Hello, Commanders!
Get ready for the half-year anniversary update! A new adventure is also on the horizon of the Metal Slug world. The Abyssal Cruise is setting sail! Let's dive in for a sneak peek of the gameplay!
Contents
1 Abyssal Cruise Intro
2 Partner's Style
3 Specialized Style
4 Completion Rewards
01 Abyssal Cruise Intro
A woman named Eugenia is implementing the Lost Cruise program in town. She wants an experienced Regular Army Commander as Captain of the fleet for exploration.
In the brand-new Abyssal Cruise, your Abyss Score will determine your base attributes. The attributes of your Characters, weapons, and Core levels will also be inherited in the gameplay by a certain proportion. Moreover, each island is set up with two different routes. You must put together two teams with different lineups, and these two teams will take on challenges on different routes. Only by clearing both routes can you unlock the next island and start new challenges!
02 Partner's Style
Many dangers lurk in the unknown and mysterious adventure.
Crew members are from all over the world, and each of them has their own unique blessing ability. Collect enough blessing ability to activate additional abilities, which will give you a smoother cruise! Here are the blessing abilities of the eight Characters:
Sea Djinn, Neso: Weapon shots activate a powerful water blast.
Water Guardian, Ajax: Provide continuous healing and protection.
Lucky Star, Mia: One lucky card draw that wins the jackpot!
Berserker Beauty, Eve: Activate Berserker Shooting in combat.
Debuff Expert, Aikawa Madoka: Greatly enhance Debuff DMG.
Style Master, Lambert: Versatile mastery for skills of different styles.
Djinn Blessing, Djinn: Activate the Character's talent potential.
Chest Recommender "Monkey": A mysterious and somehow vicious arms dealer.
Before the adventure, choose the Partner's Style based on the lineup of your team. The chance of selected blessing style abilities being activated will be significantly increased.
Choose a blessing and a corresponding card will appear. Each card, in addition to its unique ability and corresponding blessing, is also featured with a powerful specialized style, bringing you significant buffs.
03 Specialized Styles
There are five specialized styles: Enhanced Weapon, Summon Expertise, Overload Expertise, Firepower Expertise, and Skill Expertise.
The abilities of each specialized style are as follows:
Enhanced Weapon: Activation significantly boosts the Enhanced Weapon.
Summon Expertise: Activation significantly boosts the Summons Effect.
Overload Expertise: Activation significantly boosts the Overload Effect.
Firepower Expertise: Activation significantly boosts the Weapon Shot.
Skill Expertise: Activation significantly boosts the Skill Effect.
Combine the cards, match different effects, and stack the buffs of Partner's Style and Specialized Style. In this way, you can continuously enhance the strength of your Abyssal abilities, making your cruise smoother.
Partner's Style and Specialized Style bring a rich variety of card abilities, and their combinations are variable.
Sea Djinn paired with Summon Expertise is most suitable for Characters like Lyla and Eiserner, who rely on summons and continuous barrage to continuously deal damage.
Berserker Beauty paired with Enhanced Weapon is great for Characters like Trevor, who rely on Enhanced Weapon for burst damage. Apart from these, there are versatile combinations like Debuff Expert & Firepower Expertise. Discover and explore more powerful combinations by yourself!
04 Completion Rewards
When you've battled through numerous stages and defeated powerful enemies, your rewards will be plentiful, naturally!
With the boost of card abilities and affinity buffs, you need only to pass the first 5 stages to receive a generous First Clear Reward. You'll also earn talent points for activating your Abyss Talents. Use them to enhance your global bonus attributes, and increase your Abyss Score.
At the same time, Abyssal Cruise will calculate rewards weekly based on your progress and score, with higher ranks bringing richer rewards. Mythic Flame Shot: Astral Fire Fragments, Core Parts, and more are waiting for you!
Besides, you can also conduct a Treasure Search in the waters around you, finding precious Hadar Meteorites. The search speed will increase as the sea area progresses, and the treasure search rewards will keep accumulating over time. But remember, the ship has limited capacity and can only store treasure rewards accumulated in the last 48 hours!
The Hadar Meteorites can be used to conduct Deep Sea Detections, and will be converted into military resources of an equivalent value. Increase the exploration area progress for a large amount of Tidal Pearls, Core development materials, Legendary Flame Shot: Moltor Fragments, and other detection rewards. Mythic Flame Shot: Astral Fire Fragments and other rare rewards are waiting for you!
Okay, that's all for the gameplay sneak peek I'm sharing with you today! New gameplay plus tons of rewards! Are you excited yet?
