Hell Clock’s free 2.0 replace arrived July 9, together with the launch of its console editions and Cursed War DLC. Our pals at Maxroll have launched an enormous replace for Hell Clock 2.0 and the Cursed War DLC together with new and up to date guides, a database replace (including the entire new Expertise, Relics, and Distinctive Blessings), and a number of high quality of life updates to the Hell Clock Planner, most notably, the flexibility to add your save and immediately share a construct!
Journey System
The free Journey of Nightmares system is ARPG seasonal content material with out the FOMO. With the Journey of Nightmares enabled, you’ll be able to encounter nightmare portals that take you to a brand new stage filled with random foes. Defeat sufficient of them to spawn a boss, which drops a Distinctive Relic. As you progress your save file within the Journey of Nightmares, you’ll be able to full duties to unlock beauty rewards.
The Nightmare ranges are full of enemies, so it is best to do them if you spot the portals. When you’ve got a bunch of gold you’ll be able to all the time try the blessing pillar on the finish of the present ground earlier than backtracking to hop into the Nightmare Portal. Learn more about the Journey of Nightmares with Maxroll’s guide.
Ascension
Ascension is Hell Clock’s roguelike endgame exercise. If you begin a brand new Ascension, you allocate penances, rising your hell stage (and the sport problem). Then you might have 5 runs to beat the Ground 21 boss. Every time you do that you earn a further three runs. Full this thrice (earlier than working out of makes an attempt) and you win the ascension.
Ascension has been round since Hell Clock launched, however till now the system was in beta. Now you can discover the total Penance tree and problem Hell 100. As well as, the sport mode is now extra polished with smoother entry to Gear/Relics and the “Blessing of Beginnings” that may assist in early runs. Like with the Journey of Nightmares, this can be a free replace that solely requires the bottom recreation. Learn more about pushing your Hell Level with Maxroll’s Ascension guide.
Limitless Nightmares
Limitless Nightmares affords new randomized areas and 16 tiers of problem that happen in randomized zones (that are additionally utilized in Ascension).
- Shards of Place decide the tileset.
- Shards of Hope add reward affixes.
- Shards of Worry add harmful debuffs.
Limitless Nightmares affords higher endgame development than the outdated Abyss, Oblivion, and Void. You’ve gotten a wide range of completely different modifiers to handle and your Shards of Worry stack up as you full flooring. The random ranges are much less linear than the unique marketing campaign, which means you’ll be able to undergo them shortly or loot the aspect areas for Shrines or Treasure Chests. It is a free replace accessible to anybody after they full the marketing campaign. Check out Maxroll’s Endless Nightmares guide for tips and tricks on how to progress!
Distinctive Blessings
There at the moment are Distinctive blessings for each ability, and not like different Blessings, you’ll be able to have as many as you need (or a minimum of as many as you’re fortunate sufficient to get). The Unique effects include those found on Unique Relics, or more powerful versions of Epic Blessings.
Ailment and Endurance Rework
Hell Clock 2.0 brings large adjustments to Illnesses and Endurance. Here is a fast TL;DR:
- Ignite now offers injury sooner, as well as Oiled is now not eliminated if you ignite enemies.
- Monsters are extra inclined to bleeding. The bottom injury of bleed has been doubled from 40% to 80%.
- Shock causes enemies to take 40% elevated essential injury along with its present impact.
- Endurance is now not an opportunity to keep away from injury. As a substitute, as much as 75% of the injury you are taking is taken over 4s. This provides you extra time to counter the injury with Potions, Life Regeneration, or Life Leech.
- Check out the Hell Clock 2.0 Patch Notes to learn more!
New Relics
There are dozens of recent Relics to search out in Hell Clock 2.0. This consists of enjoyable results for current expertise which allow totally new builds. Listed here are a couple of examples:
- Plague Bullets converts Break up Shot’s injury to Plague and causes the bullets to ricochet as a substitute of piercing.
- Propaganda drops with 2 random Corrupted implicits. Good luck rolling the proper combo!
- Energized Figurine converts Veil of Quills to Lightning, and combines the entire projectiles into one which strikes at excessive velocity.
- If you take injury, Belt of the Cowboy restores a portion of your Conviction based mostly in your Evasion, making this a potent defensive possibility.
- Damaged Mirror is an Uber Relic that provides you a everlasting clone which assaults with Repeater.
Prior to now, most expertise in Hell Clock had one playstyle. With 2.0, most expertise have a number of playstyles as many relics change each the injury kind and the playstyle. Energized Figurine and Plague Bullets are excellent examples of this, providing you new methods to play outdated favorites.
Act IV
Discover Pajeu’s previous by exploring the hell of the Paraguayan battle. This chapter features a new act to the marketing campaign, three bosses (and 3 mini-bosses), and a brand new story to expertise. If you need a beginner’s guide, or want help getting through the campaign, Maxroll has you lined!
There are are 6 new expertise to make use of as you discover Act 4:
- Tupã’s Wrath – Fireplace electrical projectiles which fill the display.
- Lead Sermon – A revolver ability that bounces between enemies.
- Holy Fireplace – FIREBALL!
- Jaguar Spear – Throw a spear, and with the appropriate constellation you’ll be able to actually summon jaguars.
- Carcará Dive – Leap into the air then dive down in your goal, setting the bottom aflame.
- Cilada – Entice foes, inflicting them to be rooted in place.
Hell Clock Planner Save File / Build Import
Sharing a construct is less complicated than ever! You possibly can immediately add a save file to Maxroll’s Hell Clock planner. Open the folder in AppData/Locallow the place the Hell Clock saves are positioned. This can be completely different relying in your working system and you could want to point out hidden recordsdata to see Locallow. As soon as you discover it, drag and drop any of the PlayerSave.json recordsdata to import your construct.
Add notes, blessing priorities, and no matter else you need. Then do not forget to set your profile to public to share your build with the community! There are a number of new builds to take a look at together with:
Written by IGN Employees with assist from Maxroll.