Atomfall: How Rebellion Created Its Most Accessible Game to Date

Final month, we launched Atomfall, and it shortly grew to become our most profitable launch within the over 30-year historical past of Rebellion. However at present, we wished to shine a light-weight on one thing else we’re happy with – how Atomfall can also be Rebellion’s most accessible title to date.

Atomfall would possibly provide challenges for those who need them, but it surely shouldn’t be tough to bodily play. With that in thoughts, we wish to showcase a number of the standout accessibility options we’ve constructed to assist everybody discover the mysteries of the Quarantine Zone.

We’ve included options throughout motor, imaginative and prescient, audio and cognition, with many turning into accessibility firsts for the studio – together with further audio cues, directional indicators on subtitles, and extra. We hope that the host of options, each in and out of doors of choices, helps welcome extra gamers to the Quarantine Zone.  

Playstyle

We’ve constructed a world stuffed with selection and we wish gamers to give you the option to play their very own means. So, as an alternative of problem, Atomfall offers a selection of Playstyle.

There are 5 preset Playstyles to select from, together with Investigator for these in search of extra survival gameplay, Brawler for a combat-focused expertise, and our default Atomfall expertise in Survivor. Sightseer, alternatively, is a preset which is able to permit extra gamers to discover and benefit from the Quarantine Zone. It lessens fight and survival facets and offers a lift to exploration to enable you to via the expansive Lake District and all its mysteries.

Rebellion is understood for expansive customisation of problem, and this is applicable to Playstyles in Atomfall – every preset could be absolutely tailor-made  to present an expertise that fits you, and it will possibly all be modified at any time throughout your playthrough.

Navigating Leads

An enormous a part of Atomfall is investigation; assembly the survivors on the planet and following leads they offer you. To assist with studying and cognitive load, the Exploration part of Playstyle permits you to allow options like Navigational Hints, Flagged Leads and Waypoint Markers.

We would like the participant to get wrapped up within the completely different threads and discover at their very own tempo with out stress to full the primary story, however we additionally recognise this isn’t for everybody. Turning on the Flagged Leads possibility will spotlight the primary story quests, and Waypoint Markers additionally assists with this, giving the choice of markers on the compass to observe to your goal, in case you take pleasure in that additional degree of steerage.

Lastly, Navigational Hints present brief, clear trace textual content which summarises a lead, decreasing total studying and complexity of language.

Distinction & Textual content Scaling

Atomfall contains choices to enhance the distinction of UI and gameplay parts, in addition to expansive textual content scaling up to 104px at 4K decision, according to Xbox’s Adjustable Textual content Dimension accessibility characteristic tag. These tags have been key for us to find impactful areas to work on for our gamers, in addition to guaranteeing they will seek for the options they want with confidence.

For additional distinction with the UI, Atomfall affords a number of choices for you to change the color of UI parts, just like the crosshair, and a backplates possibility permits you to set the opacity of backplates behind all textual content and UI within the recreation.

For gameplay, you could have choices to activate additional UI for traversal factors, excessive distinction icons for enemy threats, and may set the color of the define of interactive objects within the recreation. There’s additionally an NPC highlights characteristic, which permits you to set a powerful color overlay on all hostile and non-hostile NPCs within the recreation, to give additional visibility for gamers who want it.

Directional Indicators

In addition to full subtitles and a number of customisation choices like subtitle color, speaker identify color, measurement and background, our subtitles in Atomfall embrace an possibility to allow directional and distance indicators. These indicators present an arrow which factors in the direction of the supply of the dialogue and an approximate distance to the supply. It will assist anybody taking part in with diminished audio to find who’s speaking – particularly in fight conditions, the place enemies might shout from behind your character.

Alongside this, gamers can activate the enemy icons possibility to present in-world icons above enemies, to help in finding them visually.

Informative Audio

Atomfall has numerous informative audio by design, akin to distinct audio for pick-ups and distinctive shouts or cues for when an assault is incoming to the participant.

On high of this, Atomfall options further audio cues for in-game interactions and to help with fight. A layered set of options permits gamers to activate snap aiming with cues, to know when they’re snapped on to an enemy; aiming cues, which provide indicators that assist information a participant to their goal utilizing pitch and frequency; and passive NPC sounds, which offer spatialised audio for all NPCs, permitting engagement in melee fight via audio alone.

Controls and Remapping

Atomfall options remapping for each Keyboard and Controller and contains presets for one-handed play, made doable utilizing our automated motion options and adaptive {hardware}.

By default, Atomfall’s management scheme could be set to haven’t any holds utilizing expansive toggle choices, affecting actions like intention, and brief holds for interactions.

All interfaces are additionally absolutely usable with a mouse or via button presses, giving gamers selection to use what’s most comfy for them.

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We’re so happy with what we’ve achieved with Atomfall, and we hope that these options assist extra folks to play and benefit from the recreation. However, with accessibility, we will at all times do extra – in case you have suggestions, please get in contact with us on Twitter @AtomfallGame or via our Help Centre, or be part of the dialog on our Discord.

Atomfall is out now for Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, Home windows PC, and cloud. It’s additionally accessible with Game Cross. And with Xbox Play Wherever, play on Xbox consoles, Home windows PC, and cloud with full cross-entitlements and cross-saves.