Does the watcher have any special abilities?

[defender]

Like the title says.

Can the watcher do anything new or does it just just add whole bunch of new areas?

[SageisNIce]

their ability is being cute and black, and watching you in your sleep.....
(i actually don't know lol)

[defender]

I think this dlc just added new lore and areas

[Byzz]

unless they get some abilities similar to saint near the end of the campaign, they dont have any

[defender]

Better start getting to max karma then

[mika]

yes you need to visit at least echos

[White Rider]

Originally posted by mika:

yes you need to visit at least echos

Visit 1 and things get weird. Visit 2 for a neat little gift. Visit 3 and [REDACTED]

[Rypolium]

Here's my message to another board:

Three is where stuff gets really weird. I've found that there are actually only three echos you can visit. all of the other ones are blocked off with Rot. The available ones are the Chimney Canopy one, the Farm Arrays one (via outskirts), and the Shaded Citadel one. Additionally, the third one opens a whole new set of worlds wiht a 3D map organization system. like you've gotta rotate a dodecahedron to select the map you wanna look at, wild stuff. These worlds have a few entrances and exits, though it seems you can only go through an exit after discovering the world it goes to beforehand, with the exception of the one portal/exit that is already open, which I think is supposed to be the natural progression of it. It appears that you can return through the portal you came in from, so as long as you leave the room and return, the portal animation will restart. Also, there are cycles in these new worlds, but I haven't stayed around long enough to see them yet, so I'm not sure if they've been changed. Theres a frick ton of new creatures, a few new items, and some wild textures. Cool stuff, this new DLC is ALL about exploring. Probably while on acid.

I've explored 5 worlds and its wild. They are massive. Sorry let me reiterate, they are MASSIVE. Like the whole of base rain world isn't as big as some of these ones. Specifically, the coral one and the snowy wasteland took me a few hours to get through most of it, and I'm sure that I'm not even close to done. My only hope in this endeavor is that they are randomly generated. I saw a seed option in the remix file, which might imply a difference in map or creature location. The wiki article for the watcher is going to be wild.

[Rypolium]

There is a fourth echo, also they're all the same one in different places, hidden deep in the alternate worlds, I found it in the verdant waterways if that helps any. It also gives you a gift; whenever you come in close contact with danger, you get the effects of eating a mushroom. As well as portaling you to a new world. Also I'm sick now, I think it happened before, but this time you get the moments of dropping your items and convulsing that hunter has in the later cycles of his campaign. It seems to go away after sleeping for a cycle, aslo that place looked like it was poison themed so that could've happened too. The fourth and fifth ones (found another echo as I'm writing this) both increase your karma, or what I can only assume is the karma since it is golden and has strange shapes. Holy crap. The fifth one lets you make your own portals at the cost of a karma flower.

I tried to make a portal in one of those places that had a portal that was just kinda rippling, not letting you through, and it didn't let me. It said: "A presence already binds this place." Also there's something called a Blizzard Lizzard. Phenomenal.

[crispy juicy tender]

okay so after playing for a bit , here's the abilities i've gathered

- glow in the dark; similar to when you eat a neuron (received after finding the echo once)
- become invisible by holding down the SPECIAL button (received after finding the echo a second time)
- create portals/warps to other frontiers (found after meeting the echo a fourth time i believe?) (HAS TO BE DONE AFTER CONSUMING A KARMA FLOWER, OTHERWISE THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES)
- summon void creatures while invisible. unsure what the void creatures do, still trying to find out. (only usable after reaching the fifth or sixth watcher karma level)

[RCMidas]

If you keep up with the last ability, you'll really start to shift. Just bear in mind that there are still predators where all others have vanished.

[MadArtillery]

Yes it does, it's more metroidvania where you have to unlock them though