Alan Wake 2 is about to obtain its second growth in just a few 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 sport’s conventional survival horror construction than the primary DLC, Evening Springs, was.
Talking with Xbox Wire, sport director Kyle Rowley defined that Alan Wake 2″ The Lake Home will likely be structured like a “extra conventional survival horror sport”, which implies loads of concentrate on exploration throughout a single, giant setting.
“Very like a number of the bigger missions inside the principle sport of Alan Wake 2, this mission is structured like a extra conventional survival horror sport,” Rowley stated. “There’s a giant 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 position within the growth – because it did in the principle sport – so it’s positively price exploring and attempting to find the numerous 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 growth’s lately launched trailer.
“For The Lake Home we wished to introduce a brand new, completely different type of enemy from these present in the principle sport,” Rowley defined. “It’s necessary to us that our enemies observe 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’ positioned on the Valhalla Nursing Residence, or the Taken Wolves which are present in and across the Cauldron Lake Forest.
“With that in thoughts, the Painted are very a lot themed round one of many core components contained in the Lake Home – paint! They will transfer out and in of the supernatural paint on surfaces, looking the participant as they accomplish that and have devastating melee assaults that deal important quantities of injury.”
With The Lake Home seeing Federal Bureau of Management agent Kiran Estevez (performed by Janina Gavankar) stepping up as the principle playable protagonist, it’s also possible to count on some new weaponry. Particularly, the DLC will function a brand new FBC-specific weapon, whereas Estevez’s base weapons can even do extra injury in comparison with Saga and Alan within the base sport.
“Very like Saga, Estevez is a federal agent, so she is sort of succesful with customary concern firearms,” Rowley stated. “That stated, we did add a brand new FBC-specific weapon to this growth which can be utilized to take care of barely extra… paranatural entities. Estevez’s base weapons additionally deal a bit extra injury than Saga’s, so Taken enemies go down a little bit sooner.”
Alan Wake 2: The Lake Home launches on October 22 for PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, and PC. Treatment Leisure can even launch a free replace for the bottom sport so as to add an Help Mode, amongst different issues. Learn extra on that by right here.
