So, does this mean that those of us who have made it further than Rome, and thus managed to tuck a few more tricks and such up Indy’s sleeve, will have an easy time of it? Well, no, actually. You see, the developers have been rather clever with the DLC’s implementation, and the Order of Giants will scale the difficulty depending on how far through the base game you are.
“Players who are at the end of the game don’t need to worry about the difficulty [being too easy] as actually we have a new system in place where players are dynamically scaled based on how far they progressed,” creative director Axel Torvenius and lead game designer Zeke Virant explained in an interview with IGN. “We know a lot of players are coming back from the endgame and would like to have a continuation of that difficulty, especially if they have health upgrades and a lot of abilities.”
What will happen, then, is if players have made it to the Vatican and Rome, but haven’t progressed any further into the game, they will enter the DLC on the “first tier of difficulty”. Then, if they have made it as far as Giza, the difficulty level will get bumped up to the second tier, while if they have gotten as far as Sukhothai the difficulty level will notch up to the third tier.
“From there we [can tune] the different amount of combos enemies can use, different amounts of health and also how many will gang up on you at the same time,” the developers explained.
Clever!
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle‘s Order of Giants DLC will feature “stunning new locations, intricate puzzles, terrifying new foes and more”, with the developer adding Indy will have to do what he can to “outwit a dangerous cult” while uncovering “the dark legacy of the Nephilim giants”.
The Order of Giants is arriving on 4th September, across Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC.
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