Astro Bot Director Nicolas Doucet confirmed that more VIP bot characters will appear in the game as part a free update in 2024. This came up at the end of a brief interview with Quest Daily, during which he referenced the addition which would involve “some new VIP bots to rescue so that, you know, some characters that we didn’t include yet… would appear.” [Thanks, Quest Daily and Gematsu!]
The commentary about the planned Astro Bot free updates appear after the 6:25 mark in the video interview below. Doucet first confirmed there will be a free update involving speedruns. He referenced the ones that PS5 players did in the pack-in Astro’s Playroom game. He noted “But the challenging stuff is definitely coming” when referring to those, and confirmed leaderboards will be included. When discussing those, he mentioned the additional VIP Bots would show up in the title.
Astro Bot crossovers also came up in a recent PlayStation Blog interview. Sony talked to Doucet about VIP Bots there as well. When discussing the crossovers, he said, “Initially, I thought we could only feature around 50 characters out of the 150 characters we wanted to feature. But to our greatest surprise, the studios unanimously agreed to the cameo of all 150 characters. Apart from our PlayStation Studios, we were also lucky to collaborate with third-party publishers.”
It was suspected ahead of this announcement that more VIP Bot characters would make cameo appearances in Astro Bot ahead of this interview. When people finish the game, the end credits reference additional crossovers that aren’t currently in the game. Some of the more notable ones Shift Up, Team 17, and Ubisoft one. None of those currently appear in the game, which led those who beat it to wonder if they’d be added later.
Astro Bot is available for the PS5, and the free update that will add more crossover VIP Bot characters will arrive in 2024.
Published: Sep 9, 2024 10:00 am