Alan Wake 2 is ready to obtain its second growth in just a few days’ time within the type of The Lake Home, and developer Treatment Leisure has mentioned that it’s going to be extra just like the bottom recreation’s conventional survival horror construction than the primary DLC, Night time Springs, was.
Talking with Xbox Wire, recreation director Kyle Rowley defined that Alan Wake 2″ The Lake Home shall be structured like a “extra conventional survival horror recreation”, which implies loads of concentrate on exploration throughout a single, giant setting.
“Very like a number of the bigger missions inside the primary recreation of Alan Wake 2, this mission is structured like a extra conventional survival horror recreation,” Rowley mentioned. “There’s a giant open construction for the participant to discover, secrets and techniques to find and harmful enemies to try to survive in opposition to. Narrative clearly performs a big position within the growth – because it did in the primary recreation – so it’s undoubtedly value exploring and making an attempt to find the various narrative objects scattered all through the atmosphere.”
In the meantime, gamers may also count on The Lake Home to introduce a wholly new enemy kind. Dubbed the Painted, we noticed glimpses of this horrifying new foe within the growth’s lately launched trailer.
“For The Lake Home we needed to introduce a brand new, totally different form of enemy from these present in the primary recreation,” Rowley defined. “It’s essential to us that our enemies comply with on from themes present in and across the a part of the sport that they’re revealed – whether or not that be the water-themed enemy, the ‘Diver’ situated on the Valhalla Nursing Residence, or the Taken Wolves which might be present in and across the Cauldron Lake Forest.
“With that in thoughts, the Painted are very a lot themed round one of many core parts contained in the Lake Home – paint! They’ll transfer out and in of the supernatural paint on surfaces, searching the participant as they accomplish that and have devastating melee assaults that deal important quantities of injury.”
With The Lake Home seeing Federal Bureau of Management agent Kiran Estevez (performed by Janina Gavankar) stepping up as the primary playable protagonist, you too can count on some new weaponry. Particularly, the DLC will function a brand new FBC-specific weapon, whereas Estevez’s base weapons will even do extra harm in comparison with Saga and Alan within the base recreation.
“Very like Saga, Estevez is a federal agent, so she is kind of succesful with normal problem firearms,” Rowley mentioned. “That mentioned, we did add a brand new FBC-specific weapon to this growth which can be utilized to take care of barely extra… paranatural entities. Estevez’s base weapons additionally deal a bit extra harm than Saga’s, so Taken enemies go down a bit sooner.”
Alan Wake 2: The Lake Home launches on October 22 for PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, and PC. Treatment Leisure will even launch a free replace for the bottom recreation so as to add an Help Mode, amongst different issues. Learn extra on that by right here.
