Being developed exclusively for the Playstation 4, From Software's Bloodborne is one of the most anticipated titles of the new console generation. Fans of From Software the Dark Souls series have proven themselves to have a voracious appetite. While the illustrious Tokyo Game Show occurred just a few short days ago, these fans are already hounding the developers for more information pertinent to the game.
The funny part is, they got it in the form of a leak. Junkie Monkey has a full list of the leaked information, which covers mostly multiplayer parts of Bloodborne. There is also a note or two concerning the game and its upcoming Alpha testing stage, which appears to offer a boss fight and some player versus player action.
If this information is any indicator, it looks like Bloodborne really is a spiritual successor to the Souls series.
Here is the full list, which supposedly comes from the original Project Beast leaker.
Bloodborne Multiplayer Details:
- Players will have choice to make early on in the game, their decision will effect multiplayer
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Decision to infect blood with to different strain of the sickness. There are
rewards for choices but also downsides. -
Miyazaki-san wants players to feel the fear of having a disease that could consume them, and take their life. This is a ‘hardcore’ mode for NG like a ‘permadeath’. Players must to collect blood for their
Heart . If they lose Heart strength for too long, the sickness consumes them. - Players must collect Blood Vials and Blood Packs to transfuse their heart health at their Shrine.
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The sickness transforms
dead hunters into their worst fear. - In NG, you may become a boss later in the game if you collect enough blood to strengthen you heart.
- You can summon friends via PS4 friendslist
- You can no longer use consumable item for healing if you summon friend for boss battle.
Bloodborne Covenant Details:
- Covenant system is not finalized, but some detail I remember. There will be ‘huge beasts’ in the game. If you defeat them you have a choice to become a host for their strain of the sickness at your Shrine. You must invade other player worlds to collect blood for your beast. In NG, The Beast heart will gets stronger from blood and other players will have to fight much harder to kill it. One beast is a giant spider, another is a giant snake.
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In some covenant, the sickness is very strong and player can choose to ‘consume’ his own heart. This is a permanent choice and binds a character to the covenant permanently. You become beast, and new controls and attacks
open up. Dead hunters will bind to the world when they die, their bodies becoming a regular ‘mini beast’ boss enemy within the world like Red Phantom from dark souls.
Upcoming Bloodborne Alpha Details:
- ALPHA testing will involve a co-op boss battle, and some simple pvp invasion covenant testing.
