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Exterminauts Key Specifications
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Engine | Unreal Engine 5 (Nanite & Niagara) |
| Perspective | Third-Person |
| Squad Size | Strict 3-Player Co-op |
| Anti-Cheat | Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE) - Kernel Level |
| Progression Model | 6-Week Earnable Battle Pass Cycles |
Exterminauts System Requirements
1080p
tune Minimum – Low-Medium Preset, 60fps (DLSS/FSR Balanced)
1440p
tune Recommended – High Preset, 60fps+ (DLSS/FSR Quality)
2160p
tune Ultra – Epic Preset, 60fps (DLSS/FSR Performance)
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Meets criteria for tier: 1080p - Minimum (Low-Medium Preset, 60fps).
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Meets criteria for tier: 1080p - Minimum (Low-Medium Preset, 60fps). (TGP unknown; 115W+ suggested)
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Meets criteria for tier: 1080p - Minimum (Low-Medium Preset, 60fps). (TGP unknown; 115W+ suggested)
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Meets criteria for tier: 1080p - Minimum (Low-Medium Preset, 60fps). (TGP unknown; 115W+ suggested)
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Meets criteria for tier: 1080p - Minimum (Low-Medium Preset, 60fps).
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desktop_windows Display: 1920 x 1080 pixels
Meets criteria for tier: 1080p - Minimum (Low-Medium Preset, 60fps).
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Core Requirements
- desktop_windowsOperating System: Windows 10 / Windows 11 64-bit
Required to support DirectX 12 Ultimate and kernel-level integration for the ACE anti-cheat architecture.
- memoryDirectX: DirectX 12 Ultimate
Mandatory for harnessing UE5 features like hardware-accelerated ray tracing (if applicable) and advanced mesh shading via Nanite.
- save_altStorage Note: 80 GB NVMe SSD
SATA SSDs may experience texture streaming stutter. A Gen4 NVMe drive is recommended to maintain the fluidity of kinetic traversal mechanics.
settings_applications Optimization Notes:
Upscaling: NVIDIA DLSS 3 / AMD FSR 3.1
Key Settings: Volumetric Fog and Niagara Particle Density will have the highest performance impact during combat. Lowering these maintains stable 60fps.
Exterminauts: Map Size and Regions
Exterminauts: Post-Launch Content / DLC
Exterminauts: Skills & Upgrades Overview
Exterminauts: Game Editions
Exterminauts: Cross-Platform / Crossplay
Exterminauts: Top 5 Weapons (Subjective/Iconic)
The OVERDRIVE System
Not merely a weapon, but a heavy-duty tethered charging cable used for puzzle-solving, weapon buffing, and delivering lethal high-voltage melee finishers.
The Ice Cannon
The premier crowd-control tool, utilized to freeze alien swarms in their tracks and create physical barricades out of their frozen bodies.
The Acid Foam Gun
An essential area-denial weapon that coats the ground in corrosive industrial foam, stripping alien armor and damaging pathing enemies over time.
The Lightning Tool
Designed for chaining immense electrical damage across dense swarms or interrupting the attack animations of heavily armored targets.
The Anti
Gravity Manipulator: A physics-based heavy tool capable of lifting formidable alien pests out of cover or grouping them together for devastating synchronized area-of-effect strikes.
Exterminauts: Specific Game Elements
Explore in-depth equipment, cast, combat mechanics, and world collectibles documented for Exterminauts:
Exterminauts Weapons
Sprays a highly corrosive industrial solvent to manage chokepoints, stripping alien armor and dealing significant damage-over-time to anything traversing it.
A heavy utility tool used to lift aggressive pests out of cover, neutralize their forward momentum, or group them tightly for devastating AoE strikes.
A heavy-duty industrial coolant system repurposed to freeze swarms in place, shattering pathfinding AI and creating physical barriers out of frozen hostiles.
An overloaded industrial arc welder that chains electrical damage across dense swarms and heavily stuns large, armored targets.
A heavy-duty charging cable tethered to the player's back; used for puzzle solving, weapon buffing, and discharging lethal high-voltage energy directly into an enemy as a desperate melee finisher.
Exterminauts Vehicles
The heavily armed corporate aircraft that arrives during the climactic extraction phase to pull surviving workers off the planet's surface.
Heavily armored, one-way insertion capsules that aggressively plunge the extermination crew from the orbital depot directly into the hazardous worksites on planet TIAN.
