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Dishonored 2’s New Game Plus mode is out, and pretty awesome

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Dishonored 2 was one of my favourite games this year. It was slow to start, but once it hit its groove it was a wonderwork of intricate and profoundly clever design. I’ve played through it very nearly twice now – but I’ve now got a reason to jump back in.

We told you previously that Arkane was readying up patches to give the game a new game plus mode, but it’s actually a little more robust than we’d anticipated. New game plus won’t just let you carry on a new game with your existing powers n tact, it’ll let you switch characters too.

“Dishonored players have asked for it, so now New Game Plus is here for Dishonored 2,” says Creative Director Harvey Smith. “If you’ve ever wanted to make higher-powered characters, now’s your chance. If you’ve wanted to play Emily Kaldwin with Possession or Devouring Swarm, or Corvo Attano with Domino, now you can. We’ve been having fun with it here at Arkane Studios, and we hope you will too.”

You’ll start your new game with all of the runes and bonecharms you collected previously – only you can reassign them as you please. It’s available on PC now, and will be hitting the other platforms on December 19. The PC version was a bit of a mess when it was released, but regular patching means the game is worth playing on that platform now.

There’s another bi patch coming soon that will let fine-tune the difficulty setting to suit your playstyle.

To sum:

GAME UPDATE 1 RELEASE NOTES

New Features

  • New Game Plus mode!
  • New Quick-Access Wheel option for hiding/unhiding items

Improved Features

  • Fixed Oraculum false-kill count in Royal Conservatory
  • AI detection tweaks to clarify when players are detected or not
  • AI locomotion improvement for running
  • Fixed various Bonecharm effects (Strong Arm, Spiritual Pool, etc)
  • Fixed a problem in slow-motion where some inputs were ignored
  • Blood Thirst: various enhancement and fixes
  • Killing an NPC with their own bullet is now more reliable
  • Tweak for mana potion refill speed, depending on difficulty
  • General performance and optimization improvements
  • Fixed various game logic issues
  • Fixed various User Interface issues

Last Updated: December 15, 2016

6 Comments

  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    December 15, 2016 at 08:24

    That’s…. really cool. I already wanted to play it twice to use each character, now I might even play it a third.

    Reply

  2. Ottokie

    December 15, 2016 at 08:26

    As soon as they fix the bugs and it get’s a nice Steam deal. I will pick this up and the first one to see what all the hubbub is about 😛

    Reply

    • Nikola

      December 15, 2016 at 08:41

      It’s a really good game at least the first one must have finished it 3 times I think, it totally has such a good replay value! They say second one is even better so quite excited to try it!

      Reply

    • geel slang

      December 15, 2016 at 11:12

      Finished it on PC, didnt see any bugs so dont let that worry you.

      Reply

  3. VampyreSquirrel

    December 15, 2016 at 08:57

    God dammit Geoff… you’re having too much fun with that Will Smith picture.

    *Reads article*

    Reply

  4. VampyreSquirrel

    December 15, 2016 at 09:00

    NG+ is normally a good thing, right?

    I could say something else about all this but I’d probably get shot.

    Reply

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