Dark Souls II New Places, NPC and Videos

Jan. 30, 2014

Dark Souls II New Places, NPC and Videos

As release date draws near, more information on the upcoming sequel to Dark Souls is revealed to keep the fans hyped to the max

Today, we have several new reveals

Watch gameplay footage of three new areas, converse with an NPC about a familiar robber, and try out sorcery and melee combat

The new shields designed by the community have been screenshotted and uploaded to the wiki here:

https://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Media+Gallery

The shields were also made into real life items, and pictures of them abound! Check out the Art section of the wiki to see more:

https://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Media+Gallery

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Fexelea

MMO raider by day and guide writer by night, Fex enjoys multiplatform gaming, good books and animes, and streaming with a cold beer.

Awesome, thank you Fex!

Woot! new stuff, it looks amazing. Can’t wait to see how i would take down those new enemies and see other people strategies. Although i haven’t finished Dark Souls yet, i want to play Drk2!

Looking good. If feels fresh but familiar. It’s making the transition to the new engine quite nicely.

Ohmygod that was awesome! Where did you get that footage?

I want it so badly… ;(

Awesome. I like how much it shows without really showing anything. Plus having someone from Shaun of the Dead doing voice acting is a plus (they posted who does Pate’s voice on Facebook).

A mummy with a scythe, awesome.

6 weeks sure is going to feel a lot longer than it should. Release can’t arrive too soon 🙂

You have a beautiful voice.More videos with your voice Fex!

Yeah fex, where do you hail from? Because you have one beautiful accent.

He should have killed that archer lol

Totally should have lol

I think you misunderstood the guy’s motivations. You see, the game had him so stressed out at that point that it was leading to very real health problems. It was with that in mind that he decided to see Drangleic’s leading acupuncturist. He didn’t die from an arrow, those were needles and the death was the result of a coincidental simultaneous heart attack. Poor fella

ok, ok…..maybe he should have killed that archer

Archurpuncture is a well practiced art in Drangleic.

Who was it that was playing exactly?

(in here because I’m blocked from posting in the editor forum)http://social.biowar…c/8/index/88281 The Toolset that you will get is not some cut down, hobbled orrestricted version it is essentially the very same tool that BioWareused to create DA:O. A different light mapping solution has beenimplemented since most people can’t afford to install a render farm intheir basement.So it is cut down?And the lighting in DA is already terrible… how terrible is this new lightmapper going to be? Will there be ambient occlusion etc (those thick black lines around the edges of everything)?

Really? That’s not what I’m reading in the OP. How do you explain the “since most people can’t afford to install a render farm in their basement”-part (which suggests a cut-down or simplified method)? And “light mapping solution” definitely seems to point to a tool to create pre-baked light maps — meaning pre-rendered. Ah, what do I care, I probably won’t be even making maps …

They’re saying the lightmapping wasnt even done in the toolset to begin with, and lightmapping has nothing to do with wither or not the scene will be rendered with ambient occlusion. It doesnt suggest anything is cut down or simplified. It’s like saying since most people dont have a mo-cap studio we’re going to implement an alternate animation rigging method into the toolset. Light maps “are” pre-rendered. Ambient occlusion is not, it’s unrelated.

Are you high? It’s not about rendering capabilities. It’s about how lighting is defined in an area. Youre going to be adding and modifying lights with a different method than the developers did, and it’s not a “cut down” it’s an “addition” to the toolset.