In Cult of the Lamb’s new Unholy Alliance replace, the Lamb is not a lone wolf in sheep’s clothes. A fiendish new ally has joined the flock, heralding a darkish new age of cooperative evil. That’s proper: co-op is coming to your favourite cult sim! Unholy Alliance permits you to crawl dungeons, slay heretics, construct your cult, and search new powers with one other participant for the primary time. However how does it work?
In native co-op, the Lamb joins forces with the Goat: a darkish behorned presence summoned by blood and born in corruption. One participant inhabits the acquainted position of the Lamb, whereas the opposite sells their soul to the newly playable Goat, and collectively these fluffy crusaders can slice and cube their means by means of the entire Cult of the Lamb marketing campaign. Not solely that, however you and a buddy can get pleasure from recent 2-player twists on present minigames, together with fishing and knucklebones.
Then when it’s time to embark on a campaign, the pair can use a devilish collection of co-op centered relics to smite their enemies in new and attention-grabbing methods. Equip the Wishbone of the Marbais relic and when one participant takes injury, the opposite shall be granted invincibility for 10 treasured seconds. Or think about the Cross Eye of the Crow co-op relic, which spawns an evil eye that travels between each gamers and causes vital quantities of injury to any enemies it touches.
The Lamb and the Goat may also wield the facility of co-op tarot playing cards. With the facility of The Rivals, every participant will deal further injury once they’re combating far-off from one another. Bonds of Battle connects them with a beam of darkish vitality, damaging enemies who contact it. Equip The Synchronous and also you’ll each deal vital hits when you each assault an enemy on the identical time in excellent concord.
There’s extra to find – together with many extra co-op tarot playing cards and relics – in Unholy Alliance. However this could offer you an concept of the type of co-op chaos you and a good friend could cause whenever you be a part of forces because the Lamb and the Goat.
The replace additionally provides new cult buildings, together with a nursery for nurturing as much as three infants at a time, a sequence of latest quests, and an enormous array of latest follower traits to make your cult extra various, unpredictable, and weirder than ever earlier than.
Cultists with the Night time Owl trait will sleep all day and work at night time. In case you’re questioning why a follower is snoozing in the course of the day, and also you see a moon icon above their head, because of this. Followers could be impressed by a profitable mission, returning to the cult to unfold positivity. Or they are often so disturbed by the horrors they witnessed, they’ll be frozen in terror and enter a catatonic state.
Unholy Alliance is on the market at present on Xbox Sequence X/S and Xbox One, and is free to all house owners of Cult of the Lamb. The Goat awaits your presence.
