last year, pioneer It surprises players with its surprisingly deep customization system and ability-focused combat. Towards the end of 2021, developer People Can Fly rolled out a small content update, New Horizons, and revealed a new expansion, world killercoming on June 30.
During Thursday’s livestream, People Can Fly provided the first concrete details of the upcoming expansion, and we played a brief demo in late March. Unlike the New Horizons update, world killer is a paid extension pioneerand won’t be in Game Pass — though it looks like the base game will still be part of Microsoft’s subscription service.
world killer should be familiar pioneer players, and there are no high-priced items like new classes or weapon types (that we know of). instead, pioneer‘The first expansion focuses on improving the solid foundation the game already has. Starting with difficulty, the game’s various challenge levels (difficulty levels rise as you progress, providing better rewards) will now be apocalyptic levels.
The first 15 apocalypse levels will apply to everyone pioneer players, and the final 25 (up to level 40) will be exclusive to world killer player. Of course, players who dare to challenge these higher tiers will receive higher tier gear (up to level 75) and special “Apocalypse” items.
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When an item falls into world killer, which has a chance to drop as an Apocalypse item with an additional third mod slot on it, further improving the player’s skills and offering more combos than before. However, players will still only be able to swap out one of the three potential mods on their armor, making the God Scroll item harder to grab, but the rewards are much greater for players willing to put in the work.Since each class also gets two new Legendary sets and numerous Legendary weapons, in world killer.
In addition to gear, there are two other ways players can improve their characters: the PAX career tree and Ascension.
The PAX Career Tree is a new skill tree that players can invest in – using world killer content. These trees provide bonuses for classes missing from their toolkit, and should allow players to expand their builds or specialize further.
Diablo or Borderlands players who have interacted with the Paragon or Badass level systems, respectively, should be familiar with the Ascension system. As Outriders continue to do their Outrider things after the max level, they will be able to boost their stats with small incremental upgrades. This is a very long-term system; People Can Fly says it can take about 360 hours for players to unlock each node.
For players who want to jump in world killer but missed the original pioneerthe expansion pack will come with a level 30 boost that players can use as many times as they want, and even boost other classes to endgame levels.
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As for what these new level 30 characters will do: world killer Hours of active content, new areas, and more will be added. People Can Fly also promises a new endgame event that will bring its own broadcast closer to the expansion’s release date.
in our limited experience world killerwe played the new campaign in a trio for about an hour and it was definitely more pioneer. But that’s not what it first seems.I’m a pretty big fan pioneer Last year, it always felt close to greatness — a solid first draft that might rock with a sequel or expansion.
With the advent of character building depth Pioneer: World Killer – Not to mention the mysterious endgame event – expansion pack Possibly the beginning of a new era of third-person shooters for People Can Fly. In my demo, Outriders still felt great to play, and I was excited for every Apocalypse gear I dropped and PAX points I could place in my new skill tree.
Whether the final product is more the same or an improvement I’ve been hoping for since last year, world killer Definitely showed me enough to get me excited about returning to Enoch.
