Sifu developer Sloclap said that the highly acclaimed brawler would be getting plenty of post-launch support. Most of these updates were vague, but the team promised a roadmap was coming. Sloclap finally shared said roadmap, laying out four big updates planned through the next year or so.
Check out our free content update roadmap for #Sifu! At this stage, four major updates are planned – the first one will be available next Tuesday, May 3rd, along with our physical edition! ?? #SifuGame pic.twitter.com/8UBEWwJKS4
— SifuGame (@SifuGame) April 26, 2022
The first update is coming on May 3 just in time for the physical version of the game. This will include multiple difficulty options, advanced training, and the ability to select outfits. Those who have the deluxe edition will get a special skin that puts the protagonist in a black suit (Sloclap is also developing a way for players to upgrade to the deluxe edition if they didn’t buy that version initially). The tweet also showed a new Wude getup, but it’s currently unclear how to unlock it.
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The difficulty options go together with the advanced training. While not detailed, the game currently has an anemic training mode with a single enemy type, which isn’t much help to those that have gotten past the second level. It’s likely that it will include more enemy classes so the player can practice against those stronger foes in a safer setting. Sifu also currently has no difficulty options and, as promised, Sloclap is adding both an easier and a harder setting.
The next update is scheduled for summer and will have “advanced scoring,” gameplay modifiers, and more outfits. “Advanced scoring” is still a mystery and wasn’t explained much by the report card in the picture, but the gameplay modifiers will add a suite of settings that, well, modify the gameplay. These include taking out the pendant altogether (meaning the player has either no lives or infinite lives), having one hit point, not letting the player guard, adding in stronger enemies, a golden staff that presumably does not break, a slow motion mode, and the ability to unlock all skills.
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The fall update has more skins and modifiers as well as a replay editor that will let players edit their own flashy clips together. The final update on the roadmap is scheduled for the winter and comes with modifiers and skins as well as the Arenas mode. This is likely some sort of wave-based survival mode, given the name, but Sloclap did not specify. However, that information is coming “later this year.” There was also no talk of any premium DLC, which Sloclap did do for its previous game, Absolver.
