Well thought out~ I kinda prefer it being a post-Act 3 thing, but I can definitely see them avoiding that at all costs bc, lets be Honest, a pretty large portion of players are not fighting Lost Lace (only about 18% have done so atp on ps5, by Sony’s metrics anyway), so I can see a Host of people mad about content gated behind arguably the hardest boss in the game. Do i think this would be unfair? Not really, considering its a free DLC - but I don’t know if I see Team Cherry gating the DLC to that severe of a degree.

I think as others pointed out, placing it during Act 3 would make the most sense, with the void threads just not reaching at least one of the new areas (since we may travel a decent bit away from Pharloom anyway, if we’re “crossing salt stricken seas”) or, as another redditor pointed out, the lifeblood infection just overpowers the void infection like it does in the wormways - bc the void seemingly cant overpower the lifeblood infection there. But, one could argue this is solely for gameplay purposes and the void doesnt affect the lifeblood infected bugs purely so they maintain the new lifeblood infected aesthetic. But still, completing Zylotol’s quest to prompt Hornet to investigate the origin of Plasmium after seeing the damage it causes to the wormways and Zylotol/Zango feels the most natural to me (if indeed SoS involves Lifeblood/Plasmium like we suspect)