Final summer season’s difficult motion sport Eldest Souls will get a beefy – and free – enlargement right this moment known as Depths of the Forgotten. The replace treats followers and newcomers alike to a few new areas, every housing a robust boss ready to be conquered. Moreover, the enlargement introduces a brand new Boss Shard (with 12 infusions), 4 new weapons, weapon customization, and extra lore bits to additional flesh the story.
As somebody who loved Eldest Souls (take a look at my evaluate), I used to be excited to revisit the sport and check my abilities towards Depths of the Forgotten’s new challengers. As anticipated, they throttled me repeatedly. Here’s a breakdown of what each entails.
The Rotting Crown
This decaying mass of royal flesh loves swinging a long-reaching ax that shaves off an enormous chunk of well being in the event you’re on the fallacious finish of its blade. As a former monarch, the Rotting Crown appropriately summons zombified minions to do his bidding. These shambling corpses primarily function a distraction, however they’ll unleash a small, damaging blast in the event you get too shut. These minions are resistant to your assaults; the one approach to eradicate them is by placing two giant bells located on reverse sides of the world for a cool ingredient of environmental interplay. The Rotting Crown lobs waves of vitality orbs and unleashes arena-wide pattern-based assaults. The important thing to the struggle turned managing the small fry, monitoring bell cooldowns whereas additionally taking large photographs on the man within the chair once I may. Just like the bosses in the primary sport, this boss forces gamers to juggle loads and might really feel overwhelming at first. However I discovered increasingly home windows of alternative with every try, and The Rotting Crown makes for a becoming addition to the prevailing pantheon of foes. You possibly can watch a whole battle towards The Rotting Crown within the video above.
The Rejected Daughter
The Rejected Daughter is an eight-legged terror that disembowels gamers together with her twin scythe-like arms. She’ll even spin her entire physique to bounce across the stage like a grotesque buzzsaw. The Rejected Daughter loves utilizing venom-based assaults to poison gamers, reminiscent of spraying the world with hazardous inexperienced zones. The one approach to purify these areas – and your self do you have to grow to be poisoned – is to drink from one in every of three fountains. These wells recharge after every use, and the Rejected Daughter sometimes blankets the sphere in her webbing to make fountains inaccessible. Her net additionally slows your actions, that means you’ll have to focus on attacking the net sacks producing the threads to free your self. The Rejected Daughter is a faster-paced struggle that turned my favourite of the three new bosses as a result of having to handle standing illnesses, its implementation of the world itself, and since spiders are fairly cool.
Zylad, Lord of Metal
As his identify suggests, Zylad is an armored-clad warrior wielding an enormous arsenal of weapons. Numerous sorts of swords, shields, spears, scythes – you identify it, Zylad in all probability makes use of it, and he isn’t shy about throwing all of those killing devices at gamers. Since they’re all floating across the area, surviving means holding your eye open to see which one makes a transfer whereas holding tabs on Zylad himself. The devious, generally unpredictable method Zylad combines weapons assaults made him the hardest to battle. I usually died considering he would zig the place he zagged, and he has a selected fondness for wide-reaching assaults affecting vast radiuses. However that solely implies that taking him down feels supremely satisfying.
Depths of the Forgotten presents a powerful motive for Eldest Souls followers to regain the braveness to endure a number of extra arduous bouts. In case you're up for the problem, you'll be able to play the enlargement now on all platforms you'll be able to play Eldest Souls. That is PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Swap, PC.
