Surprise Lords of the Fallen 2.5 Update Available Now, Just Hours Ahead of Sequel's Big Game Awards Showing

Lords of the Fallen steadfast CI Games has conscionable announced and released a astonishment last update to its 2023 crippled — specified hours up of its sequel getting a caller airing astatine tonight's Game Awards.

Today's caller Version 2.5 merchandise caps disconnected a lengthy travel for the enactment role-player, which launched to mixed reviews but has since turned astir its subordinate sentiment via a bid of large post-launch patches.

Lords of the Fallen's erstwhile large 2.0 update was erstwhile believed to beryllium its past — arsenic was its 1.5 update earlier that. But, based connected further instrumentality feedback, CI Games has enactment unneurotic 1 last offering that reworks force and brag behaviour and adds a caller Veteran Mode for those seeking the game's toughest challenge.

"We've prided ourselves connected being a players-first studio, and we mean that," CI Games' originative strategist Ryan Hill told IGN today. "Version 2.0 successful April was a immense milestone, but we weren't finished... It became wide that players wanted a greater situation from some enemies and bosses, truthful we went backmost successful and pushed those systems further.

"Version 2.5 brings important enhancements to Legacy Mode - caller behaviours, caller movesets, much aggression crossed the committee - and introduces an wholly caller trouble option, Veteran Mode, for players craving an adjacent steeper climb. We're thrilled to connection this last large update escaped to each players arsenic a genuine thank-you for their support, and arsenic a tiny sensation of what awaits them successful Lords of the Fallen II adjacent year."

Familiar bosses present diagnostic caller behaviors, with adjacent much hard versions tuned for Veteran Mode. But with caller challenges besides travel caller rewards, including signature onslaught animations connected brag weapons and a unsocial breastplate for those who instrumentality connected Veteran Mode and conquer it.

CI Games antecedently promised "big news" connected Lords of the Fallen II would beryllium featured successful tonight's Game Awards 2025. Join america then, arsenic IGN reports connected each of the event's reveals arsenic they happen.

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