At the time of writing, I’ve played 90 hours. I checked my save file upon booting up Bloodborne again, once “The Old Hunters” was installed, and I had played sixty-five hours. I even spent several hours farming a million blood echoes to level up and I still didn’t win. I tried Bolt Paper, Fire Paper, Beast-Blood Pellets, all manner of Rune combinations, different weapons and more and I still could not achieve victory. Not the first, nor the seventieth time I tried. I summoned the new NPC Old Hunters for assistance. I am a shell of a man after playing and unfortunately not progressing very far after twenty-five very, very difficult hours.Īs you’ve no doubt seen if you’re a fan of Bloodborne, Ludwig (who’s mentioned in the title multiple times) is the first boss of the expansion. I could not beat him. But now, I empathise with Steve because Bloodborne’s expansion “The Old Hunters” has absolutely broken me. I relished the challenge and I finished with two of the three endings curse those umbilical cords. I had never been one for the Souls series, but I really clicked with Bloodborne, and got pretty good at it too. Same with Father Gascoigne, Blood-Starved Beast, Vicar Amelia and so on. I even revelled in a bit of schadenfreude as I had blitzed past that boss with ease. If you need a little more help with the new DLC, our Bloodborne: The Old Hunters guide is live now.Earlier this year when Editor-in-Chief Steve reviewed Bloodborne’s base game and couldn’t get past the Cleric Beast, I can admit I had a bit of a chuckle. The giant patch adds new NPCs, access to the League, and improves matchmaking. In some areas you'll have the option of summoning two NPCs or one NPC and one co-op player.īloodborne has already received a 9GB update today paving the way for The Old Hunters expansion. You'll also be able to summon NPCs to fight alongside you, even in Chalice Dungeons, by using a new item called the Old Hunter Bell. "Upon successfully completing a coop session, you'll receive the 'Vermin' which you must crush to increase your points and therefore your position on the League leaderboard." "Once you have memorised the 'Impurity' rune, you will be able to access League ranking screens," producer Masaaki Yamagiwa explained. You join this by meeting Summon Master Valtr in the shack right of the first lamp in the Forbidden Forest where he'll offer you the Impurity rune. There's also some new details about the new League covenant. Unleash the beast!Īnother cool addition is the Beast's Embrace rune, which grants boosted transformation effects when wielding a beast weapon, i.e. As such, you power it up by thrusting it into your chest. There's talk of a couple new weapons, including a portable machine gun (based on the stationary turret in Old Yharnam) along with something called a Bloodletter, a weapon that feeds off the blood of its wielder. Some new details about the DLC are revealed on the PlayStation Blog. With the Eye of a Blood-Drunk Hunter you'll now be taken to an all new area: The Hunter's Nightmare. Stand next to the tree and wait for an invisible claw to grab you. Head to Oedon Chapel and take the left exit to the square.Go to the Hunter's Dream and examine a new messenger at the foot of the stairs (where you first get a weapon at the game's start) to receive the Eye of a Blood-Drunk Hunter.Defeat the boss of the Cathedral Ward and examine the skull in the back of the room to trigger the cinematic turning the time of day into night.Bloodborne: The Old Hunters' DLC is due on Tuesday, 24th November, and here's how to access it: Now I have a machine gun.
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