Return gets free "Ascension" update with co-op

Also, Housemarque Returnal expands an endless mode that promises a classic arcade experience.

Soon it is a year ago that Sony and Housemarque have published the PS5 exclusive Return - one of the best video games of the younger past, as we explain to you in our test. The Finnish developer could have long been fully dedicated to a new game, but he is not finished with Return. This proves the announcement of the "Ascension" updates that will appear this month.

Those updating offers two new game modes, with one of them rather a supplement to the main campaign: they can play in the coop in the future. Near the crash site as well as some other places in the game you will find a cronosis portal over which you either bring you another player in your world or even brought a so-called public cycle. Then you are shooting for two through the different biomes of atropos.

If you remove too far from each other, you will be teleported back to each other. So Housemarque wants to make sure that the focus is on the cooperative gameplay. You should feel responsible for the life of each other. In the right, you can revive each other, but this process requires some time. So you are still in the middle of the fight with a Horde of Aliens, you should have it hard to help the other Selene on the legs. Yes, right, of course, both players in Koop mode play the main character of Returnal. Thanks to the time-biting issue, that does not affect even and not weird, after all, you will find all the time about the corpses of other selenes.

The progress always depends on the host. So if you bring someone else and unlock a new BIOM with him, in which you have not yet done it in your own game level, you have to rework this access Solo again. However, you can keep logbook entries and xenoglyphs collected in Koop mode. In addition, your scout rank rises faster, the more often your other players hurry to help.

The second component of the "Ascension" update for return is the "Tower of Sisyphus" mode, named after the figure from Greek mythology. This is an endless mode with which Housemarque returns to his arcade roots. Your goal is to cleanse as many floors of the tower as possible from opponents. Of course, it will be more difficult to survive from level to level and as an additional motivation factor there are online leading lists. As in old arcade titles, there is a point multiplier that will expire as soon as you will be hit or no harm.

The "tower of the sisyphus" mode in return is very focused on the gameplay, but that does not mean that he does not attach any value to Story. The developers do not want to reveal too much yet, but they promise that they will receive another insight in selenes past.

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