It’s time for the inhabitants of the intensely haunted continent of Wraeclast to do all of it once more with feeling. Path of Exile has expanded, with War For The Atlas bringing new content material and mechanics to the post-story multiverse, and the Abyss Challenge League including a (literal) contemporary hell to discover.
Check out the very extensive patch notes for the update here, or learn on for a shorter reminder of what’s on this main two-part replace.
We’ve beforehand lined each the expansion itself and its accompanying new league mechanic in depth, however when you don’t really feel like wading hip-deep by means of that once more, right here’s the abridged model:
The endgame is a LOT larger now. While the earlier enlargement – Fall of Oriath – vastly expanded the size of the primary story (from four acts looped over three problem settings, to 1 regular ramp-up of problem throughout 10 distinct acts), War For The Atlas builds on the post-story adventures that start when you’ve run out of gods to homicide and begin dipping into parallel dimensions with the intention to homicide their deities.
War for the Atlas integrates all of the content material from Fall of Oriath into the Atlas, together with some new methods of its personal. For instance, two rival gods of creation at the moment are combating over management of the multiverse, and your strategic decisions will steadily have an effect on the end result of the battle. Whichever god you assist to victory shall be who you’re throwing down with as your True Final Boss on the finish of house and time itself. Given that the earlier story resolution of the sport was which of three bandit leaders to spare (if any) again in Act 2, this can be a teensy little bit of an escalation in stakes.
This is all endgame content material, although. To boost the lengthy highway to eternity, there’s the brand new league which has sweeping results on the entire recreation do you have to take part. You’ll need to roll a brand new character to hitch the enjoyable, however you’ll discover the world infested with new undead monsters that burrow up by means of cracks within the floor. Follow these spreading crevasses by means of the map far sufficient, killing critters as they spawn, and also you would possibly encounter a mini-boss, chest full of recent abyssal gear, or perhaps a tunnel down into the depths to face the lich on the coronary heart of this new infestation in a knock-down, drag-out multi stage boss combat.
As at all times, Path of Exile stays utterly free, game-content sensible. Adhering to the developer’s ‘Ethical free-to-play’ enterprise mannequin, whereas you should buy further cross-character stash tabs (you begin with a number of free) with actual cash, that’s absolutely the extent to which money can change the sport. Everything else within the (intensive) cash-shop is only beauty and re-usable throughout characters, leagues and past. It’s an instance that I want extra free-to-play builders would comply with.
