The Riftbreaker: Prologue — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Prologue Update 2025: Co-Op Mode | 2025-08-01 | Hello everyone! We have just released a massive update for The Riftbreaker: Prologue. The new version has been created with all the changes and improvements from the full version of the game - and more! The Prologue now supports Co-Op Multiplayer mode, coming to The Riftbreaker in the 2.0 update! You can now complete the Prologue mission in a group of up to four players. Each of you will control your own mech and have the full freedom to do whatever you like. Build, explore, gather resources, and fight the enemy hordes together. Our in-game server list and friend invite system make it easy to find someone to play with. Since the last update o |
| Prologue Maintenance Update, September 2023 | 2023-09-20 | Hello everyone! We have just released an update for The Riftbreaker: Prologue. The latest version features dozens, if not hundreds, of bug fixes, gameplay improvements, as well as upgraded graphics. The Prologue version of the game is now on par with the full version of the game when it comes to features and code base. Since the last update of the Prologue, we have made considerable progress in several areas of the game. The most noticeable change is the addition of Volumetric Lighting effects. Thanks to this technique, you can enjoy the improved fog and light scattering effects that greatly benefit the atmosphere of Galatea 37. The new versi |
| Maintenance Update, February 9th, 2022 | 2022-02-09 | Hello everyone! We would like to let you know that The Riftbreaker: Prologue has been updated with all the latest features and improvements from the full version of the game. The Prologue is now on par with the full version of the game from a technical point of view. For the past couple of months, we have been focused on introducing changes and fixing issues that players have been reporting to us in order to make The Riftbreaker gameplay as smooth as possible. The vast majority of the most requested features and bug fixes have already made their way into the game. As our focus shifts to bringing World Expansion I and the online co-op to life, |
| Design a Weapon - Vote Now! | 2022-01-19 | Hello everyone! https://media.giphy.com/media/pEvQIpBILSB47y59nQ/giphy.gif Thank you for the huge number of replies to our weapon design contest! You showed a lot of creativity trying to fill in the blanks in Mr. Riggs’ arsenal. It was extremely difficult for us to pick and choose the best designs. However, some ideas seemed to garner a lot more interest and cropped up more than once, so we decided to shortlist these ones as our candidates. https://media.giphy.com/media/TPbBHYqzK7CfEg0jfe/giphy.gif Our chosen designs, in no particular order, are: DESIGN 1: Totally-Not-BFG - suggested by: Dragonkat, Genjator The first among the fan-favorites i |
| Alien Weapon Technology | 2022-01-14 | Hello Riftbreakers! In The Riftbreaker, your job is to explore and gain knowledge about Galatea 37, an entirely unknown planet in the far reaches of the Milky Way galaxy. While doing your research, you will discover a lot of new substances and chemical processes that were previously unheard of. This, in turn, will allow you to push the boundaries of engineering and construct new tools, upgrades, and, of course, weapons. Today we will take a look at two such toys that might prove useful during your mission to Galatea 37. https://media.giphy.com/media/KB1HFdWKl1dG509L9T/giphy-downsized-large.gif?cid=790b76110fe17c628c2514f88c4a18d2a2377597aa8d2 |
| Design a Riftbreaker Weapon! | 2022-01-12 | Hello everyone! Long time no see! https://media.giphy.com/media/mHaQ7laJMKv6SItazc/giphy.gif With the holiday season finished we are officially back to work in (almost) full force. As we continue our work towards the next item on our roadmap - world expansion number one - we are going to present you with regular updates and ask for your feedback along the way! We can’t overstate how big of a role you - our community - have played over the course of The Riftbreaker’s development. Thousands of hours put into the Prologue and Closed Beta, pages upon pages of Discord messages, and all the reports that you have sent our way through all the other c |
| Soundtrack is up on YouTube | 2021-11-03 | Hello Riftbreakers! To have a little break from patch notes (which are still coming this week), we have something a little bit different for you today. We have uploaded the entire soundtrack from The Riftbreaker to YouTube for your listening pleasure. The soundtrack features 14 atmospheric compositions, written and performed by Marcin Pukaluk. They are quite a bit different from the music you hear in the game, as they all have been remade and mastered with standalone listening in mind (in other words, separately from the game). Marcin decided to reimagine these tracks because the music in the game required him to stay within some limits. For |
