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Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance shows off lots of co-op combatLots of special abilities and fast-paced combos on display
Lots of special abilities and fast-paced combos on display
Upcoming Forgotten Realms rompDungeons & Dragons: Dark Allianceis venuring forth before this month is over with, so developers Tuque Games have been giving a closer look at its combat and characters. A longer combat trailer posted today gives a rather action-packed look at each character’s many special abilities and slice-y, dice-y combos. I’m always well up for an action RPG, especially with co-op, which the trailer has plenty of as well.
Dark Alliance - Gameplay Overview Trailer | PS5, PS4Watch on YouTube
Dark Alliance - Gameplay Overview Trailer | PS5, PS4
Trailers do have a way of distorting what playing actually feels like of course. For a closer look, the developers got together for a livestream last month to show the combat and abilities for each character in a more deep dive format. If youskip to the 23-minute markhere, you can catch them walking through a couple combos, with the gamepad buttons being used shown off on the right side of the screen.
They also get into some additional specifics like the difference between attacks that use up normal stamina, which recovers relatively quickly, and attacks that shorten your stamina meter itself. To restore it, you’ll need to either drink stamina potions or pull off some successful parries.
Overall, it looks pretty fast-pased and supportive of the occasional frantic button-mashing. Stringing together impressive combos is always good, but sometimes you get caught light attack spamming in a corner while your pals do the heavy lifting. It seems like an unnamed person might be able to get away with that from time-to-time thanks to all those many different attack chains.
Only question for me is whether I’ll have to arm wrestle my co-op mate for playing Catti-brie the archer. He always takes the archer.
Also today, Tuque Games gave a quick look at theirpost-launch roadmap. They’re planning two free DLCs with new levels and difficulty ranks for this summer and autumn. They’ll also be launching an expansion “Echoes Of The Blood War” with a new playable character in the autumn.Alsoalso, they’ve previously announced plans toadd split-screen local co-opafter launch since folks were quite disappointed to hear it wasn’t initially an option.
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance launches June 22nd overon Steam. It happens to be one of thetop 10 games for Junethat we’re looking forward to.
