14 DAY TRIAL // Sony Online Entertainment is set to deploy the Battle for Earth DLC for its DC Universe Online MMO today on the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms, which is free for Legendary players and needs to be purchased by Free or Premium ones.
DC Universe Online impressed plenty of people with its great multiplayer experience based on characters from the comic books published by DC. The game truly became popular once it went free-to-play, however, as everyone could try it out without paying a single cent.
In order to keep people interested in the online game, as well as to motivate some of them to pay for extra content, a new add-on is going to appear today, in the form of Battle for Earth.
Plenty of new things are included in the DLC, chief among them being a new story-based battle in which superheroes unite to take down Brainiac. Besides the epic fight, a new power set is introduced, called Earth Powers, as well as other interesting things, which you can check out below.
Themyscira – Experience a new Raid on Wonder Woman's home island that pits players against Chimeric Brainiacs and, ultimately, the deadly Avatar of Magic. Players will fight alongside mythical creatures such as Cyclops, Hydra and Colossus, while simultaneously protecting key units of Amazons and Beastimorphs.
South Gotham Brainiac Invasion – Supercharged action continues as players battle Brainiac's invasion force in the streets of South Gotham, the Courthouse Alert and new Duos. Working to stop Brainiac's Union – formed by the people trapped inside the bottled buildings – who are constructing Proto-Avatars to assault Gotham, players will be challenged to rise up and defend Earth against Brainiac's final assault.
The Prime Battleground – The Battle for Earth storyline leads players in to an epic battle in which they must fight all three of Brainiac's newly completed Prime Avatars, and then Brainiac himself. Heroes will fight for the safety of the Earth and its inhabitants, while Villains will want to defeat Brainiac and expand the influence of evil across the planet.
Earth Powers – Rumble on to the scene and shake things up with DCUO's ninth power set. Earth Powers can be used for both Tanking and Damage and features an exciting new Tanking mechanic that defers damage to a player's constructs and automatons. Geokinesis abilities give players the ability to shape Earthen constructs to crush enemies and reinforce allies while Seismic abilities allow players to call mighty, Earth-shaking forces to rattle and daze opponents. DC Universe Online gets the Battle for Earth DLC later today on PC and PlayStation 3. Free and Premium subscribers need to pay for it, while Legendary ones get it completely free.