Overcooked 2, the cooperative multiplayer cooking game, is celebrating the upcoming shift of seasons early. Developer Ghost Town Games has released a brand new free update forOvercooked 2named the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival, a celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year, offers a range of new levels for players test their mettle against. Better yet, the Spring Festival update is entirely free. The only problem seems to be a confirmed delay for the Xbox One version of the update.
Yesterday, following the launch of theSpring Festival DLCon Nintendo Switch, PC, and PS4,Overcooked 2’s publisher Team 17 confirmed that bad news for Xbox One players. “For Xbox folk, there’s been an unforeseen delay,” reads a message on Twitter. Team 17 assured Xbox One players that “the wheels are turning” and that the update would be out as soon as possible. It’s likely that a bug was discovered and the update is having to go through Xbox’s certification process again.
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The entire situation has been a bit of a flurry of excitement, both forOvercooked 2fansand the game’s development team. The Spring Festival update was only just announced on January 20, this past Monday. It was then launched on January 23. It was intended to be a big surprise for fans, which it was.
Overcooked 2’s Spring Festival was also almost certainly intended to coincide with the launch of the Steam Lunar New Year sale, too. Featured discounts on Steam have icons shown for each game, so many games put out updates ahead of big sales. These updates almost always result in bigger sales boosts, because game players love games that receive routine new content. It’s possible that in the rush to get the update ready for theSteam sale, the Xbox One version of the update wasn’t kept fully in mind, but that’s just speculation.
Overcooked 2routinely does seasonal free updates. The most recent of which, outside of the Spring Festival, was its Winter Wonderland update released in mid-December. On top of the free seasonal updates,Overcooked 2also has a Season Passwith three premium DLC updates. Because three courses is never enough, the team has since released another DLC pack named Surf ‘n’ Turf that takes players on a beach vacation. Odds are, there’s plenty moreOvercookedin store in the future, too.
Expect an update on the delayed update forOvercooked 2on Xbox One as soon as more information is shared.
Overcooked 2is available now on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
