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After going through the tutorial and fighting the first boss alongside Clementine in Remnant 2, you'll be asked to choose your first Archetype. Out of seven options, you can only select one Archetype in the beginning. Thankfully, the game allows you to unlock the rest of them as you progress through the story.

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You can also find some secret Archetypes that aren't shown at the start. Depending on the Archetypes you own, you can get a bunch of new special Skills, Perks, and even Traits. Explorer is one of these, and it's great if you're planning to hoard rare items.

How To Unlock Explorer Archetype

Explorer is one of the seven Archetypes that you can choose when you talk to Wallace at the harbor for the first time. Unfortunately, if you've already made that choice, you'll have to wait for quite a long time to get it. After finishing four worlds and their final bosses, you'll eventually reach Root Earth.

Here, Clementine will open a red barrier and you'll face the final boss called Annihilation. You'll get a Broken Compass after defeating the boss and the story will end. Although, you can still go back to all the areas including Ward 13 after the credits. Take the Broken Compass back to Wallace and you can get the Golden Compass.

This unlocks the Explorer Archetype and you can equip it on the Archetype section in the main menu.

All Explorer Unlockable Abilities

Much like every other Archetype, Explorer comes with a bunch of active abilities and perks. Moreover, you can also get a new Trait that only takes effect when you have the Compass equipped on one of the Archetype slots. Here's everything you can get:

Ability Type

Name

Level Unlocked

Description

Prime Perk

Lucky

Only usable when Explorer is Prime Archetype

You have a 10 percent extra chance to spawn extra and rare items when defeating stronger enemies.

Skills

Plainswalker

Upon use, this Skill increases the movement speed by 20 percent and reduces stamina cost by 80 percent for all allies. These buffs last for 30 seconds.

Gold Digger

5

Create a fountain at your location to grant one of these buffs at random: damage increase, damage taken reduced, health regeneration, or haste. The fountain disappears after 45 seconds.

Fortune Hunter

10

Reveals all special items within a radius for a certain amount of time upon use.

Perks

Scavenger

1

Every time you pick up an item, your damage is increased by a certain amount. You can stack this up to five times, and the duration also increases with each stack.

Metal Detector

2

Increases the chances of getting ammo, currency, or metal for all allies.

Prospector

3

Whenever you get a Relic Fragment, they'll be of higher quality than usual.

Self Discovery

4

Whenever you use your Relic, you get maximum stacks for the Scavenger perk and don't lose them for a few seconds.

Trait

Swiftness

1 level for each Archetype level gained

Increases the movement speed.

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