@TheBrandedSwordsman I think they have already talked about how checkpoints and fast travel works in the open word sections of the game.
Elden Ring allows players to warp straight to checkpoints from nearly anywhere.
The one catch with this system is that you can't warp in or out of dungeons. It's only while you're exploring the vast open map of The Lands Between that you can warp to any of the checkpoints that you've previously discovered. In fact, these checkpoints are called Sites of Lost Grace, quite the elegant name compared to Dark Souls' bonfires.
However, Eurogamer managed to get a few intriguing map-related comments from an interview with FromSoftware's Yasuhiro Kitao. "We feel like this aspect will be preserved, and even once you get to that information through the fragments of the map, you'll think 'oh that may be an interesting area to explore over here,'" the developer said of maintaining an air of mystery even with the new fast travel system.
"Once you go there, you'll find it has its own multi-tiered-ness, its own three-dimensionality, that will hopefully be interesting to explore," Kitao concluded. It's also worth mentioning that these previews reveal the player can set manual waypoints anywhere on the open map of The Lands Between. These markers then take the shape of a pillar of light while you're playing the game, naturally guiding you to your destination.
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@JohnnyShoulder That doesn't solve the problem of actually discovering the checkpoints in the first place, in the Lands Between, I suspect a lot of running around, trying to discover them, whilst simultaneously trying not to get killed by whatever's out there?
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@TheBrandedSwordsman You can also create manual waypoints to help you on your way.
We won't know how all these feels or how balanced everything is until people get some hands on with the game. Even with the network test or whatever they are calling it, those kinda things might also be addressed before the game is out.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
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@lolwhatno mate, you can’t even spoil a From Soft narrative by playing through the whole game 🤣… probably took around 300 hours of various YouTube lore videos to get to what I know now about the world and story of the Dark Souls trilogy and I could probably still learn more!
@TheBrandedSwordsman Hey man, I saw that got announced the other day. I will most likely be giving it a miss as I feel I've seen enough of the game already.
Obviously don't let that stop anyone from chatting about it in here.
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@TheBrandedSwordsman I wish it looked less like yet another Souls game. I love the idea of the open world and the dungeons and stuff, I just hoped for a bit more improvement on the combat side of things. Would have been nice to see a leap forward on the animation side of things instead of the same stilted Dark Souls animations.
@Jimmer-jammer Cool, let me know what you think! @nessisonett Don't you think that it's expecting a bit much of consumers to ask them to play what is essentially the same game another time? I don't think I'll be playing it as I don't want to play what largely appears to be DS3 with a few add-ons again.
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