Fantasy roguelike Dead Cells has introduced out the large weapons for its newest replace, including a promised boss rush mode. You can now go face to face in a sequence of 4 phases, pitting you towards acquainted bosses and their enhanced variations. Oh, and there’s a humongous fancy statue to embellish for some motive. Get your dander up by watching the trailer under.

To get to the boss rush space, you’ll want to go by the basement door within the prisoner’s quarters. It’s the place the coaching room and tailor are. Head down the hall till you attain the third door alongside – it’s received a boss head alongside it. There, you’ll spot 4 extra doorways. Each one results in a boss rush stage.

You’ll have the ability to battle both three or 5 bosses back-to-back. There’s one other two doorways that result in both three or 5 enhanced bosses, too. That means additional limbs to smack you with, therapeutic talents, or simply some buddies who’ll assist them pile on you. The bosses are randomly chosen from three tiers of problem. You’ll be up towards a Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 boss if you happen to battle three in a row, or two Tier 1s, two Tier 2s, and a Tier 3 if you happen to really feel like taking up 5.

You gained’t encounter a boss in rush mode until you’ve seen them on a run by the sport first, though you don’t have to kill them. Before you battle the bosses, you’ll have the choice to concentrate on Brutality, Tactics or Survival, which builds out your stats and informs what construct decisions you’ll have obtainable. There’s a alternative of mutations previous to your rush beginning, too. If you beat a boss then you definitely’ll get a breather to do some procuring, replenish your well being or reroll mutations and weapons, and decide up some recent gadgets.

Progressing by boss rush phases unlocks some rewards, which I gained’t spoil right here. One cool factor to notice, although, is the customisable statue of your character that’s kicking round in the principle boss rush space. Defeating bosses means you may add numerous gubbins to the statue to mirror simply how superior you’re, I suppose. The devs are additionally chucking in some extra legendary gear ‘affixes’ with this replace, together with one which generates child chicks to assault enemies. Aww.

You can learn the complete patch notes for the boss rush replace on the Dead Cells website right here, however if you happen to don’t fancy studying then you may all the time watch this vlog about it as an alternative. Publisher Motion Twin and devs Evil Empire put out a roadmap for Dead Cells again in July, sharing their plans for the remainder of this yr. The boss rush replace was pencilled in for autumn, following the comedic Enter The Panchaku replace in August. There’s nonetheless a winter replace deliberate, however that’s very hush-hush for now.

Ed revisited Dead Cells again in January, 4 years on from the sport’s launch. “Now I see why everyone lauded this game back in 2017, and why it’s still popular,” he stated. “As a lapsed player, all this new “stuff” has proven a reawakening of sorts. My eyes have been opened to how moreish this game remains four years on.”

Dead Cells is on Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store for £22/$25/€25. If you’re a PC Game Pass subscriber then you may have a go there too.