Earlier this 12 months, The Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz and his firm, Insurgent Wolves, shared the primary have a look at The Blood of Dawnwalker. This action-RPG will put gamers in charge of the titular Dawnwalker, Coen, a half-human/half-vampire hybrid who has 30 days and nights to avoid wasting his household. But when gamers spend an excessive amount of time in The Blood of Dawnwalker, then Coen could not be capable to end his quest.
Throughout a current interview with (*3*), Tomaszkiewicz in contrast the expertise in The Blood of Dawnwalker to The Witcher 3’s Geralt taking part in the cardboard sport Gwint as a substitute of serving to out Ceri in her hour of want. There weren’t any penalties if gamers took their time earlier than rejoining the principle story. However in The Blood of Dawnwalker, Tomaszkiewicz famous that wasted time may show to be deadly for Coen’s household.
“In case you had some useful resource, and you understand that possibly in the event you do not go, one thing would happen–then your serious about this sport could be completely different, and possibly the immersion could be higher, and possibly your feelings could be completely different,” mentioned Tomaszkiewicz.
Daniel Sadowski, the design director for The Blood of Dawnwalker, added that the sport treats time extra like a forex. The in-game time restrict will not advance if gamers are merely transferring about within the open world, however time will go ahead if customers select to interact in any aspect quests, minigames, or the principle storyline.
“We would like the time system to be a part of the narrative expertise, and a part of the entire ‘each motion and inaction have penalties’ [approach],” defined Sadowski. “It would work in fascinating methods. It would undoubtedly pressure you to make selections at some factors, like what to do, and what to disregard, as a result of additionally, you will have to decide on which content material you need to do, and which content material you need to ignore, with the intention to maximize your probabilities of defeating the principle enemy… However it is possible for you to to decide on between other ways to method the issue, and all that ties into the narrative sandbox once more.”
The Blood of Dawnwalker would not at present have a launch date, however the gameplay reveal will arrive this summer season.