Skydance’s Behemoth acquired its newest patch on all platforms, addressing what the studio considers a “controversial” reception to its fight.
Out there now on Quest, PS VR2 and PC VR, fantasy action-adventure recreation Skydance’s Behemoth acquired its newest main replace as initially promised earlier than final week’s launch. That includes over 1000 Quest-specific fixes alongside a wider raft of adjustments throughout all platforms, Skydance Video games took this second to handle the sport’s reception relating to fight.
So let’s minimize straight to it: Fight has been controversial. Loads of folks find it irresistible as designed, so we’re not going to transform it. However we additionally heard reviews from gamers who have been pissed off by issues like stamina drain, parrying challenges, and slender home windows for dodging assaults. Armed together with your suggestions and our personal notes on issues we’d like to regulate and enhance, we’ve fine-tuned our methods to make stamina, parrying, and dodging extra forgiving.
This consists of an non-obligatory “Freestyle Mode” that additional reduces fight stamina drain, although climbing stamina stays unaffected. Skydance states that is at present marked as being in “beta” as a result of it is nonetheless being examined. Different listed adjustments embrace development blocker fixes, enhancements to two-handed weapons, rebalancing for mini bosses and the Tenderfoot recreation issue, extra particular tutorials, stage updates, and extra.
You may try full patch notes for all platforms right here, although be warned this web page does comprise spoilers. On Steam, stated spoilers have been clearly hidden on the replace’s information web page. Come 2025, Skydance confirmed its present plans embrace “launching Area Mode 1.0, continued refinements to stability and efficiency, and possibly even just a few surprises.”
As for UploadVR’s evaluation, I am at present engaged on this and I am aiming to share our full complete ideas subsequent week. Till then, you possibly can try our earlier first impressions of Skydance’s Behemoth from our video producer, Don Hopper, and our latest livestream the place we encountered a number of the now-fixed points.
Skydance’s Behemoth is out now on Quest, PS VR2, Steam and Rift.