Soulframe's latest major update is a broadside of pirate weapons, class abilities and outfits, plus falling alien skytowers

Flintlock, banal and 2 flaming barrels of grog

Pensive and flamboyant action-RPG Soulframe has conscionable received a caller update that adds a pirate class, unneurotic with rapiers, cutlasses, and a flouncy sailor's outfit. The people successful question is the Duelo pact, which boasts of "swashbuckling abilities": these see an artful dodge that spawns a decoy phantom, an enemy-slowing sword flourish, and the aged classical 'flintlock to the face' manoeuvre. They're besides introducing a haunted shipwreck environment, positive a clump of caller enemies, different siege infiltration activity, and the ever-popular quality-of-life improvements.

"WHY ARE ALL GAMES ABOUT PIRATES NOW," I lamented to James, earlier starting this article. James ignored me, being engrossed successful his ain portion connected forthcoming Tortuga-tender Corsair Cove, but the ample greenish parrot connected his enarthrosis screeched "pier pressure!" Mortally wounded by the pun, I staggered crossed the swaying platform to the Captain's cabin, lone to beryllium knocked level by a barrage of yo-hoing from Ollie's on-going crippled of Windrose. Flopping astir connected the planks similar a walloped albatross, I cried retired to Mark for a restorative glug of rum, but alas, we've not seen him for days; helium was past spotted paddling successful the spectral aftermath of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced.

Soulframe has benignant of been successful 'early access' for years, but this being a crippled from the jargon-gargling, poesy-imposing creators of Warframe, they don't really telephone it "early access". Instead, each update is simply a "prelude". The 14th "Duelo" prelude introduces a caller Fable oregon quest, Wreck Of Mestra Carmo, which packs you disconnected to the briny bluish to situation a missing maestro fencer. To implicit the quest, you'll request to research shipwrecks and find the pieces of a Duelo Ribbon. This grants you entree to a bid of shipboard duels. From said duels you volition extract the means to assemble yourself a pirate outfit.

If you hatred pirates, perchance due to the fact that THERE ARE SO MANY PIRATE GAMES RIGHT NOW, the Duelo update besides harbours contains a fewer bits for the landlubbers. There's a Mirifuir Castle Siege Encounter, which sees you sabotaging the rites of Ode'n Conductors astatine the acme of a clifftop fortress (and also, gathering the materials for Espadarte, 1 of the caller swords). You tin besides brave the shattered depths of the Fallen Ode Skytower, a citadel afloat of wriggly alien bastards that has dropped from the heavens. There are 3 different caller weapons to extract from these places and things, including a curved ichor leaf prised from the guts of a freshly incubated boss, the Rovgot Wyrm.

"Explore and experimentation with the latest quality-of-life features, including 5 further Votive broadside quests astatine World Tree occupation boards, a reworked diary UI and codex menu, and a revamped combat loop for Runes’ powerfulness activation – present tied to fully-charged dense attacks," adds the property release. You tin besides present observe "lost histories" for an ancestor character, Orlick, successful the game's Nightfold hub. Read much successful the afloat Prelude changelog, which is some voluminous and partially written successful rhyme. Ah, Soulframe, speaking arsenic an obnoxious purple probro myself I bash bask your fondness for wanking it up.

Topic for the comments thread: I'm fuzzy connected what quality-of-life means these days? I consciousness similar adding quests counts arsenic much than conscionable improving the player's acquisition of the crippled successful general. Other taxable for the comments thread: WHY ALL THE PIRATE GAMES? Did a clump of you developers big a Black Sails marathon astatine GDC 3 years ago?