Highlights
- Amnesia: The Bunker is receiving a significant replace in October, making the already disturbing sport much more unforgiving with a brand new Shell Shocked mode.
- The Shell Shocked mode will take away the pause when opening the stock and make beforehand impregnable doorways picket, including additional challenges to the sport.
- The Halloween replace will introduce new options similar to randomized areas of corpses, new achievements, and assets added to containers. It is a good alternative for each newcomers and sequence veterans to expertise the horror sport.
Amnesia: The Bunker is getting an enormous replace slated for the second half of October, a senior official at Frictional Video games has confirmed. The incoming patch for probably the greatest horror video games on Xbox Sport Move is slated to launch simply in time for the 2023 Halloween.
Whereas even the day-one model of Amnesia: The Bunker delivered a reasonably disturbing marketing campaign, its subsequent replace will make the sport much more unforgiving. That is largely as a result of inclusion of a brand new Shell Shocked mode meant to one-up the already taxing expertise of Amnesia: The Bunker’s Arduous issue, which itself comes with a provision that it is solely meant for gamers “craving an intense nightmare.”
Frictional Video games Inventive Lead Fredrik Olsson has now shed extra gentle on the contents of the incoming replace in a latest sequence of tweets, which included a revelation that the Shell Shocked mode will now not pause the sport when the participant opens the stock. The precise pause menu will nonetheless work as a result of “we’re not that evil,” Olsson wrote. Casting some doubt on that evaluation is the truth that the gun in Amnesia: The Bunker will not be within the participant’s stock however stowed away in a locker firstly of a Shell Shocked playthrough.
If that does not sound traumatic sufficient, the brand new issue may even flip among the beforehand impregnable doorways all through the sport picket, together with the doorway to the administration workplace. The change will make the closest factor that Amnesia: The Bunker has to a secure room even much less secure. Olsson mentioned that the Shell Shocked mode will nonetheless embody a tiny “panic room” that might be unreachable by the sport’s boogeyman, however with out elaborating on that “little secret.” New and randomized areas of corpses, bunker rats, and canine tags may even be a part of the package deal, making every playthrough uniquely disturbing.
In an effort to alleviate these difficulties, the Halloween replace will randomly add assets to among the sport’s many containers, incentivizing gamers to make noise—which is mostly a extremely dangerous thought—by breaking them. The additional challenges of the Shell Shocked mode may even be obtainable as adjustable choices within the sport’s self-explanatory Customized issue mode, one other function that is set to debut as a part of the Halloween replace. Lastly, Olsson confirmed that the patch will introduce a number of new achievements, together with one for beating Amnesia: The Bunker on the Shell Shocked issue.
Aside from its potential to draw newcomers, the incoming replace to Amnesia: The Bunker also needs to present an excellent excuse for the sequence veterans to revisit the fourth installment within the franchise simply in time for the spookiest vacation of the yr. The 2023 title may also be the ultimate alternative for followers to play via an unadulterated horror expertise by Frictional, not least as a result of the Amnesia developer says it is planning to maneuver away from horror video games within the foreseeable future.
Amnesia: The Bunker is on the market on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X/S.
