After 5 years of post-launch help, Motion Twin and Evil Empire have at the moment introduced that there can be no new Dead Cells content material added to the sport after the discharge of Update 35.
The announcement was made through a put up on the sport’s Steam web page and on the Evil Empire Twitter account, with each groups thanking gamers for his or her help and promising that there are thrilling issues on the best way sooner or later.
According to Motion Twin’s Steam put up, this choice was a preventative measure to make sure that the sport might exit on a excessive (and final 12 months’s Return to Castlevania DLC is some excessive) fairly than reaching some extent the place the gameplay loop felt stale. You can discover the staff’s full assertion on the matter under:
Update 35 for Dead Cells marks the tip of our inventive journey on the sport. After an unbelievable 5-year collaboration in bringing further content material to Dead Cells’ live-ops, Evil Empire can be pursuing new adventures and we will not wait to see what they arrive up subsequent. This comes after a lot reflection, particularly following the superior success of the “Return to Castlevania” DLC final 12 months. Our dedication to avoiding the “more of the same” lure and maintaining Dead Cells contemporary and unique has led us so far; as we have seen with different long-running collection, it is essential to not overextend and threat diminishing the distinctive attraction that makes Dead Cells particular to us all. This change explains the latest quiet interval on updates, as concluding such a partnership required cautious planning to make sure a easy course of for everybody, together with the group. As all the time, we are going to in fact proceed to search out options to ensure that all high quality of life points and bugs are correctly mounted throughout all platforms to offer a worthy expertise to all of you.
The put up goes on to state that this isn’t the tip for Dead Cells utterly, with the lately revealed animated collection and a board recreation on the best way. Cryptically, Motion Twin additionally teased that the Beheaded can be “appearing in another world,” in order that’s one thing to get serious about. Oh god, please do not be a Fortnite collaboration…
As for Update 35, Motion Twin acknowledged that it’s nonetheless less than launch commonplace in the meanwhile, however requested that all of us preserve a watch out for updates sooner or later.
All in all, whereas it’s definitely unhappy to listen to that there are no extra Dead Cells newbies across the nook, you have to applaud the standard of post-launch updates that we’ve got acquired over the previous 5 years. And hey, quitting when you’re forward looks like a reasonably good shout.
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