In a new interview with German YouTube channel ‘Rocket Beans TV’, Piranha Bytes revealed some new information about its new open world action RPG, ELEX. ELEX will be a third person RPG in a post apocalyptic world where people have different levels of technology. The game is inspired by Star Wars, will let players use a jetback, and targets a Q4 2016 release. You can view all the new information below (thanks NeoGAF for the translation).
- In development since ~ 1,5 years
- Third-person RPG like Risen or Gothic
- Post apocalyptic, people having different levels of technology ( a bit like Horizon)
- Enemies won’t level with you
- One big continent instead of Islands like in Risen
- Going to have of different regions (desert, woods, ice and swamp mentioned)
- Player is going to have a Jetpack!
- Every player starts at the same place (in Risen apparently players could start at different Islands, didn’t played the Risen games so I can’t comment on that)
- Elex is a Substance from space and came to the world because of a meteorite
- Game plays hundreds of years after crash
- Elex changed fauna and flora
- By consuming Elex you get stronger and Magic abilities, But you “degenerate” and Loose Emotion, acting more like machine (acting based on logic, not emotions) than a human being. Elex consumers also have different skin color (white/gray)
- Wrong usage can result into mutations
- Thats why Moral System is not simply about whether you are good or bad, instead it’s about whether you are a human or more like machine. Beeing more like machine isn’t necessary a bad and being human a good thing
- In the word of the game Elex is a wanted resource, you consume it or put in machines ( eg. Jetpack) the Some guild can use it without the side effect and calls it Mana. Elex is essential and you have to youse it in some way
- Is inspired by Star Wars (by having Fantasy and Sci Fi Elements)
- Player was someone who heavily consumed Elex, was a commander in a military Group which are Elex users. before the game starts his glider got shots and he lies some were for three weeks, so without Elex he is more human again when the game starts. For the first time he feels Emotions and sees the world different, similar to the Movie Equilibrium
- Normal people don’t like him because he fought against them when he was part of the military group, but he also have problems to connect with his old group
- Learning point system is back, which is the system they used in Gothic 1-3 and risen 1
- Factions will again be very important, and like in gothic 1, they are hostile/unfriendly with each other, they mentioned two of three:
clerics: high tech religious group but refuse to use elex
outlaws: mad max like bandits, use cannons and chainswords etc.- It will have romancable NPCs
- Player will have a base
- Many killable NPCs and stealing and killing pas permanent consequences, as in hostile NPCs (this was one of risen 3s bigger flaws)
- Target Q4 2016 PC/Xbox One/PS4
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Hopefully the game won’t rely on the hud and we can navigate without them like the first risen and the gothic games. Can’t say anything on the game currently cause it reads like concept pitching than a game in development.
I didn’t like any of Risen’s combat. They were atrocious. If they don’t polish the combat, to let’s say like that of W3, this will be a hard sell.
Nah, Risen 3 combat was good if you knew how to do it properly.
Was that the one where you’re a pirate ? that was clunky at best. It didn’t even have a roll. They only patched it afterwards.
Risen 3 does have a roll, Risen 2 had the worse combat but they patched it and made it better.
and ofcourse get rid of he stupid idea of paying trainers to level you up.
Well, at least Risen doesn’t show you or make you look for gear you can’t use, The Witcher 3 is terrible at that. Risen has a lot better system and doesn’t limit you to levelling. Basically, with Risen, if you have the money and experience you can learn any skill or buy an item, that’s what’s so good about it’s system. Finding Witcher gear at level 8 and not being about to use it till level 24 is silly.
Also the loot carrying system in TW3 is frustrating, it gives you limited carry weight for so much to carry and it’s all upgraded via the horse. Risen like Gothic doesn’t have a carry limitation, the disjointed one in TW3 is silly.
i have not played witcher 3, or finished witcher 2 for that matter.
Reason? i found wither 2 borring and new vegas.
Risen 1 and 3’s combat BLOWS away W3’s awful combat system.
Looking forward to see what PB bring us next.
There is literally nobody left in PB from the creators of Gothic. Michael Hoge left the studio after Risen 2.
Good news though, they started a new studio Piranha Bytes Red, and they already developing a new project called Spacetime.
I will be honest gothic was very imrpessive, gothic 2 was less, gothic 3 was meh, risen was a gothic 1 remake but nowhere near as good, risen 2 was a pirate themed risen 1, most of the pirate stuff felt like a skin, rather gameplay mechanics. You got islands because the game needed to be dumbed down with less high level enemies roaming around and less map to render. The ship wasnt part of the game, you mostly did anything by yourself while your mateys sit at the corner. Objects and items like guns were mostly cosmetic and risen 3 was a expansion or standalone dlc at best.
I am glad to see this is sci fi, i will more glad if they DONT recycle gothic again, like same combat system, same upgrade system such as pay trainers and same ideas. Make a new game.
The developers of gothic are no longer in that studio.
GOOD
After the obvious decline Risen was to the Gothic series it’s very hard to believe these guys. I REALLY like what they’re saying but I’m not jumping on the hype train.
Maybe Piranha Bytes Red will make something better.
I guess im the only one who deosn’t see the appeal to jetpacks, I just don’t get it, it’s a huge turn off for me.