We can think thatOutriders has everything about the service game, and that it has been a little too much forgotten in recent months, but the game of People Can Fly has a very different business model. After a major update released late last year, the studio got to work on the game’s first big expansion, named Worldslayer. After months of work, the team behind this new content is finally ready to show us what lies behind this new adventure, which promises to offer Outriders a second start.
We were able to test a few missions ofOutriders: Worldslayer on the occasion of a preview reserved for the press, in order to discover a little more about this extension controller in hand, and this for one hour. The trailer for this expansion has also been released.
New loot and enemies to discover
Worldslayer presents itself as a real extension of the main adventure, which extends the scenario that we could follow in the game. Here, a new threat hangs over Enoch, and the Anomaly continues to evolve across the planet. Worldslayer then sets up (beautiful) landscapes ravaged by a cold which extends from territory to territory, and which seems to make all the local fauna and flora succumb. Moreover, Ereshkigal, a new enemy with a power never seen before, will get in your way. A new antagonist who turns out to be rather charismatic unlike others seen in the past.
Obviously, the bestiary also seen to grow since we will explore even more distant lands of Enoch. The beasts we have encountered are even more ferocious than before, but it is above all the icy climate that changes things here.
In the introductory mission that we were able to try, we had to pay attention to both a large behemoth as well as areas of icy storms, which slowed us down, enough to force us to be very mobile and to make more dynamic combat.
If this new challenge promises to be accessible to everyone, with the possibility of starting these new missions directly by creating a new character who will be boosted to level 30 (this boost can be used as many times as necessary), it will especially appeal to those who have already completed the adventure and who want to get a bit of a challenge.
To deal with this, the expansion brings new weapons as well as new mods to equip. We will especially remember the presence of two new Legendary armor sets (5 pieces) for each class, as well as a new Legendary 3-piece set that will suit all builds. It’s a total of a hundred Legendary pieces that you can find more in Worldslayer.
A new progression to improve the endgame part
And if you are attracted by challenges, you can test Apocalyptic world levels offered by the game, which set up new parts to loot, in particular variants of Legendary weapons which contain a third slot of mods to add even more power.
The level of Apocalypse thus changes the endgame of the game. The Expedition levels have therefore been reworked, and what you had Worldslayer or notwhich is good news for the community that just wants a little more difficulty.
Moreover, Worldslayer also overhauls the character progression system with two major new features. The first is the addition of new options for each classwith a new talent tree available after level 30. By completing the contents of Worldslayer, you will get PAX points to spend on getting subclasses for your characterin order to specialize them even more in one area.
The second novelty concerns longer-term progression, for those who intend to stay on the endgame part of the game. From level 30, you will now be able to get Ascension points, which we can invest in five branches to gain more strength, vitality, power in the powers of the Anomaly, etc. Given that there will be up to 200 points to collect and distribute in these branches, this adds hours of play in perspective. It remains to be seen if the whole thing is not a little superficial, and if we will really feel an evolution of the character over time..
What will change everything for Outriders?
With all this content, does Worldslayer offers a real revival to Outriders ? well not really. Make no mistake about it: the extension should definitely appeal to the community given all the changes it bringsespecially when it comes to the endgame, which is probably the most important part of the game.
But apart from that, difficult to know if this extension will bring back a new audience. The fact of having integrated a boost to directly test the missions of the extension is a good idea, just to easily convince new players to join their friends without having to start from 0, but the experience offered by Worldslayer don’t mess up Outriders.
If the game didn’t tempt you before, it’s hard to see anything in this extension that could make you take the plunge, except for its endgame, which has been reinforced. We find the same problems as in the original game, with a very closed level-design, balancing issues and HP bags that are not always exciting to face, but we will wait to see the other bosses of the extension to draw a real conclusion. Failing to attract new people, Worldslayer will at least offer a lot of content to its fans. We will have to see if this will be enough to captivate them in the long term.