Tea With Levi, Supply Bases, and Exterior Expeditions: Attack on Titan 3 Unpacks 11 Minutes of Tactical Gameplay
With less than a month remaining before its December 10, 2026 release across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam, Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force have lifted the curtain on the core progression loop of Attack on Titan 3 (titled A.O.T. 3 in Europe). A newly released 11-minute gameplay showcase dives straight into daily life inside the Regimental HQ and the high-risk Exterior Scouting Missions awaiting players outside the Walls.
Following last month's confirmation that the game delivers the complete adaptation of Hajime Isayama's saga through The Final Season, this extended footage demonstrates how custom Scouts prepare, bond, and reclaim territory between major story battles.
Black Tea With Levi, Squad Management, and Triple Skill Trees at Regimental HQ
The first five minutes of the showcase take place inside the Scout Regiment's headquarters, where players control their own fully customizable protagonist. Between combat deployments, the barracks function as an interactive social and tactical hub populated by iconic members of the 104th Cadet Corps and veteran officers.
After chatting with Nanaba in the courtyard, the player sits down for a one-on-one conversation over black tea with Captain Levi, before crossing paths with Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and Hange in the mess hall and workshop. Branching dialogue choices deepen character affinities, unlocking original side stories never depicted in the anime while granting combat stat boosts on the battlefield.
Preparation also runs through the command office and the character progression menu. Players recruit fellow Scouts into a custom Recon Squad and shape their protagonist's growth across three distinct motivation skill trees: Bravery, Intellect, and Leadership. Spending Bravery Points, for instance, unlocks passives like Titan Smarts: Pure Titans to fill enemy break gauges faster.
At the Workbench, salvaged field materials are used to craft, upgrade, and mix individual Omni-Directional Mobility (ODM) gear parts, balancing blade attack power, durability, reeling capacity, 63-meter anchor range, and gas pressure. Each part visually changes your rig on-screen before you assign active Combat Arts such as Spinning Slash and Lunging Slash.
Supply Bases, Fallen Soldiers' Belongings, and Tactical Ambushes Beyond the Walls
Around the five-minute mark, the squad mounts up and rides through the gate to tackle Exterior Scouting Missions. Out in the open wilderness, charging headfirst into clusters of Titans quickly drains squad morale and blades, forcing players to conquer the map methodically.
By clearing Titans around designated candidate sites, your unit constructs Supply Bases marked by the Wings of Freedom banner. These outposts expand humanity's safe zone across the map and provide vital resupply points for gas canisters and replacement blades during long expeditions.
Exploring ruined settlements and forests also yields crafting chests alongside the journals, personal effects, and search request items left behind by fallen soldiers, which can be turned in to HQ officers for extra rewards. Terrain plays a direct role in survival: players can crouch in wildflowers to launch blind-spot ambushes, scout giant Abnormals through a spyglass, trigger rockslides, or lure Titans into pitfall traps.
When a full brawl erupts inside a rocky canyon during the video's finale, the evolved mobility system shines through gas-propelled Boost Moves and coordinated Buddy Arts with Eren and Hange that shatter a Titan's stance or sever both legs at once. As a bonus for returning veterans, Koei Tecmo confirmed that players with save data from Attack on Titan 2 or Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle on the same console will see their previous custom protagonist join their squad with unique skills on December 10.
My Take
Omega Force nailed the aerial grappling hook momentum back in 2018, but the studio is finally addressing the one flaw that used to wear thin over a fifty-hour campaign: mission repetition. Forcing players to secure their own forward supply lines, use terrain traps for blind-spot ambushes, and tweak individual anchor and turbine parts at the workbench gives Attack on Titan 3 a welcome layer of tactical grit. And letting veterans import their custom Scout from the second game as a squad companion is a classy reward for anyone who spent dozens of hours defending the Walls seven years ago.
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