Many users maintain that introducing things into games that require help from the community is unfair. However, this position has not been an impediment for many companies to add secrets, stories and more that need a collaboration and interest beyond our departure.
FromSoftware has become the main exponent of this practice with its soul family. The latest installment of him, Elden Ring, is still being studied by many players and new things related to his lore are still being found. And we remind you that there is an expansion on the way that will bring a lot of information to the table that could upset many theories.
Remnant 2’s Biggest Secret: The Archon
Gunfire Games, responsible for Remnant 2, has been inspired by the work of Hidetaka Miyazaki and that includes introducing some secrets dedicated to the community. The largest and most coveted of all has been the archetype archona class so hidden that it is practically impossible to get to without help.
The secrecy was such that many users thought they were facing a class locked for future DLC. They gave the matter was settled and accepted that it would arrive along with a content update. In view of the situation, Ben Curtondeveloper of Gunfire Games, went to Twitter to launch a key track.
Translation: To unlock the Archon in Remnant 2, one must penetrate the code itself. We knew we couldn’t stop data mining, so we leaned on it and created a complete archetype that could be shared with the community once revealed by those with the ability to see between worlds.
For those who are not versed in the subject, data mining or datamining is basically look at the game code looking for anything that might be hidden, even not yet available in the game itself. This technique was used to find the class, but it was not pushed hard enough, which is why Cureton’s message was key to the investigation.
The developer posted the tweet on July 28, and it only took a couple of days for the community to unlock the secrets of the Archonconfirming once again that it is impossible to unlock it without previously informing yourself to know all the steps we must take before embarking on this adventure.
Our character must carry a series of classes, abilities, pieces of armor, weapons, amulets, and rings to be able to go through a very specific door located in the Labyrinth world. The tricky part of this adventure is gathering everything you need, which in many cases inevitably goes through create new Adventures either visit the worlds of other players due to the procedural nature of the game.
- Explorer Archetype at Level 10 with the Fortune Digger ability and his Kingdomwalker armor.
- Invader Archetype to Level 5 with the Wormhole ability.
- Voidheart Relic.
- Weapons: Ford’s Shotgun, Labyrinth Staff and Bucket Gun.
- Leto’s Amulet.
- rings: Amber Moonstone, Black Cat, Anastasia’s Inspiration and Zania’s Malice.
The combination of all these objects allows us to acquire a corruption to go through a corrupted door. The area has many similar doors and surely many of you have racked your brains to find out their function… well, one of them was precisely for this.
If you still don’t believe that the Archon was designed as a community secretperhaps the room we enter when we go through the door will serve as definitive proof: a labyrinthine office in which we find the Bisected Ring, the Shooting Safety Cord Amulet (an access card with the company logo) and the Strange Box. This last object is the one that Wallace uses in Base 13 to create the archetype.
Some users point out that Cureton’s words are more literal than they seemed. They think the room where we got the items is a recreation of the game code itself. That is to say: that we are literally doing data mining in our game to obtain the archetype. Also, it has a certain Matrix air to it.
And who are the heroes that have unraveled this mystery?
Oliver Nikolicnicknamed Barut on Discord, is one of those responsible for solving the riddle of Gunfire Games and has told the story of its discovery to the medium IGN. He says that he had never done data mining before and has no programming experience, but he did have 15 Red Bulls, ChatGPT and free time.
I found a red door in the Maze, but I couldn’t interact with it, it seemed like something really important. I went to reddit to ask about it only to find that there were already many posts about it. So, in a few hours, it slowly turned into a new challenge that I had to solve and I ended up with a Discord created solely to solve it.
On Discord I met people divided into groups: those who wanted to do it by looking for clues only within the game, those who wanted to hack it, those who wanted to extract data, and the group I was in that was trying to solve it with a combination of different perspectives. Solving it was a growing obsession (…) “What if?”, so I said to myself: “Okay”, I grabbed 15 Red Bulls and got to work.
The investigation lasted several days, although it was all a little less uphill when Cureton dropped the famous tweet. In summary, used ChatGPT to find only the “corrupted elements” of a document and from there they began to pull the thread on Discord until they ended up discovering everything. Colin Postart director of Remnant 2, adds:
I think (data mining) can ruin the fun of games: you try to hide secrets and stuff, you know? But I think in this case we just leaned towards that. We can’t stop it. It will happen on the first day. So, and that’s why I think this secret worked so well.
In conclusion: the remnant 2 biggest secret has been revealed and it has not been an easy task for the community. Now any player can embark on the adventure of unlocking the Archon archetype. Considering everything we need to achieve, it is still a very complex task, but at least possible. A few days ago we could not say the same.
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