Alan Wake 2 is ready to obtain its second enlargement in a couple of days’ time within the type of The Lake Home, and developer Treatment Leisure has stated 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, massive setting.
“Very similar to a few of the bigger missions inside the principle 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 towards. Narrative clearly performs a big function within the enlargement – because it did in the principle recreation – so it’s positively value exploring and attempting to find the various narrative objects scattered all through the setting.”
In the meantime, gamers also can count on The Lake Home to introduce a completely new enemy kind. Dubbed the Painted, we noticed glimpses of this horrifying new foe within the enlargement’s not too long ago launched trailer.
“For The Lake Home we needed to introduce a brand new, totally different type of enemy from these present in the principle recreation,” Rowley defined. “It’s vital 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 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, looking 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 principle playable protagonist, you can too count on some new weaponry. Particularly, the DLC will characteristic a brand new FBC-specific weapon, whereas Estevez’s base weapons will even do extra injury in comparison with Saga and Alan within the base recreation.
“Very similar to Saga, Estevez is a federal agent, so she is sort of succesful with normal subject firearms,” Rowley stated. “That stated, we did add a brand new FBC-specific weapon to this enlargement which can be utilized to cope with barely extra… paranatural entities. Estevez’s base weapons additionally deal a bit extra injury than Saga’s, so Taken enemies go down somewhat sooner.”
Alan Wake 2: The Lake Home launches on October 22 for PS5, Xbox Sequence 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 means of right here.