Breakable walls in Steelrising are easily destroyed with a tool that the player can find in Paris. The problem is that the device used isn’t offered until a boss fight in the Luxembourg area. To break all the walls that can be broken, the player will need to where each of them are until they can find Luxembourg. Luxembourg is a story area that the main plot follows, so the boss to defeat will come up naturally if the player doesn’t want to go out of their way.
Steelrising was released in early September and was reviewed as a fast and fluid soulslike. Having quickly become a hot topic of conversation and a challenge for many players, Steelrising is the steampunk, French Revolution RPG that the gaming community needed. Merging historical and artificial plots with a beautifully designed automaton fighting system, the game pulls together several genres of players into one game. Challenging boss battles and save mechanisms create a survival aspect that keeps players invested and requires them to think tactically about how to get through the game.
One of the many interesting aspects peppered into Steelrising earlier on is the fact that there are walls that clearly can be broken. However, the player does not have the ability to break them yet. Ultimately all locked locations in Paris have items to be collected that are useful to gameplay. For any player who loves to unlock all the mysteries of a map and strives to complete a game, getting into these sections is important. The item for breaking these walls is locked behind a boss battle in the Luxembourg map. The titan to be fought is the Alchemist of Luxembourg, and he is a tough automaton.
Destroying Breakable Walls In Steelrising
Like with all boss battles in Steelrising, the player should go in with enough supplies to combat the tactics that the boss uses. It may also take a couple of tries before succeeding since the automaton titans are difficult to beat. As Jehanne Rousseau's Steelrising interview indicated, enemies in this game need the player to make note of their tactics, especially bosses. Once the Alchemist of Luxembourg has been defeated, the player can take the Alchemist’s Ram. The ram is the tool needed for getting through any of the walls with the symbol noting that they can be broken.
There are a number of breakable walls further back in the city that the player will need to find, so another tool that’s useful for getting them open is the Horseless Carriage. In this game of French automatons, it's only appropriate that the fast travel option is a beautiful self-propelled carriage. A good game will always have thematic fast travel, like Tower of Fantasy's space rifts or Skyrim's early game horse carts. Since the carriage allows Aegis to travel between areas, it can be a much easier way to get through an area without having to run or fight through it.
Games with hidden ages always spark the player to want to find them all and see what’s behind them. The only question is how exactly to access them. Much like how a general rule of gameplay is that there are secrets hiding behind waterfalls, in Steelrising there are treasures hiding behind breakable walls. In a complex generation of gameplay, with games like Steelrising, Darksouls, and Elden Ring, unlocking the rarest items requires finding those hidden away secrets. If the player wants access to all places in Steelrising and to find all of Paris’ secrets, then getting the Alchemist's Ram to destroy breakable walls is important.
