After leaving early access in July and surpassing 2 million players, Predecessor is now receiving its first post-launch update that adds a new hero and timed event to the MOBA. The new hero, Skylar is an arial-focused character that can hover in the air and fly about as she attacks opponents from her vantage point.
Skylar has unique abilities focused on her aerial attack style. Her secondary ability called Air Assault lets her launch up into the air and rain down attacks on a large area. She also has a cool passive ability called Dissonance which sees opponents explode when killed dealing extra physical damage to those around them.
- Primary Ability – Skylar’s Primary Ability, Primary Grenade, launches a brutal nano-grenade from afar which can bounce around the battlefield for a short duration. Players hit by these grenades will take heavy damage and will temporarily be slowed.
- Secondary Ability – Air Assault has ancient energies flow through Skylar’s jetpack that launch her skyhigh to hover above the battlefield, raining death from above on the enemy team. As she is airborne, Skylar can utilize any of her Abilities or Basic Attacks and launch missiles towards her target when dealing damage.
- Alternate Ability – The Hypercharge Ability allows Skylar to redirect her weapon’s energy system to blast a deadly plasma beam for a short duration. Damage taken by enemy players stack up over time and at maximum stacks, Skylar will melt her foes based on their bonus physical armor. Taking down an enemy Hero will refresh its duration.
- Ultimate Ability – The Atomizer Ultimate ability superchargers Skylar’s rifle to the brink of destruction before unleashing a massive orb of unstable energy towards its target. The orb will travel any distance until it crashes into an obstacle or enemy Hero, exploding on impact and dealing huge amounts of damage.
- Passive Ability – Dissonance is Skylar’s Passive, causing enemy units to explode on death dealing extra physical damage to the target and those around it. Bringing down an enemy Hero causes this explosion to grow even larger and deal extra damage. Dissonance also grants extra jump height, using Skylar’s jetpack to propel her further in the air with each jump.
You can watch her in action below:
Skylar has arrived with patch 1.1 which also adds the game’s first timed event themed around Halloween. The event is called Shadow’s Eve and comes with some visual changes to the game. The skybox has been changed to a dark and sinister style which has also darkened the entire map. There are also Halloween skins you can pick up for certain characters. Narbash, Greystone, Kira, Lt. Belica and Sparrow all come with skins. There are also new skin bundles to buy.
Omeda Studios has also dropped the price of certain in-game purchases. This is a permanent change.
Old
- 600 Platinum Pack ($5.99)
- 1650 Platinum Pack (1500 + 150) ($14.99)
- 2800 Platinum Pack (2500 + 300) ($24.99)
New
- 500 Platinum Pack ($4.99)
- 1300 Platinum Pack (1200 + 100) ($11.99)
- 2500 Platinum Pack (2200 + 300) ($21.99)
You can read all about the game’s massive update 1.1 on the official blog here. Predecessor is now available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC for free.
