The Rogue Prince of Persia “Anniversary” update announced, out now

Ubisoft and Evil Empire have just announced a new update for The Rogue Prince of Persia.

Dubbed the Anniversary Update, it brings a variety of new content and improvements to the game, including new equipment, a statistics screen, balance adjustments, and enhancements to core systems for better flow and integration.

The full rundown is as follows:

The Rogue Prince of Persia Anniversary Update

Smoother Start & Flow

Difficulty and pacing have been carefully tuned to deliver a far more satisfying challenge—less frustration early on, and way more room for pure mastery over time (that sweet “Easy to learn, hard to master” motto!)
The Wallrun Fix: Too many of you were cheesing General Berude with the Air Dash. (Okay, fine, that’s partly on us). Now, we’ve added mandatory wallrun sections to teach the flow.
Vayu Power-Up: Wallrunning now actively fills your Vayu bar, rewarding you for staying stylishly airborne.
Faster Pacing: Zagros and Aqueduct are compressed to cut down runback fatigue and get you to the action quicker.

The Freeze Element (Granddad Approved)

Once, while out fishing, my granddad adjusted his bucket hat and said: “Son, no good rogue-lite ever lands without deep elemental interactions.” Taking his wise angling advice to heart, we introduce Freeze:

• Freeze ‘Em Solid: Stack it twice to freeze enemies completely, interrupting their attacks.
• Shatter & Synergies: The frozen state ends with a heavy damage burst. Enemies in water get double stacks, and a swift Kick instantly shatters them for tactical repositioning.
• Run Stats Screen: Track your performance and runtime in the Oasis and at the end of successful runs.
• Weapon Affixes: Weapons now spawn with up to 4 affix slots (Bronze to Diamond) that you can reroll at Astara’s Shop.
• Crit Nerf: Crit builds were scaling out of control, so we reined them in a bit (don’t worry, new Critical Sharpener medallions are here to help).
• New Challenges: chaotic “Suspicious Chest” combat arenas are all waiting.
• And a massive pile of extras: Final boss rework (Nogai got scarier), mob density reworks, elites drops medallions and a mountain of QoL fixes.

You can also check out the newly released trailer for the update below:

Update Trailer

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