Season 12 of Naraka: Bladepoint is now dwell, bringing with it a brand new timed occasion, recreation mode, new development system, and finally a brand new character, Lyam Liu.
The brand new Naraka season known as “Tenacity”, and appears to supply a great mixture of informal whimsy and competitive-focused adjustments to shake up the ranked meta, whereas additionally streamlining some long-standing pain-points to make issues much less daunting for brand spanking new gamers and fewer time consuming for regulars.
First up, to have fun the Songkran water pageant, gamers can soak one another with water weapons in true Thai New 12 months style, because the Swarm weapon turns into “Hydro-Swarm”. Finishing the occasion will give gamers entry to water battle themed legendary show emotes and runs till April 24.
Whether or not 24 Leisure has made it massively OP to encourage you to make use of it like the opposite greatest weapons in Naraka stays to be seen.
Subsequent, the brand new Scorching Potato Counter mode duties gamers with combating for management over a ball inside the world, attacking it as an alternative of different gamers till it adjustments coloration to attain factors. It goals to supply a extra informal setting to follow combos and hone the core mechanics of the rock-paper-scissors fight system with out the life-or-death stakes of a full ranked match – which appears like an awesome thought in a extremely technical recreation like Naraka the place studying new strategies below stress could be powerful.
Talking of powerful, Season 12 additionally brings in a significant rework of Naraka’s Potential system, which helps you to toggle between completely different character buffs to craft your personal construct. The revamped menu, which continues to be a starry sky of various nodes and buttons lest you assume it’s been dumbed down, is cut up into 4 areas, every with their very own main, medium and minor nodes: Photo voltaic nodes give attention to Rage and Ultimates, Lunar nodes on Counters and Rescues, Omni nodes on the tempo of fight, and Origin nodes on Supplies and Currencies.
With these adjustments, although there’s nonetheless so much to absorb, you may already see the way it’s simpler to parse and give attention to a particular space regarding the strengths and weaknesses of your most popular character or your position inside your staff.
Lastly, alongside some new outfits for Matari, Tarka Ji and Zai, Naraka may even see a brand new character launched “halfway” via Season 12: Lyam Liu. Dubbed the “Maven Magnetist”, he has the power to manage steel, which hints at some attention-grabbing utility throughout the roster of greatest characters in Naraka.
After the current arrival of Shayol Wei, who had some unimaginable defensive capabilities due to her turtle method, Lyam Liu could possibly be a equally defensive character, actually blocking incoming assaults with steel. Or he could possibly be extra of a zoning character, inserting roadblocks across the battlefield or trapping enemies inside a steel jail – all of which might be very robust in a staff state of affairs.
Extra particulars are anticipated to drop when Lyam Liu arrives at Season 12’s midpoint.