Prowl stealthily on the rooftops or roam the streets of Blackreef under a hail of bullets. Find a hidden entrance or barge in through the front door. There are many ways to achieve your goals in Deathloop. Our target in this expansive look at the game is visionary Aleksis “The Wolf” Dorsey. Watch Colt infiltrate his well-guarded evening and bring it down in this extended first look at Deathloop, with comments from Dinga Bakaba, game director at Arkane Lyon.
Deathloop will launch for console exclusively on PlayStation 5 on September 14, 2021.
Tips for mastering Blackreef Island
If you’ve paid close attention to this gameplay, you might have noticed some handy tips for dealing with Blackreef and its many obstacles.
The writing is on the wall… and in the air… and everywhere
All over Blackreef, you’ll notice posts for Colt. Often times they seem like helpful advice or guidance, but sometimes the messages are disjointed or confusing. They’ll start to make more sense as you uncover more of the island’s hidden secrets, but you’ll learn to trust them from the first moments of your Blackreef adventure.
Watch and listen
Learning from each loop is essential to master the island and discover its secrets. Of course, there is the valuable information regarding the visionaries and their routines, but there are also smaller conversations taking place all over the island. If you slow down and pay attention, you might learn something useful. Like, maybe something a careless eternalist blurted out through a backdoor into Aleksis’ party?
If at first you don’t succeed …
… Mix it up a bit. Experiment with different styles of play. Maybe some areas or missions are more suited to a stealthy, panther-like approach, while others are just begging for the glare of an explosive entrance. You are in a time loop. Play and try something new.
Make their power yours
In the extended gameplay, you saw Colt pick up something after killing Aleksis. It was an enhancement to his Karnesis ability, which allowed him to throw people like dolls. Killing Visionaries will always earn you a huge reward, whether it’s a new ability or a powerful upgrade to an ability you already have, so it never hurts to kill them more than once. time. You can keep your favorite abilities and upgrades with our next tip.
Save that residue
As you progress through Deathloop, you will eventually discover something called Residuum when you take out the Eternalists and Visionaries. Once unlocked, Residuum can be used between loops to lock down your favorite abilities or pieces of gear, meaning that once you’ve unlocked something, you won’t have to unlock it again if you spend Residuum on it. ‘add to your arsenal permanently.
Reprise
Reprise will be one of your closest allies on Blackreef. Thanks to this ability that you unlock at the start of the game, death is not an automatic restart. If you are killed you will have two chances to backtrack without relaunching the loop. Die a third time, however, and the loop will end. It’s worth noting that time only goes back for Colt when you spend a Rework. As you’ve seen in the extended gameplay, everything else on Blackreef is unaffected by Reprise, meaning any enemies you killed before being downed are still dead.
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