Game growth is kinda like proudly owning a canine. No, actually, hear me out. Kicking off a brand new game is like your first day with a pup, a boundless ball of pleasure and potentialities you’ll be able to’t pull your self away from. Then, it grows up, and you need to take care of the realities of proudly owning a pet challenge. You nonetheless adore it, however bloody hell, it’s solely gone and tracked mud all around the good carpet and crashed to desktop once more. It takes specific grit to get a mutt by means of early entry.
But free-to-play monster-hunter Dauntless has solely gone and completed it, changing into a full-grown beast finally and leaving early entry with a mighty roar.
Dauntless’s 1.zero launch final week got here full with a beast of a brand new replace, one you’ll be able to catch for your self beneath.
Dauntless isn’t too difficult. Grab some mates and head out into the wilds to homicide monsters (behemoths, in Dauntless parlance) earlier than they munch your crew. Like any good boss basher, taking one in every of these unhealthy lads down requires equal elements teamwork and preparation. Sure, you’ll must know every behemoth’s strikes, however Dauntless is all about gathering monster elements to equipment your self out in armour and outsized knives greatest suited to a specific beastie’s sort.
Far faraway from its roots as “What if Monster Hunter was on PC” (largely by advantage of, y’know, Monster Hunter: World being on PC), Dauntless has advanced right into a whopping nice behemoth all of its personal. A hop-in boss basher you’ll be able to simply match right into a lunch break.
Dubbed Aether Unbound, Dauntless’ launch replace provides a brand new weapon for followers of hitting issues actually onerous within the face. The aether strikers are a pair of huge ol’ fists to placed on high of your actual fists, letting you knock the conkers out of the denizens of the Shattered Isles. New weapon means a brand new quest, too – it is best to decide up a quest for the strikers across the similar time a tutorial lad fingers you a pair of repeaters.
There’s a brand new Dire Behemoth to check out that fancy fist-work on, too. The storm powered Tempestborne Stormclaw will now present up on the searching board on the town. Dauntless has additionally reworked its Hunt (learn: Battle) Pass, swapping out weekly challenges for a new Bounty system. These are drafted from a random choice, and you’ll maintain 4 at any given time by spending tokens acquired by means of hunts.
As per, the replace got here with a complete host of smaller additions and fixes, together with letting you skip previously-watched cutscenes and altering Behemoth well being if a participant disconnects. See the 1.0 patch notes for the lot.
Dauntless is obtainable free-to-play through the Epic Games Store.
I fairly preferred that Dauntless, although I shortly fell off after seeing all I felt there was to see. As a stripped-down Monster Hunter, it’s actually value a pop, and final week’s launch may very well be a pleasant excuse to test again in.
