Deep Rock Galactic (opens in new tab), the market’s premier space-mining dwarf simulator, enters its third season on Steam’s experimental servers right this moment. The instalment, referred to as Plaguefall, brings with it a bevy of add-ons and updates, plus “the sinister and extremely transmissible Rockpox infecting the caverns of Hoxxes IV,” which is actually a sequence of phrases.
All of it sounds fairly gross. Gamers should keep away from plague-bearing meteors as they strike Hoxxes and infect the resident Glyphids with “putrid boils,” then use a cleansing rig to sterilise the realm and extract precious plague hearts from the meteor’s centre. On the plus aspect, you’re getting 4 new grenades—which electrocute, enflame, slice, and shred respectively—to sort out all these things with.
Plaguefall additionally sees the return of Deep Rock Galactic’s efficiency cross (or season cross, to you and me), a 100-tier tree of unlockable cosmetics, assets, and weapon frameworks. It is all free, at the very least in real-world phrases: you purchase every thing on it with in-game scrip that you simply earn from finishing seasonal challenges and gathering up plague hearts.
The efficiency cross additionally consists of the tantalising promise of “distinctive beards,” which is a bullet level I need to see on the options listing of all videogames going ahead.
Deep Rock Galactic has been a bit quieter in 2022 than it was final 12 months when it obtained mod help (opens in new tab), introduced a board sport (opens in new tab), and promised its “largest replace ever (opens in new tab),” so it is good to see it come out with one thing weighty for the top of the 12 months. The replace may even be accompanied by the Biohazard Pack DLC when it releases correctly in November, including a singular set of hazmat armour for every class that may hopefully shield you from the spill-over that comes with chucking grenades at boils.
Plaguefall is dwell on Experimental servers proper now, and can roll out to Deep Rock correct on November 3.
