· Updated 27 October 2026 · 2 min read
The first mission, A Guardian Rises, now plays from the opening scene out to the Wall, and new screenshots show the outside and inside of it. The mission doesn't move on at the Wall yet, the starting weapon is wrong and the interior is far too dark.
What's new
• The correct mission now loads. An earlier test had started a different mission, The Dark Within, by mistake.
• The opening scene can now be skipped: skipping reaches the highway in about 43 seconds instead of about 120.
• Test runs walk inside the Wall.
• Three new screenshots show the opening scene with the wrecked cars, the daylight view facing the Wall and a dark walkway inside.
How it works
An earlier test showed the ENTER THE WALL prompt, but it had launched The Dark Within while serving the tutorial's world. That proved the prompt could appear, not that the right mission was running. This run loads A Guardian Rises with its opening and gameplay areas set up correctly, using a test character that already has gear rather than a newly created one.
The server now reacts when the opening scene ends or is skipped, instead of waiting a fixed time. The run still uses temporary changes to the game for testing, on PS4 build 56578 (source checkpoint d2a172a).
A lighting experiment fixed some errors but made the game almost black, so it was undone. A texture change is still being tested.
Still in progress
• The objective doesn't switch on when the Guardian enters the Wall.
• The Guardian starts with a hand cannon instead of empty-handed.
• The interior is far too dark, and colours and shadows are wrong.
• Enemies, combat, the rifle pickup, rewards and saving progress.
What's next
• Make the objective advance on its own, exactly once and with its marker, whether the opening is watched or skipped, and again after reloading.
• Start the Guardian unarmed, as in the original.
About this update
The screenshots are cropped to the game picture, with colour and darkness unchanged. There's no video, because no continuous recording was supplied. Figures come from the project's own test reports.
