Dragon’s Dogma 2 might be launched on March 22, 2024, reviving Capcom’s sword and sorcery action-RPG franchise after a decade-long break. Capcom revealed the discharge date and new gameplay particulars throughout a digital showcase on Tuesday.
Hideaki Itsuno, director of Dragon’s Dogma 2, and Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, the sport’s producer, confirmed off new options coming within the sequel. That features a large new addition to the bestiary, the Talos, a large brass warrior who emerges from the ocean. Builders confirmed various approaches to taking the Talos down: by leaping onto it from a cliff’s edge, and preventing it whereas holding on for expensive life, à la Shadow of the Colossus; driving birds towards the Talos to shut the gap to it; and attacking it from afar utilizing ranged weapons and spells.
Capcom additionally confirmed off a brand new vocation, the Trickster. That Arisen-only character class can use a censer in battle to conjure illusions, inflicting enemies to struggle one another, and to assist a participant’s pawns to make them more practical in battle. The Trickster, a “devious vocation,” can manipulate the battle from the sidelines slightly than struggle instantly.
The Trickster joins Dragon’s Dogma 2’s beforehand confirmed vocations: Fighter, Archer, Thief, Mage, Magick Archer, and Mystic Spearhand.
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Capcom additionally confirmed off its replace character creator, which gamers can use to customise their Arisen and essential Pawn. The developer is utilizing new photogrammetry know-how to extend the photorealism of Dragon’s Dogma 2’s player-created avatars, builders mentioned.
Lastly, builders additionally teased a little bit of the sport’s story, which they mentioned was set in a world parallel to that of the unique Dragon’s Dogma. As an Arisen, gamers will discover themselves caught between the beliefs and plots of two rival nations. Vermund, the human kingdom, is on the heart of an influence battle for the throne, with a false Arisen put in by the queen regent Disa. In Battahl, the humanoid beasts there deal with Pawns as a supply of misfortune. However each nations view dragons as a menace to their survival.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is coming to PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X. The unique Dragon’s Dogma was launched on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012, adopted by the enlargement Darkish Arisen the subsequent 12 months.
