The spookening attracts close to. That hallowed time of yr the place devs take a look at one another and go “oh we should do something for Halloween, right?” and other people like me battlewrite concerning the penalties. Battlerite Royale has simply completed pulling on its costume, chucking in a few creepy consumables in addition to trick or deal with shrines which will or might not flip you right into a cat.
Update 0.2 has additionally landed alongside the “Curse of the Night” occasion, introducing non-public lobbies, a brand new champion and a sweep of steadiness adjustments.
Let’s do the spooky stuff first. Those trick or deal with shrines are literally jazzy pentagons, which you’ll work together with “to gain an unknown effect”. Each participant can work together with each as soon as, and each will spook up everybody that touches them in the identical method. Observe.
Trick or Treat! ?
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I’ve encountered two of them up to now, and so they’ve each turned me into stone. I wasn’t wild about that, however the second time I used it to ambush somebody and felt a bit higher.
One of the brand new consumables is a vampiric potion that provides its drinker 75% life leech for eight seconds, whereas the opposite is a scarecrow that you could plop right down to ‘fear’ anybody within the space. That’s an impact that’s extra rage-inducing than terrifying – it makes you lose management and run off in a straight line.
There are additionally the requisite cosmetics, together with quests that gives you a few of them if you happen to mess around sufficient with the brand new gadgets. I’ll allow you to soak up the niceties on the update page.
Onto the non-spooky stuff! Those new non-public lobbies can match as much as 40 gamers and 6 observers, which is ten extra gamers than an everyday game. Good information for anybody with 39 battle buddies.
I virtually missed these as a result of they’re subsequent to 2 consumables which have merely been tweaked, however there are additionally two solely new ones. One of them is a spring entice “that flings enemies into the air”, and the opposite is a conveyable soar pad you may slap down in order for you the sky to your self. I waxed lyrical concerning the stationary soar pads on my royal visit a couple of weeks ago, so color me blissful.
The new character is, appropriately, “Ruh Kaan, the Crypt Warden”. Not that he’s that new to anybody who’s performed plain outdated Battlerite, which I’ve simply seen is as much as its personal Halloween shenanigans.
