Bethesda says a planned free update to Dishonored 2 will expand the game with a "New Game+" mode, and a slate of custom difficulty options. The announcement came as part of a five-minute video in which various members of Arkane discuss the "play your way" approach to making the game.
The video doesn't really say much that we haven't heard before, and the original Dishonored is well-known for giving players flexibility in how they approach problems, too. But lead designer Dinga Bakaba makes an interesting comment near the end about giving players the option to pass up the Outsider's powers entirely, something that wasn't an option in the first game.
The decision to build all those complex systems and then include an option to "lock them away," he said, came about "because we are confident that our core gameplay is interesting enough, and we are confident that the player who makes that choice wants that kind of experience. He wants to be a human being among human beings, and feel like he's the best. He wants to be Batman and not Superman."
A Dishonored 2 performance patch, currently still in beta but apparently working well for at least some players, is now available on Steam. Another patch, which "will address a broader range of issues" and (hopefully) continue to improve the game's performance is expected within the next week. We're tracking the updates and how they impact the game's playability in our Dishonored 2 review-in-progress, and should post the final score later today.
