# Dead Cells Our next Dead Cells update "Boss Rush" is now in alpha testing - try it out! - Product: Dead Cells (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dead-cells) - Vendor: Motion Twin - Date: 2022-09-19 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/588650/view/3310730767493598472 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dead-cells/releases/2022-09-19-our-next-dead-cells-update-boss-rush-is-now-in-al What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Add new Boss Rush area accessible through the basement door in Prisoner's Quarters with four stages featuring back-to-back boss fights against randomly selected bosses with optional modifiers - **added** — Add Glyph of Peril weapon with 7-hit combo that extends based on missing health and critical hits after the third attack - **added** — Add Taunt skill that makes enemies relentlessly pursue for 20 seconds and take 75% more damage from melee attacks - **added** — Add Wish mutation that makes the next weapon picked up legendary and permanently retained - **added** — Add 6 new skins with barbarian and boss themes - **added** — Add customizable statue that gains new elements as you progress through Boss Rush - **added** — Add Spartan Sandals legendary affix with Super Bump effect - **added** — Add Oil Sword legendary affix that spreads oil on the ground on kill - **added** — Add Flint legendary affix with Instant Charge to fully charge all attacks without holding the button - **added** — Add Katana legendary affix that deflects bullets with uncharged attacks - **added** — Add Killing Deck legendary affix that applies random debuffs on targets - **added** — Add Money Shooter legendary affix that refunds shot cost if it kills a target and provides innate super pierce - **added** — Add Knockback Shield legendary affix with Super Bump effect - **added** — Add Wave of Denial legendary affix with Super Bump effect - **added** — Add Pollo Power legendary affix with Miracle of Life that hatches eggs into chicks attacking nearby enemies - **changed** — In Boss Rush alpha, all bosses are available regardless of save progress for testing purposes; official release will only show bosses encountered in-game Hello, We're back with another alpha for our next slab of content - the **Boss Rush Update**! ** ##### How does it work? ** There is a new area, accessible through the basement door in Prisoner's Quarters where you access the Training Room and the Tailor - one you've gone through the basement door just follow the corridor until you come to the third door with the red boss head next to it. Through this door, you'll find _**another**_ 4 doors, leading to 4 different stages where you will fight: - 3 bosses back-to-back - 3 bosses back-to-back with modifiers - 5 bosses back-to-back - 5 bosses back-to-back with modifiers What are modifiers, I hear you ask? Basically we've given the bosses even more ways to kick your ass. Think extra limbs, healing powers, buddies to help them kill you - all the good stuff! The bosses are randomly selected from the following tiers: **Tier 1** - Concierge, Conjunctivius, Mama Tick **Tier 2** - Time Keeper, The Giant, The Scarecrow **Tier 3** - Hand of the King, The Servants (just the final fight, not the entire tower!), The Queen _Spoiler Boss is not available in the alpha and likely won't be available on release BUT it should™ arrive later._ The stages with 3 bosses back-to-back will pit you against one Tier 1 boss, then one Tier 2 and finally, you guessed it, one Tier 3. Simple! The stages with 5 bosses follow a similar path, but here you'll be fighting two Tier 1 bosses, then two Tier 2s, then one Tier 3. Not quite so simple... **NOTE:** For testing purposes, in the alpha you will have access to all bosses regardless of your progress in your current save. In the official release of the update, the bosses that you encounter in the Boss Rush will only be bosses that you have personally encountered at least once in-game. There is a choice between Brutality, Tactics and Survival at the start of each stage - choosing one will automatically give you stats focused on the one you chose, and give you a choice of relevant builds in the following room. ** ##### New unlockables ** There are more goodies to unlock as you progress through the stages, if you can! New stuff will unlock depending on the length (3 bosses or 5 bosses), the mode (Normal bosses or Modified bosses), the difficulty (0+BC, 3+BC or 5BC) and your ability to flawless the entire run or not. Yep, the 5 boss 5BC Flawless is going to be a bit hard to get! **Weapon - Glyph of Peril (Tactics/Survival):** A ranged attack with 7 attacks in its combo. The more health that you're missing, the longer the combo. Critical hits will start after the third hit of the combo. **Skill - Taunt:** Taunt an enemy, making it relentessly pursue you for 20 seconds. In doing so, it drops its guard, so it takes 75% more damage from melee attacks during its pursuit. I'll let you discover exactly what taunts the Beheaded uses, but I don't think you'll be disappointed... **Mutation - Wish:** The next weapon you pick up is legendary. Once chosen it cannot be removed (like the YOLO mutation). **Skins:** There are 6 new skins to discover, with various barbarian/boss themes. **Customisable statue:** You've got a fan! They're making a grand statue of you as tribute, and as you progress through the Boss Rush, you'll be able to add shiny new elements to it. Such humility! ** ##### New/updates legendary affixes ** We're also adding more legendary affixes to flesh out our last update. These are: - **Spartan Sandals**: Super Bump - bumps stuff even further - **Oil Sword**: Oil on Kill (again, quite self explanatory: spreads oil on the ground on kill) - **Flint**: Instant Charge - all attacks are fully charged without needing to hold the button - **Katana**: Deflect Bullets - all uncharged attacks deflect bullet (but not grenades) - **Killing Deck**: Random Effect - every card applies a random debuff on targets (any kind of DoT, crowd controls, etc. with a few exceptions that wouldn't make sense like item-specific effects) - **Money _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/588650/view/3310730767493598472]_