Santa Monica Studio had promised that New Game Plus was coming to God of War Ragnarök after the Photo Mode patch, but didn’t specify precisely when. The developer has now launched that replace out of the blue and it not solely accommodates the brand new mode, but in addition much more gear and choices to additional change the expertise.
New Game Plus, as defined in nice element on the PlayStation Blog, provides gamers all of the weapons and tools that they had on the finish of the sport, together with the Draupnir Spear. However, areas that require the spear or the particular arrow varieties will probably be locked till the participant would usually unlock these areas in the primary questline.
New Game Plus isn’t simply the identical sport with the identical gear, although. New Skill Mods, Platinum Tier Labors, and Yggdrasil Dew drops in Nornir Chests imply gamers can additional modify leveled-up assaults within the ability tree, unlock new rewards after finishing duties, and juice up their bases stats much more, respectively.
There’s additionally extra armor for gamers to earn and experiment with. One of those is definitely one Kratos had at first of the sport: Armor of the Black Bear. This furry cloak flies off within the intro, however gamers can now equip it and can begin their New Game Plus run sporting it. It focuses on energy and protection and rewards last-second dodges by letting out a volley of Bifröst shards.
One of the opposite armor units strips the armor off Kratos. The Spartan Armor set has no perks or stats and is locked to the bottom degree to provide participant extra of a problem. It is on the market for buy on the sport’s store.
The Ares and Zeus units have additionally returned from the final God of War‘s New Game Plus mode and each have seen some slight visible tweaks. The Ares gear has a better probability to drop well being stones, which set off an explosion when Kratos stomps on them; a change from the final sport because it solely affected the Rage meter in that entry. The Zeus armor, nonetheless, is like its prior iteration and will increase melee and runic injury but in addition dials up the injury Kratos takes. The Ares armor is on the store, whereas gamers can unlock the Zeus armor by defeating Gná the Valkyrie Queen and finishing some Remnants of Asgard throughout New Game Plus.
Santa Monica Studio has additionally gone in and remixed 13 present armor units within the sport by including new colours for every of them. They may be bought on the store earlier than and utilized to any armor that been leveled as much as 9+. However, the brand new Berserker Armor coloration can solely be unlocked by as soon as once more beating the Berserker King on New Game Plus.
God of War Ragnarök is in an analogous scenario as God of War II, as each have been preceded by genre-shaking…
9+ can be the brand new degree cap for gear, which gives extra energy to the tools in query. Hitting this degree additionally yields a Gilded Coin that gamers can spend on new Enchantments. These Enchantments let gamers take perks from one armor set and apply them to a different, opening up the chances of what’s doable. Defeating the Berserker Souls on New Game Plus additionally yields extra Enchantments.
And whereas these buff Kratos, Santa Monica Studio has added Burdens that debuff him. For instance, the Burden of Evasion slows Kratos down after each roll. These may be proven off by means of a brand new consumer interface possibility that tosses the problem and outfitted Burdens on the display, so gamers can flex their accomplishments.
Kratos can be getting the brand new Spartan Aspis defend, one which was additionally a beauty alternative within the final sport. This defend has a well-recognized emblem on it and a tighter parry window, however offers extra injury to compensate.
The crew even switched up some enemy behaviors within the sport, too. The Berserker Souls, The Hateful, Ormstunga, and Valkyrie Queen Gná all have new patterns on New Game Plus. It doesn’t cease there because the two highest settings — Give Me No Mercy or Give Me God of War — each give bosses and mini-bosses Runic Armor, so gamers have to make use of Runic assaults extra strategically to win. Enemies can even now energy up on Give Me No Mercy along with Give Me God of War, so gamers need to maintain an eye fixed out to see who’s remodeling.
Lastly, the crew has added a black and white filter to the sport and altered across the enviornment on Niflheim. It has been expanded and now lets gamers customise who they will play as and who joins them. It’s doable to apply as Kratos or Atreus and accomplice up with Freya, Brok, Sindri, Angrboda, Ingrid, Thor, or Thrúd. And whereas not within the PlayStation Blog put up, the official patch notes clarify that gamers can alter Mimir, Hildisvíni, Lúnda, and Ræb’s expressions in Photo Mode and in addition skip cutscenes in New Game Plus.
This New Game Plus replace is just like the one which the 2018 sport received after launch, however way more superior. And like that 2018 replace, Ragnarök‘s New Game Plus replace doesn’t add any new trophies.
Santa Monica Studio has additionally not introduced that Ragnarök will probably be getting any extra content material updates after this (apart from trophy bug fixes the studio has already introduced). However, extra content material shouldn’t be doubtless since Game Director Eric Williams already informed gamers to not count on DLC for the sport. And apart from a patch that boosted efficiency on PlayStation 5, the unique didn’t obtain any large updates after getting New Game Plus.
