Lords of the Fallen developer Hexworks has revealed the final free content drop in its post-launch roadmap will take the form of a roguelite modifier system, and it's available on PS5 today. When beginning a fresh playthrough or jumping into New Game+, you'll now have the chance to change the way the game plays and operates across seven modifiers.
One of these is an Ironman mode, which will set you back at the start of the campaign when you die with your items and character level intact. Essentially a roguelite twist on the title, you can change things even further with randomised enemies, randomised loot drops from chests, fewer vestiges to rest at, and boons like weapons and armour already upgraded to your level when you pick them up. The update builds upon 30 previous updates and patches delivered after release, which added new questlines, armour sets, and quality-of-life improvements.
In a press release, executive producer and Hexworks head Saul Gascon said: "We’d like to thank the many players who have embarked upon Mournstead since we launched six months ago; their belief in our vision has been a real driving force for us. In response to their support for the game, we expanded the period of live support for Lords of the Fallen with an ambitious post-launch roadmap. This was built around four significant content updates, alongside numerous smaller releases, which included tons of new content and quality of life patches."
For a limited time, Lords of the Fallen is 50 per cent off on the PS Store, bringing its price down to a new low of £34.99 / $34.99. In our Lords of the Fallen PS5 review, we awarded the game a 7/10 and concluded: "Whereas many others aim to perfect the formula, Lords of the Fallen’s goal is to innovate. It certainly has its own array of problems, like lacking audio, repetitive enemy types, and combat that could be tightened up a little. However, when the game sinks its claws into you with its thrilling dual world mechanic, you won’t be able to get enough of it.
Significant and plentiful updates since then will have made the experience even better. Are you interested in checking out this latest version of the game? Let us know in the comments below.
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For all the annoying new trends in games, I must say I like the “roguelite dlc” one.
GOW Valhalla was awesome and FF16’s not bad either.
There’s a copy of this game in my house, still sealed…
Sounds like the updates have been great but I’m probably still going to wait for it to get in plus. The base game didn’t jump out from reviews, but intrigued by how much better it is.
@ShadowofSparta I don't know what reviews you read, but the game is great!!
@Nei keep it that way, the game is awful
@Zeke68 I think it was mainly the SkillUp review which was quite lukewarm towards it (I tend to agree with their reviews more often than not). Good to hear it might be better though!
Anyone know if all the performance issues that were reported at launch are fixed?
@themightyant Yes, it's pretty much 60fps all the time now on the PS5 and today patch 1.044 dropped, so that means they patched it 44 times since release. Tweaks and finetuning together with completely new stuff added. I don't think the game can be much better now tbh.
I've seen this for about 20 quid on Amazon here in the UK.
@Zeke68 Thanks, much appreciated.
Roguelite? Snore....
@themightyant
Never played it - wanted to, but too many performance and other serious issues - but whenever they release a major patch they add a news article to the ps5 product page. This links to a reddit page for that patch. Every time I think about buying I look at this for the most recent patch to see if it has been fixed up sufficiently, and (and i know its reddit) but i come away thinking there are still too many issues being reported by long time players.
It's got a rating of 3.67 on the PSN store right now, so clearly it's not THAT good. Anything under a 4 is usually a pretty bad sign in my experience.
Platinumed it as I've platinumed almost all Souls game. Honestly it was a great game. I played only on Performance mode and I never had a single issue. Not sure how anyone can play these very action oriented games in Graphics mode over Performance mode.
Enjoyed it more than Elden Ring if I'm being honest. I loved Elden Ring's open world but the game was just way too easy because of it.
One feature that I absolutely love in this game is that you can recolor your armor, allowing you to mix and match without it looking goofy. Fashion Souls to the max! I'm going to jump in again and do a playthrough.
"The update builds upon 30 previous updates and patches delivered after release, which added new questlines, armour sets, and quality-of-life improvements."
Maybe time for a little re-review then? I'm feeling tempted as it's on sale on PSN currently.
I got this game for Christmas and have yet to play it. I hope there is still a "default" way to play the game since I have yet to experience it without modifiers.
Interesting…… the PS Store in the USA shows it as being full price right now? I definitely want to play this game at some point but with Stellar Blade coming out this week and the Remnant 2 DLC having just dropped, it’s gonna be a while. Glad to hear all the performance issues have largely been fixed as that’s what put me off the game at release. It looks absolutely amazing and I do enjoy a good souls-like.
@GamingFan4Lyf
The modifiers are for NG+. I got this game on sale in one of the sales at Xmas, I am so glad I hadn't started this game yet as it's the best version to play with all the updates. Also it's added quite a few new trophies.
@DanteDevilHunter Well then the wording in this article is wrong as it says "When beginning a fresh playthrough or jumping into New Game+...."
The update is more about advanced customizations, randomizing, polishing performance and adding this rogue lite mode. So the subject is a bit misleading. Great game, also like it more than ER.
I love this game and @Nei ignore that guys comment about it being rubbish and give it a try as it's a bloody good game and hexworks supported the hell out of it. Lies of p and lords of the fallen were 2 of my fave games last year.
@Northern_munkey will definitely give it a try this weekend
@LiamCroft What was the last update version that the PS4 version got?
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