Developer Hexworks has revealed new Lords of the Fallen gameplay particulars, teasing character creation, the sport’s tutorial, and extra.
Over on the PlayStation Weblog, Hexworks govt producer Saul Gascon goes into element relating to your first steps into Mournstead and what you may discover as you discover Lords of the Fallen‘s world.
While you fireplace up the sport, you may be greeted by the character creator, which Gascon describes as “in depth”. You’ll be able to create smaller, extra nimble characters or bulkier ones, in addition to something in between.
As soon as you’ve got made your character, you may enterprise out into the Defiled Sepulchre, an intimidating-sounding space that serves as Lords of the Fallen‘s tutorial zone. Right here, you may be taught the fundamentals of fight and exploration.
From there, you are free to discover Mournstead’s “semi-open world” surroundings, dispatching no matter you come throughout as you go.
In line with Gascon and Hexworks, every space in Lords of the Fallen shall be “intricately linked with not less than two others”, making the exploration sound much like the unique Darkish Souls.
Places embrace the clifftops of Pilgrim’s Path, the fiery metropolis of Calrath, and the darkish corridors of the realm of Umbral, which you may journey to if you happen to die or if you happen to use the Umbral Lamp.
Generally, you may solely have the ability to make progress in Umbral, and you can too discover treasures which might be distinctive to that realm, though if you happen to keep there too lengthy, you may be susceptible to the “corruption of your thoughts by invading malevolent forces”. Yikes.
Gascon additionally goes into a little bit extra element relating to Lords of the Fallen‘s fight.
You’ll be able to assign as much as 4 magic or ranged abilities to your controller’s buttons, permitting you to entry these talents rapidly in fight and negating the necessity to consistently swap talents in menus.
As well as, the whole thing of Lords of the Fallen will be performed in “uninterrupted on-line co-op”, so be sure you’ve obtained a good friend helpful that can assist you courageous the hazards of Mournstead.
Lords of the Fallen releases on October thirteenth for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X|S.
Initially revealed as The Lords of the Fallen, Hexworks’ reboot, which dropped the “the” in its identify in March, will share some thematic similarities with the 2014 authentic however will in any other case be a completely new story with a brand new aesthetic and new mechanics.
