Astro Bot has been an absolute revelation, as evidenced by the truth that it has change into the best-reviewed recreation of the 12 months, and although the platformer already has no scarcity of content material to please gamers with, developer Workforce Asobi has extra of it within the pipeline. Director and studio head Nicolas Doucet beforehand confirmed that the sport will obtain not less than 15 “playful” speedrun ranges earlier than the top of the 12 months, and in one other interview with YouTube channel Quest Each day, he has provided additional particulars.
As per Doucet, the upcoming free DLC might be targeted on including in smaller ranges constructed round speedrunning, a function that proved fairly common in Astro’s Playroom. On prime of that, he confirmed the brand new ranges may also carry with them new VIP bots to rescue, which suggests extra cameo characters primarily based on different franchises associated to PlayStation may also be making appearances.
“It is going to be smaller. It’s not going to be like, , an enormous, big quantity, however it is going to be specializing in one of many options that folks loved in Astro’s Playroom- that was the speedruns,” Doucet stated (transcription through Gematsu). “You already know, there have been some speedruns, and the degrees had been fairly brief, nevertheless it was the truth that you would replay and maintain shaving day without work… with some new VIP bots to rescue, so some characters we didn’t embody but will seem. However yeah, that’s going to come back, and that’s going to focus actually on kind-of difficult ranges.”
Doucet additionally confirmed that the speedrun ranges will include leaderboards.
In the meantime, as for what the brand new VIP bots may very well be, if Astro Bot’s finish credit are something to go by, we may very well be in for cameo appearances from properties corresponding to Murderer’s Creed, Rayman, Stellar Blade, and extra.
Astro Bot is obtainable on PS5. Learn our evaluate of the sport by means of right here.
