With the conclusion of the Nioh open alpha a couple of weeks ago, Team Ninja have revealed all of the changes that they will be making for the final release of the game.
All the changes will be from fan feedback via an online survey and will include changes to combat, level design and UI just to name a few.
Team Ninja also shared some infographics detailing what each region liked and didn’t liked about Nioh’s Alpha.
You can find those in the gallery below.
As for the changes that will be made, the full list is as follows:
Tutorials
- Implement a training stage for tutorials on basic controls and core game actions.
Action & Controls
- Improve player & camera behavior during lock-on.
- Change the conditions under which the player character becomes unresponsive when the Ki Gauge is empty.
- Expand item shortcut slots.
- Revise the objects which require holding a button and the response to the hold input.
- Improve detection for the half-circle analog stick input.
Enemies
- Adjust attack and defense parameters of enemies.
- Revise enemy pursuit of the player.
- Revise superarmor (stagger/no stagger) for each enemy and attack.
- Adjust Revenant AI.
Level Design/Stages
- Improve exploration elements such as shortcuts, etc.
- Add hints to guide players to boss areas.
- Revise the display of objects that block the view of the player character.
- Adjust fire area damage.
UI
- Improve layout and displayed information.
- Adjust text size.
- When making an offering at a shrine, allow the player to perform all actions at once.
Online
- Improve online synchronisation.
- Allow the host to use the Shrine menu during co-op play with a Visitor.
- Adjust the rate at which enemy parameters increase during co-op play.
Other
- Remove durability stat for weapons and armor.
- Adjust the drop rate for equipment.
- Add a new control type.
- Implement a flow to allow players to exit a mission.
- Fix other bugs.
Nioh is set to release exclusively for the PS4 sometime later this year.
