Even within the midst of E3 Hell Week, it’s good to see that smaller studios carry on kicking. Today, Failbetter Games rolled out their next major update for Victorian space-train RPG Sunless Skies. There’s a brand new officer so as to add to your crew, sporting a positively nautical set of whiskers and along with his personal story arc to observe. Old Wonders Of The Skies will now have story occasions hooked up to them, you’ll discover new brokers to get missions from, and The Reach seems to have a little bit of a fungus drawback growing. Yet extra causes — and all free — to return to driving the aetherial rails.
The primary focus of this replace is a spherical of recent occasions and tales to find out within the wild, and people have at all times been one of the best a part of the game. The hirsute new officer will be discovered at Polmear And Plenty’s or in London, and Failbetter say you may get his consideration with just a few sky-stories of derring do. Out within the pseudo-void, there’s tales added to 3 present wonders – Regent’s Tears, the Apoidean Gardens and the Xanthous Moon. A fourth was added too; St Anthony’s Lighthouse, discovered close to Worlebury. The three new brokers add a bundle of recent jobs, and there’s two extra forms of discovery website to search out; Celestial Ruins and Windswept Habitations, every with a set of recent encounters.
Among the lesser tweaks launched right now, they’ve continued balancing the Albion area after their main overhaul final replace. The now-abridged region (previously too huge for its personal good) ought to throw fewer enemies at you now. They’ve additionally fastened a slew of smaller bugs, like The Thing On The Mantlepiece not being terrifying sufficient, Brabazon’s staff not demolishing your shares of tea, Fungal Fragments not being thought of ghastly sufficient and lots of different evocative-sounding adjustments. There’s additionally been a spherical of steadiness tweaks, and the Clockwork Sun is correctly hazardous to method, appropriately.
You can see the total patch notes for the Vagabond Update here on Steam. I reckon this’ll be sufficient to tide me over, though if that is what we’re getting free, I can’t wait to see what sort of paid expansions Failbetter have deliberate for this. Before he vanished in a puff of smoke, Alex Meer reviewed Sunless Skies, and cherished it sufficient to stay an enormous spherical Bestest Best label on it. You actually ought to strive it your self, when you haven’t already.
Disclosure – I wasn’t right here for the experimental Kieron Gillen period of RPS, however I’ve been advised he wrote the story arc for The Incognito Princess, a very humorous character within the game.
