DC Universe Online is now available on the Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch version will be different in that it will be hosted on its own servers away from the other DCUO communities. While cross-play across the different game systems isn’t available right now, the game developers are looking possible options in the future.
DC Universe Online also has announced new episodes launching as well. Execs announced two new episodes based on Scott Snyder’s and Greg Capullo’s mini-series Dark Nights: Metal. The first episode, Metal: Part I will launch on all platforms in September and will look at the effects of Batman breaching the barriers between the world and the Dark Multiverse.
Metal Part I: Batman has breached the barrier between our world and the Dark Multiverse, and then disappeared. In through the breach storm the Dark Knights, twisted versions of Batman hell-bent on revenge. What is this Dark Multiverse? Who are these Batmen? How can they be stopped? The answers lie in the exceptionally rare forms of Metal that the Dark Knights seek, Metal which must be found and returned before our world melts into the Darkness.
THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT METAL PART I:
-Metal Part I will be a large-scale episode, with level-agnostic event versions of content available to all players for a limited time.
-The episode will feature new and returning heroes and villains, including The Red Death, The Merciless, and The Batman Who Laughs.
-The storyline will include singleplayer and multiplayer adventures set in iconic but twisted locales as our universe descends.
-The episode will launch new player rewards, including new gear, styles, artifact ranks, base items, and feats.
Fans can also look forward to the fallout of Part I as the Bat-god, Barbatos, makes his appearance in the second episode coming this December.
Metal Part II: The saga of the Dark Knights, the Dark Multiverse, and Metal will come to an explosive conclusion. The Bat-God Barbatos has waited since the dawn of the universe for this moment, and it seems nothing can stand in his way.
THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT METAL PART II:
-Metal Part II will be a large-scale episode, with level-agnostic event versions of content available to all players for a limited time.
-The episode will feature new and returning heroes and villains, including the Bat-God Barbatos.
-The storyline will include singleplayer and multiplayer adventures set in locales too terrifying to be revealed now (spoilers).
-The episode will launch new player rewards, including new gear, styles, artifacts, base items, and feats.
Both episodes will launch on all current playable systems for the game including PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
