Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment free update adds new weapons & challenges this week

Were you expecting free content updates for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment? Because that’s exactly what has been announced for AAA Games Studio’s musou The Legend of Zelda spin-off.

Set to release this week on 27th November, update 1.0.2 for Age of Imprisonment with bring multiple new challenges into the game for after you’ve cleared the main story. These appear as both Battle Challenges and Hyrule Challenges. Beating these will be how you unlock two new weapons, the Greatsword of Light and the Spear of the Upper Guard. There’s also some new attacks for you to learn to clear that screen of enemies.

Beyond that, update 1.0.2 does also bring a bunch of bug fixes and improvements.

Here’s the full (web browser translated and touched up) patch notes for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment Update 1.0.2:

Add new challenges and rewards

Adding a new challenge

Multiple “Battle Challenges” and “Hyrule Challenges” will be added as elements after clearing the main story.
New “dangerous species” such as Bokoblin and Sludgelikes have appeared. ” “Scra Attack” such as “Boko Slash”, which is activated using materials obtained from “Bokoblin (Dangerous Species)”, has been significantly improved compared to previous materials.

New weapons added

The “Greatsword of Light”, a special great sword blessed by Raura with the protection of the power of light, and the “Spear of the Upper Guard”, a spear given to the elite directly under King of Hyrule, will be added. These new weapons can be equipped with mysterious golems and warriors of various races.

You can get it by clearing the battles added in this update.

New dedicated sync strike

A dedicated sync strike will be added to Zelda and Karamo. Zelda chases the boomerang thrown by Karamo with the power of time. If you can press [X] at the right time, you will succeed in catching the boomerang and the attack will become powerful.

You can learn it by clearing the Hyrule Challenge added in this update.

Fighting with Block Golems

It will be possible to activate the sync strike with the block golem. Its powerful rotating attack kicks Zako and cuts the week point gauge of the strong enemy.

In addition to the battles added in this update, it can also be activated in existing battles where Block Golems appear.

In addition to the above, the following will be added as new battles.
- “Battle with the serious Raura”
- “Battle to get a lot of Pou”
- “A peerless battle that can aim for more than 2000 KO”

Game Improvements

Action

Changed the special actions of the mysterious golem so that they can be saved for each weapon type
Added a warning sound before the end of the effect of the unique skills “Limit Break” and “Inexhaustible Battery”

Battle

Changed to be able to select characters and weapons in “training room”
Changed to display a preview of the recovery amount when selecting “Special Carry-on Food” and “Spare Battery”

Departure preparation screen

From the “Friends” screen of preparation for departure, change to fly to “Tweet Challenge” with the [Y] button

Hyrule Map

Add the tutorials displayed on the Hyrule map to the list
Visualize the area division on the ground on the Hyrule Map
Changed to display a preview of the area that can be recovered when the cursor is adjusted to the liberation battle

Hyrule Challenge

On the list of Hyrule Challenges, the items that can be cleared have been changed to yellow.
Adjust the display of the clear status of the Hyrule Challenge

Bug fixes

Several problems have been fixed, including the following.

The unique skill “Golem Launch” is not affected by some special effects and enhancements.
The tweeting challenge “Defeat 〇〇 enemies with Zonaugear” is not counted even if the conditions are met by strong attacks and air battles in Zonaugear.
Even if the secret function “Autoguard with a certain probability and the enemy is electrocuted/freeze/flaming” is activated by Deggama’s attack, and even if the enemy is automatically guarded, it will not be in the state of attributes assumed by the enemy.
If you “Switch Characters” from the pose menu, the enhanced state may be released.
When you select “Retry” after a specific operation, the BGM may not sound after that.
Inability to proceed in Ososowaku communication occurs
When a communication disconnect occurs in Share communication, the attack will not hit a specific enemy.
When playing the screen split 2P, if you select “Retry” after a specific operation, you may return to “Hyrule Map”
In the screen split 2P play, when Matsuba and sync strike are activated, the camera rotation operation is reversed.
Some screen display problems

We rather enjoyed Age of Imprisonment, as the latest in the Hyrule Warriors spin-off series, and as a canonical prequel to Tears of the Kingdom. Dom said, “This is a playful and enjoyable piece of Legend of Zelda lore, and one that will be essential for fans of the series, but it doesn’t break the same ground as Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, or even Age of Calamity.”

Source: Zelda Musou