Enter the Gungeon’s last ever content update will arrive on Switch, Xbox One, PS4, and PC on April 5th, developer Dodge Roll Games has announced, marking three years since the game’s initial release.
Fittingly, this final update is titled A Farewell to Arms, and it adds a slew of new features to the already wonderfully meaty rogue-like bullet-hell shooter.
For starters, there’re two new playable characters (or Gungeoneers as they’re known in-game), in the form of The Paradox and The Gunslinger. These will be joined by “dozens” of new guns and items, a new secret floor with its own boss, plus a new NPC known as Bowler, linked to the new community-inspired Rainbow Mode.
This sees players embarking on a trip through the Gungeon, with a twist. Here, players can select one gun or item from a special Rainbow chest at the start of each floor. It’s important to choose wisely, however, as that’s all you’ll get, aside from regular pick-ups and Master Rounds.
Which is to say that A Farewell to Arms is a surprisingly substantial offering, given that Dodge Roll initially pitched it as a “smaller” free update to conclude its time with Enter the Gungeon, when it announced it was cancelling plans for paid DLC, due to development fatigue.
In a post on the PlayStation Blog, designer Dave Crooks wrote, “This is the final update [and] the content included carries the weight of the end of an arc, the very legacy of the game. That is to say: we wanted to make sure Enter the Gungeon went out with a bang.”
A Farewell to Arms will be free to all owners of Enter the Gungeon when it arrives on April 5th.
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