# Dead Cells The Dead Cells 'Boss Rush' update is out now! - Product: Dead Cells (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dead-cells) - Vendor: Motion Twin - Date: 2022-10-05 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/588650/view/3284836971991009213 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dead-cells/releases/2022-10-05-the-dead-cells-boss-rush-update-is-out-now 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 Boss Rush mode with 4 stages featuring 3 or 5 bosses back-to-back - **added** — Add enhanced boss variants with extra limbs, healing powers, and additional mechanics - **added** — Add Glyph of Peril weapon with 7-hit combo that unlocks based on missing health - **added** — Add Taunt skill that makes enemies relentlessly pursue for 20 seconds while taking 75% more melee damage - **added** — Add Wish mutation that makes the next weapon picked up legendary and unable to be removed - **added** — Add 8 new skins with barbarian and boss themes including glowing parts - **added** — Add customisable statue that unlocks 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 allowing fully charged attacks without holding button - **added** — Add Katana legendary affix with Deflect Bullets effect on uncharged attacks - **added** — Add Killing Deck legendary affix that applies random debuffs on targets - **added** — Add Money Shooter legendary affix with Pay to Win effect that refunds shot cost on kill with 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 effect that hatches eggs into attacking chicks - **changed** — Make Boss Rush accessible through basement door in Prisoner's Quarters - **changed** — Allow players to choose between Brutality, Tactics, and Survival at the start of each Boss Rush stage Hey everyone, The **Boss Rush** update is available to play right now! Face off against 3 or 5 bosses back-to-back to unlock new goodies. Oh, and look out for some new souped-up boss versions too... We've made a little trailer to show off the highlights: Plus, for the people who prefer visual/audio over text, I quickly whipped up a VLOG to showcase the content: Here's the TLDR and then we'll get stuck into the details! - 4 stages to fight through - 3 bosses back-to-back - 3 **enhanced** bosses back-to-back - 5 bosses back-to-back - 5 **enhanced** bosses back-to-back - New weapon, skill & mutation - 8 skins - Customisable statue - New legendary affixes ** ##### How do you access the Boss Rush? ** There is a new area, accessible through the basement door in Prisoner's Quarters, where you can also access the Training Room and the Tailor. Once 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 enhanced bosses back-to-back - 5 bosses back-to-back - 5 enhanced bosses back-to-back What the hell are enhanced bosses?! Basically we've given them 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 in the Boss Rush BUT it is on the list to add later, if possible._ 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:** You must have encountered a boss in a normal run for it to appear in the Boss Rush. You don't need to have killed it, just seen it. 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, plus a relevant amulet, and give you a choice of builds focused on the one you chose in the following room. You'll also be able to choose mutations before you start the first boss fight. Between each Tier stage you will enter a transition where there are shops, items, weapon upgrade/rerolls, mutation rerolls and health refills (depending on your BC level of course). So in a 3 boss run this area will appear after the Tier 1 and Tier 2 fight. In a 5 boss run it will appear after the two Tier 1 fights, then after the two Tier 2 fights. ** ##### New unlockables ** There are more goodies to unlock as you progress through the stages, if you can of course! 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 reward is going to be a bit hard to get! **Weapon - Glyph of Peril (Tacticsl):** A ranged attack with 7 attacks in its combo. The more health that you're missing, the more of the combo unlocks. Critical hits will start after the third hit of the combo. **Skill - Taunt (Brutality):** 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 (Colourless):** The next weapon you pick up is legendary. Once chosen it cannot be removed (like the YOLO mutation). **Skins:** There are 8 new skins to discov _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/588650/view/3284836971991009213]_