"At the start of the game it begins as almost nothing," Bradley says. It seems like Flintlock's campsite will be similar. If you ever wished all that hammering the settlers in Fallout 4 did would amount to anything, in Ashen it did. Left to their own devices, the inhabitants of your town in Ashen would add to and expand it by themselves. Anywhere you go in the world, you can go light the bonfire and your team will actually come in with their wagons and set up around you." "The campsite you see that grows a little bit in the trailer is actually your bonfire and your home base. "Stepping right back to the bonfires in Dark Souls, we've combined our home town, like we had in Ashen, and the bonfire," Bradley says. They're also the thing you lose if you fail a corpse run.Īs in every soulslike, making regular use of bonfire save points or the local equivalent is essential. "We have systems, maybe a little bit similar to how you get points for doing tricks in Tony Hawk, where anything you do around this open world lets you get points," Bradley says, "which is sort of an influence system." Those influence points can be spent at army requisitions or bandit stores for more blackpowder, among other things. Basically, you can stunt through the air. It combines with your blackpowder-as well as a flintlock pistol, Nor wields various explosives-which can be used to alter your arc in mid-flight. These traversal points aren't present from the start, however, and have to be activated by finding cursed bones that might be protected by minibosses, or summon undead when used. When Enki swirls around Nor, she can zip up to and between floating golden triangular nodes, then dash down from them into enemies. "So you can kind of bring the magic and the explosives to the army."Īs the trailer that premiered during this year's PC Gaming Show highlighted, that magic includes traversal powers to get you around Flintlock's open world. "You get sort of manipulated into a relationship with this little evil fox-like thing that decides to join you as well," Bradley says, describing Nor's companion Enki. As well as using her boarding axe and pistol in the rhythmic dodge-and-parry combat, Nor has a variety of magical powers courtesy of a strange creature who gifts them for reasons of its own. Like A44's previous game Ashen, Flintlock is a soulslike, though it seems to be diverging from the formula more than Ashen did.
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