The splendid roguelikelike metroidvania Dead Cells–our favourite game of 2017, don’t you realize–has taken a giant step in the direction of leaving early entry with the launch of the replace codenamed ‘Baguette’. It’s a biggun, overhauling how persistent weapon upgrades work, letting us reroll the modifiers on explicit weapons to shoot for one thing nicer, changing the UI, including new Legendary weapons… numerous great things.
For starters, Dead Cells not has persistent upgrades for particular person weapons. Rather than make particular weapons drop at greater high quality tiers, we now improve the prospect that any discovered weapon will likely be of a selected tier. For instance, relying on how a lot you’ve invested in every tier, you may need a 70% probability for a drop to be a +, 50% it’ll be ++, and 10% of S.
“Turns out, the previous system of weapon upgrades was really kinda locking people into only one build and a few weapons…” builders Motion Twin defined in the announcement. “Since the variety and fun of the gameplay are mostly down to playing with different weapons, it made the runs feel a little too repetitive.”
Also in is a brand new NPC who fees gold to reroll a weapon’s affixes and to improve its high quality. So in the event you discover a kind of weapon you need however its passive talents aren’t helpful to you or it’s too weak, you’ll have the ability to have this fella rework it – hoping you get fortunate on rerolls. It makes gold helpful once more, which is nice.
Other stuff, let’s see. Challenge rooms now aren’t about killing enemies however surviving fiendish traps. Bosses at the moment are assured to drop Legendary-tier weapons, that are a bit like colourless gadgets in that they scale off your highest ability however have extra bonuses and don’t have the downside of taking additional harm. The UI has a brand new non-pixely font. Many issues are polished, tweaked, fastened, and rebalanced.
See the patch notes for particulars. Baguette (or model 0.7.x, to be stuffy) has been playable on the sport’s beta department since March however as of Wednesday it’s really, correctly out on the principle model of the sport.
Dead Cells prices £17/€20/$20 on Steam Early Access. Developers Motion Twin say they now count on the complete model of Dead Cells will likely be able to launch “by August”, although clearly that would change. Mac and Linux variations are coming too, and a “big juicy” little bit of free DLC after launch.
