Threat of Rain 2 retains on trucking. After final yr’s Survivors of the Void enlargement added two new survivors and a smattering of recent gadgets and phases, Gearbox is following it up with Seekers of the Storm, which is able to once more embody “new survivors, new ranges, and monsters, and extra.” Essentially the most notable little bit of the “extra” this time is sort of actually a brand new villain named The False Son, who’s born out of some deep deep Threat of Rain lore I had no concept existed.
I’ve performed 133 hours of Threat of Rain 2, however I used to be misplaced throughout the first 30 seconds of the dev diary above introducing Seekers of the Storm. I assume I have not been studying sufficient cryptic diary entries, as a result of when Gearbox loremaster Kayla Larson begins dropping references like “The False Son is made in [Providence’s] picture by Lemurians who’re very scared to be with out Windfall” I really feel like she’s speaking about one thing fairly completely different from the ludicrous item-stacking roguelike I like.
The video appears to be going over properly with most Threat of Rain 2 gamers, although, at the least based mostly on the preliminary YouTube feedback. “Holy shit Gearbox did their analysis, lots of people have been skeptical however they made many of the first enlargement anyway so I am optimistic!” says @slavic8433, echoing what appears to be the favored sentiment.
For Threat of Rain gamers like me who usually are not loreheads, Gearbox managing director of manufacturing James Lopez has an easier message: “If somebody’s on the market who ‘simply’ needs a bunch of content material, cool, we gotcha coated. For the one that needs extra maps, cool, we gotcha coated. The one that needs extra survivors, cool, we gotcha coated. Gadgets, too, you identify it.”
After dozens upon dozens of runs via the sport, I am glad for the prospect of a brand new boss in The False Son and hope that Seekers of the Storm will provide an alternate path via the sport that ends with this new boss combat reasonably than a showdown with present remaining boss Mithrix. I am additionally to see if the addition of day and night time variations of one of many new phases results in Gearbox going again to the present phases and including alternate night time variations to amp up replayability, as this one guarantees “props particular to the night time model… and new areas that gamers do not get entry to [during the day].”
There isn’t any phrase on when Seekers of the Storm might be out or who the brand new survivors might be, however I do not suppose we’ll have to attend too lengthy to search out out; Survivors of the Void got here out in March 2022.