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‘Friday the 13th: The Game’ Updating Perks System and Adding Legendary Perks
Gun Media just recently updated Friday the 13th: The Game to make Jason both scarier and deadlier, but their next update is all about surviving as a counselor.
More specifically, as detailed today on the forums, it’s about perks.
Direct from Gun Media…
The first thing we want to talk about is a slight reworking of the UI which is designed to help players who live with certain types of color blindness. Each perk, as well as the Perk Legend, will include a numerical value of 1 through 6 as a visual indicator of Perk rarity. 1 being for Poor Perks, while 6 will denote Legendary Perks.
Next up, let’s share some value changes that we are making to Perks.
Easy Listening – Radio proximity recharge rate boost:
- Old Value: 1-10%
- New Value: 10-40%
Motorboating – Boat movement speed increase
- Old Value: 1-15%
- New Value: 5-35%
Man at Arms – Weapon durability increase
- Old Value: 5-25%
- New Value: 5-15%
My Dads a Cop – Cop arrival time reduction
- Old Value: -5 – -30%
- New Value: -5 – -25%
Quiet Swimmer – Sense detection chance reduction
- Old Value: 1-25%
- New Value: 5-20%
Lead Foot – Car speed increase
- Old Value: 1-10%
- New Value: 5-20%
Aquanaut – Swimming speed increase
- Old Value: 1-15%
- New Value: 5-35%
Finally, we would like to introduce Legendary Perks. Legendary Perks have all the benefits of the Perks that you know and love, but they also include a Legendary Stat Bonus. A Legendary Stat Bonus is a small value increase to a predetermined stat.
For example: You could roll a Legendary Lead Foot Perk with +19 Car Driving Speed, -2 Boat Driving Speed, with a bonus of +4 Car Start Speed.
Or:
You could roll a Legendary Medic Perk with 2 Med Spray uses, an +8 Health Increase, +5 incoming attack damage, with a +3 to Repair Speed.
Bits and pieces of the cancelled DOOM 4 project have made their way online over the years in various forms, and it’s no exception with the latest batch of media. Per Video Games Chronicle, X users @Runhob and @WadOverdose, who previously had posted unreleased material from the cancelled shooter, over the weekend released more images, including a piece of concept art that until now had only been available in cropped images on Instagram.
@Runhob over the weekend posted the aforementioned concept art by concept artist Christian Piccolo, depicting an epic vision of Hell. The original piece had been posted to Piccolo’s Instagram back in 2017, but was obviously only a square piece of the original art. That in turn was followed by more images from an early build of DOOM 4, showing off a couple of weapons and the urban environment that had resulted in many referring to the game as “Call of Doom”, due to the derided Call of Duty inspirations.
Not to be outdone, @WadOverdose posted images of very early models of enemies from the game, including one referred to as a Combiner, which as @WasOverdose noted, would have used a similar merging mechanic that was seen in Cronos: The New Dawn.
All of this comes after last week’s “reset” by Xbox, which has resulted in layoffs and pivots by all of its studios, including DOOM developers id Software letting go 100 of its staff members.
Meanwhile, id has just released the first DOOM: The Dark Ages expansion in Revelations, which is available now on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and the PC via Steam.