the entries are presented in the order in which we received these submissions.
Galatea Challenger by Likewise_HH
Have you ever felt that The Riftbreaker is way too easy? Would you like to be punished for losing buildings to wildlife attacks? Do you feel the compulsive need to clear the entire map of any alien presence? This mod is for you. Likewise_HH has created the ultimate challenge mode that turns regular survival mode into a never-ending battle against angry Galatean creatures. Attacks come every minute or two and building anything in close proximity of enemies triggers an attack from the nearby creatures. On top of that, creatures spawn whenever a building is destroyed, which snowballs out of control really quickly. To compensate for that, Likewise_HH gives the player a bunch of boosts when it comes to research speed, material storage, and resource collection. If that sounds like a challenge you want to take up, look no further.
Get Galatea Challenger here:
https://mod.io/g/riftbreaker/m/galatea-challenger
Distributed Force: Energy Walls by Piisfun
This mod changes the way our Energy Walls work. Eighty percent of the wall HP has been replaced with a regenerating shield. This means that unless your walls get badly damaged during an attack, you won’t have to repair them, as they should automatically replenish the shields they lost. However, you need to keep your walls supplied with power at all times, and that cost grows very quickly when you consider how many walls you actually have to build in order to properly secure your base. It also leads to interesting problems, as disconnecting a portion of the wall from power will lead to paper-thin defenses. This is a very subtle mod, but it introduces very interesting dynamic to your base defense and we highly recommend chacking it out.
Get Distributed Force here:
https://mod.io/g/riftbreaker/m/distributed-force-energy-walls
Expanded Arsenal by WirawanMYT
WirawanMYT felt that Ashley and Mr. Riggs deserved an upgrade when it came to their defensive tower range. By mixing and matching existing weapons and ammo types, he created a truly impressive arsenal of towers. What is more, he did not stop at simply making them functional - WirawanMYT actually edited the textures and effects as well in order to give them a distinct feel. However, he did not stop there. The mod also adds a ton of new resources, buildings that extract and utilize them, as well as modifications to the existing game systems to support this much more complex economy. On top of that, there are new creature strains, much more powerful than anything you’ve seen before that will test your mastery of this massive mod.
Get Expanded Arsenal here:
https://mod.io/g/riftbreaker/m/expanded-arsenal
We highly encourage you to check out these mods for yourself to form your opinion. Then, follow this link and decide which mod seems the best to you in each category.
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The winners will be announced on June 30th!
EXOR Studios