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Head back Into The Breach with today’s free Advanced Edition updateNew mechs and challenges await across the timelines
New mechs and challenges await across the timelines
Into the Breach: Advance Edition Update Trailer!Into The Breach: Advanced Edition is a hefty free update for the sci-fi strategy classic.Watch on YouTube
Into the Breach: Advance Edition Update Trailer!
So far, I’ve spotted two new pilots: Adam and Kai. Adam has a big burly ginger beard, while Kai’s flexing an awesome blue haircut. Almost every part of Into The Breach will be getting a spruce up with fresh stuff to try. Perhaps the most intriguing part of the Advanced Edition update is the ‘Unfair’ difficulty mode, which chucks the tricksy Alpha Vek monsters into the game much earlier and more frequently. “Strategic losses are inevitable,” say Subset. Don’t get too attached to any of your pilots.
Never fear though, because there’s some new squads and mechs to counter the updated enemies and bosses with. First up are the Mist Eaters Squad, who throw down a smokescreen to obscure your units from the enemy and buy time for repairs. A trio of fresh mechs to pilot includes the Thruster, which increases damage the further it travels to attack, the enemy-manipulating Control, and the Smog mech that wields an area-of-effect smoke attack that heals allies too.
We love Into The Breach. It’s still ourbest strategy gamerecommendation, just pipping Subset Games other excellent gameFTL: Faster Than Light. Matt got so into, erm, Into The Breach that he felt like he’dbreached reality. “Yesterday someone at the pub had their chair perched in front of a step, which meant I couldn’t follow the conversation because I was too busy thinking about how he’d tumble if I launched a rock behind him,” he said.
Alex Spencer and Alec (RPS in Peace) both wrote about who they thought was the game’sbest mech pilot, time-travel researcherIsaac Jones. Alec also tried to persuade us that all the game’s timeline-hopping makes players intohistory’s greatest monster.
The Into The Breach: Advanced Edition update is out today, July 19th. You can pick up the base game onSteam,GOGand theEpic Games Storefor £11/$15/€15. It’s also on consoles, and Android and iOS for Netflix subscribers.
