The First Berserker: Khazan May update adds hardcore boss rush modes this week

A significant replace for The First Berserker: Khazan is about to reach this week on fifteenth Could, including a “hardcore problem” boss rush modes to the sport. However that’s not all, as developer Neople has additionally previewed what to anticipate in updates by June.

The fifteenth Could replace will add two boss rush modes to deal with the need for a hardcore problem. As a substitute of simply being arduous for arduous’s sake, Inventive Director Junho Lee defined,”It needed to be enjoyable, one thing that’s robust however rewarding. A mode you’d be proud to overcome and keen to indicate off.”

The replace will add a brand new Boss Rush (Final Problem) menu on the title display after beating the primary marketing campaign. The 2 Boss Rush modes have completely different problem and development:

• “Nice Common’s Crucible” – Battle by teams of thematically organized bosses, unlocking the following theme every time you clear one. You’ll battle with designated specs (gear, stage, expertise, and so forth.), and finishing all of them will earn you a particular reward.
• “Berserker’s Bloodshed” – Make your character stronger with rewards earned from consecutive fights, and push all the way in which to defeat the ultimate boss. As a remaining reward, you possibly can earn highly effective new weapons and set objects.

The replace may even allow you to change your look in the primary recreation when you’ve accomplished the Blacksmith’s Heirloom mission.

Wanting forward, an replace projected for late Could or early June will add some high quality of life options to assist tackle requests for shortcut resets and sooner boss retries. Within the conventional sense, Neople decided that the sport construction wouldn’t permit straight up fulfilment of these requests. As a substitute they may implement:

• New objects added to permit quick touring to the Crevice or the final Blade Nexus you interacted with: We’ll be including objects that allow you to immediately transfer to the Crevice or to the final Blade Nexus you interacted with. These might be supplied as everlasting objects, not consumables.
• Added teleport between from one Blade Nexus to a different: You’ll have the ability to freely transfer from one Blade Nexus to a different activated in the identical mission. Interacting with a Blade Nexus will show an inventory of accessible locations.
• After clearing sure missions for farming functions, you’ll now begin proper in entrance of the Spectral Portal earlier than coming into that mission. You’ll now not should journey lengthy distances by the Mortal World for a fast retry.

Lastly, focusing on late June, Neople are engaged on:

• [Balance Adjustment] Talent stability changes for Twin Wield, Greatsword, and Spear
• [Balance Adjustment] Adjustment to set impact configurations
• [New System] Talent Presets
• [New System] Gear Presets
• [New System] Improve Gear Grades
• [New System] Change Weapon Scaling
• [QoL] New Sorting Choice: Sorting Objects by Title
• [QoL] Storage Enlargement
• And… Extra Particular Contents Coming

There’s much more element and rationalization of the event decisions by Junho Lee on the Steam announcement page, however there’s the cliff notes.

The First Berserker: Khazan is an pleasurable recreation that we awarded 8/10 again in March. Jason stated in our review that it’s “not reinventing something by any means, however is constantly enjoyable to play. The visuals are pretty, the motion is a variety of enjoyable because of ever-evolving ability bushes, and the boss designs are nice too. In case you’re after a Soulslike problem, it may well match that invoice in some methods, nevertheless it also needs to have a broader enchantment because of the straightforward mode and extra.”

Supply: Steam