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Dead Cells: Fatal Falls gives us more good excuses for another run

Dead Cells: Fatal Falls is the latest DLC out now for the supremely stylish mix of action-platforming and metroidvania elements in Dead Cells.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/dead-cells-fatal-falls-gives-us-more-good-excuses-for-another-run

Dead Cells' Fatal Falls DLC launches with a new anime style short

Dead Cells' second paid DLC has arrived, bringing with it a flying sword friend and a charming new animated short to introduce us all to the new biomes and characters arriving in this update. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to play the new Fatal Falls DLC.

The clip begins with our hero, The Beheaded, frolicking (and murdering) through the sunlit countryside with his new friend, a little grub wearing a cute bow. This idyllic situation is short-lived, unfortunately, as the grub jumps onto a mushroom cap that also happens to be a landmine. The Beheaded is heartbroken, and can't even find joy in slicing up the enemy mooks who assault him as he trudges along. He doesn't even notice the arrival of a curious onlooker, a little sword with bat wings that develops a massive crush on him.

That's until The Beheaded comes across the one responsible for planting the explosive mushrooms: our new nemesis, The Scarecrow. Realising he needs assistance, The Beheaded finally acknowledges the loyal little bat-sword.

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Streaming the Dead Cells Fatal DLC live!

Hey everyone,

We've got some streamers to show you the new Fatal Falls DLC while the devs are busy, hope you enjoy it!

Cheers,
EE & MT

Fatal Falls DLC out now!

Hi everyone,

We are excited to announce that the Fatal Falls DLC is now officially available, giving you two extra mid-game biomes with new enemies, weapons, traps, lore rooms and a green-fingered boss!

Our traditional animated trailer by Bobby Prod has just landed too, introducing the new Brutality pet who's maybe a little too clingy for the Beheaded...

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That should have given you some idea of what's in the DLC (basically more cartoon violence, as everyone was expecting), but if you want more visuals of what to expect in the DLC then check out our VLOG below. If you'd prefer to read the highlights and then discover the content for yourself just skip right on past :)

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[h2]New levels[/h2]
[h3]Fractured Shrines[/h3]

Home to a vicious pagan cult, these floating islands are connected with fragile ledges that are littered with traps and deadly drops.

Expect giant snakes lobbing spears at you, even bigger statues wielding mighty axes and frenetic platform fights.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it

[h3]Undying Shores[/h3]

Descend a cliff caught in the middle of a storm while fighting off undead healers and strange experiments.

The caves might offer you some refuge, but I wouldn’t count on it...

Insert Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme here

[h3]The Mausoleum[/h3]

This ruin is now the home of a gardener who adores flowers and mushrooms. Unfortunately you are neither of those things…

[h2]Weapons[/h2]
Seven new weapons can be found in these regions, including our new Brutality pet ‘Serenade’. This sarcastic sword will fly around hacking at enemies until you call it to your hand to deal crits to the monsters it's already weakened.

Others include:

The Ferryman's Lantern, a combo melee/ranged weapon that harvests souls from melee kills which you can then fire as projectiles. Spooky.

Channel you inner Zeus with Lightning Rods which call lightning bolts to smite anything lurking in between the rods you've placed in the ground.

Snake Fangs that teleport you to the nearest enemy to inflict melee & poison damage, opening up some speedy slashing gameplay. Speedrunners rejoice!

The Iron Staff parries melee attacks and the combo after a successful parry inflicts criticals. Basically you get to combo critical hit a stunned enemy which ain't so bad...

[h2]How much is it?[/h2]
Pricing is $4.99/4,99€ (or equivalent). Like The Bad Seed, this will help support further development of the game while Motion Twin work on their next project. By the way, one of our free updates will be coming shortly with some heavy-hitting weapons, mutations and tweaks to Malaise.

If you haven’t tried the game yet and are reading this for some reason, then the main game is on sale right now with a 50% discount. A bundle of the main game and both paid DLCs is also on offer with a 15% discount if you want to go all in.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1451460/Dead_Cells_Fatal_Falls/

Please give us any feedback you have about the DLC in the comments or on any of our social channels!

That’s it, we hope you enjoy the DLC and we’ll be back very soon!

Cheers,
Matt, Evil Empire and Motion Twin

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Dev Stream at 3pm CET & others from 6pm

Hey,

Quick announcement that we'll be doing some Dead Cells streaming from 3pm to 6pm to celebrate the release of the Fatal Falls DLC today.

It'll be on Twitch, in the community hub here (broadcasts section) and on our social media channels - I'll try and post links here when we're live:

Steam Twitch YouTube Twitter

Come hang out, ask questions and laugh at our noobiness (is that a word?)

After that we'll have some actual streamers following on after us, including VeeDotMe!

Hope to see you there,
Matt