| 200 000 Riftbreakers and counting... | 2021-10-21 | Hello Riftbreakers! The week from releasing The Riftbreaker has been a ground breaking and humbling experience for our small studio. More than two hundred thousand Riftbreakers decided to purchase the game and jump through the portal to Galatea 37. Thank you for supporting us! This number has by far surpassed our expectations and will allow us to continue supporting and expanding the game with new features and content. The feedback that we've been receiving from all of you has been incredible and will help us shape the game for the better during the weeks and months to come. We are currently working hard to address all of the issues that are |
| The Riftbreaker is Available Now! | 2021-10-14 | Hello Riftbreakers! The wait is over. The Riftbreaker is now available! After almost 4 years of development, we are finally able to share the 1.0 version of The Riftbreaker with you. Thank you for the support and patience that you have given us during this process. Your feedback has changed the game for the better, and the countless hours you spent playtesting the Beta have allowed us to eliminate thousands of potential issues. If you would like to learn all about what The Riftbreaker features are, we prepared a launch video that walks through what you can see in the game. You can view it here: If you can’t watch the video right now, here’s a |
| Win an AMD Radeon™ RX 6800XT! | 2021-10-11 | Hello Riftbreakers! As we promised, we have a couple of awesome things prepared for you for launch and here's the first one of them: during our stream on October 14th, starting at 3 PM CEST we will be giving away a Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon 6800XT GPU! Thanks to our partnership with AMD we will be able to give a rig upgrade to one lucky fan. It will for sure allow them to run the Riftbreaker with all the bells and whistles! With 16GB of RAM and support for DirectX 12 Ultimate features, such as ray-tracing, variable rate shading and many more, this GPU will handle whatever you throw at it. Additionally, we will be giving away a couple of copie |
| The Riftbreaker Beta Update Changelog October 11th 2021 | 2021-10-11 | Hello Riftbreakers! It's release week! Only 3 more days until the Rift to Galatea 37 will break open and your wait will be over. We hope you are just excited as we are! Today we are publishing the last pre-release update to The Riftbreaker: Prologue and The Riftbreaker Beta. The Prologue version will continue receiving updates after the full game is released. The Beta version, however, will be deactivated in 3 days. We would like to thank you all for helping us improve The Riftbreaker. Your ideas and feedback changed many things for better. We hope the final product will meet your expectations and that you will stick around to see what the fu |
| Beta Update - 29/09/2021 | 2021-09-29 | Hello Riftbreakers! We have just pushed a patch to the experimental branch of The Riftbreaker Beta. As usual, it contains lots of small fixes and optimizations, as well as a couple of bigger ones. You can read all about them in the changelog below. The patch will first be available on the experimental branch. In order to access it, you have to right-click The Riftbreaker in your Steam Library, select 'Properties', 'Betas' and then choose 'experimental' from the drop-down menu. If everything goes according to our plan, we are going to push this package to the default branch a couple of days later. Here are the contents of the patch: The Riftbr |
| Researching the Galatean ecosystem | 2021-09-24 | Hello Riftbreakers! Last week we told you about one of the aspects of The Riftbreaker Campaign Mode - Planetary Exploration. During those events, you will make your first contact with the new biomes and take your first steps into familiarizing yourself with the conditions you will have to endure. Today, we will look at the more scientific part of Ashley’s work on Galatea - sampling and analyzing alien species and phenomena. While exploring new biomes, plenty of things will catch Ashley’s attention. Among them, you will find new alien species, extraordinary crystal formations, as well as other never-seen-before anomalies. Ashley’s scientific s |
