Astro Bot’s first free DLC is available today with more coming over the next four weeks

More Astro Bot? Yes, please

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Team Asobi has just released the firstAstro BotDLC level as a completely free update. And better still, there will be more to follow over the next few weeks.

Announced in anofficial PlayStation Blog postwritten by director Nicolas Doucet, it’s confirmed that the first DLC speedrun level, Building Speed, is available now and should appear in-game when you next update it. In the level, you’ll use the Barkster bulldog bot power-up to launch Astro through crates and across precarious platforming challenges.

What’s more, Doucet also confirms that four more speedrun challenge levels will arrive one per week over the next month. The release schedule for these is as follows:

Being speedrun levels, the goal is naturally to get through them as quickly as possible. Team Asobi has added a new online leaderboard to support this, so you and your PlayStation friends can have fun seeing who can get through each stage the quickest.

Although you will probably want to take your time and smell the mechanical roses on your first outing in these levels, because new bot cameos are being added to each one. In Building Speed, players can expect to run into cute bot renditions of the Helldivers and EVE fromStellar Blade.Doucet teases that more cameos will arrive in future levels, but is remaining understandably tight-lipped on who those could be for now. Though, we may already have an idea ifAstro Bot’scredits sequenceis anything to go by.

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