Implausible action-adventure recreation and administration sim (and a lot extra past that) Dave the Diver is getting extra free updates, together with a crossover with fellow fishing recreation Dredge. In its newest developer replace, recreation director Jaeho Hwang and recreation designer Nolan King from Mintrocket go over what we will count on from the December patch, which additionally contains a number of different welcome modifications for certainly one of 2023’s most pleasant video games.
The pair begin by expressing thanks for his or her latest nominations at The Recreation Awards, saying they felt “actually proud to be standing side-by-side with so many good video games” regardless of Dave the Diver not coming away with any wins. King offers a shout out to Robocop: Rogue Metropolis, a recreation he’s having fun with proper now, whereas Hwang addresses Dave the Diver’s inclusion within the indie class, saying he understands the issues, however that the group is targeted on making the most effective recreation it could actually no matter what style it’s thought of to be.
For the replace approaching Friday, December 15, the principle focus is the free Dave the Diver and Dredge collaboration. “The ambiance of Dredge is sort of completely different from our recreation,” King remarks with a smile, “so we added this new darkish and gloomy Dredge feeling to Dave the Diver.” He explains that feedback and fan artwork from gamers impressed the builders to work collectively, noting that each groups “are enormous followers of one another’s video games.”
With a crimson mist descending over the Blue Gap, Dredge’s Travelling Service provider arrives to request that Dave observe down the mutated ‘aberrations’ from Dredge, which seem on foggy nights. “You possibly can truly navigate across the Blue Gap by working Dave’s boat,” King says, “one thing you haven’t been capable of do your self up to now.”
You’ll discover aberrated fish in three completely different areas across the Blue Gap, and Hwang says the newcomers have “distinctive and various assault patterns” to be careful for. To assist, you’ll get a brand new weapon – the drain gun. This weapon, King explains, “has a distinct manner of dealing harm to the goal fish whereas additionally permitting you to replenish your well being,” which sounds fantastically helpful to me.
Maybe unsurprisingly, these weird creatures aren’t going to go down notably nicely along with your common clientele. As an alternative, on foggy days you’ll be visited by mysterious hooded figures – “these prospects have wholesome appetites,” Hwang says, “so it’s in all probability a good suggestion to catch quantity of aberrated fish as a result of they repeatedly order till the restaurant closes.” He notes that, since common prospects don’t eat aberrated fish, it’s nonetheless vital to recollect to arrange your strange vary of culinary delights for everybody else to take pleasure in.
There’s extra to this newest free Dave the Diver replace than simply the collaboration, nonetheless. Responding to suggestions that the Sea Individuals village is cumbersome to navigate, the Beluga taxi will now stick round while you name it with out charging you for its use a number of instances – it’ll simply watch for you everytime you go right into a constructing.
There are some new dishes to find, and additions to the Cooksta feed. You’ll now be capable to cancel the celebration animation after carving an enormous fish, permitting you to maneuver out of the best way if one other fish is attacking. The UI has additionally been improved to make it extra readable, which needs to be of explicit assist to gamers on transportable units, reminiscent of these of you enjoying Dave the Diver on Steam Deck.
In closing, Hwang returns to the Dredge collaboration, saying, “That is our first piece of crossover content material – we actually had enjoyable making it so we hope you guys take pleasure in it too. We’ll hold looking for extra enjoyable crossovers to do sooner or later.” To have a good time, there’ll even be a bundle to purchase the 2 video games collectively launched alongside the replace on Friday, December 15, good for anybody who’s but to select up both recreation.
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