Hyper Light Breaker’s first main content material replace arrives on April 29 and can deliver with it main adjustments to the core gameplay loop, in addition to brand-new content material together with a brand new Breaker and new Crown.
Lead producer Michael Clark launched the replace in a brand new trailer, main with the fearsome new Crown referred to as Maw. Maw has already been teased within the recreation, and her enviornment is obtainable pre-update, however this would be the first time gamers can take her on in fight.
The brand new Breaker is named Rondo, who has a brand new SyCom with two new perks: Bladedancer and Reaper. The content material replace additionally inroduces two new weapons for gamers to wield: the Gloom Shiv and the Dreamblade. The replace may also add new environments, a brand new enemy, and extra that the devs have not but detailed.
The brand new content material is not the most important a part of the upcoming replace, nonetheless, with Clark revealing that Hyper Light Breaker is getting a serious shakeup to its core run construction. As soon as the replace hits, you should have one life for every run, and upon dying you’ll lose all gadgets in your stock and the Overgrowth will reset. Clark explains that this variation will deliver Hyper Light Breaker extra according to a conventional roguelike expertise.
Gamers will now get extra possibilities to extract from the Overgrowth, having the ability to take action from any Shrine, and can not must defeat enemies to take action. SyComs will now comply with a class-like construction the place each character could have one devoted SyCom, which might have a perk geared up to allow a passive capacity. Stock will likely be streamlined in order that gamers not must spend a lot time managing stock, and distributors’ roles have additionally been modified.
The replace may also add a brand-new onboarding tutorial aimed toward making Hyper Light Breaker extra approachable to new gamers. The tutorial will launch for all gamers post-update, even when they’ve already sunk numerous hours into the sport.
Lots of the overarching adjustments made to the sport have been impressed by participant suggestions, Coronary heart Machine stated in a Steam update, thanking gamers for being part of the method as Hyper Light Breaker makes its manner by way of early entry.
The Buried Under replace arrives on April 29 for Hyper Light Breaker on PC.