God of War Ragnarok’s New Game Plus update is out now

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The New Game Plus update for God of War Ragnarok is live today, giving players a good reason to hop back in if they didn’t get enough the first time around. It adds a pretty decent amount of content for a new run too, from new armor to enchantments and more.

Today’s PlayStation blog runs down the specifics, including the basics: this is NG+, so all your equipment, weapons, and skills will carry over from a previous save. This includes the Draupnir Spear, though it comes with a caveat. Sonic and Hex arrows will still require players to reach the point in the story where they become available. Also, areas requiring either the arrows or the Spear to reach will not unlock until you’ve reached the main questline’s point where they become available. Sorry, still some backtracking.

There’s plenty of new things to unlock in a New Game Plus run of God of War Ragnarok, though. The cloak from the opening scene has been added as part of the Armor of the Black Bear set, which comes pre-equipped in NG+ runs.

Or if you want some challenge, you can strip down Kratos with the Spartan Armor, which confers no Perks, Stats, and is locked at Power Level 1. Or you can just transmog the look onto some good armor, to have the best of both worlds. The Ares and Zeus armor return from God of War (2018)’s New Game Plus as well, with new perks. Ares gives chances for Health Stones to drop on hit, while the Zeus armor turns Kratos into a glass cannon. The Spartan and Ares armor can be bought at the Huldra Brothers’ Shop for Hacksilver, while Zeus Armor will require defeating Gná the Valkyrie Queen and finishing “certain” Remnants of Asgard in New Game Plus.

Additionally, 13 existing armors are getting new color combinations and styles. A new shield,