KOEI Warriors: Conquerors

Hey everyone! A quick note before we start this segments info batch. We want to apologise for how late we are with continuing with this, and from now on things should be speedier with us getting the information out there. Now without further ado, here it is.

In today’s segment, we will be looking at one of the biggest new things to come to the Dynasty Warriors series; the open world of China! With how big China is, and how seamless KOEI Tecmo / Omega Force want the game to be between exploration and the battles, this is definitely an ambitious feature for them to have. There are quite a few reasons behind why Omega Force chose to go this route, but mainly it was due to wanting to get out of the same rut the Warriors franchise seems to be stuck in, and to challenge themselves with a completely new way of programming and creating their projects. There is also a heavy amount of reference taken from Toukiden 2’s style of Open World. So if you have played that game, you may have a small idea of how things could work out.

All of China will be recreated in this game, with focus on the liveable and more Three Kingdoms war centric. Of course it won’t be a 1:1 scale, that would be ridiculous for a game with current technology available, however to give a gist of how big the world in Dynasty Warriors 9 will be, Luoyang will be roughly 1 kilometre squared in size, and it will also take you roughly five minutes to swim across the famous rivers (Such as The Yellow River) scattered around China. You can improve crossing the land of China quicker, with horses, carts and boats. To keep immersion of you actually in China, there will also be a Time based and Weather based settings that’ll change during your time in China.

Omega Force have confirmed there will be 10 unique cities (such as Luoyang mentioned before), along with several other villages, towns, camps and such you can explore throughout your travels of China. You will use these cities as your hub for shopping, getting new equipment, side missions (we will talk more in a future segment) and much more. You will also be able to enter cities while major battles are progressing, just to continue to show how seamless Omega Force wants the game to feel and be.

To add on how you can travel around the world of China. The main method will of course be riding on a horse. However, for those impatient nellies out there, you will be able to use a Fast Travel mechanic that will automatically warp you to certain places. How this will work is still yet to be revealed, but chances are it will be very similar to current open world games we see. Swimming comes back from Dynasty Warriors 6, where you’ll be able to swim any forms of water, including the several major rivers in China. There are also other methods of traversing, such as the new unique Grapple Hook, that’ll allow you to scale cliff sides, walls and other obstacles in your path. With all this there will be a LOT of variation on what you can do and how you can traverse the open world of China!

That’s it for this one. We hope this gives you a far better idea of what to expect with the Open World side of the game, and we will be back with more news and information in our next segment soon!

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Hey everyone, this is the first of many information batch’s where we will look over all the new features, systems and anything new and interesting about the upcoming new Dynasty Warriors 9 title. In this first batch, we will be looking at some gameplay features along with the newly created battle gameplay known as the State Combo system.

As we know, the biggest thing is that the game is fully open world, to add immersion to the world of China, allowing you to travel around the entire country recreated and rendered from the ground up for the Playstation 4. Instead of going from stage to stage from a menu, you will be physically travelling from battlefield to battlefield, city to city, region to region. Though we will go more into detail in it’s own Info Batch segment soon. But with this new type of open world gameplay, there comes to be new features and interactions you can perform within the world around you.

To continue with this immersion of how the player reacts, the State Combo system comes into play. There are now three different forms of attack styles, which vary based on how the battle situation shows itself. If you are surrounded by enemies, you will perform different attacks to how you would if you were fighting individual enemies.

The first form of attack is called “Trigger Attack”. This is the move that always will stay the same at the start of each of your combo strings. After you have performed the “Trigger Attack”, you then move onto “Flow Attack”. This is the part of your moveset that will change depending on your environment and enemy formations. “Flow Attack”s will change, in example if enemies have just been blown away by your “Trigger Attack”, you will then perform a “Drive Flow” which will pursue said enemies to continue your combo. If your Trigger knocked enemies into the air, you will then perform a “Aerial Flow” which will launch you in the air to deliver a powerful air combo. There are several different combinations that can occur depending how you attack, and what the enemies do against you. Lastly you have the “Finish Attack”, which is your typical finisher move, which will launch a devastating attack to finish off your combo string.

As well there are new interactions you can make during or outside of battle. Such as being able to interact with various objects within the world – such as Catapults. You can also now scale walls with the Grapple Hook action, so you aren’t restricted with just charging enemies in hopes a gate will open to allow you to progress forward. You can also use the Grapple Hook to climb high mountains for further exploration! You are also able to fully swim again, and is actually useful (like Dynasty Warriors 6), allowing you to swim across the great rivers of China and more to sneak up on enemies and more. There are even more environment based actions you can take, such as using oil cans to set fire to enemies or landscapes and much more!

So this is starting to look very compelling and looks like KOEI Tecmo and Omega Force have really put in a lot of effort to finally change up by what now is relatively stale combat, to bring the most immersive Dynasty Warriors to date.

What do you think of the State Combo System? Are you excited to try out all these new stylish ways to defeat enemies? Let us know in the comments!

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