New Game + (beta branch)

[Freemann]

What does it do ? Does it allow you to re enter in a ng with all your wands/spells/perks/stats ?
I'm asking because I am in a wonderful run (12h+, second parallel world clean, godly wands,.3k hp, all perks, well ...) and I don't want it to stop xD

[Null_Error]

No, it's just an extra-hard version of a normal game start.

[Freemann]

Do you mean the Nightmare mode ? It's a NG, not a NG+ :o

[General Income Tax]

NG+ was mentioned in the new beta notes.

I think people above have confused it with Nightmare Mode.
Honestly I haven't beaten the game in the last few hours to check out if NG+ is a thing yet, but I know it's certainly not in the default start menu yet.

[Freemann]

Yup that's what I thought too, but I'm too scared to try and end my run é_è

[Darthzz]

There is a new NG+ mode, it is not accessable from the start menu. It is an actual, genuine NG+ now. The way it works is that you have to bring about 4-5 orbs to the altar in the sky (above the mines entrance), which will reset the world, change the worldgen, significantly beef up enemies and remove the orbs from your inventory to be collected again. If you were to bring the same amount of orbs back to the altar in NG+, you'd enter NG+2 where the enemies scale up more. There are infinite NG+ cycles and they can keep scaling up, so now there's an actual purpose to stupidly overpowered builds. Eventually, in the much later NG+ cycles, you can get things like Hiisi gunners doing 100 damage per bullet, or maybe even rats oneshotting you. IMO a more fun way to do "endless" runs than just visiting the loop worlds.

Basically, it's like nightmare mode, except its a continuation of your current run, and can be activated infinite times in your run, scaling up enemy stats significantly each NG+ cycle.

[Freemann]

Thanks you for the intel :) ! Sounds great !!

[Tuddywutwut]

Interesting, thanks for letting us know how it works. Sounds weird to have a NG+ that isn't easily triggered after the boss at the bottom of the map but I'm not experienced enough at collecting orbs, so maybe it isn't as bad to get back to the surface as I remember.

Regardless, the devs seem incredibly open to updating the game to improve the overall experience. I can't believe I played the game without a starting water flask when it fits in so perfectly in the game loop. New Game Plus is a completely brand new and welcome addition, and this is only the first iteration. Can't wait to see where this game goes.