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Namco Bandai has revealed that From Software's latest game in the ‘Souls series', Dark Souls II, will be re-releasing next year with all of the DLC and an updated DirectX 11 graphics engine for the PS4, Xbox One, PC and interestingly enough, the last generation consoles as well, although the PS3 and Xbox 360 won't be receiving the updated graphics.
Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin will launch on the 7th of April with all three DLC packs included. However, PS4, Xbox One and PC gamers will also be getting an updated graphics engine, bringing updated visuals, technical improvements, expanded lore, new in-game events and a new 3 VS 3 online mode.
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Those of you who have already forked out for the original game will receive one last big patch, which will tweak the matchmaking, game balance and expand on the lore a bit. There's currently no word on whether or not upgraders will be able to transfer their save files.
Additionally, there is also no word on a discount for those who already own the first game. As it stands, Xbox One and PS4 owners will be getting the game for the first time while PC owners will need to re-buy the game if they want the enhanced DirectX 11 graphical features, despite the game only releasing on the platform a few months ago, in April of this year.
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KitGuru Says: Hopefully From Software will have some sort of upgrade discount in place for those who previously purchased Dark Souls II on Steam, similarly to to Metro Redux and even the Deus EX: Human Revolution directors cut. What do you guys think of this? Is it too soon for a re-release? Should PC owners have to pay full price for some updated graphics?
lol, guess I was right when I thought they’ll release an enhanced version later, I am glad I let my patience win so that I can play the game the way it was shown at E3.
Eeeey, my laziness finally pays off in some way. Still hadn’t bought the game yet and now I get to get an enhanced version instead! 😀 (yeah, I’ll probably end up waiting till even that version has been put on some extremely cheap sale)
If you got it on PC you can try using GeDoSaTo which makes the game look a lot better.
PC owners will need to re-buy the game if they want the enhanced DirectX 11 graphical features, wow starting to sound like Metro 2033, I didn’t buy it yet but will be for the PS3 even though it’s DX11 we still know it’s a console port.
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So they are going to split the community into two, those with DX9 and those with DX11 will be completely separate…. This is just a terrible idea.
Except it won’t matter on ps4 and xbox.