Seize your Nintendo Switches and begin downloading the “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” update, as a result of it’s going to be a late evening. Nintendo simply dropped the replace to model 2.0 – a day early.
Final month, Nintendo introduced the most important replace but for its largest Swap recreation of 2020, which was slated to reach November 5. As of now, the “Pleased Dwelling Paradise” DLC hasn’t but been added to the sport, however there’s nonetheless lots to do with the free patch.
The new features embrace the Roost cafe, farming and cooking DIY recipes (step apart, “Stardew Valley”), boat rides to uncommon islands with Kapp’n, gyroid looking, makeovers and procuring with Harriet on Harv’s island, and extra. The replace additionally consists of quality-of-life enhancements, together with additional dwelling storage and storage sheds that you may place round your island, so that you don’t need to run to your house each time you wish to deposit gadgets. There’s additionally now extra capability for ramps and bridges in your island, new digital camera modes (good for anybody who bought method too into “New Pokémon Snap”), and even a motion-controlled stretching train that you are able to do together with your villagers.
After downloading the replace, Isabelle will clarify ordinances and boat excursions with Kapp’n in her day by day replace. With the flexibility to enact island ordinances, gamers can change what time of day villagers are most lively. This may be useful for avid gamers whose real-life schedules solely enable them to play at sure occasions, since villagers act otherwise all through the day.
Sadly boat rides with Kapp’n can solely be bought as soon as per day with Nook Miles, so you possibly can’t endlessly cycle by islands like you possibly can while you depart from the airport. However perhaps that is Nintendo’s method of encouraging us to play the sport carefully, moderately than dashing to 400 hours and burning out inside months, by no means to the touch the sport once more till the subsequent replace.
Whereas model 2.0 of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” would be the final main free replace to the sport, the “Pleased Dwelling Paradise” DLC is slated to launch on Friday as scheduled.
The DLC is priced at $24.99, however it’s also included as a part of the Nintendo Swap On-line+ enlargement pack, a brand new on-line membership that was teased in September and launched final week. The On-line+ enlargement additionally consists of entry to pick Nintendo 64 and SEGA video games.
