Dambuster Studios has introduced a launch date for the second batch of story DLC coming to Lifeless Island 2.
Out April 17, the DLC facilities round what’s left of the SoLA music competition, constructed upon historical grounds by the occasion’s organizers, who, apparently aren’t a really savvy bunch. Right here, LA’s lovely bohemians ran afoul of a lethal virus sweeping by means of The Valley, to show its inhabitants into ravenous zombies as a chthonic rhythm calls from past: the beat of the Autophage.
SoLA options one among its largest and most open arenas but, with the aesthetic of a summer season competition and quite a lot of dashes of splatter-movie vibes. There’s an interconnected world behind the phases, the place you may see the band members, slay mentioned band members, and discover the place they’ve stayed and performed.
Together with the fields, stalls, phases, and VIP areas of the competition are new characters, and glittered competition goers with flowers of their hair who’ve turned a bit nasty. As a substitute of a crowded, ecstasy-fueled Splash Home, BottleRock, or Coachella, this competition is rife with shambling hordes after your blood and brains who aren’t into euphoric hugs, pacifiers, glow sticks, or a spot close to the primary stage.
And it will get worse: the positioning of this competition is on historical grounds the place the veil between worlds grows skinny, and a malevolent presence lurks. Fearsome up shut and at vary, this brand-new horror is one other memorable monster in a sport already crammed with rotting enemies.
The DLC additionally brings new weapons, perks, and curveballs to make use of towards the decomposing Clotter and the mutilated Whipper, each of that are Apex zombies. These two are simply begging so that you can use the brand new Sawblade Launcher and Ripper on them.
Right here’s an inventory of the DLC’s options:
- New Story. A lethal virus sweeps by means of The Valley, turning its inhabitants into ravenous zombies as a chthonic rhythm calls from past: the beat of the Autophage. Lured to the competition by an enigmatic warning message, gamers should discover SoLA’s ruins and put a cease to this otherworldly menace.
- New Location. A visceral, gore-drenched music competition within the coronary heart of LA (or HELL-A, as we wish to name it) echoing to the sound of The Beat which threatens to show the residing into zombies, and with the potential to be heard internationally.
- New Enemies. Together with the Whipper, a brand new apex variant enemy, pushed mad with self-loathing by the Autophage. Their compulsion to self-mutilate has turned them right into a horrific nightmare of disemboweled intestines, permitting them to lash out at vary. And Clotter, one other new unsettling apex zombie, can decompose right into a revolting pile of gore, making it immune from harm in that kind, after which reform elsewhere to proceed the battle. Able to firing a strong jet of putrid blood from their coronary heart.
- New Legendary Weapons. Such because the Ripper: a lethal fusion of a baseball bat and round noticed right into a percussive machine of dismemberment. And the Sawblade Launcher: a heavy weapon firing rotary sawblades; the right weapon for ranged decapitation and dismemberment.
Lifeless Island 2 is obtainable on PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, and thru the Epic Video games Retailer for PC. The sport will arive on Steam April 22.