In Cult of the Lamb’s new Unholy Alliance replace, the Lamb is now not a lone wolf in sheep’s clothes. A fiendish new ally has joined the flock, heralding a darkish new age of cooperative evil. That’s proper: co-op is coming to your favourite cult sim! Unholy Alliance allows you to crawl dungeons, slay heretics, construct your cult, and search new powers with one other participant for the primary time. However how does it work?
In native co-op, the Lamb joins forces with the Goat: a darkish behorned presence summoned by blood and born in corruption. One participant inhabits the acquainted position of the Lamb, whereas the opposite sells their soul to the newly playable Goat, and collectively these fluffy crusaders can slice and cube their approach via the entire Cult of the Lamb marketing campaign. Not solely that, however you and a buddy can get pleasure from recent 2-player twists on present minigames, together with fishing and knucklebones.
Then when it’s time to embark on a campaign, the pair can use a devilish collection of co-op targeted relics to smite their enemies in new and attention-grabbing methods. Equip the Wishbone of the Marbais relic and when one participant takes injury, the opposite might be granted invincibility for 10 valuable seconds. Or take into account the Cross Eye of the Crow co-op relic, which spawns an evil eye that travels between each gamers and causes important quantities of injury to any enemies it touches.
The Lamb and the Goat may also wield the ability of co-op tarot playing cards. With the ability of The Rivals, every participant will deal additional injury after they’re preventing far-off from one another. Bonds of Battle connects them with a beam of darkish vitality, damaging enemies who contact it. Equip The Synchronous and also you’ll each deal important hits should you each assault an enemy on the identical time in excellent concord.
There’s extra to find – together with many extra co-op tarot playing cards and relics – in Unholy Alliance. However this could provide you with an concept of the sort of co-op chaos you and a good friend could cause whenever you be part of forces because the Lamb and the Goat.
The replace additionally provides new cult buildings, together with a nursery for nurturing as much as three infants at a time, a sequence of recent quests, and an enormous array of recent follower traits to make your cult extra various, unpredictable, and weirder than ever earlier than.
Cultists with the Evening Owl trait will sleep all day and work at evening. In case you’re questioning why a follower is snoozing throughout the day, and also you see a moon icon above their head, this is the reason. Followers will be impressed by a profitable mission, returning to the cult to unfold positivity. Or they are often so disturbed by the horrors they witnessed, they’ll be frozen in terror and enter a catatonic state.
Unholy Alliance is out there right this moment on Xbox Sequence X/S and Xbox One, and is free to all house owners of Cult of the Lamb. The Goat awaits your presence.