Deep Rock's third season promises bombs, boils, and beards.
, the market's premier space-mining dwarf simulator, enters its third season on Steam's experimental servers today. The instalment, called Plaguefall, brings with it a bevy of add-ons and updates, plus"the sinister and highly transmissible Rockpox infecting the caverns of Hoxxes IV," which is certainly a series of words.
It all sounds quite gross. Players will have to avoid plague-bearing meteors as they strike Hoxxes and infect the resident Glyphids with"putrid boils," then use a cleaning rig to sterilise the area and extract valuable plague hearts from the meteor's centre. On the plus side, you are getting four new grenades—which electrocute, enflame, slice, and shred respectively—to tackle all this stuff with.
Plaguefall also sees the return of Deep Rock Galactic's performance pass , a 100-tier tree of unlockable cosmetics, resources, and weapon frameworks. It's all free, at least in real-world terms: you buy everything on it with in-game scrip that you earn from completing seasonal challenges and gathering up plague hearts.
The performance pass also includes the tantalising promise of"unique beards," which is a bullet point I want to see on the features list of all videogames going forward.