It’s time to roll up a brand new character in free-to-play dungeon crawler Path Of Exile, as a result of it’s league changeover day. Grinding Gear Games have simply mothballed their glorious (if ethically questionable) Incursion league, and launched the Delve league as we speak. This quarterly replace provides a actually infinite new side-adventure to get distracted by in your quest to homicide and loot a complete continent. Better but, this new mega-dungeon is accessible from early within the game, so gamers are free to plumb its depths between their common adventures. The replace is reside now.
While Path Of Exile has at all times had procedurally generated maps and a really intensive (although finite) endgame, the Delve league’s Azurite Mine is one thing else fully. It’s an infinite, branching problem dungeon which you’ll be able to dig into or depart everytime you please. The mine is shrouded in cursed darkness which may kill you inside seconds, so that you’ll be escorting a light-generating machine known as the Crawler down into the depths. You’ll be preventing off monsters as you progress, attempting to not get left behind because the Crawler retains rolling till you attain a crossroads.
As at all times, this league comes with a brand new pile of distinctive loot to search out, a brand new set of crafting gadgets to customize gear with, a handful of recent ability gems to find and some new monsters and managers. The Azurite Mine additionally comprises (as its rarest potential loot) Reliquary Keys, which will be traded for a single ultra-rare piece of drugs that had been beforehand faraway from the game. While you’re in all probability not more likely to discover too many of those through the three or so months this league is operating, these are going to be very coveted gadgets.
The replace additionally features a few graphical upgrades, though a few of them are for higher-end PCs solely. If you’ve obtained the GPU grunt for it, shadows specifically ought to look much more detailed – good, contemplating that they’re one thing that may kill you on this league. Outside of the mines, water needs to be wanting nicer too, with rivers and streams being bodily modelled now. Grinding Gear have additionally gone again and renovated some previous monster fashions, so these beginning recent would possibly discover some surprises.
Path Of Exile stays free to play, and you will discover it on its official site or on Steam. You can learn extra on the Delve league page here. The replace is reside now.
