Co-Op Endurance Mode & New Game-to-Web Endurance Mode Timelines

With the recent launch of Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration™, we’re excited to debut Co-Op Endurance Mode and a new game-to-web experience that brings your Endurance Mode experience direct to the newly revamped TombRaider.com.

To join, all you need is an internet connection to log onto the server and connect to your Square Enix Members account. On the site, you can track the leaderboards across PlayStation 4, Steam, Xbox One and Windows Live. Share your timelines and challenge your friends to attain the highest score on the leaderboards! Visit TombRaider.com to check it out!

Co-Op Endurance Mode is an all-new mode where players can raid tombs with a friend in the harsh Siberian wilderness together. Two players must team up to survive the harsh elements by day, as well as lethal threats from enemies by night. Fire takes fuel, food restores health, and every resource must be hunted, collected, or crafted.

When discussing the making of Co-Op Endurance Mode, Designer Alisha Thayer says, “I think we all had a vision in our head that was really close to what we shipped, but getting there took a lot of trust and patience. We dug up and dusted off some tech that we had written for a previous project that we had put on the back-burner and repurposed it to create our randomly generated Siberian wilderness. But then we had to generate a ton of content and systems to work with that tech, which meant we weren’t really able to communicate how the mode was going to ultimately be expressed until all the bits were in place. Eventually, we hit this great sweet-spot of punishing, yet rewarding gameplay, and the next thing we knew, we were having fierce internal contests to see how far the devs could get before dying. We even had a competition right before we shipped that awarded a few hundred bucks to the winner. (No, I was not the winner.)”

To learn more about Co-Op Endurance Mode direct from the devs, check out our PAX West Panel from this past September wherein Creative Franchise Director Noah Hughes, Senior Designer Chad Armstrong, and Designer Alisha Thayer gave an inside look at the making of this all-new mode.

Watch the panel in the PAX West video archives here.



Developing Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration - PAX West 2016 Join host Greg Miller and members of the Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration dev team as they chat about the latest title and the features that celebrate 20 years of Lara Croft. Culminating with Lara’s landmark achievement of 20 years of an icon in gaming and pop-culture, Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration releases later this year with nostalgic throwbacks like Croft Manor, classic outfits, and complex puzzles only those worthy of the Croft name can solve. Get insights direct from the devs about all new features including Blood Ties, a story chapter where you’ll explore Croft Manor to reclaim Lara’s legacy and Co-Op Endurance Mode, where players can team up to survive the wilderness and gather relics and artifacts.

Nominated for over 85 “Best Of” awards, Rise of the Tomb Raider features Lara Croft becoming more than a survivor as she embarks on her first Tomb Raiding expedition to the most treacherous and remote regions of Siberia. Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration is the most comprehensive version of the award-winning experience, and includes Rise of the Tomb Raider, the new story chapter “Blood Ties”, “Lara’s Nightmare” zombie combat mode, PlayStation VR support for “Blood Ties”, co-op Endurance mode, an “Extreme Survivor” difficulty mode, 5 classic Lara skins, an outfit and weapon inspired by Tomb Raider III, and all previously released Downloadable Content.

Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC October 11, 2016. Play during the first week and receive 100,000 in-game credits for expedition cards. Read more about the promo here.

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