AS you probably know if you’ve been reading the site a bit, I love Deathloop and I’ve been playing it almost constantly since it launched. The game is another great Arkane Studios entry, and I can’t get enough of this genre that the company has built for itself. However, there’s one thing that I haven’t seen other websites talking about, so I wanted to point it out to you. There’s a lot going on in Deathloop when the Visionaries aren’t around. The Visionaries are the main enemies that you need to kill to end the loop, but you can get so much more out of the game by gearing your efforts away from them for a day or so.
This may not make sense if you’ve been plowing through the main missions in Deathloop, but there’s a point to avoiding the major players in the game. If you head to locations when no Visionaries are around, the Eternalists are going nuts. Sure, they all have jobs to keep up with, like spraying paint everywhere, but they’re also all out to kill Colt as much as the Visionaries are. Since this is the case, you can pick up some interesting story missions and side quests quite randomly by exploring an area where no big boss is around.
For example, I was exploring Updaam, and an eternalist began to yell at Colt over the speaker system and challenged him to come and kill her. When I followed the location, there was a massive present in the street, but I could see Eternalists on the rooftops all around. Sure enough, when I snuck into a building and went upstairs, I saw a group of them waiting to kill me as soon as I got near the present. I killed them and managed to pick up a fantastic sniper rifle as a result. This thing is customised to the extreme and kills enemies efficiently too. This is the sort of thing that I’d never have found if I was sticking to areas where only Visionaries were present though, and I love that I found it.
