Archetype Leisure Reveals New Lore Particulars For Coming Sci-Fi RPG Exodus

Exodus is a coming sci-fi RPG from Archetype Leisure, a studio based and operated by a group of trade veterans who’re making an attempt to construct an RPG that offers with time dilation in a manner that’s not been finished earlier than.

We nonetheless don’t know what that’ll immediately appear like precisely, however the studio’s co-founders James Ohlen and Chad Robertson have spoken at size on their dedication to specializing in how gamers decisions affect the story and expertise in Exodus.

Archetype has additionally gone out and grabbed Interstellar star Matthew McConaughey to play a job within the sport, which will likely be his first online game associated performing credit score. That doesn’t imply something concerning how the sport will end up, however one thing about nabbing the actor who starred in a film closely targeted on time dilation simply appears like the fitting transfer, for Exodus.

There’s loads we don’t but learn about Exodus, however Archetype is placing within the work to verify there’s new issues to study concerning the world, even when they aren’t immediately showcasing gameplay. A brand new weblog submit on the official web site for Exodus digs into the lore of the sport that Archetype is constructing, focusing this time on humanity’s best risk within the Centauri Cluster, a race generally known as Celestials.

Celestials have been people at one level, the primary to achieve the Centauri Cluster as soon as humanity started abandoning an Earth that had been pushed handed the purpose the place it may maintain life. These people not bear in mind their origins, and because the weblog places it “have shed the final vestiges of their humanity and advanced into one thing unrecognizable and terrifying.”

The weblog additionally reveals a brand new side to the lore, Silicates, an organism that seems solely to be a gem with no actual significance. For people nevertheless, Silicate’s are an opportunity at combating again in opposition to the Celestials, since Silicate’s bond with human hosts to completely change them in ways in which make them stronger in quite a few methods, and shapes them into one thing new known as a Daemon.

Taking a look at how the weblog describes these Silicates, it very a lot looks like your participant character will be capable to bond with these creatures and develop into a Daemon, with the brand new power granted showing as totally different gameplay mechanics.

That’s only a little bit of hypothesis, however blogs like this really feel primed for teasing gameplay mechanics to return. Hopefully we will start to see extra concrete footage of Exodus to get a greater maintain of what this sport will play like.

Supply – [Archetype Entertainment]