Project Warlock II News — Road to Chapter 2 Part 7: Wargression Deep Dive #2
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Hey Warlocks!
Road to Chapter 2 continues with a second part of our Wargression Deep Dive! Last week we revealed a detailed description of fundamental upgrade categories such as attack, defense, and luck – you can jump back to our previous post here.
Last Friday was also very special for us because we launched Chapter 2 Playtest which allowed over 40 participants to test the whole 12 levels of Urd’s adventure. During 4 days of playtesting, we received over 1000 messages with feedback on our community Discord server and we are very thankful for every single one of them!
Coming back to the Wargression, today we would like to share with you new info on the remaining upgrade categories that will be featured in the development of your character build in Chapter 2. Those are Weapons, Magic and Poison.
Urd’s faithful dagger adds a new style of gameplay into the Project Warlock series and various upgrades make it even more powerful. As previously established, you can use it in two ways – stab or throw, both of which can be improved by Wargression.
Basic upgrades for a dagger influence its attack speed, the amount of throwable daggers available before cooldown or can extend the attack range. Going deeper into the system you can become a true blade virtuoso!
For instance, “Homing Blade” perk will let your thrown dagger seek a target on its own and “Phantom Slash” will send a wide cutting projectile that pierces through enemies!
Having your dagger equipped will also give you a chance to be more agile during the combat by utilizing “Dagger Dash’, another useful upgrade. The basic form of it will let you perform the dash forward when attacking and upgrading it further will allow it to dash in all directions.
The setting of Chapter 2 is gritty and unforgiving so elevating your gunslinger skills will also be a useful strategy in order to survive – and here come Pistol upgrades which will make you the fastest gun in the brutalist west!
Apart from increasing bullet speed, your fire rate and size of a magazine, you can also improve the performance of your aiming with scope to land (even more) brutal headshots.
What about some heavier stuff? You can count on “Dum-dum Bullets” which will increase the chance of dealing double damage against armored enemies. Another useful tip is to go for “Crystal Shot” upgrade which will add a little bit of Urds favorite type of magic into your gun – the first bullet in the clip will be a crystal one – it is always nice to have an extra type of damage at your disposal. .
SMG can give you a lot of advantage on the battlefield, even if you are pinned down by the whole horde of enemies.
Still, if you’re not satisfied with the basic performance, there are means to spice things up! With bullet speed and fire rate upgrades as your base, adding some crystal bullets into the mix will be a right decision – “Crystal Shot” upgrade will help you achieve it, allowing every 10th fired bullet to be a crystal projectile. Bearing in mind the incredible fire rate of SMG, it will significantly improve the overall damage of this weapon.
You can also tune up your accuracy by “Better Aim” perk or switch the mags in no time thanks to “Reload Speed” improvement.
This monster with two fire modes (single buckshot and crystal shards) can be even deadlier when you take your time and choose the right upgrades.
Next to classic reload speed, cooldown or piercing damage upgrades you can improve the strength of the crystal projectiles by choosing “Enhanced Crystals” – shards will be even more devastating.
What about getting some crazy combo of various benefits via a single upgrade? Invest in “Sawn Off Barrel” to increase almost every possible stat of this weapon.
The basic set of spells that you can have in Spell Book are freeze, fire and poison. Investing in its upgrades will open even more possibilities.
“Magic Scroll” and “Crystal Scroll” will unlock two new types of spells – magic and crystal attacks.
Having the full set of magic abilities in the book will let you boost its performance in various ways. “Awaiting Pain” gives you a chance to increase magic attack speed and “Wild Projectiles” will let you have more shots at your disposal.
Any fans of explosions? If you’re one, try “Spontaneous Combustion” which will make projectiles explode on hit!
In this category you will be able to increase the effectiveness of the magic abilities and tools available in your quick menu.
With upgrades for the Poison Grenade, you will be able to not only increase its damage but also extend the duration and radius of the poison cloud that it generates.
For Dagger Storm, you can count on a higher amount of daggers in the tornado, longer spell duration or regenerating throwable dagger if the monster will get killed.
When it comes to Crystal Sentry, you can boost its performance with better crystal damage, chance for piercing damage or a bouncing shot that will hit multiple enemies.
Apart from the Poison Grenade that can be available on your skill bar there are also other ways to take advantage of venomous attacks and skills via the Wargression system.
Poison upgrades can be very useful not only with just dealing damage but also when you need to very significantly weaken your opponents. One of those is “Poison Slowdown” which can influence the speed of movement of Urds foes. In addition, you can also count on “Weakened Arms” which will negatively impact their attack rate.
If you want to make things even more brutal, try out the “Poison Burst” – poisoned monstrosities will explode like mad!
That’s all for today’s update about the Wargression system. Also, once again, we would like to thank you all for your participation in our Chapter 2 playtests as well as sharing with us your opinions about its overall feeling, level design, weapons and more!
Also – please keep in mind that the Chapter 2 demo is available to play on Steam and GOG and your feedback is always appreciated.
See you in the next update!
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