GamesFPSWitchfireSoulslike shooter Witchfire gets massive early access update: New classes, content, events, and they finally fixed CalamitiesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Witchfire has been in early access on the Epic Games Store since September 2023, and today it got its first major update, which adds a pile of new content and aims to address a couple of the biggest complaints about the game, difficulty scaling and “Calamities.”
Witchfire’s difficulty scaling has been nerfed “slightly” through the addition of a new feature called Gnosis, which will allow players to “over-level” to a small extent without triggering an increase in enemy difficulty. This is also a very welcome change: The original system tied difficulty to player level, which made it far too easy to level up too quickly and run face-first into a wall of pain.
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The new content additions are also a big deal. Six new Souls-style character classes are being added along with five new weapons, three new Calamity types (including the Ghost Galleon Calamity the update is named for), four new spells, 10 new enemies, a new shop vendor, new events, raids on witch vaults, new magical items and traps, and of course all sorts of bug fixes, gameplay adjustments, and quality of life improvements.
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It’s a very big update, and I’m eager to dive into it to see how all these changes and additions come together: I really enjoyed the time I spent with Witchfire after it first came out (except for the boss fights, which Iloathe as a matter of principle) but the limitations of early access were evident in the relatively small number of things to do, and the ways you could do them. Unfortunately, while this update is clearly a big move toward the 1.0 release of Witchfire, there’s still no sign of a full launch date.
After some struggles with last-second technical issues, Witchfire’s Ghost Galleon Update is now live. The full patch notes, and “sort of a guide” to what’s new, are available attheastronauts.com.
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