If you can believe it, Lords of the Fallen is still receiving patches that change the way you fight all these months after launch

Do you remember Lords of the Fallen? It’s not the original game from 2014, but a sequel that was released last October and was quite divisive. The game’s creator, Hexworks, never really stopped working on it.

Very quickly after release, patches began to appear that eliminated earnest stuttering and performance problems and fixed several key bugs. Once most of this work was completed, Hexworks focused on key issues related to combat, difficulty, and progression.

The developer changed quite a bit, in fact giving players the tools to balance the game themselves, but what we all thought was the game’s final patch turned out to be just another in a long list.

Just a few days ago, Lords of the Fallen received update 1.7. While a smaller patch that added PS5 Pro support was released earlier, version 1.7 is one of the more significant gameplay-changing patches the game has received.

Now, over a year since the release of Lords of the Fallen, the developer is once again trying to improve the gameplay experience. More specifically, the patch improves character control and reaction speed in combat by tweaking animations to provide higher invincibility frames, more exact dodges/rolls, and even more exact animation cancels.

Hexoworks says the goal of the update is to make the game more accessible to fresh players while increasing the skill ceiling for veterans who know what they’re doing.

This patch also introduces several quality of life improvements of its own, including the ability for your character to automatically accumulate Vigor and balance fixes for New Game Plus. Another feature that fresh players should appreciate is the ability to summon NPCs in boss fights the first time, and they will also be more effective

What’s even more surprising is that it looks like version 1.7 might not be the end of the road for Lords of the Fallen either. Despite confirmation of a sequel, it appears that more work will continue to be done on the current game. If the changes in the fresh update intrigue you, the game is currently 60% off on Steamuntil December 19.