Remnant 2 has a secret class its developer deliberately hid for dataminers to find
Remnant 2 is doing alright for itself; not only has the Souls-esque procedural shooter secured some extremely positive reviews, it's also selling well too; and amid all the general positivity around its release, there's a bit more fun news courtesy of a whole new secret class that developer Gunfire Games squirrelled away for dataminers to find.
The class (or Archetype, as Remnant 2 would have it) in question is known as the Archon, and requires players to go through an extremely convoluted set of steps to unlock, ranging from activating skills on specific Archetypes at certain levels to equipping a whole lot of gear before hefting the everything over to a very particular place.
The requirements, then, are not the kind of thing anyone is really ever likely to stumble across by accident, with Gunfire Games instead having designed the Archon class to be something that could only realistically be uncovered by dataminers.
And the developer wasn't shy about that fact either, with Remnant 2's principal designer Ben Cureton kicking off the hunt for the Archon with a cryptic clue shared via a tweet. «To unlock the Archon,» he wrote, «one must penetrate the code itself.» Cureton then made the challenge rather more explicit by adding, «We knew we couldn't stop datamining, so we leaned into it and created an entire Archetype that could be shared with the community once revealed by those with the ability to see between worlds.»
Gunfire's devious challenge was ultimately cracked by a datamining newbie named Oliver Nikolic (a report by IGN details the steps he took to get there if you're curious to learn more), meaning all players are now able to repeat the obscure process required to unlock Remnant 2's most elusive class.
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