Developer Volition has shared a brand new post-launch roadmap for its beleaguered Saints Row reboot, detailing a number of the free and paid content material coming earlier than the tip of August.
Volition’s newly launched roadmap marks the primary time the studio has mentioned further content material for the reboot since final October when, following a very bug-riddled launch, it introduced it will initially be prioritising “enhancements over new options”.
Now although, having launched plenty of important patches to deal with Saints Row’s most urgent points within the months since its launch final August, Volition is able to speak new stuff, beginning with a free Lifeless Island 2 cosmetics pack this April.
Issues get a bit extra attention-grabbing from Might, nevertheless, when Saints Row receives the primary of two promised new map districts (plus associated world encounters and actions) within the type of Sunshine Springs. This’ll be free to all gamers and arrives alongside a brand new photograph mode, a fight overhaul, and different, at the moment unspecified, additions.
Can also brings The Heist and The Hazardous, the primary of three content material drops for Saints Row’s paid Growth Go, that includes new story missions, occasions, cosmetics, and extra.
There is a second Growth Go launch – introducing a brand new solo mode Volition is asking Doc Ketchum’s Homicide Circus – in July, and that arrives alongside one other free replace bringing “new options, enhancements, and extra”.
Volition’s present roadmap involves a detailed in August with one other (at the moment unnamed) Growth Go launch and one other free replace, with the latter promising a second new district, plus different new options and enhancements – that are set to be revealed nearer to launch.
Eurogamer contributor Vikki Blake fairly preferred Volition’s Saints Row reboot when she reviewed it final August, writing that whereas it was unlikely to “set the world alight” – and regardless of some important bugs – it nonetheless held some “nice surprises”.
Nevertheless, in September, Embracer co-founder Lars Wingefors admitted he’d hoped the reboot would have obtained a “larger reception”.