- Elden Ring Night Reign Director Junya Ishizaki admits that The Forsaken Hollows expansion will be “a little harder” than the base game, but “it’s not ridiculous or anything.”
- Ishizaki says that balancing the game for both casual and hardcore players was a challenge after launch and remains a challenge for the DLC.
- He adds that the DLC is what the team would “consider a fair challenge.”
According Elden Ring Night Reign director Junya Ishizaki, the game The abandoned holes The expansion is “definitely a little harder” than the base game.
In an interview with GameSpot, Ishizaki discussed the challenge of balancing the FromSoftware game for all players, including both casual and hardcore players, and admitted that “the biggest takeaway” the development team had after launch was “trying to get the balance right.”
Ishizaki explained that this remains a challenge with The abandoned holes.
“I think balance is very subjective, so a lot of our thoughts after the release of the DLC were how can we keep the balance in mind with what we were initially imagining, and also with that balance set, how can we take a different approach and come up with new enemies, new characters and things like that to play with that and use the new balance that we’re working with,” Ishizaki said.
“Obviously, we don’t want to make it so difficult that new players can’t access it, but I think the original idea is that when the game initially came out, there were even veteran players of some of the other games trying to figure out the new systems, trying to figure out how the game works. I think [we want our] Ideas when we work on DLC content to be a reflection of that. So whenever people who have played a lot of the main game access the DLC content, they will be able to get a little bit of that feeling they had when they first played it. night reignwhere there’s still something they’re trying to figure out.”
In terms of the challenge that the players will face, Ishizaki admitted that The abandoned holes is “definitely a little bit harder, but it’s not ridiculous or anything, but it’s still within what we would consider a fair challenge.”
The paid downloadable content (DLC) was unveiled during Sony’s latest Japan-focused State of Play and will offer two new playable Nightfarers, Scholar and Undertaker, along with two additional bosses.
The abandoned holes releases December 4th.
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