Into the Breach: Advanced Edition is out today with new squads, pilots, Vek, and more

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The massive free content update Into the Breach: Advanced Edition is live on all platforms today. It adds not only some new squads and enemies, but missions, weapons, music, and even a new difficulty mode.

This new update from Subset Games is pretty big, perhaps even more than you might have anticipated. Thankfully, Subset has posted a patch notes breakdown of what’s new for Into the Breach in the Advanced Edition.

If you haven’t played Into the Breach before, well, you should probably fix that. It’s a turn-based strategy game from the makers of FTL: Faster Than Light, and it blends roguelite loops and careful, strategic decision-making with massive kaiju battles. It rules.

The Into the Breach: Advanced Edition adds a ton of new content. Five new squads, with 15 new squad achievements, can take the field to stop the apocalypse. Four new pilots and 10 random new abilities for them can also hop into the cockpit. Plus, 39 new weapons and pieces of equipment will give players’ squads new tools for splattering enemies.

It’s not like the Vek forces will just let that go, though. Seven new Vek and three new Psions, as well as 10 new boss battles, are all added in the Advanced Edition. There’s also a new difficulty mode, Unfair Mode.

As Subset notes, Unfair Mode is for veterans and a bit more challenging than normal. There will be more situations where damage is inevitable, so you might need to make more decisions about taking grid damage or sacrificing a pilot, or possibly failing a mission objective. Grid power gains are thankfully doubled, so it’s easier to pull back from defeat.

There are some larger changes too. Requirements for reactor power usage on weapons have been lowered, so players are more encouraged to try out