Redfall
Guide to Redfall: Customization
Redfall
The island of Redfall is a perilous place.
With the vampires and their cultist followers running amok, you’ll need to get creative and use everything at your disposal to stay alive. But between your chosen hero’s unique abilities and the customizable weapons and gear scattered across the island, you’ll have everything you need to take back Redfall.
Upgrade Yourself
Upgrade skills like Layla’s psychic umbrella shield and Jacob’s raven scout with Skill Points, which can be earned by completing main story missions and side missions found throughout the world. Not only can you upgrade your unique character abilities, but you can also use Skill Points to boost your broader hero attributes like health recovery and increased storage for resources like ammunition, lockpicks and rewire kits.
“There have been several challenges with making this game, but one is how we take our love of systemic gameplay and the various ways to upgrade your character and apply that to co-op,” says Art Director Karen Segars. “Being able to use your powers and tools in interesting combinations and then layering those with other players with different powers and tools makes for even more fun and unexpected ways to approach the world of Redfall.”
Upgrading your hero’s abilities and weapons can also help create a more diverse team lineup if you’re playing co-op. Say everyone in your group wants to play as Dev. By focusing on different upgrades for his powers and weapons, you could end up with four very different, specialized Devs.
A Vampire Hunters Arsenal
“Our weapons are an interesting twist on the genre,” says Production Director Ben Horne. “We have loadout options players already know and love, like rare shotguns and sniper rifles with randomized weapon traits to make each drop feel like one of an endless potential of combinations. In addition to that, some of our weapons are unique vampire hunting weapons—like the Stake Launcher or UV Beam—that can be used tactically to eliminate the vampire threat.”
Pick and choose among these weapons to suit your playstyle, tracking down what you need as you explore the island. Some of the weapons you’ll find on Redfall will be literally cobbled together with… whatever the remaining citizens of the island had around. Think Mom and Pop’s old family hunting rifle, but with some duct-taped enhancements. But that doesn’t mean they’re any less efficient when it comes to dusting bloodsuckers.
Of course, as you assemble your arsenal of weapons, you’ll start to notice distinctly a more militaristic edge to some of them. But what is military equipment doing on the island? Yet another mystery for you to solve as you explore.
More Redfall Guides:
The Heroes
Squad Up or Slay Alone
The Vampires
The Island
Redfall is coming exclusively to Xbox X|S and PC (Steam/Epic Games Store) in 2023. Play it day one on Game Pass.
