
Ashley Nowak, a scientist in the time-honored field of “general space scientist exploring space stuff.” Dr. There’s very little story in this version of the game, but there is exactly as much as the game needs. The Steam version was played for this review. The Riftbreaker is currently in beta testing and is planned for release in 2020. Yet the fact that it is pulling in so many directions is also what makes the dang thing so much fun and, if you’re like me, it’s what’s going to inspire you to hang on despite the rough bits. The gameplay feels stretched in a lot of different directions that are sometimes incongruous, and as a result there’s a feel that being pulled in all those takes make for a weaker overall game. Not so The Riftbreaker, which is theoretically a new take on the idea of a tower defense game in the same way that driving a motorcycle is a new take on riding a bike.Īt the same time, this is the game’s…well, I don’t want to say failing, but let’s say its biggest weakness. This isn’t a failing, just a reality with video games becoming more mature as a medium, a lot of the language of playing games has started to be explored and established and it’s hard to necessarily even make composite experiences that feel shockingly new. Games can have ambition on a lot of levels, but at this point, the majority of games that want to be ambitious kind of need to sink into the territory of narrative ambition. There on the left side from the available location, you can select the headquarter and click on the open rift button to teleport back to your headquarters.The Riftbreaker is a big, sprawling, ambitious, kind of hopeless mess of a game. To come back to your headquarter, you need to open the main menu and select the orbital scanner from the top menu with a globe icon.

There on the left side bottom of the screen, you will find the available location where you can rift jump to gather new resources and learn about other species. Once construction is completed you need to go into the building mode and select the orbital scanner and enter the middle menu.
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The orbital scanner scans the whole planet to detect valuable resources, artifacts, and other species and allow you to rift jump to that particular location The Riftbreaker How To Use Orbital Scanner

This building also consumes a lot of energy as -500/sec, so you need to be prepared with other sources of energy before constructing this building. The orbital scanner build cost is 1920 Carbonium, 1440 Ironium, and 480 Cobalt and takes up a lot of space. After completing this technology you will unlock the geoscanner and be able to mine cobalt.

This technology will be present on the 3rd row and 7th column with a drill icon. Once you complete the orbital scanning technology, you need to complete the cobalt handling technology from the communication hub. The orbital scanning technology will be in the 3rd row and last column of base and building technology.

Research can be completed using a communication hub that you can construct after leveling up your headquarter to level 2. The Riftbreaker How To Construct Orbital Scanner But before you explore to find resources to build the orbital scanner you need to complete the research that will unlock the building for construction. Check out how to find and mine cobalt in our previous guide. The main resource required to construct the orbital scanner will be cobalt. The Riftbreaker is a hack & slash tower defense building game developed by Exor Studios.
