Today, Deep Rock Galactic enforcers Coffee Stain Publishing and Ghost Ship Games have revealed the full details of Season 03: Plaguefall as it launches on Steam Experimental. The live update is set to drop on Steam on November 3rd, and on Xbox and PlayStation from November 17th. Season 03: Plaguefall sees the sinister and highly transmissible Rockpox infecting the caverns of Hoxxes IV.
Multiple new in-game encounters have been added, with new enemy types, and challenges to overcome. To prevent any dwarves from calling in sick, Mission Control has provided four new grenades to keep the pox at bay. To top it all off, Season 03 brings back the fan-favourite, entirely free Performance Pass chock-full of cosmetics, resources and credits for dedicated miners to unearth.
Clean up on Hoxxes IV
With infected meteors predicted to strike Hoxxes, miners will need to evacuate from the landing zone and brace for impact. These meteors carry with them a sickly contagion called Rockpox, infecting both the Glyphid Grunts and Glyphid Praetorian with putrid boils that must be destroyed. However, eradicating these infected creatures means nothing if the Rockpox can spread. Upon impact, players must call down a cleaning apparatus and ensure that the area is sterilised, extract the plague hearts from the meteor and dispose of them. As always, with great danger, comes great rewards…
Performance Pass: Plague edition
Following in the footsteps of Season 01 and 02, the Season 03 Performance Pass offers players 100 tiers of unlockable content — all for free. Hard-working employees of Deep Rock Galactic will be rewarded with a trove of goodies; from cosmetics, like unique beards, paint jobs, and helmets, to Resource Caches, and Weapon Frameworks. All of this can be unlocked by that sweet, sweet company Scrip on the patented company cosmetics tree, earned through completing season challenges and collecting Plague Hearts.
What a blast, new grenades!
The company provisions don’t stop there! To fend off this new, intangible threat are something a bit more tangible – explosives. Four new grenades accompany Season 03, with one for each class of dwarf. The Springloaded Ripper, which sports not one, not two but three rows of razor blades allows Drillers to grind up anything in its path. The Scout gets multiple hits in with the boomerang-like Voltaic Stun Sweeper. New opportunities emerge for Gunners to make it rain bullets by detonating the Tactical Leadburster. To close out these incendiary additions, Engineers take inspiration from last season’s rivals with the Shredder Swarm, which disperses a horde of shredders.
Finally, Ghost Ship Games has also launched a brand new “Biohazard Pack” cosmetic DLC, a collection of somewhat-passable protective gear to prevent any infections in Season 03. You can check out what’s included in the trailer
