Alan Wake 2 is ready to obtain its second growth in a number of days’ time within the type of The Lake Home, and developer Treatment Leisure has stated that it’s going to be extra much 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 will probably be structured like a “extra conventional survival horror recreation”, which suggests loads of deal with exploration throughout a single, massive setting.
“Very like among the bigger missions inside the primary recreation of Alan Wake 2, this mission is structured like a extra conventional survival horror recreation,” Rowley stated. “There’s a massive open construction for the participant to discover, secrets and techniques to find and harmful enemies to attempt to survive in opposition to. Narrative clearly performs a big function within the growth – because it did in the primary recreation – so it’s positively price exploring and attempting to find the numerous narrative objects scattered all through the setting.”
In the meantime, gamers may anticipate The Lake Home to introduce a wholly new enemy sort. Dubbed the Painted, we noticed glimpses of this horrifying new foe within the growth’s just lately launched trailer.
“For The Lake Home we wished to introduce a brand new, totally different type of enemy from these present in the primary recreation,” Rowley defined. “It’s necessary 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 House, or the Taken Wolves which can 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 will transfer out and in of the supernatural paint on surfaces, searching the participant as they achieve this and have devastating melee assaults that deal vital quantities of harm.”
With The Lake Home seeing Federal Bureau of Management agent Kiran Estevez (performed by Janina Gavankar) stepping up as the primary playable protagonist, you can even anticipate some new weaponry. Particularly, the DLC will characteristic 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 customary subject firearms,” Rowley stated. “That stated, we did add a brand new FBC-specific weapon to this growth which can be utilized to cope with barely extra… paranatural entities. Estevez’s base weapons additionally deal a bit extra harm than Saga’s, so Taken enemies go down somewhat quicker.”
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 way of right here.