| Exploring Galatea 37 - The Riftbreaker's Campaign | 2021-09-15 | Hello Riftbreakers! https://media.giphy.com/media/qv1ikO2xysFcBsfZ1p/giphy-downsized-large.gif?cid=790b7611d21a506fc93729b203e91a601496c935ca3079d9&rid=giphy-downsized-large.gif&ct=g With the release of The Riftbreaker just around the corner (October 14th, for those of you who missed it), it is high time we finally let you know some more details about the Campaign Mode. Don't worry, though - we won't spoil anything so that you can explore and discover the game's secrets on your own. Today, we're going to tell you about one of the aspects of Campaign Mode - planetary exploration. https://media.giphy.com/media/xaZtMiGsbnfFFxaxXp/giphy-downsized |
| We're launching on October 14th! | 2021-09-08 | Hello Riftbreakers! We are beyond excited to tell you that The Riftbreaker will be released on the 14th of October 2021! The game will be available for a base price of $29.99 and localized into ten languages. We can't even begin to tell you how excited we are to reach this milestone. Only five weeks from now, you will be able to begin your exploration of Galatea 37 in the Campaign Mode, test your skills in the ever-changing Survival, or simply test the limits of the game and your creativity in the Sandbox Mode. In the Campaign Mode, you will join Ashley and Mr. Riggs on their mission to open a two-way portal from Galatea 37 back to Earth. Thi |
| The Riftbreaker Stability Update: 7th of September 2021 | 2021-09-07 | Hello Riftbreakers! We have just pushed a small patch addressing a couple of issues some of you have encountered while playing the latest versions of The Riftbreaker Beta and The Riftbreaker: Prologue. Thank you for sending in all the crash reports - they are extremely helpful in identifying the issues with the game and finding ways to fix them. The Riftbreaker Stability Update: 7th of September 2021 Fixed issues with saving display and resolution options through the Launcher Fixed issues with screenshots attached to game saves Fixed multiple small issues that lead to large crashes. See - size doesn't matter! Thank you for your continued supp |
| Prologue Update - Save Feature now Avaliable | 2021-09-03 | Hello Riftbreakers! We are happy to tell you that The Riftbreaker: Prologue is receiving a major update today, including hundreds of fixes, tweaks, balance changes, and most importantly - the save feature. Finally! What took you so long?! Yeah, we know… Let’s answer this question in two parts. Part One: The Save Feature When we first released The Riftbreaker: Prologue we thought that it would serve as a bite-sized teaser of the full game. It was meant for around 30 minutes of gameplay and as such wouldn’t need a saving feature at all. It was also at a time when the save system was quite unstable and going through a lot of changes, so even if |
| The Riftbreaker Beta Update 2 | 2021-08-24 | Hello everyone! Long time no see! These past few weeks have been very intense for us at EXOR Studios. We have been working very hard on preparing The Riftbreaker for release and we come with some good news for you. First of all, we managed to prepare a substantial update for The Riftbreaker Beta version. It’s a major update, with multiple fixes and reworks for the systems that needed them most. The Beta 2 update includes a completely redesigned crafting screen, reworked pipe and liquid resource system, lots of performance and memory optimizations as well as multiple other fixes that you’ve been asking for. The full changelog for The Riftbreak |
| Bioanomalies | 2021-07-30 | Hello everyone! We know how eager you are to play The Riftbreaker. We see your comments everywhere, calling for the game to release already. That’s super awesome because it means that you care about the game. It motivates us to work even harder and to deliver the best product possible. It’s going to take some time, but we can assure you - we’re almost done. In the meantime, we’d like to tell you about some new features that we haven’t shown you before - not to tease you, but to prove that we’re still firing on all cylinders! :) As you know, in The Riftbreaker you have an entire planet to explore, You will be the first human to discover, resea |
| EXOR Studios joins the Discord Alliance | 2021-07-22 | Hello! We are thrilled to announce that EXOR Studios Discord server has been accepted into the United Servers of Discord Alliance! The Alliance is a joint effort from several communities, working together to maximize the enjoyment of our members. It incentivizes active participation within the community and encourages the discovery of new, high-quality servers. This is all made possible through the use of several bots that help with cross-server communication. Don’t worry though - they are confined to their designated channels and won’t bother you with any pings or DMs unless you specifically ask them to. Let’s have an overview of what this b |