Remnant 2: How to Unlock The Ritualist Secret Archetype (Awakened King DLC)

As a storytelling medium, games are strange. In my day job, I tell students that the medium-specific dimension of games is that they respond to our choices in real time: you press a button, Mario jumps. You choose a line of dialogue, and a scene can suddenly turn violent or comedic. This means that games, especially narrative-focused ones, are simultaneously a way for us to tell a story and a way for us to be told a story. Clara Fernández-Vara and Matthew Weise, in talking about world-building, call the world of a game a “story engine”: by creating a fleshed-out and engaging world, the designer builds story potential, which the player then “actualizes” through their play.

The Rift of Blood is a powerful melee weapon you can unlock in , but only if you manage to defeat waves of enemies in special combat challenges. An altar in the Damned Ruins of the OsseusFortress will transport you to a room full of treasures, including the weapon after you complete each test. Once you obtain it, you will need the right character build to wield the Rift of Blood.

Like the base game, the new Remnant II: The Awakened King includes a number of events that may randomly happen as you play through the adventure. One of the new ones included in The Awakened King is the Ethereal Manor, a creepy mansion that will trap you within its confines unless you can puzzle a way out. This can be a bit frustrating if you can't figure out what you’re supposed to do, but don’t worry, we’ve got the solution for you…

The new Remnant II: The Awakened King expansion includes a variety of weapons, gear, and other goodies to collect, with one of the most sought-after being the stylish new Crimson Guard Armor Set. Acquiring this armor requires you to take a series of very specific steps and, as a bonus, doing so will also unlock a dark secret ending to The Awakened King storyline. So, here’s how to get the Crimson Guard Armor Set and check out that secret ending…

Remnant II has had a solid run since launching earlier this year, attracting over 2 million players with its unique combination of looter-shooter action, Dark Souls vibes, and Unreal Engine 5 visuals. I had some reservations about Remnant II, criticizing its gunplay and underwhelming approach to loot in my review, but I’ll admit the game’s sprawling procedurally generated world offered plenty of innovation and promise. Remnant II had a lot of the right pieces, it just couldn’t quite fit them together.

One of the focuses of this year's RPG-shooter Remnant II is build crafting, with the game’s Archetypes (the game’s name for classes) being at the core of that experience. The new Remnant II: The Awakened King DLC adds a additional Archetype, the Ritualist, and like many of the game’s classes, it needs to be unlocked in a specific way, but don’t worry, we’ve taken the mystery out of it.

With the launch of Remnant 2's first DLC, The Awakened King, Gunfire Games has partnered with Gearbox Publishing and Elgato to choose five lucky travellers, who'll receive a bundle of prizes via a giveaway on the PC Gamer forums. 

After almost five days, he's back: Sam Altman returns to OpenAI as its chief executive officer, the very same position he had held just 110 or so hours prior, in what will come to be known in Silicon Valley as “the time before OpenAI imploded.” But this saga has only reached the end of the beginning. We go into the Thanksgiving break wondering what happens next, and what it will mean for the future — not just for OpenAI, but AI more broadly.

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Todd Howard went up on a new video with Wired to talk about his career, game by game.

Todd Howard is feeling nostalgic, and in a new video he's outlining the history of his work at Bethesda and how it's informing the next era of the studio's RPGs, including Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6.

Gunfire Games celebrated the launch of The Awakened King, the first DLC pack for Remnant II, with a brand-new trailer.