Exterminauts Animals / Creatures
Role: Hyper-aggressive swarm enemies that adapt their pathing to avoid hazards and constantly assault corporate infrastructure.
Exterminauts Characters
Expendable Field Technician
An underpaid, overworked employee of the MegaCorps tasked with clearing alien infestations and maintaining broken infrastructure just to earn a paycheck.
workspace_premium Top 3 Characters
The Vanguard Technician
Utilizing heavy ice cannons and Overdrive shields, this archetype specializes in holding chokepoints and absorbing damage while teammates repair machinery.
The Hazardous Material Specialist
Focused on area denial, this build utilizes corrosive acid foams and anti-gravity manipulators to strip enemy armor and disrupt pathfinding AI.
The High
Voltage Support: A build centered around the Lightning Tool and Overdrive battery management, chaining stuns across dense swarms and supplying emergency energy bursts to faltering defensive lines.
Exterminauts Missions / Objectives
Objective: Race to the exfiltration zone, hold out against an overwhelming final swarm, and compete against teammates for the highest kill count to secure a corporate pay bonus.
Objective: Engage in highly vulnerable logic minigames to fix sabotaged worksite architecture while teammates defend against the swarm.
Objective: Deploy to the surface of TIAN to repair failing corporate machinery, gather Polymorphic Plasma, and survive the workday.
workspace_premium Top 3 Missions/Objectives
Infrastructure Repair
The core tension loop where players must interact with complex, 'Among Us-style' logic minigames to fix failing corporate machinery, entirely blinding them to the immediate physical threat and forcing squadmates to defend them.
Polymorphic Extraction
Establishing and defending heavy drilling equipment while it pulls plasma from the planet's surface, requiring extensive use of area-denial foams and ice walls to maintain a secure perimeter.
The Extraction Phase
The ultimate climax of every shift; a frantic race to an exfiltration zone where the squad must survive an overwhelming final swarm while simultaneously competing against each other for the highest kill count to secure a selfish corporate pay bonus.
Exterminauts Companions / Summons
Ability: Assists with minor repairs, provides localized illumination, and scans for incoming subterranean swarms.
Exterminauts Collectibles
Location/Use: Hidden within decaying infrastructure and abandoned MegaCorp administrative sectors.
Location/Use: Mined from extraction rigs and harvested from high-tier enemies; heavily influences final payout.
workspace_premium Top 3 Collectibles
Polymorphic Plasma Shards
The highly volatile primary resource scattered across TIAN; gathering this directly impacts the squad's total payout and progression currency.
Corrupted Corporate Datalogs
Hidden environmental audio logs and text files that flesh out the dark satirical lore of the MegaCorps' failed colonization efforts and the exploitation of their blue-collar workers.
Overdrive Battery Cores
Rare, single-use enhancements found behind locked doors that can instantly replenish or permanently expand a player's OVERDRIVE capacity for the duration of the current shift, radically shifting the tide of a difficult encounter.
Exterminauts Armor
Focus/Stats: Medium Armor, High Chemical Resistance, Low Kinetic Deflection
Focus/Stats: Heavy Armor, High Kinetic Deflection, Reduced Traversal Speed
Exterminauts Clothing / Appearance
Options: Extensive cosmetic alterations unlocked via the 6-week Warbond cycles, featuring various neon accents, industrial warnings, and grime overlays.
Exterminauts: Other Features & Info
- labelMultiplayer ModesThe multiplayer architecture of Exterminauts revolves entirely around a strict, uncompromising 3-player cooperative PvE format.The developers have deliberately eschewed massive 4-player or 6-player raid setups to enforce severe interdependence.Losing a single teammate during a complex infrastructure repair minigame instantly slashes the squad's total DPS by 33%, forcing the remaining two players into a desperate, tightly knit vanguard formation.The only competitive element exists purely during the final 3-minute extraction phase, where players compete in a localized prisoner's dilemma: the player who secures the most kills during exfiltration receives a massive corporate pay bonus, brilliantly testing cooperative loyalty against individual greed in the face of an overwhelming alien swarm.
