After rebooting the entire Saints Row franchise, Deep Silver Volition released a reimagined version of the Boss and their crew. Set in the new location of Santo Ileso, the new game promised a reimagined world of fun and mayhem. Unfortunately, the game met a lukewarm response with most pegging the title as mediocre. However, the developers have been hard at work improving the game. The latest update brings the game’s first expansion alongside a brand-new playable area and features.
What’s new in Saints Row update 1.12?
Here’s a summary of all the new additions:
- 3 new campaign missions
- MDI-815A helicopter
- Pain & Gain weapon
- Kaijuice wingsuit events
- Sunshine Springs Mini-HQ
- 18 new outfits and cosmetics including heist outfits
- 4 new wingsuit designs
- 12 new emotes
- 3 new vehicle decals
- Drone HQ collectible
According to the developer blog, these are the new features added with the update:
SELFIE MODE
First up is Selfie Mode – a new way to show off your Boss in action. In addition to our usual photo mode in-game, you can now turn the camera on yourself – pick an expression, pause an emote and make wonderful memories.
EMOTES
Speaking of emotes – we have added 12 new ones in this update! Roll around the town as a Tumbleweed, eat a Burrito or puke up a rainbow – you choose! Emotes are “static” or “steerable” which means some are made for a stationary Boss and some are made for your Boss to walk (or roll) with, and you can even combine certain ones to create… a monster, probably. Which is even more fun in co-op play. And you can now toggle on up to 8 emotes for quick-fire emoting in the emote wheel.
NEW CAMERA ANGLE
We have also heard your concerns over the camera being too far away when driving vehicles – so we have added a new camera angle to pull this closer, activated by pressing up on the d-pad when in a vehicle on Xbox and PlayStation controllers as well as the “z” key on PC. This can be toggled to your preference on the fly too!
VEHICLES
Enemy and vehicle health bars can now be toggled on and off independently of the rest of the UI, a feature we know you have been asking for. Plus we have added the ability to nickname your saved vehicles in the garage so you can find your favorite car faster by naming it “Fred” or “Carlos” or something super mature like “willybum69” – we know what you get up to 😉.
We have also reviewed all of the UI and menus, cleaned it up and made it easier for you to find and amend any setting you like – we have tons of options for players to customise the Saints Row experience – and we hope that this will give more of you an opportunity to use them to fit your needs and preferences.
VOICE LINES
Additionally – we looked at some of the voice lines and made some changes in “First F@#$ing Day,” “Morning Commute,” “Making Rent,” “The Great Train Robbery,” “Going Overboard,” and “Severance Package.” To give you a better idea of the characters and story elements.
For the full list of bug fixes, please visit the official Saints Row blog here.
