Coffee Stain Publishing and Ghost Ship Games have just revealed the details and release date of Deep Rock Galactic Season 02.
This second edition of the completely free Performance Pass marks the first new season since the game’s meteoric entrance onto PlayStation 5 this year. The award-winning co-op mining FPS has a community of over 10 million dwarves ready to drop into the mines of Hoxxes IV to take on a new robotic menace.
Arriving on Steam on April 28th and console on May 5th, 2022 Season 02: Rival Escalation features another completely free Performance Pass, a new enemy type to encounter, and exciting secondary weapons for each class. Among the new content for players to unlock, there is a significant update to the cosmetic system, as well as plenty of highly requested quality of life improvements.
Since launching in 2020, the multi-award-winning co-op mining shooter continues to go from strength to strength, and its new Seasons format enables brand new players and Deep Rock veterans to all find something new in the mines of Hoxxes IV.
The Performance Pass is back and better than before, with around twice as many bonuses up for grabs for employees uprooting the robotic menace down in the mines. Following the same format as Season 01, players can take part in any missions to rank up through levels of the Performance Pass to earn Scrip or complete the new special event waiting for them on Hoxxes IV. Once Scrip has been earned, unique Beards, Paintjobs, Helmets, Resource Caches, and Weapon Frameworks for all guns can be unlocked through the tree as the season progresses.
Players who haven’t managed to complete Season 01 need not worry about FOMO though, as any and all unlocked cosmetics will be scattered throughout Lost Packs, Cargo Crates, Matrix Cores, and the Shop in the game to obtain at a later time.
Season 02: Rival Escalation picks up where Season 01 left off, as the Rivals are stepping up their prospecting efforts on Hoxxes IV! To stop them in the Rival Signal season event, players have to race against the clock and oncoming bullets, interrupting the operations of the Rival Communications Router, obtaining the data cell within the router, and shutting it down before it combusts! But there’s more to worry about than just their communications. The Rivals have unleashed additional hordes of robots within the caves of Hoxxes, but don’t let that serve as a distraction because beyond that lies a new, deadly nemesis designed to lure miners in and hunt them down systematically with giant claws and deadly intent.
To fight off the swathes of Rival Robots and the Rival Nemesis lurking in Hoxxes IV, players will have access to four new secondary weapons, with one for each class of player. Gunners can employ the Armskore Coil Gun strong enough to break clean through solid rock, Engineers have the incinerating Shard Diffractor that will detonate anything in its path, Scouts are able to switch up between a wide selection of customized bolts with the Nishanka Boltshark X-80, and finally, Drillers can bring the heat by harnessing the power of the Colette Wave Cooker. These four new weapons all come equipped with full upgrade trees, weapon frameworks, and paint jobs to find, and around 24 brand-new weapon overclocks to be uncovered.
Season 02 also includes a brand-new “Robot Rebellion” DLC pack to deck out their weapons and armor in the remains of the rival robots defeated in Season 01. The shop is being updated, with the implementation of a new Cosmetic Mastery system and, Phazyonite, a new option for payment instead of Credits. This new currency can be earned by advancing in Cosmetic Mastery levels, and can also be acquired in the mines. This has been implemented to allow employees’ wages to go a little further when purchasing weapon upgrades, and more importantly: Beer.
Alongside all these additions, Season 02 also includes a number of bug fixes, tweaks, and behind-the-scenes improvements as always.