- labelUser InterfaceThe User Interface in Exterminauts is designed to perfectly reflect its gritty, corporate blue-collar aesthetic. Elements mirror cracked, industrial CRT monitors and high-visibility hazardous environment warnings.During gameplay, the HUD emphasizes the status of the localized OVERDRIVE resource system and elemental synergist indicators.To combat the chaos of its neon-lit elemental combat, the UI implements a robust 'Ping Communication' radial menu, allowing players to instantly mark broken machinery, alien ambushes, and optimal defensive chokepoints on their squadmates' screens.Furthermore, deep accessibility options allow for the complete customization of subtitle size, interface coloration, and individual audio layer muting, ensuring the UI remains highly readable during visually overwhelming encounters.
- labelSound and MusicThe auditory soundscape of Exterminauts is built to heighten the claustrophobia and sheer chaos of a hostile alien worksite.Weapon sounds shun the sharp cracks of traditional military ballistics in favor of the heavy, mechanical whirring, grinding, and electrical snapping of overpowered industrial tools.The spatial audio engine is critical for survival, allowing players to hear the skittering of alien fauna on the metallic infrastructure above and behind them before they are visually acquired.The musical score likely relies heavily on tension-building, synth-heavy industrial tracks that dramatically escalate during repair minigames and reach a frenetic, adrenaline-pumping crescendo during the chaotic, highly competitive extraction phases as the swarm collapses on the exfiltration zone.
- labelGraphics and VisualsLeveraging the profound rendering capabilities of Unreal Engine 5, Exterminauts features a distinct visual identity that purposefully diverges from the grounded, grim-dark aesthetic of competitors.The game embraces a 'bombastic' and highly stylized art direction characterized by vibrant, neon-lit elemental effects juxtaposed against brutalist, decaying corporate infrastructure.Utilizing UE5's Niagara VFX system, combat is a visually overwhelming display of blinding lightning arcs, massive crystalline ice bursts, and thick, pooling acid foams.While this hyper-colorful sci-fi aesthetic has proven slightly divisive among hardcore tactical-sim purists, it successfully broadcasts the game's emphasis on arcade-style fun, physics-driven elemental combat, and chaotic status-effect synergies.
- labelAccessibility FeaturesBehaviour Interactive has integrated a comprehensive suite of accessibility tools directly into the core design of Exterminauts, categorized strictly into control, audio, and communication features.The game offers fully adjustable stick sensitivity and inversion toggles, and allows the entire experience to be played without requiring rapid button mashing, touch controls, or adaptive trigger resistance.Audio accessibility includes robust mono audio support and granular volume sliders for distinct layers.The most critical accessibility feature is the deep 'Quick Chat' and 'Ping Communication' system, which allows players with speech impediments, social anxiety, or language barriers to participate fully and flawlessly in high-level tactical coordination without ever utilizing traditional voice or text chat.
- labelStory and SettingThe central theater of operations in Exterminauts is the hostile, living ecosystem of planet TIAN, a scarred world rich in a highly coveted and volatile resource known as Polymorphic Plasma.Humanity's initial attempts to colonize TIAN failed miserably due to the aggressive extraterrestrial fauna, leaving behind massive automated mining facilities and extraction rigs operated by galactic MegaCorps.The overarching narrative is steeped in dark corporate satire, framing players not as heroic space marines fighting for a noble cause, but as expendable, blue-collar field technicians simply trying to survive their shift.This thematic positioning effectively lowers the emotional stakes from saving the universe to just surviving the workday, brilliantly justifying the repetitive nature of the extraction shooter loop.Every bullet fired, asset destroyed, and equipment piece damaged is meticulously tracked and billed back to the corporation, reinforcing the dystopian, profit-driven atmosphere of your deployment.
- labelTop 3 Mounts/CompanionsWhile organic mounts or traditional pet companions do not fit the blue-collar industrial aesthetic, automated corporate assistance plays a role.looks_one Rank #1
The 'BOSCO' Equivalent Repair Drone
A heavily modified, corporate-issued hovering utility drone that can assist in minor infrastructure repairs or provide dim spotlighting in dark corridors, though highly fragile.
looks_two Rank #2Automated Sentry Turrets
Deployable defensive emplacements that players can carry and set up to lock down sightlines, requiring constant reloading and maintenance via the OVERDRIVE system.
looks_3 Rank #3The Orbital Extraction Shuttle
While not a traditional companion, the heavily armored drop ship acts as the ultimate mechanical savior, providing covering fire during the final chaotic seconds of exfiltration before dust-off.