Hello everybody, I’m Mild Zhong, co-founder and director at Hypergraph. With Arknights: Endfield launching on January 22 on PS5, as we speak we’re excited to share extra gameplay details on the sport.
Over the previous few years, our workforce has been working to create a new sort of expertise set within the Arknights universe, one which blends real-time squad fight, exploration, and large-scale industrial methods right into a single, interconnected journey, the place each determination you make helps form humanity’s subsequent frontier.
Welcome to Talos-II
Talos-II is a world of hanging magnificence and fixed hazard. Greater than 150 years in the past, pioneers endured warfare and disaster to carve out the primary “civilized zones.” However past these borders lies an unlimited, untamed wilderness, unexplored, unclaimed, and full of lingering threats from the previous and new risks but to emerge.
In Endfield, you’re taking on the position of the Endministrator, tasked with main Operators to guard, broaden, and redefine the boundary of civilization. Exploration and growth go hand in hand right here. As Oripathy engines roar to life throughout the wasteland, automated manufacturing strains and industrial amenities rise alongside your rising foothold on the planet.
Strategic motion fight with real-time selections
At its core, Arknights: Endfield is an anime-style motion RPG constructed round extremely strategic, real-time fight. Battles function as much as 4 Operators preventing concurrently, with gamers freely switching management between them at any second.
Fight flows via a layered system of actions. String collectively primary assaults to transition into strikes, which deal stagger harm whereas restoring SP. As soon as an enemy’s stagger bar is maxed out, they enter a staggered state, turning into weak and taking elevated harm. That’s your opening to set off a strong Execution, dealing heavy harm and recovering extra SP.
SP fuels every Operator’s expertise, which carry distinctive results and tactical roles. Cost up your final talents for game-changing moments, and underneath the best circumstances, operators can chain their talents collectively to set off combo expertise that reward cautious positioning and timing. The result’s fight that’s quick, expressive, and deeply tactical, designed to reward considerate play reasonably than easy reflexes.
Constructing the spine of civilization
Fight is barely a part of the journey. Considered one of Endfield’s defining options is the Automated Trade Complicated (AIC) System, which connects immediately to just about each facet of gameplay.
Utilizing a variety of amenities, you’ll design and handle automated manufacturing strains that generate tools, medical provides, and different important assets. These methods don’t simply assist character progress, they have an effect on the way you discover areas, handle assets, and strategy fight challenges.
To maintain the expertise accessible, Endfield introduces the Blueprint system. As soon as unlocked, blueprints allow you to immediately construct, copy, relocate, or dismantle complete manufacturing strains with a single motion. You may even save your personal layouts and share them with different gamers.
As your industrial zones broaden, effectivity improves and commerce routes emerge, with completely different areas specializing in distinct merchandise, making the place and the way you construct simply as vital as what you produce.
The story continues
As you look past launch, the story of Talos-II is barely simply starting to unfold. The occasions in Valley IV are a warning that one thing has began to stir alongside the sides of the civilized ring. Earlier than the complete scale of the Corrosion reveals itself, you’ll be drawn to Qingbo Stockade on the outskirts of Wuling. A sudden lack of contact with Supreme Chief Tangtang, whom you already met and befriended earlier than, coincides with reviews of Bonekrushers showing close by.
That convergence isn’t any accident. As you step into Qingbo Stockade to uncover the reality, it turns into clear that the hazard runs deeper than anticipated and that Wuling itself could not stay untouched by the approaching Blight Tide. From right here, the journey opens up. New areas will reveal themselves, new companions will stand by your aspect, and the alternatives you make will form what comes subsequent. Tangtang will play a key position on this unfolding chapter, and her path alongside yours is barely simply starting.
Designed for PS5
On PS5, Arknights: Endfield absolutely helps the DualSense controller, together with haptic suggestions, adaptive triggers, the built-in speaker, and light-weight bar results. The sport additionally options 3D Audio assist, serving to carry Talos-II’s environments to life, and Actions integration for the principle story that will help you bounce again into key moments shortly.
Start your journey
Arknights: Endfield launches January 22 on PS5. For those who’re able to step onto Talos-II and assist outline the way forward for civilization. We are able to’t wait to see what sort of frontier you construct.