Construct a Shiny Future* in Frostpunk 2’s Fractured Utopias!
(*definitions of ‘Shiny Future’ could range – ask your native faction consultant).
Because the launch of Frostpunk 2, consideration has principally been on the ‘Story’ mode, the long-awaited follow-up to Frostpunk’s ‘New Dwelling’ state of affairs, which focuses on the destiny of New London thirty years after the Nice Storm.
As a lot as we’re happy with the six-part story, it considerably overshadowed the ‘Utopia Builder’ mode. Not like the primary Frostpunk, the place the ‘Limitless Mode’ was added in a patch to reply the favored participant demand to, effectively, play endlessly, Frostpunk 2 was engineered from the bottom up as a sandbox to inform new emergent tales. In ‘Utopia Builder’, gamers are tasked with main a brand new metropolis made up of various communities and factions in pursuit of the titular, elusive ‘utopia’.
The ‘Fractured Utopias’ DLC logically doubles down on this theme, by giving every faction distinctive instruments main as much as their very best society. Right here a peek at the way it works, and how one can make it give you the results you want and your faction:
Every faction now has a ‘Utopia Tree’, with twelve distinctive nodes per faction unlocking faction hubs, legal guidelines, and a flurry of recent perks and talents. Transfer the Metropolis within the ideological route a faction needs and they’ll reward you with factors to spend money on their Utopia Tree. Unlock all of the nodes in a single tree and convey your faction’s imaginative and prescient to life (together with remodelling the town to their liking by changing sufficient housing districts to their wants and constructing sufficient of their hubs), and you’ll eternally unite your Metropolis behind their imaginative and prescient, fixing Pressure.
Whether or not you need to usher within the daybreak of a ‘New Humankind’ with the Proteans, crave establishing a ‘Machine Metropolis’ by the ability of compute with the Technocrats, or pave the way in which for any of the opposite six factions’ promised lands, ‘Fractured Utopias’ will assist you to reshape your society in contemporary new (did somebody say twisted?) methods.
Clearly, everybody’s utopia is another person’s dystopia, so should you’re not fairly able to indulge factions, we now have your again too The free content material replace we’re launching alongside the DLC provides 13 so-called ‘reasonable legal guidelines’ so that you can try to tread the center means. Go all of them to try to appease the Metropolis.
That’s solely a sneak peak of what we cooked up in Fractured Utopias. All this new content material clearly comes with over 100 new penalties and narrative occasions which can demand the kind of troublesome choices the Frostpunk IP obtained you used to. And should you’re one in every of these individuals who solely click on on selections with blue gameplay impact textual content, then have enjoyable making your mattress and sleeping in it. However no matter you do, bear in mind: the Metropolis should not fall!
Frostpunk 2: Fractured Utopias
11 bit studios
$12.99
The primary DLC for Frostpunk 2 embraces the core idea of Utopia Builder mode, giving it extra construction, increasing its scope, and emphasizing the burden of the participant’s selections. New mechanics give every faction a daring ideological objective – and methods to pursue it. However a dream of an ideal society by no means comes with no value.
Every faction now envisions its personal distinctive Utopia, structured right into a tree and powered by affinities. As you earn their belief, you will unlock specialised legal guidelines, buildings, and talents that reinforce their distinct identification. Unlock all nodes of the Utopia Tree to enact a singular imaginative and prescient on the town – binding your total society to a single path ahead and completely resolving all of the Pressure.
Your metropolis could not fall. However whose future will it serve?
Key New Options:
8 distinctive faction Utopias, every with new programs, instruments, and endgame
12 distinctive unlocks (legal guidelines / new HUBs / Skills, and so on.) per faction
8 new faction hubs (1 per faction)
8 new faction-specific variants of housing district
Over 100 new narrative occasions
2 premium Tales: “Doomsayers” and “Plague”
1 new map
