Hello everybody, I’m Mild Zhong, co-founder and director at Hypergraph. With Arknights: Endfield launching on January 22 on PS5, right now we’re excited to share extra gameplay particulars on the sport.
Over the previous few years, our staff has been working to create a brand new sort of expertise set within the Arknights universe, one which blends real-time squad fight, exploration, and large-scale industrial techniques 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 struggle 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 tackle the function of the Endministrator, tasked with main Operators to guard, increase, 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 traces and industrial amenities rise alongside your rising foothold on the planet.
Strategic motion fight with real-time choices
At its core, Arknights: Endfield is an anime-style motion RPG constructed round extremely strategic, real-time fight. Battles characteristic as much as 4 Operators combating 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 injury 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 injury. That’s your opening to set off a robust Execution, dealing heavy injury and recovering extra SP.
SP fuels every Operator’s abilities, which carry distinctive results and tactical roles. Cost up your final talents for game-changing moments, and below the best situations, operators can chain their talents collectively to set off combo abilities 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. One among Endfield’s defining options is the Automated Business Advanced (AIC) System, which connects straight to almost each facet of gameplay.
Utilizing a variety of amenities, you’ll design and handle automated manufacturing traces that generate gear, medical provides, and different important assets. These techniques don’t simply assist character progress, they have an effect on the way you discover areas, handle assets, and method 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 whole manufacturing traces with a single motion. You possibly can even save your personal layouts and share them with different gamers.
As your industrial zones increase, effectivity improves and commerce routes emerge, with totally different areas specializing in distinct merchandise, making the place and the way you construct simply as necessary 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 perimeters 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 stories of Bonekrushers showing close by.
That convergence is not 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 might 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 facet, and the alternatives you make will form what comes subsequent. Tangtang will play a key function on this unfolding chapter, and her path alongside yours is barely simply starting.
Designed for PS5
On PS5, Arknights: Endfield totally 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 convey Talos-II’s environments to life, and Actions integration for the primary story that can assist you leap again into key moments shortly.
Start your journey
Arknights: Endfield launches January 22 on PS5. If you happen to’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.
