{"id":116606,"date":"2020-08-12T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/dead_cells_free_barrels_o_fun_update_comes_to_switch_this_summer"},"modified":"2020-08-12T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T09:30:00","slug":"dead-cells-free-barrels-o-fun-update-comes-to-switch-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/12\/dead-cells-free-barrels-o-fun-update-comes-to-switch-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Cells&#8217; Free Barrels o&#8217; Fun Update Comes To Switch This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4097acccd76eb\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4097acccd76eb\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GQ3TH9eTvGo?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Yesterday, Motion Twin and Evil Empire dropped a brand new update for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dead_cells\"><strong>Dead Cells<\/strong><\/a> on Steam. Thankfully, Switch owners will also be able to join in the fun when the free &#8216;Barrels o&#8217; Fun&#8217; content arrives on Nintendo&#8217;s platform later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Serving as the game&#8217;s 20th update &#8211; <em>wow<\/em> &#8211; Barrels o&#8217; Fun adds a new biome, new items and lots of explosions. You can check it all out in the trailer above, but here&#8217;s a rundown of the most important additions:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>&#8211; New biome: <strong>Derelict Distillery<\/strong>. <em>High Peak Castle<\/em> alternative, currently available from the Collector area leading to the <em>High Peak Castle<\/em>.<br \/>&#8211; New item: <strong>Tesla Coil<\/strong>! A medium-range, multi-targeting, shock inflicting turret.<br \/>&#8211; New item: <strong>Barrel Launcher!<\/strong>: Throw explosive barrels on enemies. <em>Just make sure they don&#8217;t throw it back to you.<br \/>&#8211;<\/em> <strong>New OST<\/strong>: You can now choose between the original version and the brand new demake\/8-bit\/chiptune version of the soundtrack in the <strong>Sound<\/strong> option menu.<br \/>&#8211; Added 3 new <strong>achievements<\/strong> linked to the <strong>Distillery<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The update also brings with it some balancing and quality of life tweaks, which can be found in the update&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/dead-cells.com\/patchnotes\">full patch notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Dead Cells Barrels O fun\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4097acccd76eb\/dead-cells-barrels-o-fun.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4097acccd76eb\/dead-cells-barrels-o-fun.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Dead Cells Barrels O fun\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have an exact release date for this new update on Switch, but at least we know that we shouldn&#8217;t have too long to wait. When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/dead_cells_has_now_sold_3_million_copies_new_update_detailed\">the game&#8217;s 19th update<\/a> dropped on PC, console players only had to wait 20 days to check it out for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Yesterday, Motion Twin and Evil Empire dropped a brand new update for Dead Cells on Steam. Thankfully, Switch owners will also be able to join in the fun when the free &#8216;Barrels o&#8217; Fun&#8217; content arrives on Nintendo&#8217;s platform later this summer. Serving as the game&#8217;s 20th update &#8211; wow &#8211; Barrels o&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}