Assuming you’ve performed an hour or two of Assassin’s Creed Origins day-after-day since its unique launch final October, you would possibly now end up operating out of issues to do and see in Ubisoft’s absurdly massive ultra-budget journey by historic Egypt. Thank god for obligatory DLC, eh?
Today, the second (and ultimate) main element of the Origins season go rolls out. Dropping sci-fi weirdness in favour of classical Egyptian mythology, Curse Of The Pharaohs has Bayek and pals sq. up towards a cadre of returned undead kings throughout new places within the bodily world and the afterlife, the latter of which is most likely not coated by the historical tour mode.
The earlier main piece of DLC – The Hidden Ones – was a good chunk of recent content material. A slab of recent land to discover, perhaps round three hours of recent story quests and a smattering of elective side-stories to work by, however it appears like Curse Of The Pharaohs might dwarf it by way of Stuff. The new growth (set 4 years after the primary sport) guarantees one other chunk of Egypt to discover centered across the new metropolis of Thebes and the Valley of The Kings, in addition to some moderately much less charted places.
In his new, less-historically-accurate quest, Bayek will discover himself offing (re-offing?) a number of Pharaohs returned from the useless, who’ve introduced an assortment of nasty critters with them, together with some scorpions the dimensions of small homes. Returning these sleepless kings to mattress would require going into every of their non-public afterlives, accessible through their tombs and increasing out right into a miniature open world every, so say Ubisoft. These afterlives shall be left open without cost exploration after clearing their connected major story quests, too, and could be fast-traveled to from the map.
To facilitate this considerably fancier subset of assassination, they’ve raised the extent cap and added seven extra talents, which is able to most likely turn out to be useful towards the Shadows of the Pharaohs, roaming mini-bosses that can pop up across the map, menacing the locals. They’re apparently among the many hardest fights within the sport, and beating them up will internet you heat fuzzy emotions for saving one other bunch of villagers, plus the much less necessary reward of shiny new loot.
Be warned that this DLC comes at a hefty value to bandwidth. Uplay estimates that there’s 13gb of growth to obtain right here, on high of the a number of gigabyte patch launched to organize the sport for its deployment. Curse Of The Pharaohs is out now for £16/$20 (twice the value of the earlier growth), or as a part of the season go.
