For those who, like me, have been maintaining with Highguard, properly, there’s excellent news. Regardless of final week’s studio layoffs and the radio silence afterwards, Wildlight Leisure’s hero shooter has snuck out a brand new content material drop. It features a new map and raiding merchandise, in addition to new mounts that seem like Dungeons & Dragons‘ Owlbears. However the actual pocket of hope is a brand new mode the builders are teasing based mostly round what Highguard does finest: raids. “This patch is only content material targeted, with a model new Base and a strong new Raid Software added to the sport, together with new choices within the Retailer,” learn the patch notes on Steam. “We’re additionally engaged on subsequent week’s patch, which we goal to deliver a brand new recreation mode targeted on the Raid expertise, in addition to some steadiness changes to weapons, amongst different issues.” The “Raid expertise,” for folk who bounced off Highguard at launch or haven’t given it a strive, is when one staff is breaching a base and attempting to plant bombs on aims to blow it up. There’s a little bit of Rainbow Six Siege sprinkled in with destructible partitions and devices that help with breaching, together with zip-lines you possibly can shoot out from a siege tower to shortly get behind enemy traces. It’s often the most effective a part of any match and is the place the actual promise of Highguard begins to interrupt by. A brand new mode that serves that up in a extra concentrated type may work very well. Wildlight nonetheless hasn’t given an replace on simply how the previous content material roadmap is being modified or scrapped, however that new mode is meant to reach subsequent week. Within the meantime, nevertheless, this week’s patch will add the Cloudbreach map which takes place on the launchpad for a large airship, and the Lockpick, a brand new merchandise that allows you to shoot a dart at doorways and home windows to take management of them away from the enemy throughout raids. A purple variant will even add an electrical shock that zaps enemies close by. Plus there’s new Moonbruin Mounts which look cool, although good luck getting anybody to spend cash on Highguard proper now.
