Gun Interactive is unlocking everything on their soon to be delisted game Friday The 13th The Game.
For those who didn’t even know this existed, Friday The 13th The Game is an asymmetrical multiplayer game, in the same vein as Dead by Daylight, but with a lot of extra special features unique to its license.
You can forget all about the 1989 NES game from LJN (which was surprisingly developed by Atlus). This is the ultimate Friday The 13th game that will ever exist, with the direct collaboration with series co-creator Sean S Cunningham, and the participation of multiple actors from previous films, as well as special effects wizard Tom Savini.
When you play Jason Voorhees, you are granted special powers that only become possible because you are the lead villain in a slasher movie, such as teleporting to different locations and sensing when counselors are nearby.
If you don’t play Jason, you can play one of the many counselors who have fallen victim to him through the years. If you unlock certain conditions, you can even make Tommy Jarvis, portrayed by Corey Feldman, playable, and that also makes it possible for the counselors to kill Jason, though in most playthroughs players will have to settle with surviving the time limit.
This was obviously a very special game, but because of the provisions on the license, the online multiplayer game will be delisted on December 31, 2023.
Now, as reported by Video Games Chronicle, an update that goes live tomorrow, July 6, 2023, will unlock everything that is available in the game. To summarize, that will make it so that:
- the 30 most popular Legendary Perks will be made available to all players, with the best roll possible and no negative effects
- all players will be maxed out to Level 150
- all kill animations will be unlocked (not counting DLC)
- all Challenge Skulls will be unlocked
- no more XP or CP will be earned (since it’s no longer needed)
- no matchmaking functionality will be lost
This will unlock play sessions for the ages as everyone can ow play at their very best. That probably also means that everyone now has the best opportunity to unlock conditions so that Jason can be killed.
It’s quite a way to end the game with a bang, though the fact that it even has to end is certainly incredibly disappointing. Publisher Gun Interactive has already dropped the game’s price down to $ 5, and all DLC to $ 0.99 each. All of this is because a year after delisting, the servers will completely close, making it impossible to play the game completely.
It’s unfortunate that this game wasn’t made to be playable with bots, or to survive in some other way, but this is the inherent nature of online multiplayer games nowadays.
