{"id":57724,"date":"2020-08-20T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/remnant-from-the-ashes-subject-2923-dlc-full-interview\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:00:02","slug":"remnant-interview-dev-talks-subject-2923-dlc-games-reception-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/remnant-interview-dev-talks-subject-2923-dlc-games-reception-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Remnant Interview: Dev Talks Subject 2923 DLC, Game’s Reception, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gunfire Games’\u00a0Remnant: From the Ashes<\/strong><\/em> has been a resounding success for the studio, selling over 1.6 million copies as of July. Remnant<\/em>‘s high sales were a surprise for the development team<\/a>, but not an unwelcome one. According to Design Director John Pearl, Remnant<\/em> has been a passion project for Gunfire Games, building off multiple previous titles it put out. Today,\u00a0on the\u00a0first anniversary of Remnant<\/em>\u00a0releasing for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, the developer has launched\u00a0the game’s second \u2014 and final \u2014 major DLC.<\/p>\n

Subject 2923<\/em>\u00a0was revealed\u00a0during the 2020 PC Gaming Show<\/a>, and it is the “most expansive” addition to the third-person survival action game, according to Gunfire. For $9.99, players can access a new story campaign, unique monsters and bosses in different environments, and lore that may provide closure for questions from\u00a0the base game.\u00a0Game Rant sat down with Pearl to talk about Subject 2923<\/em>, how it\u00a0fits into Remnant<\/em>‘s\u00a0overall development cycle, and how Gunfire Games feels its successful title fits into the studio’s design philosophy. Interview has been edited for clarity.<\/p>\n

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Q: Subject 2923<\/em> is the second major DLC for Remnant: From the Ashes<\/em>. I understand it carries on the main story, correct?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0It takes place one year after the events of the\u00a0base campaign, which is kind of fun because it’s coming out exactly a year after Remnant<\/em>. Subject 2923<\/em>\u00a0picks up after defeating the last enemy<\/a>, when\u00a0everyone thought the Root was defeated on Earth. It reduced the power of the Root and their influence, but they are still connected by\u00a0a tether. The leader of the Ward sends you out to find a place called Ward Prime, which was\u00a0where all the Dreamer experiments started. He thinks there’s something there.<\/p>\n

You start out in an all-new area, traveling through a rural farmland. It’s a different look at what happened to Earth after the apocalypse, and you’ll find a lot of enemies along the way. Eventually, you’ll make your way to Ward Prime with hopes of finding an answer there on how to stop the Root.<\/p>\n

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Q: How does this build\u00a0off Swamps of Corsus<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: The first DLC was a little different. Remnant<\/em>\u00a0had three full biomes: Earth, Yaesha, and the swamps. The swamps weren’t a full biome\u00a0and they were never meant to be, because when you go through Rhom, the wasteland, you’re trying to see Ezlan the Undying King<\/a>. He asks you to go to this other world and kill their guardian, to\u00a0bring his heart back to him. But you don’t have to do that, which a lot of people didn’t realize. You can fight him, and we designed it to be the hardest fight in the game. It’s doable, but it’s not the optimal way:\u00a0going to Corsus and trying to track down the guardian.<\/p>\n

Because of that narrative, Corsus was a smaller biome. But people really liked Corsus, so we figured if we had time we’d come back. The\u00a0Swamps of Corsus<\/em>\u00a0DLC<\/a> made it a fleshed-out biome, as there are certain things that need to happen for it to be rolled in Adventure Mode. The big thing Swamps of Corsus<\/em> added was enough content to make it playable in Adventure Mode, which is how a lot of people play after the campaign.<\/p>\n

That was the big thing with that DLC, fleshing out a partially-developed zone. Its timeline is a little weird, because if you follow the lore it takes place after the base campaign, but we don’t specify time so it could be considered at any point before Subject 2923<\/em>\u00a0takes place.\u00a0This DLC is very different: It’s a complete new campaign and you’ll get access to Reisum, the frozen world we’ve shown off, in the Adventure Mode. If you have\u00a0the Swamps of Corsus<\/em> DLC, you’ll also get access to the enemies and levels in Survival Mode.<\/p>\n

Swamps of Corsus<\/em>\u00a0added Survival Mode<\/a>, which\u00a0basically starts you in your underwear with a set amount of scrap to spend on upgrades and weapons. You get shot into a random world and try to make it to the end of that portion, fighting bosses and mini-bosses. Everything is mixed up with new\u00a0item drops. It’s a different take on Remnant<\/em> with no lore, no story, and a timer ticking against you; enemies getting harder as you progress.<\/p>\n

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There’s no alternate game mode in Subject 2923<\/em>, we really focused on a fresh campaign with lore and creatures in a whole new world. There’s technically two-and-a-half biomes: We’ve got the rural area on Earth, the world of Reisum, and\u00a0Ward Prime. That last one is interesting because we’ve never done anything like it. Wards are the home base of the player, at least Ward 13 is, and you fight the last enemy of the game in Ward 17. They are big industrial complexes with puzzles and lore, and new creatures to fight. Ward Prime is\u00a0a cool area because it feels different than riding through the streets, it’s a unique\u00a0experience.<\/p>\n

We really focused on making this a standalone story. It helps if you play the base game, but it’s a completely different campaign you can select at any point, just to focus on the Subject 2923<\/em> stuff.<\/p>\n

Q: How much time and effort was put into designing these new areas, and showing how they have been\u00a0affected?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0We spent a lot of time thinking about the lore and what that means for these different worlds. I think that’s what our main intent was when we started Remnant<\/em><\/a>:\u00a0We wanted to create multiple worlds with their own unique histories, evolutionary tracts, politics, and catastrophes. Everyone’s coming in with a different perspective. For instance, the humans on Earth in the 1960s were doing experiments with Dreamers, and one went really bad. They connected one to a Root entity and the Root used that as a conduit into Earth. That’s when the world ended.<\/p>\n

In the case of Rhom, it’s an ancient world that was highly advanced technologically, and you can see that in some of the pyramids \u2014 not sure if that’s the best way to describe the structures there. They used basically magic tech, but Ezlan the Undying King started siphoning power from their guardian, and in doing so he let the Root into his world unknowingly. His only recourse was to nuke the entire planet, and that’s why it’s a wasteland. So you have two planets which\u00a0have encountered the Root<\/a>, but they were very different encounters.<\/p>\n