Final month, we launched Atomfall, and it shortly grew to become our most profitable launch within the over 30-year historical past of Rebel. However at this time, we wished to shine a lightweight on one thing else we’re pleased with – how Atomfall can also be Rebel’s most accessible title so far.
Atomfall may supply challenges for those who need them, however it shouldn’t be troublesome to bodily play. With that in thoughts, we wish to showcase a number of the standout accessibility options we’ve constructed to assist everybody discover the mysteries of the Quarantine Zone.
We’ve included options throughout motor, imaginative and prescient, audio and cognition, with many changing into accessibility firsts for the studio – together with further audio cues, directional indicators on subtitles, and extra. We hope that the host of options, each in and outdoors of choices, helps welcome extra gamers to the Quarantine Zone. Â
Playstyle
We’ve constructed a world stuffed with selection and we would like gamers to have the ability to play their very own manner. So, as a substitute of issue, Atomfall supplies a selection of Playstyle.
There are 5 preset Playstyles to select from, together with Investigator for these in search of extra survival gameplay, Brawler for a combat-focused expertise, and our default Atomfall expertise in Survivor. Sightseer, alternatively, is a preset which can enable extra gamers to discover and benefit from the Quarantine Zone. It lessens fight and survival features and supplies a lift to exploration that can assist you by the expansive Lake District and all its mysteries.
Rebel is understood for expansive customisation of issue, and this is applicable to Playstyles in Atomfall – every preset could be totally tailor-made  to offer an expertise that fits you, and it could actually all be modified at any time throughout your playthrough.
Navigating Leads
An enormous a part of Atomfall is investigation; assembly the survivors on this planet and following leads they provide you. To assist with studying and cognitive load, the Exploration part of Playstyle means that you can allow options like Navigational Hints, Flagged Leads and Waypoint Markers.
We wish the participant to get wrapped up within the totally different threads and discover at their very own tempo with out strain to finish the primary story, however we additionally recognise this isn’t for everybody. Turning on the Flagged Leads choice will spotlight the primary story quests, and Waypoint Markers additionally assists with this, giving the choice of markers on the compass to observe to your goal, when you get pleasure from that further stage of steerage.
Lastly, Navigational Hints present brief, clear trace textual content which summarises a lead, decreasing general studying and complexity of language.
Distinction & Textual content Scaling
Atomfall consists of choices to spice up the distinction of UI and gameplay components, in addition to expansive textual content scaling as much as 104px at 4K decision, in step with Xbox’s Adjustable Textual content Dimension accessibility function tag. These tags have been key for us find impactful areas to work on for our gamers, in addition to guaranteeing they will seek for the options they want with confidence.
For further distinction with the UI, Atomfall affords a number of choices so that you can change the color of UI components, just like the crosshair, and a backplates choice means that you can set the opacity of backplates behind all textual content and UI within the recreation.
For gameplay, you could have choices to activate further UI for traversal factors, excessive distinction icons for enemy threats, and might set the color of the define of interactive objects within the recreation. There may be additionally an NPC highlights function, which lets you set a robust color overlay on all hostile and non-hostile NPCs within the recreation, to provide further visibility for gamers who want it.
Directional Indicators
In addition to full subtitles and a number of customisation choices like subtitle color, speaker identify color, dimension and background, our subtitles in Atomfall embody an choice to allow directional and distance indicators. These indicators present an arrow which factors in direction of the supply of the dialogue and an approximate distance to the supply. This can assist anybody enjoying with lowered audio to find who’s speaking – particularly in fight conditions, the place enemies might shout from behind your character.
Alongside this, gamers can activate the enemy icons choice to indicate in-world icons above enemies, to help in finding them visually.
Informative Audio
Atomfall has lots of informative audio by design, akin to distinct audio for pick-ups and distinctive shouts or cues for when an assault is incoming to the participant.
On prime of this, Atomfall options further audio cues for in-game interactions and to help with fight. A layered set of options permits gamers to activate snap aiming with cues, to know when they’re snapped on to an enemy; aiming cues, which supply alerts that assist information a participant to their goal utilizing pitch and frequency; and passive NPC sounds, which give spatialised audio for all NPCs, permitting engagement in melee fight by audio alone.
Controls and Remapping
Atomfall options remapping for each Keyboard and Controller and consists of presets for one-handed play, made doable utilizing our automated motion options and adaptive {hardware}.
By default, Atomfall’s management scheme could be set to don’t have any holds utilizing expansive toggle choices, affecting actions like purpose, and brief holds for interactions.
All interfaces are additionally totally usable with a mouse or by button presses, giving gamers selection to make use of what’s most snug for them.
We’re so pleased with what we’ve achieved with Atomfall, and we hope that these options assist extra folks to play and benefit from the recreation. However, with accessibility, we are able to at all times do extra – you probably have suggestions, please get in contact with us on Twitter @AtomfallGame or by our Assist Centre, or be a part of the dialog on our Discord.
Atomfall is out now for Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, Home windows PC, and cloud. It’s additionally obtainable with Recreation Move. And with Xbox Play Anyplace, play on Xbox consoles, Home windows PC, and cloud with full cross-entitlements and cross-saves.
Atomfall
Rebel
☆☆☆☆☆
439
★★★★★
$59.99
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A survival-action recreation impressed by real-life occasions, Atomfall is ready 5 years after the Windscale nuclear catastrophe in Northern England.
Discover the fictional quarantine zone, scavenge, craft, barter, combat and speak your manner by a British countryside setting crammed with weird characters, mysticism, cults, and rogue authorities businesses.
From Rebel, the studio behind Sniper Elite and Zombie Military, Atomfall will problem you to unravel the darkish thriller of what actually occurred.
Participant Pushed Thriller: Unravel a tapestry of interwoven narratives by exploration, dialog, investigation, and fight, the place each selection you make has penalties.
Search, Scavage, Survive: You’ll have to scavenge for provides, craft weapons and gadgets, and combat desperately to make it out alive!
Determined Fight: With weapons and ammunition scarce, every frenetic engagement will see you mix marksmanship with vicious hand-to-hand fight. Handle your coronary heart charge to carry a gentle purpose and guarantee you could have the vitality you should attain to your cricket bat and land the killer blow.
Inexperienced and Disagreeable Land: The picturesque British countryside, with rolling inexperienced hills, lush valleys, and rural villages belie the risks that await you. Navigate cult-controlled ruins, pure caves, nuclear bunkers and extra as you discover this dense, foreboding world.
Reimagining Windscale: A fictional reimagining of a real-world occasion, Atomfall attracts from science fiction, people horror, and Chilly Battle influences to create a world that’s eerily acquainted but utterly alien.
