Ubisoft has unsheathed a bunch of new features for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown today, including two new modes in Permadeath and Speedrun. Get the full skinny in the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown update 1.10 patch notes below.
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Permadeath Mode
We’ve seen your platinum trophies, but how about a real challenge?
Introducing Permadeath Mode: Play the game with only one life and no second chances!
You read that right; when you die with this game modifier applied, you must start a new game.
Here are some first tips to survive this menace of a challenge:
- Be sure to use the Wak-Wak tree as often as you can to restore your health and change out your amulets as needed
- Make sure to upgrade your gear and buy as many health potions as you can you never know when you’ll need them
- Head off the main path and find the soma tree petals to increase your health bar
To enable Permadeath Mode just start a new game, and you will see the option!
If you succeed in beating the game with this mode enabled, not only will you have earned massive amounts of respect from our development team, but you’ll also receive a brilliant outfit. If you are up for an extra challenge, try beating the game on Immortal difficulty in Permadeath Mode, and yet another outfit awaits you.
Speedrun Mode
Want to test your running skills and see how quickly you can beat the game?
Introducing Speedrun Mode: race against time to beat your own records and keep track of your best attempts at completing the game as quickly as possible.
Beat the set time to earn a new outfit and bragging rights among your friends and fellow Prince of Persia fans!
Fariba’s Hints
You can now purchase Treasure Maps from Fariba, in the Haven, with time Crystals. Each treasure map purchased adds the location of all chests in a previously visited area on your Eye of the Wanderer map. To purchase a treasure map, you must first own the specific map of the relevant area.
- __After finishing the main story of the game, __a special map can be purchased to Fariba: it unveils all the Lore items that remain to be found in the game, throughout Mount Qaf.
Quality of Life
New accessibility options were added to the game:
- New option to enable ‘Omnidirectional Parry’
- Allowing you to parry an attack coming from behind, above or below you
- Custom Difficulty parameters range extended
- Notably: The Parry Difficulty can now be set to “Very Easy”
- Enemy Damage and Enemy Health have wider ranges
- New ‘Auto Athra refill’ option in Custom Difficulty
- New option to ‘Hide the HUD’
- New option to adjust background Audio level.
- Misc: Support of 120Hz on Xbox Series S
Fashion Week
We heard you like outfits, so, how about something with a touch of nostalgia?
This new outfit for Sargon will be unlocked immediately with the download of the new update.
However, the other outfits will require great effort to obtain.
The other outfits include:
- Swift Sargon (Silver): Unlocked when defeating the game in Speedrun Mode in less than 10 hours, at any difficulty.
- Holo Chroma (Sands of Time alt color): Unlocked when defeating the game in Permadeath Mode, at any difficulty.
- Gold: Unlocked when defeating the game in Permadeath Mode in ‘Immortal’ difficulty. (seriously tho, who does this?)
NEW FEATURES
Speedrun mode
Permadeath mode
Fariba’s Treasure Maps
QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATES
Support of 120Hz on Xbox Series S
ACCESSIBILITY AND OPTIONS
New omnidirectional parry option
New “No HUD” option
Custom difficulty parameters range extended:
• The Parry Difficulty can now be set to “Very Easy”
• Enemy Damage and Enemy Health have wider ranges
• New ‘Auto Athra refill’ option
GAMEPLAY
Addressed:
• In some occasions, the Time Crystals were missing as a reward together with the Haoma fragment.
• Gravity Wings reward would sometimes be missing after completing the first Constellation.
• Giant Crab would sometimes not take damage.
• A Mystery Chest in Lower City could sometimes disappear when leaving the room too quickly after triggering its appearance.
• The Mystery Chest in Sacred Archives could sometimes not appear, right after the Jailer’s first appearance.
• A lore item in Sunken Harbor could sometimes disappear if not picked up before changing areas
• “The Prophecy of Mount Qaf” side quest could be not triggered if performing specific actions in the Prophecy room before hitting the first sand jar.
WORLD
Addressed:
• In Lower City, a specific door after the Water puzzle could remain closed by changing rooms quickly.
• It was sometimes impossible to enter the Infinite Tunnel on the far left outside of Mount Qaf.
• A lever platform in the Depths could be broken in some circumstances.
PERFORMANCE
Addressed:
• FPS would drop below 50 in some areas of the Hyrcanian Forest.