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Dark Souls II is FROMSOFT biggest game in the studio's history with the development team roughy doubled.
- Miyazaki is closely overseeing development of the game, unlike of what was previously reported.
- Production of the game was split in two, with Yui Tanimura in charge of battle mechanics and gameplay while Tomohiro Shibuya is in charge of world and design.
- The opening cinematic will be available for public sometime in January.
- Members of the Brotherhood of Blood and Blue Sentinels can fight PvP battles within their own Covenants.
- Hints of a new Covenant that will act as a police force hunting down invaders, adding an element of risk on those who seek to prey on weaker players.
- Dark Souls II world is about the same size of Dark Souls, but in regards of how proceeding through the world the player will be given more freedom to choose their decisions.
- Lifegems are being balanced and tuned, number of items in general will be limited to balance the game progression.
- Dark Souls II bosses will not be necessarily bigger than Dark Souls, just more interesting in terms of design and fighting style.
- Feedback from the beta was positive, the results of the test proved that Bamco's servers in Japan have plenty of capacity, though it will likely set up local servers in North America and Europe too.
- The darkness of Huntsman's Copse was a common complaint in the beta, FROM said that they are not going to make any brighter, there will be critical moments where you will be forced to choose between a shield's protection and a torch's vision.
- The team cranked up the difficulty but it's still debating whether it's too hard or too easy.
Regarding the PC version, Tanimura says the game development is based on PC and they will make sure that the main PC game features are supported. "
beta
For all Dark Souls fans: this is easy -mode gameplay. They turned hard difficulty on 15 minutes before beta ended. You can see it on some beta videos. It was awesome.
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