- PERISH: Exodus - Free Major Content Update
- As a further service to our dedicated base of underworld explorers, PERISH: Exodus is a completely free content update that exists alongside the main campaign.
- In addition to the free content, the main campaign now has safe zone checkpoints, among other improvements!
- Turn your back briefly on Elysium to explore the Winds of the Anemoi: four unexplored realms filled with terrific remixes and augmentations of existing weapons, fiendish enemies and boss-fights that are even bigger and more devilish than those in the main campaign.
- Meet with Prodromos the Scout, an agile ally who will guide you through four biomes filled with new environmental dangers: searing desert sunshine, blisteringly cold glaciers, toxic effluvia and tempestuous storms.
- With the help of the Scout, gather the four shattered pieces of the Aegis Shield, assemble them in the Foundry of Vulturus and challenge an ancient legend to a clash of immense proportions.
- Act I - Zephyrus
- Explore a springtime realm that harbours a darker secret hidden beneath its sun-dappled flagstones.
- Act II - Aquilo
- Navigate treacherous glacial valleys and freezing meltwaters to retrieve a shield fragment under the glare of a thawing revenant.
- Act III - Notus
- Crumbling columns and turquoise pools scorching in the sun give way to sand dunes that stretch into the horizon, where artefacts lay buried for aeons.
- Act IV - Vulturus
- Wade through noxious pools amidst a fierce thunderstorm to find an enormous facility that processes ichor, the lifeblood of the gods and the mechanical creations of Hephaestus.
- Four New Weapons
- Scour the lands of the four winds for hidden chests containing advanced weaponry.
- Fight fire with fire with the Pyrius Launcher, a hefty grenadier's cannon that was previously the preserve of the Forge Cyclops.
- Extend your melee reach and cast enemies aside with a powerful gust of wind when you find Prodromos' lost spear, the Lonkhi.
- Double your firepower with the dual-wielded Syntithemi, because two revolvers are better than one.
- Reforge the Aegis shield and experience a unique defensive weapon unlike any other!
- Major Changes to the Main Campaign
- Fret not, Elysium-seekers: we haven't been resting on our laurels regarding the main campaign. Several key changes and issues have been addressed and will continue to be addressed in future patches.
- Let us begin with the most affecting changes to grace the shattered lands of Purgatory.
- Safe zone checkpoints: are you halfway through a decent run, but dinner's ready? Worry no more! Reach a safe zone between levels and your save-game will update at that location. Next time you enter the portal, you can choose to carry on from that checkpoint, or start a fresh run.
- Weapons unlocked in Exodus, including the laser-reflecting Aegis shield, can be used in the main campaign. Erinyes (or Furies, if you're of a Roman persuasion) be damned!
- Explore the main campaign levels on the difficulty settings of "Tough" and "Forgiving" to find extra Health Pools. Save an at-risk run by finding a Health Pool to save your bacon and avoid an untimely death in those extra-hard mid-level runs!
- "Punishing" and "Tartaros" work as originally intended, with no extra Health Pools whatsoever.
- Similar to the above, Card-Bearers can now be found on all difficulty levels throughout main campaign levels. Gain additional cards during a run to become extra-powerful and hone your session build even more quickly.
- General Bug Fixes
- We have also been busy fighting a series of major and minor bugs, valiantly exposed and logged by both our fantastic QA team and the worthiest of Elysium-seekers who have helped us identify and track several issues that are now resolved.
- Players experiencing a regular crash ~2 hours into a session should fully uninstall Epic Online Services from the windows "Add or Remove programs" utility before also reinstalling PERISH. This has been a difficult issue to diagnose and effects everybody differently, so please get in touch with us on discord if you're still suffering with this!
- Spamming the Aklys active ability no longer get the player's arms stuck
- Bolts from the ballistae in the Aiakos arena should no longer ever miss
- The menu should no longer be able to be opened twice, causing a menu to be stuck on the screen
- Players respawning in Elysium or Tartaros no longer receive comeback cards
- The Boreas scope is no longer left behind when players die
- The held statue in the forges no longer clips into the camera when attacking
- Fixed a number of networking issues that could cause players to get stuck in the portal transition
- Player HUD no longer shows up during the Elysium credits
- The Zeus Gauntlets can no longer chain lightning through obstacles
- Quickly ADSing while getting close-quarter kills with the Eurus can no longer mess with the player's FOV
- Fixed a number of occurrences of untranslated English text
- The rubble left behind by Aiakos after his cutscene now remains for the fight
- Improved collision of steps in the Temple