He receives guidance from messages and meetings from alternate versions of himself, instructing him to break the time loop he is trapped in. Michael Croner) - AEON's hard-partying financial backer.Īwakening from a dream where he is murdered by an unknown woman, Colt Vahn suddenly wakes up hungover on a beach with no memories of himself or where he is.
Kelley) - The previous head of security of the AEON Program who seeks to break the loop and escape Blackreef. The central characters of Deathloop are the nine Visionaries: In order to break the loop, Colt must assassinate all eight of the other Visionaries, including Julianna, in one day, because the loop requires only one of them to still be alive at midnight in order to reset again. Colt develops the ability to retain his memories from previous days as well, and is thus able to learn the behaviors and patterns of the Visionaries and Eternalists. Julianna is immune to the time loop's memory erasure, and every day she alerts all of Blackreef's inhabitants that Colt has betrayed the AEON Program and wants to break the loop, causing everyone to hunt him. Thanks to the time loop, the members of the AEON Program are able to hold a never-ending party where they can do anything they desire without fear of consequences, since the loop resets at midnight and restores everyone to their original state with no memories of the previous day.ĭisrupting the natural flow of the loop are two of the Visionaries: Colt Vahn and Julianna Blake. Serling attracted eight other eccentric and talented individuals to his cause, the Visionaries, and scores of young, fanatical followers called Eternalists dedicated to serving them. It is now owned by the AEON Program, founded by scientist Egor Serling to exploit the island's unique properties to gain immortality by living in an infinite time loop. First charted in 1931, Blackreef was originally home to a small fishing settlement and a military base where experiments were conducted on local temporal anomalies. Set in an alternate world resembling the 1960s, Deathloop takes place over the course of a single repeating day on the subarctic island of Blackreef.
The multiplayer portion is optional and players can prevent others from taking on the role of Julianna in their game, instead leaving this to a computer-controlled opponent to try to stop Colt. When the player takes this role, they will enter a random player's game and may interfere with their play. The game features a multiplayer aspect in which the player can alternatively take the role of Julianna, an agent tasked to protect the time loop and take out Colt. The routines of the people in a particular district vary depending on what time of day the player enters it, and the player's actions in one district can affect the routines in the others.
Each day is divided into four periods (Morning, Noon, Afternoon, and Evening), and moving between the island's four districts (Updaam, Karl's Bay, Fristad Rock, and The Complex) causes time to advance. The time loop in Deathloop is not strictly timed and is aimed to give players more time and freedom to take out these eight targets in one loop. They must avoid or take out guards, learn the patterns of Colt's targets, and to figure out the right order to eliminate said targets using guns, melee attacks, or other environmental means.
The player uses a combination of stealth, parkour, attack skills, guns, gadgets, and powers as in Arkane's previous games Dishonored and Prey to move about the game world. Should Colt die before taking out the eight targets, he will wake back up at the start of the loop. In Deathloop, the player takes on the role of Colt, an assassin stuck in a time loop who has been tasked to take out eight targets called Visionaries across the island of Blackreef before midnight, as leaving even one alive will cause the time loop to reset and undo his work.
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